A submarine journey: The pyrrole-imidazole alkaloids

Marine Drugs

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 705-753

  Forte, Barbara ^a   Malgesini, Beatrice ^a   Piutti, Claudia ^a   Quartieri, Francesca ^a   Scolaro, Alessandra ^a   Papeo, Gianluca ^a  

^a NERVIANO MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Marine sponges; Oroidin; Pyrrole imidazole alkaloids; Total synthesis

Indexed keywords

2 DEBROMOHYMENIALDISINE; AGELADINE A; AGELASTATIN A; AGELASTATIN B; AGELASTATIN C; AGELASTATIN D; AGELIFERIN; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; AXINELLAMINE; AXINOHYDANTOIN; DEBROMOAXINOHYDANTOIN; DIBROMOPHAKELLIN; DIBROMOPHAKELLSTATIN; DIBROMOSIOPHAKELLIN; DISPACAMIDE A; HYMENIALDISINE; HYMENIDIN; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; MASSADINE; NAGELAMIDE D; OROIDIN; PALAU'AMINE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; SCEPTRIN; STYLISSADINE A; STYLISSADINE B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERPACAMIDE C;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BIOFILM; BIOGENESIS; CANCER INHIBITION; CHIRALITY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG OXIDATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; IC 50; ISOMERIZATION; METABOLITE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RING CLOSING METATHESIS; SPONGE (PORIFERA); STEREOCHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

EID: 75149118318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md7040705     Document Type: Review

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