Chemical constituents of the flora of Jordan, III. Mono-O-acetyl diphyllin apioside, a new arylnaphthalene lignan from Haplophyllum buxbaumii

TL;DR: Ten antiviral lignans, seven known and three new compounds, were isolated from a methanolic extract of the aerial parts of Justicia procumbens var.

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Novel Bioactive Metabolites from a Marine Derived Bacterium Nocardia sp. ALAA 2000

Mervat Morsy Abbas Ahmed El-Gendy, +2 more

- 01 Jun 2008 -

The Journal of Antibiotics

TL;DR: Extracts of the Egyptian marine actinomycete, Nocardia sp.

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Biaryls in nature: a multi-facetted class of stereochemically, biosynthetically, and pharmacologically intriguing secondary metabolites.

Gerhard Bringmann, +4 more

- 01 Jan 2001 -

Progress in the chemistry of organic nat...

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Arylnaphthalene lignans from in vitro cultures of Linum austriacum.

Abdolali Mohagheghzadeh, +2 more

- 01 Jan 2002 -

Journal of Natural Products

TL;DR: Callus, suspension, and normal and hairy root cultures of Linum austriacum produced a new arylnaphthalene lignan, 3,4-dimethoxy-3',4'-methylenedioxy-2,7'-cycloligna-7, 7'-dieno-9,9'-lactone, established using spectroscopic methods.

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(+)-Pinoresinol/(-)-lariciresinol reductase from Linum perenne Himmelszelt involved in the biosynthesis of justicidin B.

Shiva Hemmati, +2 more

- 20 Feb 2007 -

FEBS Letters

TL;DR: A cDNA encoding a pinoresinol–lariciresinol reductase PLR was isolated from a cell culture of Linum perenne Himmelszelt accumulating the arylnaphthalene lignan justicidin B, the first PLR described with opposite enantiospecificity within the two reaction steps catalysed by PLRs.

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