Anticancer and Antifungal Compounds from Aspergillus, Penicillium and Other Filamentous Fungi

Abstract

This review covers important anticancer and antifungal compounds reported from filamentous fungi and in particular from Aspergillus, Penicillium and Talaromyces. The taxonomy of these fungi is not trivial, so a focus of this review has been to report the correct identity of the producing organisms based on substantial previous in-house chemotaxonomic studies.

Keywords

• anticancer
• polyketides
• non-ribosomal peptides
• terpenoids
• fungi
• natural products
• taxonomy