This era of biotechnological tools | ||
| Egyptian Pharmaceutical Journal | ||
| Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 121-128 PDF (608.79 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.4103/epj.epj_35_18 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ghoson M. Daba; Waill A. Elkhateeb; Paul W. Thomas | ||
| Abstract | ||
Owing to the outbreak of fatal diseases that require searching for new compounds with high activity and/or novel action mechanisms, screening for promising sources of biologically active compounds that fulfill the current needs of humanity is a matter of life and death. Fungi generally and endophytic ones specifically represent future factories and potent biotechnological tools for production of bioactive natural substances, which could extend healthy life span of humanity (as done by penicillin from centuries), and are considered promising alternatives for some high costly produced chemicals and drugs. The present review highlights some bioactive secondary metabolites, produced by fungal endophytes, involved in medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and industrial applications. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| biological activities; biotechnology; Endophytic fungi; Pigments; secondary metabolites; taxol | ||
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