| UV | Ultra violet |
| MNP | Marine natural product |
| MAA | Mycosporin amino acid |
| Petr Eth | Petroleum Ether |
| EtOAc | Ethyl Acetate |
| MeOH | Methanol |
| RP-HPLC | Reverse Phased High-Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| HPLC | High-Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| ROS | Reactive Oxygen Species |
| PDB | Potato Dextrose Broth |
| PDA | Potato Dextrose Agar |
| MeCN | Acetonitrile |
| ODS | Octadecylsilyl |
| A549 | Human lung adenocarcinoma cell line |
| CNE2 | Human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line |
| LoVo | Human colon cancer cell line |
| IC50 | Half maximal inhibition concentration |
| EC50 | Half maximal effective concentration |
| GPY | Glucose peptone yeast |
| COSY | Homonuclear correlation spectroscopy |
| HMBC | Heteronuclear Multiple Bond Correlation |
| SUNE1 | Human Nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line |
| MCF-7 | Human breast cancer cell line |
| CNE1 | Human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line |
| Bel7402 | Human hepatic cancer cell line |
| KB | Human epidermoid carcinoma cell line |
| HONE1 | Epithelial tumour cell line |
| GLC-82 | Gejiu Lung Carcinoma-82 |
| SMMC-7721 | Human hepatocarcinoma cell line |
| HL7702 | Normal human liver cell |
| GLC82 | Human lung adenocarcinoma cell line |
| HL 7702 | Normal Human Liver Cells |
| HL-60 | Myeloid leukemic cell lines |
| Am-80 | RARα Specific Synthetic Retinoid |
| L5178Y | Mouse lymphoma cells |
| HCT-116 | Human colorectal carcinoma cell line |
| HeLa | Human cervical cancer cell line |
| PRRSV | porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus |
| DEPT | Distortionless enhancement by polarisation transfer |
| HMBC | Heteronuclear multiple bond correlation |
| B16F10 | Human skin melanoma cell line |
| HeLa | Human cervical cancer cell line |
| HepG2 | Human liver cancer cell line |
| B16F10 | Human skin melanoma cell line |
| Vero | Normal kidney cells |
| HRESIMS | High-Resolution Electrospray Ionisation Mass Spectrometry |
| CHCl3 | Chloroform |
| OH | Hydroxyl |
| MIC | Minimum inhibition activity |
| LPS | Lipopolysaccharide |
| NO | Nitric oxide |
| HMGR-CoA | Hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase |
| MPA | Mycophenolic acid |
| IMPDH2 | inosine-50-monophosphate dehydrogenase |