De Novo biosynthesis of polypropionate metabolites in the marine pulmonate Siphonaria denticulata
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 16,p. 1061-1062
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39880001061
Abstract
The marine pulmonate Siphonaria denticulata incorporates label from [1-14C]propionate into denticulatins A (1) and B (2); the metabolites, which have been suggested to play a role in chemical defence, are located in mucus glands and in the foot of these animals.Keywords
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