Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Phenylahistin is a metabolite produced by the fungus Aspergillus ustus that belongs to a class of naturally occurring dehydro-25-Diketopiperazines featuring a dehydrohistidine residue that exhibit important biological activities such as anti-cancer or neurotoxic effects.Phenylahistin is a microtubule binding agent that exhibits cytotoxic activities against a wide variety of tumor cell lines.