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SUBMITTER: Yang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4570789 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Yi Y Park So-Yeon SY Nguyen Thanh Thi TT Yu Young Hyun YH Nguyen Tru Van TV Sun Eun Gene EG Udeni Jayalal J Jeong Min-Hye MH Pereira Iris I Moon Cheol C Ha Hyung-Ho HH Kim Kyung Keun KK Hur Jae-Seoun JS Kim Hangun H
PloS one 20150915 9
Lichens produce various unique chemicals that can be used for pharmaceutical purposes. To screen for novel lichen secondary metabolites showing inhibitory activity against lung cancer cell motility, we tested acetone extracts of 13 lichen samples collected in Chile. Physciosporin, isolated from Pseudocyphellaria coriacea (Hook f. & Taylor) D.J. Galloway & P. James, was identified as an effective compound and showed significant inhibitory activity in migration and invasion assays against human lu ...[more]