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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: Mar Biotechnol (NY). 2003 Nov 3;6(1):37–52. doi: 10.1007/s10126-003-0007-7

Table 1.

Marine Compounds with Antibacterial, Anticoagulant, Antifungal, Antimalarial, Antiplatelet, Antituberculosis, and Antiviral Activities

Drug class Compound/organisma Chemistry Pharmacologic activity MMOAb Countryc References
Antibacterial Acetylenic acid/sponge Fatty acidd Gram-positive and negative inhibition Undetermined JPN, NETH Matsunaga et al., 2000
Antibacterial Discorhabdin R/sponge Alkaloidf Gram-positive and negative inhibition Undetermined AUS Ford and Capon et al. 2000
Anticoagulant Fucoidan/alga Sulfated Polysaccharideg Inhibition of microvascular thrombus No effect on P- and L-selectin SWE, GER Thorlacius et al., 2000
Anticoagulant Proteoglycan/alga Polysaccharideg Anticoagulant Inhibition of thrombin and potentiation of antithrombin III JPN Matsubara, 2000
Anticoagulant Sulfated D-galactan/alga Sulfated Polysaccharideg Anticoagulant Inhibition of thrombin and factor Xa BRA Farias et al., 2000
Antifungal Lyngbyabellin B/bacterium Depsipeptidef C. albicans inhibition Undetermined USA Milligan et al., 2000
Antifungal Naamine D/sponge Alkaloidf C. neoformans inhibition Nitric oxide inhibition USA, NZ Dunbar et al., 2000
Antimalarial Ascosalipyrrolidinone A/fungus Polyketided P. falciparum inhibition p56lck tryrosine kinase inhibition GER, SWI Osterhage et al., 2000
Antimalarial Homofascaplysin A & fascaplysin/sponge Sesterterpenee P. falciparum inhibition Undetermined GER, SWZ Kirsch et al., 2000
Antimalarial Manzamine A/sponge Alkaloidf In vivo P. berghei inhibition Undetermined SING, JPN, USA Ang et al., 2000
Antiplatelet Eryloside F/sponge Sterol glycosidee Platelet aggregation inhibition Thrombin receptor antagonist USA, UK Stead et al., 2000
Antituberculosis Axisonitrile-3/sponge Sesquiterpenee M. tuberculosis inhibition Undetermined GER Konig et al., 2000
Antituberculosis Elisapterosin B/soft coral Diterpenee M. tuberculosis inhibition Undetermined USA Rodriguez et al., 2000
Antiviral Cyclodidemniserinol trisulfate/ascidian Polyketided In vitro HIV infection inhibition HIV-1 integrase inhibition USA Mitchell et al., 2000
Antiviral Dragmacidin F/sponge Alkaloidf In vitro HSV-1 and HIV-1 inhibition Undetermined ITA Cutignano et al., 2000
Antiviral Lobohedleolide, 17-dimethylamino/soft coral Diterpenee In vitro HIV infection inhibition Undetermined USA Rashid et al., 2000
Antiviral Mololipids/sponge Alkaloidf In vitro HIV-1 infection inhibition Undetermined USA Ross et al., 2000
a

Kingdom Animalia: brittle star and cucumber (phylum Echinodermata), clam and mussel (phylum Mollusca), sponge (phylum Porifera), tunicate (phylum Chordata). Kingdom Fungi: fungus; Kingdom Plantae: alga; Kingdom Monera: bacterium (phylum Cyanobacteria).

b

MMOA is molecular mechanism of action.

c

AUS is Australia; BRA, Brazil; GER, Germany; ITA, Italy; JPN, Japan; NETH, The Netherlands; NZ, NewZealand; SING, Singapore; SWE, Sweden; SWZ, Switzerland; UK, United Kingdom.

d

Polyketides;

e

Terpene;

f

Nitrogen-containing compound;

g

Polysaccharide.