Are Microbial Endophytes the 'Actual' Producers of Bioactive Antitumor Agents?

Abstract:

:For millenia, plants have been a major source of medications against human and animal diseases. In the case of anticancer agents, a significant number of current agents can trace their source back to nominally plant secondary metabolites, with examples being taxol, vinca alkaloids, camptothecin (CPT), and their modified derivatives. However, it is now becoming apparent that these and other plant-derived materials, plus similar agents from marine sources may well have a microbe in their background. In this short Opinion, evidence for such claims are presented for some of the agents currently in use or in preclinical and clinical trials against cancer.

journal_name

Trends Cancer

journal_title

Trends in cancer

authors

Newman DJ

doi

10.1016/j.trecan.2018.08.002

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-10-01 00:00:00

pages

662-670

issue

10

eissn

2405-8033

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2405-8025

pii

S2405-8033(18)30187-0

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4

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