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Anticancer Diketopiperazines from the Marine Fungus

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Diketopiperazines (DKPs) of marine resources, especially those isolated from marine-derived fungi, have been paid increasing attention for their diversity in chemical structure and bioactivity. In this chapter, the marine-fungi derived DKPs with cytotoxic, cell cycle progression inhibiting, or apoptosis-inducing activities, are displayed with the classification according to their functionalities into three groups including prenylated DKPs, thio-DKPs, and simple DKPs, each of which is subsequently sorted referring to their structural features or composing in amino acid residues.

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Li, ZL., Hua, HM. (2015). Anticancer Diketopiperazines from the Marine Fungus. In: Kim, SK. (eds) Handbook of Anticancer Drugs from Marine Origin. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07145-9_15

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