Cyanobacteria: Potential candidates for drug discovery

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 947-961

  Dixit, Rakhi Bajpai ^a   Suseela, M R ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Anticancerous; Antimicrobial; Antiviral; Bioactive molecules; Clinical trials; Extraction methods

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUINE; APLYSIATOXIN; APRATOXIN A; APRATOXIN E; APRATOXIN F; APRATOXIN G; ARENASTATIN A; CALCIUM SPIRULAN; CALOTHRIXIN A; CALOTHRIXIN B; CRYPTOPHYCIN DERIVATIVE; CURACIN A; CYANOVIRIN N; DOLASTATIN 10; DOLASTATIN 15; DRAGONAMIDE C; DRAGONAMIDE D; HOMODOLASTATIN 16; LYNGBYABELLIN B; NATURAL PRODUCT; NOSCOMIN; PACLITAXEL; PITIPEPTOLIDES A; PRO 2000; SOBLIDOTIN; SYMPLOCAMIDE A; SYMPLOSTATIN; TJIPANAZOLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINCRISTINE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TARGETING; GREEN CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; NONHUMAN; NONPHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION;

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; CYANOBACTERIA; DRUG DISCOVERY; METABOLOME;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84876676219     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: 15729699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-9898-0     Document Type: Review

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