A review of the bioactivity of beauvericin - a bioactive compound produced by fungi

Tóm tắt

Beauvericin is a well-known insecticidal, antibacterial, antiviral and cytotoxic mycotoxin with a cyclic hexadepsipeptide structure that is a piece of the enniatin antibiotic family. It could be applied in several fields such as insecticides and pharmaceuticals. Other aspects of beauvericin like the toxicity and the determination techniques were mentioned in previous reports but there are seldom published about the bioactivity. Therefore, this is the first review discussing some various bioactivities of the fungal substance beauvericin such as insecticidal activity, and antitumor activity.