A natural oxadiazine isolated from cyanobacteria kills cancer cells in multicellular culture systems by impairing cellular respiration

• Author(s): Sousa, Maria Lígia ; Preto, Marco ; Martins, Rosário ; Vasconcelos, Vítor ; Linder, Stig ; Urbatzka, Ralph
• Date: 2018
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/25514
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Cyanobacteria; Bioplastics
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): REPOSITÓRIO P.PORTO

Description

Cyanobacteria are versatile microorganisms that ubiquitously inhabit terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They adapt to external threats by mainly producing secondary metabolites. Therefore, cyanobacteria have been recognized as producer of natural products with potential biotechnological applications, such as bioplastics, antifouling, antibiotics, antiprotozoal or anticancer treatment.