Metabolomic profiling of -derived fungal endophytes and evaluation of their biological activities.

This study aimed to discover the potential of -derived fungal endophytes as a prospective source of bioactive metabolites. In the present study, three different strains of fungal endophyte were isolated from leaves L, roots T and stems St of to explore their biological and chemical diversity. These isolated fungi were exposed to different fermentation conditions by adding various chemical elicitors to their solid fermentation media. According to LC-HRESIMS-based metabolomics and multivariate analysis, each chemical treatment had a different effect on the chemical profiles of the fungi. Orthogonal Projections to Latent Structures Discriminant Analysis (OPLS-DA) proposed several compounds with anticancer action against MCF-7 (a human breast cancer cell line) and MDA-MB-231 (a human epithelial breast cancer cell line).