| Literature DB >> 18715035 |
Joel E Graham1, Juliette T J Lecomte, Donald A Bryant.
Abstract
A major aromatic, dicarboxylate carotenoid (>15% of total) was isolated from the euryhaline cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002. This compound, which was given the common name synechoxanthin (1), has been assigned the structure (all-E) chi,chi-caroten-18,18'-dioic acid by a combination of spectroscopic (UV-vis, FT-IR, (1)H and (13)C NMR, LC-MS) and chemical methods. This discovery conclusively establishes that some cyanobacteria are capable of synthesizing aromatic carotenoids.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18715035 DOI: 10.1021/np800310b
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Nat Prod ISSN: 0163-3864 Impact factor: 4.050