A new inhibitor of acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT), designated lateritin, was isolated from the mycelial cake of Gibberella lateritium IFO 7188 by successive purification procedure of solvent extraction, silica gel column chromatography and reverse phase HPLC. Spectroscopic analyses of the compound yielded 4-methyl-6-(1-methylethyl)-3-phenylmethyl-1,4-perhydrooxazine-2,5- dione as t...

Thiazolines and thiazoles are an integral part of numerous natural products, a number of drugs, and many useful molecules such as ligands for metal catalysis. We report the first common synthetic protocol for the synthesis of thiazoles and thiazolines. Novel molecules are efficiently synthesized by using readily available and inexpensive substrates. The reaction conditions are mild and pure pro...

A procedure is described to utilize blue dextran-Sepharose as an affinity chromatographic column specific for the super-secondary structure called the dinucleotide fold, which forms the binding sites for substrates and effectors on a wide range of proteins. The procedure can be used to identify proteins, either purified or in crude cellular extracts, that possess the dinucleotide fold and to si...

Five new norhirsutanes, named creolophins A-E, and complicatic acid were isolated from the culture broth of the rare tooth fungus Creolophus cirrhatus by solvent extraction, silica gel column chromatography and HPLC. In addition, neocreolophin, a complex dimerization product, was formed as an artefact during purification. The structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods and are published...

Electroplated rhodium foil was employed as the target for cyclotron production of palladium-103. An electrodissolution apparatus was found better than other dissolution methods in terms of personnel shielding and palladium-103 yield. The ion-exchange column chromatography method was simple and effective for the purification of palladium-103 and the final stripping agent of NH4Cl + NH3(1:1) was ...

Ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase from the microalga Bumilleriopsis was isolated by a combination of affinity chromatography on a flavodoxin-Sepharose 4 B column and usual purification procedures. Both the elution pattern of the final gel filtration step and of the sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) disc gel electrophoresis indicate that there are at least two different molecular-weight forms of the reductas...