Biotechnological approaches for producing aryltetralin lignans from Linum species

Phytochemistry Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 893-913

  Malik, S ^a   Biba O ^a   Gruz J ^a   Arroo, R R J ^b   Strnad, M ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

6 Methoxypodophyllotoxin; Anticancer drugs; In vitro cultures; Lignans; Medicinal plants; Podophyllotoxin

Indexed keywords

6 METHOXYPODOPHYLLOTOXIN; ARYLTETRALIN LIGNAN; BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BETA PELTATIN; BETA PELTATIN METHYL ETHER; CARBON; DEOXYPODOPHYLLOTOXIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); ETOPOFOS; ETOPOSIDE; FUNGAL EXTRACT; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; LIGNAN; LINSEED OIL; MANNAN; MATAIRESINOL; PHYTOHORMONE; PINORESINOL; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; PODOPHYLLOTOXIN; PODOPHYLLOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; SALICYLIC ACID; SECOISOLARICIRESINOL; TENIPOSIDE; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BERBERIDACEAE; CANCER CELL; CARBON SOURCE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL SUSPENSION; COCULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIMERIZATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IN VITRO PROPAGATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; LINUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METAPHASE; MICROPROPAGATION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MYCORRHIZA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PODOPHYLLUM HEXANDRUM; PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SCALE UP; SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TESTIS CANCER;

LINUM;

EID: 84911995497     PISSN: 15687767     EISSN: 1572980X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11101-014-9345-5     Document Type: Review

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