Microbial transformation of artemisinin by Aspergillus terreus

Abstract Background Artemisinin (1) and its derivatives are now being widely used as antimalarial drugs, and they also exhibited good antitumor activities. So there has been much interest in the structural modification of artemisinin and its derivatives because of their effective bioactivities. The...

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Main Authors: Hongchang Yu, Baowu Zhu, Yulian Zhan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-07-01
Series:Bioresources and Bioprocessing
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40643-017-0164-6