mushrooms

Clitocine, an adenosine analogue derived from mushrooms, is a potent transcriptional readout agent, an inhibitor of nonsense mutations, and has anticancer activity, inducing the production of p53 protein in cells carrying the p53 nonsense mutation allele.Clitocine enhances TRAIL-mediated apoptosis in human colon cancer cells by promoting Mcl-1 degradation.NSC 81464 is an alkaloid of the yohimbine type extracted from the roots and leaves of Rauwolfia vomitoria.

Coprine is a poisonous toxin that exists in mushrooms resulting in coprinus syndrome.

Poricoic acid BM is a lanostane triterpenoid found in the peels of Wolfiporia cocos mushrooms.

γ-Amanitin, an ADC (antibody-drug conjugate) cytotoxin isolated from mushrooms, inhibits RNA polymerase II, disrupting mRNA synthesis. It exhibits effects akin to those of α-Amanitin and β-Amanitin.

Lentinan, isolated and purified from a hot water extract of Lentinula edodes fruit bodies, is a fungal polysaccharide immunomodulator with anti-tumor effects.

Leptosin D, a thiodiketopiperazine alkaloid derived from mushrooms, effectively inhibits tyrosinase activity, demonstrating an inhibition concentration (IC50) value of 28.4 μM [1].

Mannan is isolated from algae, mushrooms, yeast and higher plants and acts as an immunomodulator.Mannan inhibits the pro-inflammatory activity of hepatic macrophages (M1 lineage) with protective effects against many liver lesions such as necrosis or steatosis.

Ergosterol peroxide (NSC 31324) is a derivative from mushrooms with anti-tumor, pro-apoptotic anti-mycobacterial and anti-proliferative activities.Ergosterol peroxide has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities and is toxic to parasites.

Ganoderic acid Z, a lanostane triterpenoid, can be isolated from mushrooms of the genus Ganoderma [1].