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A review of steroids from Sarcophyton species
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A review of steroids from Sarcophyton species

Muhammad Sulaiman Zubair, Khalid O. Al-Footy, Seif-Eldin N. Ayyad, Sultan S. Al-Lihaibi and Walied M. Alarif
Natural product research, Vol.30(8), pp.869-879
17/04/2016
PMID: 26299957

Abstract

biological activities Sarcophyton species Soft coral steroids
This review reports the structural diversity of steroids from Sarcophyton species based on literature from the beginning of marine steroid research until now. There are 65 compounds studied from eight species. Most of them are polyhydroxy-type steroids of C-27-C-31 carbon skeleton. Their biological activities are highly diverse ranging from cytotoxic, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic to antiosteoporosis properties.

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