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Biologically Active Terpenoids from Mushroom origin: A Review

Mehmet E. Duru and Gülsen Tel Çayan

Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry 48121 Kötekli Muğla, Türkiye

Abstract: Mushrooms are very important sources of drugs for modern medicine. Phyotherapeutic efficiency of terpenes from mushrooms has been proved. Lanostane type triterpenoids having potentials for cancer disease treatments are rich source of mushrooms. Therefore, the demand of isolation of bioactive compounds from the mushroom species has been increasing due to their medicinal importance. The paper reviewed isolation and biological activities such as antibacterial, anticancer, anticandidal, anticholinesterase, anti-compliment, antileishmanial, anti-inflammatory, anti-invasive, antimalarial, antioxidant, antitubercular, antitumor, antiviral, and cytotoxic activities of terpenoids from mushroom origin in the last two decades.

Keywords: Monoterpenoids; Sesquiterpenoids; Diterpenoids; Triterpenoids; Biological Activities; Mushrooms. . © 2015 ACG Publications. All rights reserved.