Soil fungi secrete an antibiotic with antitumor activity

Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 09:00 in Biology & Nature

A team of scientists from I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (MSMU) together with their colleagues isolated a peptide named emericellipsin A from soil fungi. The substance was proved to possess antitumor and antibacterial properties. The report of the scientists was published in the Molecules journal.

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