Penasterol, a novel antileukemic sterol from the okinawan marine sponge Penares sp.
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 8,p. 2403-2406
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19880002403
Abstract
A novel lanosterol-derived metabolite, penasterol (1), with potent antileukemic activity has been isolated from the Okinawan marine sponge Penares sp. and the structure elucidated on the basis of evidence provided by spectroscopy and chemical transformations. This is the first isolation of a marine sterol with a 14-carboxy group potentially important within the framework of sterol biosynthesis.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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