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Potent Skin Cancer Chemopreventing Activity of Some Novel
Marine Drugs, 2006 : In the course of our continuing research in development and evaluation of novel skin cancer chemopreventive agents from marine sources, five semi-synthetic cembranoids derived from the marine natural product sarcophine, isolated from the soft coral ...
Sherief Khalifa +5 more
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Modifications of Prenyl Side Chains in Natural Product Biosynthesis
Angewandte Chemie, Volume 136, Issue 52, December 20, 2024.This review summarizes the unique modifications of prenyl side chains involved in natural product biosynthesis, including epoxidation, dehydrogenation, oxidation of methyl groups to carboxyl groups, C−C bond cleavage and oxidative cyclization. Abstract In recent years, there has been a growing interest in understanding the enzymatic machinery ...
Huibin Wang, Yi Yang, Ikuro Abe
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New Terpenes from the Egyptian Soft Coral Sarcophyton ehrenbergi
Marine Drugs, 2014 Chemical investigations of the Egyptian soft coral Sarcophyton ehrenbergi have led to the isolation of compounds 1–3 as well as the previously reported marine cembranoid diterpene sarcophine (4).
Ahmed Elkhateeb +6 more
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Reviews in Aquaculture, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1165-1192, May 2020., 2020 Abstract The lifespan of spermatozoa from externally fertilizing freshwater fish ranges from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on the species. External factors, such as temperature, background flows and ion composition, play an important role in fertilization success.
Vitaliy Kholodnyy +3 more
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Cytotoxic Effects of Sarcophyton sp. Soft Corals—Is There a Correlation to Their NMR Fingerprints?
Marine Drugs, 2017 Sarcophyton sp. soft corals are rich in cembranoid diterpenes, which represent the main chemical defense of corals against their natural predators in addition to their myriad biological effects in humans. Quantitative NMR (qNMR) was applied for assessing
Mohamed A. Farag +8 more
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Three New Cembranoids from the Taiwanese Soft Coral <em>Sarcophyton ehrenbergi</em>
Marine Drugs, 2012 In order to search for new bioactive substances from marine organisms, we have investigated the acetone extracts of the soft coral <em>Sarcophyton ehrenbergi</em><em> </em>collected at San-Hsian-Tai, Taitong County, Taiwan ...
Shang-Kwei Wang +2 more
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Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2020 While chemical steps involved in bioactive cembranoid biosynthesis have been examined, the corresponding enzymatic mechanisms leading to their formation remain elusive.
Patrick Schrepfer +5 more
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Biocatalytic and antimetastatic studies of the marine cembranoids sarcophine and 2-epi-16-deoxysarcophine [PDF]
, 2006 The soft coral Sarcophyton glaucum is a rich resource of several bioactive cembranoids. Sarcophytol A (1) and sarcophine (2) are cembranoid diterpenes reported from this soft coral and extensively investigated for their cancer chemopreventive properties.
El Sayed, Khalid A. +5 more
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Comprehensive study on the effects of various stressors on soft corals and zooxanthellae [PDF]
, 2023 Soft corals have a remarkable potential as producer of secondary metabolites. However, they are vulnerable to changes in environment. Coral produce secondary metabolites as chemical defense against predators and environmental changes. In this thesis, the
Rahaweman, Ayu Christien
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A brief review on new naturally occurring cembranoid diterpene derivatives from the soft corals of the genera Sarcophyton, Sinularia, and Lobophytum since 2016 [PDF]
, 2019 This work reviews the new isolated cembranoid derivatives from species of the genera Sarcophyton, Sinularia, and Lobophytum as well as their biological properties, during 2016⁻2018.
Miguel, Maria +2 more
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