Comasterias lurida

FIGURE 3.12 Selected metabolites from echinoderms. 3.12.1 Comasteride A from Comasterias lurida.224 3.12.2 A polyhydroxylated sterol from Stylaster caroli 225 3.12.3 Fuscusine from Perknaster fuscus.226... 

As the glycosides from starfish are steroidal in nature and as some known polyhydroxylated steroids with moderate cytotoxicity have been isolated from these animals, the literature since 1980 dealing with such compounds will be reviewed here. Aside from some monohydroxyste-rols from Echinaster sepositus 646), Acanthaster planci 647) - this being a source of a new cyclopropane sterol Asterias vulgaris 648), and Comasterias lurida 649), the reports deal mainly with polyhydroxylated steroids. 

Seldes, A.M., and E.G. Gros Main Sterols from the Starfish Comasterias lurida. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 80B, 337 (1985). 

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