| Literature DB >> 17102923 |
Hideki Kobayashi1, Yuichi Nogi, Koki Horikoshi.
Abstract
We have purified a new violet pigment derived from Shewanella violacea DSS12 to determine its chemical structure. The pigment colored blue in tetrahydrofuran (THF) or chloroform and showed a broad absorption spectrum from 500 to 700 nm. X-ray diffraction analysis of single crystals showed that the chemical structure of this pigment was 5,5'-didodecylamino-4,4'-dihydroxy-3,3'-diazodiphenoquinone-(2,2'), containing the same chromophore as an indigoidine known as microbial blue pigment. The violet color of this pigment was due to hypsochromic shift (blue shift) caused by the side-by-side orientation of this pigment molecule, revealed by X-ray structural analyses of a single crystal.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17102923 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-006-0032-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Extremophiles ISSN: 1431-0651 Impact factor: 2.395