Research papers of the week – April 24, 2023

Marcelina Mazur; Karolina Maria Zych; Bożena Obmińska-Mrukowicz; Aleksandra Pawlak

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

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Journal Impact Factor (2023) = 6.208 (Q1)

The microbial transformations of lactones with a halogenoethylocyclohexane moiety were performed in a filamentous fungi culture. The selected, effective biocatalyst for this process was the Absidia glauca AM177 strain. The lactones were transformed into the hydroxy derivative, regardless of the type of halogen atom in the substrate structure. For all lactones, the antiproliferative activity was determined toward several cancer cell lines. The antiproliferative potential of halolactones was much broader than that observed for the hydroxyderivative. According to the presented results, the most potent was chlorolactone, which exhibited significant activity toward the T-cell lymphoma line (CL-1) cell line. The hydroxyderivative obtained through biotransformation was not previously described in the literature.

DOI:10.3390/ijms24087587

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