Bioactive dehydrotyrosyl and dehydrodopyl compounds of marine origin

Marine Drugs

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2906-2935

  Sugumaran, Manickam ^a   Robinson, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioactive peptides; Dehydrodopa; dehydrotopa; Dehydrotyrosine; Marine alkaloids

Indexed keywords

1,2 DEHYDRO N ACETYLDOPAMINE; BOTRYLLAMIDE; CLIONAMIDE; ERBSTATIN; HALITULIN; HYDROXYAMINO ACID; LEUCETTAMINE A; MORULIN PM; PLICATAMIDE; POLYANDROCARPAMINE A; RIGIDIN A; STORNIAMIDE A; TRIDENTATOL A; TRIDENTATOL B; TRIDENTATOL C; TRIDENTATOL D; TUBASTRINE; TUBERINE; TUNICHROME AN 1; TUNICHROME AN 2; TUNICHROME AN 3; TUNICHROME MM 1; TUNICHROME MM 2; TUNICHROME PM 1; TUNICHROME PM 2; TUNICHROME PM 3; TYROSINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; WONDONIN A; WONDONIN B;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; DIMERIZATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG STRUCTURE; HUMAN; IC 50; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 78650673521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md8122906     Document Type: Review

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