Showing papers by "Amal H. Aly published in 2012"
TL;DR: New insights into fungal-host interaction, chemical communication, and chemo-ecological roles of fungal metabolites, as well as new strategies for bioprospecting are presented.
Abstract: The potential of endophytes and algal or invertebrate associated marine derived fungi as promising sources of structurally unprecedented bioactive natural products is undeniable and continues to attract broad attention. This review highlights new bioactive fungal metabolites reported in 2011 until April 2012, as well as known compounds for which novel biological activities have been disclosed. All compounds are grouped according to their reported biological activities which include cytotoxic, anti-infective, as well as radical scavenging, enzyme inhibition, anti-fouling and anti-parasitic activities. Overall, 178 fungal metabolites, including 138 new natural products are presented. Furthermore, new insights into fungal-host interaction, chemical communication, and chemo-ecological roles of fungal metabolites, as well as new strategies for bioprospecting are presented.
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TL;DR: In this article, three new anthracene derivatives were isolated from Stemphylium globuliferum, together with four known metabolites 4, 7, 8 and 9, and the absolute configurations of 1, 2 and 3 were assigned by calculation of their CD spectra.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a chemical investigation of the ethyl acetate extract of Corynespora cassiicola, isolated from leaf tissues of the Chinese mangrove medicinal plant Laguncularia racemosa, yielded four new secondary metabolites.
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TL;DR: In this article, five farinomalein derivatives including three new compounds C-E (3, 5), and one new isoindoline congener (6) were isolated from an unidentified endophytic fungus obtained from the inner tissues of healthy leaves of the mangrove plant Avicennia marina from Oman.
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TL;DR: In this article, the endophytic fungus Penicillium glabrum was isolated from pomegranate fruits (Punica granatum) collected in Uzbekistan.
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