TY - EJOU AU - SALEM, MOHAMED AU - EL-METWALLY, MOHAMMAD AU - SABER, WESAMELDIN AU - NEGM, SALLY AU - EL-KOTT, ATTALLA AU - MAZROUA, YASSER AU - MAKHLOUF, ABEER AU - MOUSTAFA, MAHMOUD TI - Secondary antiviral metabolites from fungi with special reference to coronaviruses T2 - BIOCELL PY - 2022 VL - 46 IS - 8 SN - 1667-5746 AB - Profound inspection of the life forms on the earth teaches how to be the complexity of interrelationships among the various systems. Because of the emergence of novel viruses all the time and the inadequate of vaccines and antivirals, viral contagions are amongst the most causative diseases affecting people worldwide. Fungi exemplify a massive source of bioactive molecules as, many fungal secondary metabolities like Oxoglyantrypine, Carneic acid F, Scedapin C, Asteltoxin E, Phomanolide, Norquinadoline A and Quinadoline B have antiviral activity. This review deals with how secondary metabolites of fungi can help in the war against viruses in general and especially Coronaviruses moreover several pieces of literature pointed out that many clusters of fungi in different biotopes are waiting to be exploited. KW - COVID-19 KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - Antibiotics KW - Virus KW - Fungi DO - 10.32604/biocell.2022.019301