Lycorine is an alkaloid isolated from bulbs of Pancratium foetidum Pom Amaryllidaceae of the genus Lycoris. It has very strong pharmacodynamics properties and biological effects, among others, antimalarial, antiviral, antitumor, and anti-inflammatory. Lycorine has been identified and characterized
The Gram-negative bacterium Flavobacterium columnare is the cause of columnaris disease, which can occur in channel catfish ( Ictalurus punctatus ). In a previous study, the betaine-type alkaloid ungeremine, 1, obtained from Pancratium maritimum L. was found to have strong antibacterial activity
From the methanol extract of the bulbs of Pancratium illyricum L., three phenanthridine type alkaloids, ungeremine (1), (-)-lycorine (2) and (+)-vittatine (3) were isolated. For the evaluation of their anticancer and antibacterial potential, compounds 1-3 were tested against human (I, IIα) and
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