June 27, 2024

New tool for mitochondrial function research

Focus on Bioactive Natural Products: Just out in ACS Chemical Biology, FA Gowans and coworkers at Berkeley reported that ophiobolin A (OPA) covalently targets mitochondrial complex […]
July 28, 2023

Microbial Metabolite Research Tools

Product Focus: Microbial Metabolite Research Tools! Numerous microbial metabolites have become highly useful probes for studying cell biology because they block (or stimulate) key signaling pathways. […]
February 10, 2023

Herboxidiene suppresses breast cancer cell migration

J Zhang and coworkers at Leiden University Med Ctr have shown that a splice variant of the ubiquitin specific protease, USP19-CY, can enhance the epithelial-mesenchymal transition […]
January 25, 2023

Anti-cancer Activity of Fungal Metabolite

In a paper just out in Phytomedicine, HG Kim and coworkers describe the in vitro anti-cancer activity of Beauvericin, an antimicrobial metabolite from the fungus Beauveria […]