Mostafa Alasmaey
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Title: Pure bio-active compounds from the Egyptian fungus Aspergillus ASAI
Biography
Biography: Mostafa Alasmaey
Abstract
The last two decades have shown that the fungi can be ‘bio-factories’ of bioactive secondary metabolites with novel skeletons. Amongst the fungi Aspergillus species are a rich source of structurally unique and biologically active secondary metabolites. During the course of our investigation on bioactive natural products from micro-organisms, we found the extract of fungus ASAI was obtained from the soil sample collected at Giza province, Egypt and identified as Aspergillus sp., it had a promising activity against many pathogenic test organisms. Chromatographic techniques isolation led to the isolation of nine pure compounds, which identified by using 1D and 2D NMR and classified into three types: triterpene, quinone and diketopiperazine alkaloid.