Marine Fungi-Derived Secondary Metabolites: Potential as Future Drugs for Health Care

Abstract

About half of all drugs are dependent on the support of natural products. In current years, a substantial number of structurally unique compounds with interesting therapeutic activities have been isolated from the marine-derived fungus (alkaloids, polyketides, peptides, terpenoids, lactones, and steroids) with pharmacological activities, such as antibacterial, antiviral, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, Immunosuppressive, cardiovascular, antioxidant, antidiabetic, and enzymatic. This review chapter focuses on therapeutically active biocompounds from marine-derived fungus with classification according to the sources of isolation of fungus and their pharmacological activities. Novel biocompounds..