Isaria tenuipes Peck, an entomopathogenic fungus from Darjeeling Himalaya: Evaluation of in-vitro antiproliferative and antioxidant potential of its mycelium extract.

Background: Isaria tenuipes is one of the potent species in the members of the genus Isaria, which is well reported to possess multiple bioactive substances of therapeutic importance. Therefore, an in vitro experimental study was carried to evaluate the bioactivities of the crude methanolic extract from the mycelium of this fungus.

Methods: The fungus was authenticated through morphological characters and the species discrepancy was resolved using the nuclear rDNA ITS sequence.

-Inositol and Its Derivatives: Their Emerging Role in the Treatment of Human Diseases.

-inositol has been established as an important growth-promoting factor of mammalian cells and animals. The role of -inositol as a lipotropic factor has been proven, in addition to its involvement as co-factors of enzymes and as messenger molecules in signal transduction. -inositol deficiency leads to intestinal lipodystrophy in animals and "inositol-less death" in some fungi.

L-myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase expressed in developing organ: isolation and characterisation of the enzyme from human fetal liver.

L-myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase (MIPS; EC: 5.5.1.