Polycavernosa tsudai

Paquette, L. A., Barriault, L., Pissamitski, D, and Johnston, J.N. 2000. Stereocontrolled Elaboration of Natural (-) -Polycaver-noside A, a Powerfully Toxic Metabolite of file Red Alga Polycavernosa tsudai. Journal of the American Chemical Society 22 4 6 9-63. ... 

Total synthesis of polycavernoside A, macrolide toxine from red algae Polycavernosa tsudai 99YGK993. 

II. Polycavemoside A A Lethal Metabolite from Polycavernosa tsudai 175... 

The first reported case of human intoxication was in Guam in 1991, resulting from the ingestion of the widely consumed red alga G. edulis (Polycavernosa tsudai). In this incident, 13 people... 

Further examples of the family of fattiviracin antiviral antibiotics with different lengths of fatty acid chains (see Vol. 32, p. 244) include compound 88. Compound 89, with R = 2,3-di-0-methyl-a-L-fucosyl-(l- 3)-2,4-dimethyl-p-D-xylose, is a powerful toxic metabolite of the red alga Polycavernosa tsudai and its total synthesis has been reported. The biosynthesis pathways to vicenistatin 1, 90 (R = 2,4,6-trideoxy-4-methylamino-p-D-riho-hexose) and vicenistatin 2, 90... 

Macrolide antibiotic. Isol. from the red alga Polycavernosa tsudai. Toxin. Solid. Obt. with Polycavernoside B whose struct, has not been detd. (1995). 

Polycavernosa tsudai Yotsu-Yamachita et al, 1993 Fujiwara et al., 1998 Fujiwara and Murai, 1999... 

Yotsu-Yamachita, M., Haddock, R.L., and Yasumoto, T. (1993) Polycavernoside A a novel glycosidic macrolide from the red alga Polycavernosa tsudai (Gracilaria edulis). j. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 1147-1148. 

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