Asterina pectinifera

These compounds also inhibited the gastrulation of the starfish (Asterina pectinifera) embryo [129,130], Both racemic and enantiomeric forms of rophaloic acid A have been synthesised by very different... 

Iorizzi, M., Minale, L., and Riccio, R., Starfish saponins. part 39. Steroidal oligoglycoside sulphates and polyhydroxysteroids from the starfish Asterina pectinifera, Gazz Chim. Ital., 120, 147, 1990. 

H. Nakamura, J. Kobayashi, Y. Hirata (1981). Isolation and structure of a 330 nm UV-absorbing substance, Asterina-330 from the starfish Asterina pectinifera. Chem. Lett., 1413-1414. 

Fig. 7. Structure determination of pectinioside G from the starfish Asterina pectinifera (65).

Kishimura, K, Ojima, T., Tanaka, H., Hayashi, K., and Nishita, K., 2000, Amino acid sequence of phospholipase A2 from the pyloric caeca of starfish Asterina pectinifera. Fisheries Sci., 66, 104. 

Gangliosides from the starfish Asterina pectinifera) are unique in containing neuraminic acid residues in the inner core of the glycolipid. 

Three new gangliosides have been isolated and characterized as structures (17)-(19) from the starfish, Asterina pectinifera. These gangliosides were novel in each containing an internal neuraminic acid residue. 

Sugita, M. (1979) Studies on the Glycosphingolipids of the Starfish Asterina pectinifera III Isolation and Structural Studies of Two Novel Gangliosides Containing Internal Sialic Acid Residues , Journal of Biochemistry (Tokyo), 86, 765-72... 

The phospholipid and glycolipid contents of the brains, and several other characteristics, of thirty-two species of fish belonging either to the elasmobranches or to the teleosts have been reported, Three gangliosides isolated from the starfish Asterina pectinifera have sialic acid residues present in the interior of the carbohydrate chains. Lactosylceramide and water-soluble materials containing arabinose, galactose, and sialic acids were liberated during attempts to remove the sialic acid residues with acid. 

Komori et al. (555) reported the isolation of a cerebroside mixture (987) and two nucleosides, thymine desoxyribonucleoside (988) and uracil desoxyribonucleoside (989), from Acanthaster planci. Structure elucidation was based on and C-NMR spectrometry as well as on El- and FD mass spectrometry. Similar cerebroside mixtures which showed nearly identical IR-spectra could be extracted from Luidia qui naria and Astropecten latespinosus. The mycosporine-like amino acids (990-994) have been obtained from alcoholic extracts of the starfish Asterina pectinifera 656). 

A very unusual long-chain fatty acid ester of a hexahy-droxylsterol was isolated from the Chinese species Asterina pectinifera collected arotmd Dalian waters it is inactive against herpesvirus-1 and human liver carcinoma cell HepG2 (Peng et al, 2010). 

Free sterols, polyhydroxysterols and steroidal glycosides do not seem to be distributed evenly in the organs of starfish. In the species Patiria (= Asterina) pectinifera, it was found that although sterols were present in all parts of the animal, polyhydroxysterols and low-molar-mass glycosides were present only in the stomach and aboral, 27... 

Asterosaponine PI Asterina pectinifera, Oreaster reticulatus Patiria pectinifera H H a-OH H 3-OH a-OH H SC-103 Higuchi et al., 1988b Segura de Correa et al., 1985 Kicha et al., 1983... 

Chapter 20) it was isolated from Asterina pectinifera. Such a compound may act as natural anti-UV-B agent (Nakamura, Kobayashi, and Hirata, 1981). 

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