Antitubercular Marine Natural Products

Title:Antitubercular Marine Natural Products

Volume: 25 Issue: 20

Author(s): Lishu Wang, Jungfeng Wang, Juan Liu and Yonghong Liu*

Affiliation:

• Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301,China

Keywords: Antitubercular, marine natural products, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, marine drugs, antimycobacterial, natural product derivatives.

Abstract: Due to the importance of nature as a source of new drug candidates, the purpose of this article is to emphasize the marine natural products, which exhibit antitubercular activity, published between January 2000 and May 2016, with 138 quotations to 250 compounds obtained from marine resources. These metabolites are organized by chemical constitution and named as simple alkyl lipids derivatives, aromatics derivatives, peptides, alkaloids, terpenoids, steroids, macrolides, and polycyclic polyketides.

Cite this article as:

Wang Lishu, Wang Jungfeng, Liu Juan and Liu Yonghong*, Antitubercular Marine Natural Products, Current Medicinal Chemistry 2018; 25 (20) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0929867324666170113120221