Biotransformation of bioactive natural products for pharmaceutical lead compounds

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1400-1406

  Liu, Ji Hua ^a   Yu, Bo Yang ^a  

^a CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Bioactive compound; Biotransformation; Drug discovery; Enzyme catalysis; Natural product; Steroids; Terpenoids

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC STEROIDS; BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS; BIOACTIVES; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DRUG DISCOVERY; ENZYME CATALYSIS; NATURAL PRODUCTS; PLANTS CELLS; STEROID; TERPENOIDS;

ALKALOIDS;

EID: 77954902365     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138527210791616786     Document Type: Article

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