Study on sea sponge opens up possibilities to create new antitumor drugs

Chemists from Far Eastern Federal University’s School of Natural Sciences developed a new method to synthesize biologically active derivatives of fascaplysin — cytotoxic pigment of a sea sponge. For the first time, they got a sufficient amount of 3-bromofascaplysin and 3,10-dibromofascaplysin, which were known before but were not available for study.
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