J. Yadav, B. Reddy, K. S. Shankar
2008
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Bulletin of The Korean Chemical Society
Abstract
The 3-indolylbenzoquinone nucleus is present in various biologically active natural products such as asterriquinones. 1 The asterriquinones and demethylasterriquinones (Figure 1) have recently been isolated from a wide range of fungi, including Aspergillus terreus, Chaetomium sp. and Pseudomassaria sp. 2 They exhibit a wide spectrum of biological activities including antitumor properties and are inhibitors of HIV reverse transcriptase. 3 Asterriquinone A1 has been shown to arrest the cell cycle in G1 and promote apoptotic cell death. 4 Recently, asterriquinone has also been reported