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. 2021 Aug 9;203(8):4755–4776. doi: 10.1007/s00203-021-02505-1

Table 1.

List of microbial-derived natural products with anti-cancer activities

Anti-cancer compound Origin Activity/mechanism Cancer types or cell lines References
Actinomycin D Streptomyces sp. ZZ338 Targeting glycolysis, glutaminolysis and lipogenesis Glioma cell lines Zhang et al. (2016)
BAEPS exopolysaccharide Bacillus amyloliquefaciens 3MS 2017 Inhibition of COX-2, aromatase, Na+/K+ ATPase, and estrogen production MCF-7 cells Ibrahim et al. (2020)
Bleomycin Streptoalloteichus hindustanus Induction of DNA strand breaks

Testicular cancer

Ovarian cancer

Hodgkin's lymphoma

Demain and Vaishnav (2011)
Brartemicin Nonomuraea sp. Reduction of invasion 26-L5 cells Igarashi et al. (2009)
Butanol extract Bifidobacterium adolescentis SPM0212 Anti-proliferative activity Caco-2, HT-29 and SW480 cells Lee et al. (2008)

Butyrate and

propionate

Firmicutes phylum Apoptotic, anti-proliferative and epigenetic activity Colon, lung and prostate cancer cells Górska et al. (2019), Kim et al. 2019)
Diethyl ether extract Streptomyces levis ABRIINW111 Apoptosis ALL cells Valipour et al. (2018)
Diterpenoid derivative Micromonospora zhangzhouensis HM134 Anti-proliferative activity

HepG2, HCT-116

and A549 cells

Fu et al. (2020)
Ether extract Streptomyces levis ABRIINW111 Cell cycle arrest and apoptosis SW480 cells Faramarzian et al. (2018)
Ethyl acetate extract Streptomyces artemisiae MCCB 248 Induction of nucleus shrinkage, DNA fragmentation and chromatin condensation H460 cells Dhaneesha et al. (2017)

Ethyl acetate

fraction

Streptomyces sp. OA293 Apoptosis HPV-16-positive SiHa and Caski cells Dan et al. (2018)

Ethyl acetate

fraction

Streptomyces sp. MUM256 Cell cycle arrest and apoptosis HCT-116 cells Tan et al. (2019)
Galvaquinone B Streptomyces spinoverrucosus Cytotoxicity and epigenetic activity

NSCLC, Calu-3

and H2887 cells

Hu et al. (2012)
Geldanamycin Streptomyces hygroscopicus var. geldanus HSP90 inhibition-mediated cytotoxicity Myeloma, breast, prostate and cervical cancer Gorska et al. (2012)
Iturin A Bacillus megaterium Cell cycle arrest and apoptosis Breast cancer cell lines Dey et al. (2015)
Jadomycins Streptomyces venezuelae ROS generation Breast cancer cells Hall et al. (2015)
Komodoquinone A Streptomyces sp. K53 Induction of cell differentiation Neuro2A cells Itoh et al. (2003)
Kosinostatin Streptomyces violaceusniger HAL64 Apoptosis MCF-7 cells Rambabu et al. (2015)
Lentztrehaloses A, B and C Lentzea sp. ML457-mF8 Autophagy

Human melanoma

Ovarian cancer

Wada et al. (2015)
Lipophilic peptides EML-CAP3 bacterial strain Anti-angiogenic activity by suppressing HIF-1α and VEGF HepG2 cells Jung et al. (2015)
Mensacarcin Streptomyces bottropensis Apoptosis Melanoma cell lines Plitzko et al. (2017)
Neoantimycin F (NAT-F) Streptomyces conglobatus Apoptosis NSCLC cells (Liu et al. 2019)
Novobiocin Streptomyces strain Anti-proliferative activity Breast cancer cell lines Donnelly and Blagg (2008)
N-acetyl-deformylantimycin Streptomyces sp. strain THS-55 Induction of ROS-mediated ubiquitin–proteasome system, degradation and inhibition of ERK1/2, STAT3 HPV-infected cervical cells Zhang et al. (2017)
Organic extracts Pseudomonas spp. AS 8, 106 and 70 Cytotoxicity MCF-7 cells Anas et al. (2016)
p8 Lactobacillus rhamnosus (LR) Slowing cell cycle progression CRC cells An et al. (2019)
Prodigiosin (PG) Serratia marcescens Apoptotic and anti-metastatic activities Mouse melanoma model Chang et al. (2011)

Proteinase

K-activated parasporin-2Aa 1 protein

Bacillus thuringiensis strain A1547 Apoptosis HepG2, PC-3 and MCF-7 cells Brasseur et al. (2015)

Pyrrolo (1,2-a)

pyrazine-1,4-dione, hexahydro-3-(phenylmethyl)

Streptomyces MUM256 and MUSC137 Apoptosis HT-29 cells Ser et al. (2017)

Pyrrolo (1,2-a)

pyrazine-1,4-dione, hexahydro 3-(2-

methyl propyl)

Staphylococcus sp. strain MB30 Cell cycle arrest and apoptosis A549 and HPV18 positive HeLa cells Lalitha et al. (2016)

Proteinase

K-activated parasporin-2Aa 1 protein

Bacillus thuringiensis strain A1547 Apoptosis HepG2, PC-3 and MCF-7 cells Brasseur et al. (2015)
Quercetin-3-O-b-L-rhamnopyranosyl- (1 to 6)-b-D-glucopyranoside Streptomyces sp. ERINLG-4 Apoptosis A549 cells Balachandran et al. (2014)
Romidepsin Chromobacterium violaceum Inhibition of HDAC CTCL and PTCL Furumai et al. (2002)
Salinomycin Streptomyces albus Inhibition of VEGF-VEGFR2-Akt/FAK signaling pathway Glioma cell lines Bi et al. (2017)
Trichostatin A Streptomyces hygroscopicus Inhibition of HDAC and anti-proliferative activity MCF-7, T-47D, ZR-75-1, BT-474, MDA-MB-231, MDAMB-453, CAL 51, SK-BR-3 cells Vigushin et al. (2001)
Cell cycle arrest and apoptosis T24 cells Qu et al. (2010)
Urukthapelstatin A Merchercharimyces asporophorigenes YM11-542 Cytotoxicity A549 cells Matsuo et al. (2007)
Valinomycins and compounds 1 and 2 Crude extract of Streptomyces sp. ZZ406 Anti-proliferative activity U87 MG cells Chen et al. (2018a, b, c)
Violacein Chromobacterium, Janthinobacterium, Alteromonas, Duganella, Massilia, Pseudoalteromonas and Collimonas Anti-proliferative activity HeLa cells Alem et al. (2020)
Chromobacterium violaceum Chemosensitization to 5-Fluorouracil CACO-2, DLD-1, SW480 and HCT-116 cells Kodach et al. (2006)