Title:Fungal Proteins with Antiproliferative and Anticancer Activities
VOLUME: 20 ISSUE: 4
Author(s):T. B. Ng and J. H. Wong
Affiliation:School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T., Hong Kong, China.
Keywords:Fungi, antiproliferative, anticancer, proteins, tumor cell, ribonuclease, ribosome, hemolysin, adiotherapy, chemotherapy
Abstract:Fungi produce a variety of proteins with antiproliferative activity toward tumor cells and anticancer activity in
tumor bearing mice. The aforementioned fungal proteins include ribonucleases, antifungal proteins, ubiquitin-like peptides,
ribosome inactivating proteins, hemolysins, hemagglutinins/lectins, laccases, and protein-bound polysaccharopeptides.
