Soymida febrifuga (Roxb.) A. Juss. is an indigenous lofty deciduous medicinal tree, monotypic genus endemic to India. Hexane, ethyl acetate and methanol extracts of Soymida febrifuga root callus were tested for their phytochemical constituents and antimicrobial activity. Among them, ethyl acetate extract was found to be most effective, which on subjection to silica gel column chromatography led...

Surface light scattering (SLS) by capillary waves was used to investigate the adsorption behavior of non-ionic sugar surfactants at the air/liquid interface. SLS by the subphase (water) followed predictions from hydrodynamic theory. The viscoelastic properties (surface elasticity and surface viscosity) of monolayers formed by octyl beta-glucoside, octyl alpha-glucoside, and 2-ethylhexyl alpha-g...

The existence of di-glucosylated derivative of T-2 toxin in plant (corn powder) was confirmed for the first time in addition to that of HT-2 toxin. These masked mycotoxins (mycotoxin glucosides) were identified as T-2 toxin-di-glucoside (T2GlcGlc) and HT-2 toxin-di-glucoside (HT2GlcGlc) based on accurate mass measurements of characteristic ions and fragmentation patterns using high-resolution l...

The phase transition of dipalmitoyl lecithin, measured by thermal analysis, was eliminated by the plant sterol, sitosterol, and by the derivatives steryl glucoside and acylated steryl glucoside, which were isolated from soybean lipids.When digitonin was added to dipalmitoyl lecithin-sterol mixtures, in amounts equimolar to sterol, the phase transition of the phospholipid was revealed presumably...

The alpha- and beta-glucosidase activity in natural samples can be readily measured during short incubation times (20 min) by using the artificial substrates 4-methylumbelliferyl-alpha-d-glucoside and 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-d-glucoside. The apparent K(m) of both alpha- and beta-glucosidase for these respective substrates is 0.01 muM. The homologous disaccharides maltose and cellobiose compet...

One new and six known flavone glycosides were isolated from the MeOH extract of Melilotus neapolitana Ten. The new compound, identified as 7-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyloxy-4',5-dihydroxy-3-[O-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1-->6)-3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyloxy]flavone (1) by 1D and 2D NMR techniques and mass spectra, was isolated along with kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside (2), kaempferol-3-O-glucoside (3), rutin...

The chromatographic fractionation of the Mauritia flexuosa L. f., Arecaceae, leaves extract, a plant known by the name of buriti palm tree, resulted in the isolation of six flavonoids: tricin-7-O-rutinoside, apigenin-6-C-arabinoside, 8-Cglucoside (isoschaftoside), kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside (nicotiflorine), quercetin-3O-rutinoside (rutin), luteolin-8-C-glucoside (orientin) and luteolin-6-C-gluco...

Fluorophenols are used as agrochemicals and released into environment as pollutants. Cultured marine microalga Amphidinium crassum (Gymnodinium) glucosylated 2-fluorophenol (1), 3-fluorophenol (2), and 4-fluorophenol (3) to the corresponding β-D-glucosides, ie, 2-fluorophenyl β-D-glucoside (4, 60 μg/g cells), 3-fluorophenyl β-D-glucoside (5, 20 μg/g cells), and 4-fluorophenyl β-D-glucoside (6, ...

Hesperetin dihydrochalcone 4′-glucoside, 1 and phloretin 4′-glucoside, 2 belong to a family of dihydrochalcone glycosides that exhibit flavorant properties. We have developed a competitive, indirect homologous ELISA for the detection of targets 1 and 2 in fermentation media. Immunogen and coating antigen were prepared by conjugating hapten, 4-(3-oxo-3-(2,6dihydroxy-4-glucoside phenyl)propyl) be...

O sm undalin, a glucoside of osm undalactone, isolated from the royal fern, Osmunda japonica, stim ulated the deterren t cell (“R recep tor” cells, associated with deter­ rency) in the medial sensilla styloconica of Bombyx mori. From the dose-response curve, the lower limit of detection was 3 .6 x l0 ~ 53 .6 x l0 “4 m. This is the first re­ port tha t glucoside lactone elicits the impulses from...