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Polycephalin B and C: Unusual Tetramic Acids from Plasmodia of the Slime Mold Physarum polycephalum (Myxomycetes)
Author(s) -
Nowak Alexander,
Steffan Bert
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(19981204)37:22<3139::aid-anie3139>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - physarum polycephalum , slime mold , mycetozoa , isolation (microbiology) , chemistry , enumeration , botany , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , dictyostelium , mathematics , gene , combinatorics
Illumination results in increased formation of metabolites 1 and 2 in the plasmodia of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum . This was determined from HPLC studies undertaken in the search for the photoactive substances involved in the “blue‐light phenomenon”. The isolation and structure elucidation of 1 and 2 is described.