Bioreactor studies on the endophytic fungus <i>Entrophospora infrequens</i> for the production of an anticancer alkaloid camptothecin

Amna, Touseef; C. Puri, S.; Verma, Vivek; Sharma, Jai; K Khajuria, Rajinder; Musarrat, Javed; Spiteller, Michael; N. Qazi, Ghulam

doi:10.1139/w05-122

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Bioreactor studies on the endophytic fungus Entrophospora infrequens for the production of an anticancer alkaloid camptothecin

Published in Canadian Journal of Microbiology • Mar 1, 2006

Authors:

Touseef Amna

S. C. Puri

Vivek Verma

Abstract

Twigs (young and old) from Nothapodytes foetida growing in the Jammu and Mahabaleshwar regions in India were used for the isolation of 52 strains of endophytic fungi and were tested for their ability to produce the anticancer alkaloid camptothecin. One of the isolates from the inner bark tissue of t...

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Camptothecin

Alkaloid

Bark (sound)

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