N sweetclover (Melilotus alba Desr.) the allelic pair designated B/b was I originally thought to be concerned with coumarin biosynthesis. Extracts of BB plants were reported to contain substantial amounts of both free and bound coumarin, while extracts of bb plants contained only bound coumarin (GOPLEN. GREENSHIELDS and BAENZIGER 1957; HASKINS and GORZ 1957), more recently identified as coumari...

A novel coumarin-centered amphiphilic star-block polymer of C-(PDMAEMA(80)-b-PS(8))(3) has been designed to investigate the pH-induced accompanying outward movement of hydrophobic coumarin centers within the polymer micelles upon protonation.

Coumarin analogues were synthezised and evaluated as acceptors for the intrinsic fluorescence resonance energy transfer (iFRET) of tryptophan residues in target proteins. The fluorescence properties such as quantum yields, iFRET efficiencies, and Förster distances of the prepared coumarin analogs were determined in a model system, by their conjugation to biotin, utilizing streptavidin (SAV) as ...

In the title coumarin derivative, C28H26N2O2, the coumarin unit is approximately planar, with a maximum deviation of 0.048 (3) Å. The central benzene ring is oriented at dihedral angles of 30.15 (14) and 10.51 (11)°, respectively, to the pyridine ring and coumarin ring system. In the crystal, weak C-H⋯O and C-H⋯N hydrogen bonds and weak C-H⋯π inter-actions link the mol-ecules into a three-dimen...

The synthesis of some fluorescent coumarin dyes derived from coumarin-3-carboxylic acid were described.The new dyes are obtained by condensation of coumarin – 3 carboxylic acid derivatives with para substituted ortho phenylenediamines and cyclisation of the mono condensed ortho phenylenediamines in an acid medium. The obtained dyes were characterized from their physico-chemical point of view by...

AIM To evaluate the anti-nociceptive activity of 7-methoxy coumarin isolated from ethyl acetate fraction of the alcoholic extract of Eupatorium triplinerve Vahl. MATERIALS AND METHODS The shade dried leaves of E. triplinerve were extracted with ethyl alcohol and the extract was condensed. This extract was fractionated with n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and n-butanol. The ethyl acetate fraction was...

7-Diethylamino-3-(4-isothiocyanotophenyl)-4-methylcoumarin (CPITC) was coupled to amino-methyldithiolanophalloidin to produce a new phalloidin derivative, coumarin-phalloidin, fluorescent in the blue region of the spectrum. Coumarin-phalloidin binds to actin with around 100-fold less affinity than unconjugated phalloidin, but with enough avidity to make it a useful stain for actin filaments. Ap...

Cytochrome P450 (P450) 2A6 is an important human enzyme involved in the metabolism of many xenobiotic chemicals including coumarin, indole, nicotine, and carcinogenic nitrosamines. A combination of random mutagenesis and high-throughput screening was used in the analysis of P450 2A6, utilizing a fluorescent coumarin 7-hydroxylation assay. The steady-state kinetic parameters (k(cat) and Km) for ...

Coumarin was previously found to cause tissue-selective toxicity in the olfactory mucosa (OM) of rats and mice, with rats being the more sensitive species. The aim of this study was to explore the role of target tissue biotransformation in OM-selective toxicity and the metabolic basis of the species differences in coumarin toxicity. At least six coumarin metabolites were detected in OM microsom...

Irosustat is a novel steroid sulfatase inhibitor for hormone-dependent cancer therapy. Its structure is a tricyclic coumarin-based sulfamate that undergoes desulfamoylation in aqueous solution, yielding the sulfamoyl-free derivative, 667-coumarin. The aim of the present work was to study the in vitro metabolism of irosustat, including its metabolic profile in liver microsomes and hepatocytes, t...