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Xanthone
About: Xanthone is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1639 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25870 citations. The topic is also known as: 9-oxo-xanthene & Diphenyline ketone oxide.
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TL;DR: In vitro anti-hepatitis B virus assay on the Hep G 2.2.15 cell line showed that both compounds 1 and 2 exhibited activities against the secretion of HBsAg, HBeAg, and HBV DNA replication.
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TL;DR: A transcript for a plant acyl-activating enzyme (AAE) was cloned from xanthone-producing H. calycinum cell cultures and indicated that HcAAE1 exhibits promiscuous substrate preference, with benzoic acid being the sole aromatic substrate accepted.
Abstract: Benzoic acid-derived compounds, such as polyprenylated benzophenones and xanthones, attract the interest of scientists due to challenging chemical structures and diverse biological activities. The genus Hypericum is of high medicinal value, as exemplified by H. perforatum. It is rich in benzophenone and xanthone derivatives, the biosynthesis of which requires the catalytic activity of benzoate-coenzyme A (benzoate-CoA) ligase (BZL), which activates benzoic acid to benzoyl-CoA. Despite remarkable research so far done on benzoic acid biosynthesis in planta, all previous structural studies of BZL genes and proteins are exclusively related to benzoate-degrading microorganisms. Here, a transcript for a plant acyl-activating enzyme (AAE) was cloned from xanthone-producing Hypericum calycinum cell cultures using transcriptomic resources. An increase in the HcAAE1 transcript level preceded xanthone accumulation after elicitor treatment, as previously observed with other pathway-related genes. Subcellular localization of reporter fusions revealed the dual localization of HcAAE1 to cytosol and peroxisomes owing to a type 2 peroxisomal targeting signal. This result suggests the generation of benzoyl-CoA in Hypericum by the CoA-dependent non-β-oxidative route. A luciferase-based substrate specificity assay and the kinetic characterization indicated that HcAAE1 exhibits promiscuous substrate preference, with benzoic acid being the sole aromatic substrate accepted. Unlike 4-coumarate-CoA ligase and cinnamate-CoA ligase enzymes, HcAAE1 did not accept 4-coumaric and cinnamic acids, respectively. The substrate preference was corroborated by in silico modeling, which indicated valid docking of both benzoic acid and its adenosine monophosphate intermediate in the HcAAE1/BZL active site cavity.
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TL;DR: A rare secoiridoid monoterpene and a xanthone from Tachia grandiflora Maguire & Weaver are described.
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TL;DR: From the aerial parts of Ixanthus viscosus, 1,8-dihydroxy-2,3,6-trimethoxy xanthone and 1,3-8-trihydroxy- 2,6dimethoxy Xanthone, were isolated tog
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TL;DR: In this paper, column chromatography of purified butanol extract obtained after fractionation from aqueous methanolic extract of aerial parts of Swertia paniculata afforded one xanthone glycoside (1,5-dihydroxy-3methoxyxanthone-8- O -β-d -glucopyranoside).
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