Isolation and structure of a new amino acid, palythine, from the zoanthid Palythoa tuberculosa

✍ Scribed by Satoshi Takano; Daisuke Uemura; Yoshimasa Hirata

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 136 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)91519-9

✦ Synopsis

In the course of our studies on the constituents of the zoanthid Palythoa tuberculosa, we have isolated some water soluble compounds with a strong absorption maximum at 310-330 nm. One of these, mycosporine-Gly (Xmax 310 nm; structure L), had been studied and reported.1 On the other hand, it is well known that a compound with a absorption maximum at 320 nm is present in many marine plants and animals, 2 however the structure and the role in vivo are still unknown. Also, -a compoud with the same absorption maximum is found in Palythoa tuberculosa.