Steroid and Triterpenoid Oligoglycosides of Marine Origin
| Autor: | Maria Iorizzi, Luigi Minale, Elio Palagiano, Raffaele Riccio |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Marine sponges
medicine.medical_treatment Molecular Sequence Data Pardachirus Oligosaccharides Zoology Biology biology.organism_classification Triterpenes Steroid Triterpenoid Carbohydrate Sequence Phylum Echinodermata Genus medicine Animals Humans Marine Toxins Steroids Glycosides Marine toxin Echinodermata |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ISBN: 9781489913692 |
| Popis: | Saponins have been considered for a long time typical metabolites of plant origin. It has been only in the last two decades that the world-wide investigation of marine organisms as sources of new bioactive metabolites disclosed the wide distribution of these molecules also among marine animals. Today saponins are recognized as the most common characteristic metabolites in two classes of the phylum Echinodermata (Holothuroidea and Asteroidea). Furthermore, several steroid and triterpenoid oligoglycosides have been isolated from different species of marine sponges, more rarely Anthozoans, and also from fishes of the genus Pardachirus, where they have been shown to act as shark repellents. This communication offers a general view of the distribution of steroid and triterpenoid oligoglycosides among marine organisms and focuses on a number of recent examples to discuss structural characteristics, biological activities, and methods of investigation. |
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