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Using flash reversed-phase columnchromatography and a 3-D cancercell culture assay system to examinea fungus in soil, a team of expertsled by Jong Seog Ahn, of the KoreaResearch Institute of Bioscience &Biotechnology Chemical (KRIBB) BiologyResearch Center (Daejeon, SouthKorea) succeeded in discovering fusarisetin,a new antimetastatic agentcapable of fighting cancerous cells.
The KRIBB center reported thatAhn’s team looked for anticanceractive substance from microbial secondarymetabolites, successfully separatingthe new active substance fromthe cultured broth of Fusarium sp.FN080326 isolated from Korean soil.
With its unique carbon skeletalbackbone structure, the compound isunlike anything in nature, displaying no cell toxicity and boasting antimetastaticproperties suitable forcombating cancer.
“Cancer usually kills because itspreads throughout the body, but thenew material shows promise of hinderingsuch developments,” Ahn toldthe Yonhap News Agency.
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