@article {642,
	title = {Anticancer agents from unique natural products sources},
	journal = {Pharmaceutical Biology},
	volume = {41},
	year = {2003},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 877RKTimes Cited: 5Cited Reference Count: 8344th Annual Meeting of the American-Society-of-PharmacognosyJUL 12-16, 2003Chapel Hill, NCAmer Soc PharmacognosySuppl. S},
	pages = {15-38},
	type = {Proceedings Paper},
	abstract = {The National Cooperative Natural Products Drug Discovery Group (NCNPDDG) "Anticancer Agents from Unique Natural Products Sources, CA 67786" was first awarded in September 1995. The goal of the project is to discover and develop novel anticancer agents from a variety of natural products sources. The key accomplishments of this NCDDG which will be highlighted in this manuscript include: Development of tools to probe fungi for the production of novel natural products by DNA-based probes. Discovery that the majority of these fungi can produce natural products via nonribosomal peptide synthetases, polyketide synthases, or both - a much larger percentage than current culturing techniques reveal. Identification of the MDR-selective cytotoxic agent austocystin D, and use of a novel yeast deletion strain approach to help identify its molecular target(s). Identification of hemiasterlin and other naturally occurring analogs as potent antimitotic agents with excellent in vivo activity against human solid tumors in mouse models. Development of a total synthesis of hemiasterlin. The utilization of this methodology to provide the first SAR for the hemiasterlin family of antimitotic agents and to identify the synthetic analog HTI-286, which is being examined in clinical trials as an anticancer agent. To provided technology transfer, educational opportunities and compensation to countries of origin for collection and study of their natural product resources. This NCNPDDG program has provided funding to research programs at the University of the Philippines, The University of the South Pacific in the Fiji Islands, Colombo University in Sri Lanka, the Instituto de Quimica de Sao Carlos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the University of Papua New Guinea.},
	keywords = {ACTIVATED PROTEIN-KINASE, antitumor agents, austocystins, CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES, CYTOTOXIC PEPTIDES, fungi, GROWTH-FACTOR RECEPTOR, hemiasterlins, IN-VIVO, LINKED-IMMUNOSORBENT-ASSAY, MARINE, MICROORGANISMS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANCE, natural products, NCDDG, sponges, TRIPEPTIDE HEMIASTERLIN, TUMOR-CELL LINES, TYROSINE KINASE},
	isbn = {1388-0209},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000225587500004},
	author = {Ireland, C. M. and Aalbersberg, W. and Andersen, R. J. and Ayral-Kaloustian, S. and Berlinck, R. G. S. and Bernan, V. and Carter, G. and Churchill, A. C. L. and Clardy, J. and Concepcion, G. P. and De Silva, E. D. and Discafani, C. and Fojo, T. and Frost, P. and Gibson, D. and Greenberger, L. M. and Greenstein, M. and Harper, M. K. and Mallon, R. and Loganzo, F. and Nunes, M. and Poruchynsky, M. S. and Zask, A.}
}
@article {663,
	title = {Arsenic methylation by micro-organisms isolated from sheepskin bedding materials},
	journal = {Human \& Experimental Toxicology},
	volume = {22},
	number = {6},
	year = {2003},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 696NKTimes Cited: 6Cited Reference Count: 48},
	month = {Jun},
	pages = {325-334},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been associated with the volatilization of arsenic, antimony or phosphorus compounds from infants{\textquoteright} bedding material by micro-organisms, the so-called {\textquoteright}toxic gas hypothesis{\textquoteright}. The volatilization of arsenic by aerobic micro-organisms isolated from new sheepskin bedding material, as well as on material used by a healthy infant and by an infant who perished of SIDS, was examined. Three fungi were isolated from a piece of sheepskin bedding material on which an infant perished of SIDS, which methylated arsenic to form trimethylarsenic(V) species, precursors to volatile trimethylarsine. These three fungi were identified as Scopulariopsis koningii, Fomitopsis pinicola and Penicillium gladioli by their 26S-ribosomal RNA polymerase chain reaction products. These fungi were not previously known to methylate arsenic. The volatilization of arsenic by these three fungi was then examined. Only R gladioli volatilized arsenic and only under conditions such that the production of sufficient trimethylarsine to be acutely toxic to an infant is unlikely. S. brevicaulis grew on the sheepskin bedding material and evolved a trace amount of trimethylarsine. Known human pathogens such as Mycobacterium neoaurum and Acinetobacter junii were isolated from used bedding.},
	keywords = {ANTIMONY COMPOUNDS, arsenic, BIOMETHYLATION, COT MATTRESSES, fungi, GAS, hypothesis, IDENTIFICATION, INFANT-DEATH-SYNDROME, METHYLATION, SCOPULARIOPSIS-BREVICAULIS, SPECIATION, sudden infant death syndrome, toxic gas, TRIMETHYLARSINE, VOLATILIZATION},
	isbn = {0960-3271},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000183892800008},
	author = {Lehr, C. R. and Polishchuk, E. and Delisle, M. C. and Franz, C. and Cullen, W. R.}
}
@article {4586,
	title = {Arsenic in the Meager Creek hot springs environment, British Columbia, Canada},
	journal = {Science of the Total Environment},
	volume = {236},
	number = {1-3},
	year = {1999},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 243EGTimes Cited: 66Cited Reference Count: 59},
	month = {Sep},
	pages = {101-117},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Levels of arsenic in water from Meager Creek hot springs, British Columbia, Canada, were found to be naturally elevated. Biota including microbial mats, green algae, sedge, cedar, fleabane, monkey flower, moss, mushrooms and lichens, that were expected to be impacted by the water, were analyzed for total levels of arsenic and for arsenic species. The major arsenic species extracted from all samples were arsenate and arsenite, which are toxic forms of arsenic. Additionally, small amounts of arsenosugars X and XI were detected in microbial mats and green algae, implying that cyanobacteria/bacteria, and possibly green algae are capable of synthesizing arsenosugars from arsenate. Low to trace amounts of arsenosugars X and XI were detected in lichens and the fungus Tarzetta cupularis. A large fraction (on average, greater than 50\%) of arsenic was not extracted by using methanol/water (1:1) and the chemical and toxicological significance of this arsenic remains unknown. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {ALGA, arsenic, BIOACCUMULATION, BIOMETHYLATION, ESTUARINE WATERS, FATE, fungi, hot springs, microbial mats, ORGANISMS, ORIGIN, PLANTS, SPECIATION, WATER FOOD-CHAIN},
	isbn = {0048-9697},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000082983600008},
	author = {Koch, I. and Feldmann, J. and Wang, L. X. and Andrewes, P. and Reimer, K. J. and Cullen, W. R.}
}
