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Microbial transformation of the antimelanoma agent betulinic acid (1) was studied. Preparative scale biotransformation with resting-cell suspensions of Cunninghamella species NRRL 5695 resulted in the production of a fungal metabolite of 1, which has been characterized as 28-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl 3beta-hydroxy-lup-20(29)-en-28-oate (2) based on spectral and enzymic data. The in vitro cytotoxicity assay of metabolite 2 revealed no activity against several human melanoma cell lines.
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Chatterjee et al. (1999) studied this question.
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