Teichaxinella morchella

Andrade P, Willoughby R, Pomponi SA, Kerr RG (1999) Biosynthetic Studies of the Alkaloid, Stevensine, in a Cell Culture of the Marine Sponge Teichaxinella morchella. Tetrahedron Lett 40 4775... 

Andrade, P., Willoughby, R., Pomponi, S., and Kerr, R. G., Biosynthetic studies of the alkaloid, stevensine, in a cell culture of the marine sponge Teichaxinella morchella, Tetrahedron Lett., 40, 4775, 1999. 

Teichaxinella morchella from the Gulf of Mexico has been shown to contain solely 3-hydroxymethyl-A-nor-steroIs, two of which are the new 3-hydroxymethyl-A-nor-... 

Wright, A. E.,Chiles, S. A., and Cross, S. S. (1991) 3-amino-l-(2-aminoimidazolyl)-prop-l-ene from the marine sponges Teichaxinella morchella and Ptilocaulis walpersi. J. Nat. Prod. 54,1684-1686. 

Bohlin, L., U. Sjostrand, C. Djerassi, and B.W. Sullivan Minor and Trace Sterols in Marine Invertebrates. Part 20. 3 -Hydroxymethyl-A-/iur-patinosterol and 3 -Hydroxymethyl-A-nur-dinosterol. Two New Sterols with Modified Nucleus and Side-chain from the Sponge Teichaxinella morchella. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. I 1981,1023. 

The incorporation of labeled histidine and proline in cell cultures of the species Teichaxinella morchella (Axinellidae, Hahchondrida) showed that the biosynthesis of certain pyrrole-imidazole alkaloids involved both of the precursors shown in Figure 19.46 (Andrade et al, 1999). These precursors, together or separately, lead to 15 different heterocyclic systems (Al Mourabit and Potier, 2001). 

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