Saponins from Allium minutiflorum with antifungal activity

Phytochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 596-603

  Barile, Elisa ^a   Bonanomi, Giuliano ^b   Antignani, Vincenzo ^b   Zolfaghari, Behzad ^c   Sajjadi, S Ebrahim ^c   Scala, Felice ^b   Lanzotti, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Allium; Antifungal activity; Furostanol type; Minutosides; Saponins; Spirostanol type; Structure activity relationships

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; GLYCOSIDE; MINUTOSIDE A; MINUTOSIDE B; SAPONIN; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FUNGUS; GARLIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ALLIUM; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; FUNGI; GLYCOSIDES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SAPONINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; STEROIDS;

ALLIUM; ALLIUM SATIVUM;

EID: 33847025343     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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