Literature

Abstract

Mycosporines, N-substituted amino acid derivatives of 2-hydroxymethyl-2-methoxycyclohex-1-en-3-one, were isolated from dormant embryos (cysts) of Artemia. The major component in all strains was mycosporine (-Gly:-Ser). Small amounts of mycosporines containing glycine and threonine, glycine and alaninol as well as glycine and aspartic acid were identified in cysts of a strain from Brazil. Free amino acids were released from mycosporines by treatment with bromine water or an iodine peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.8). The amount of mycosporines in developing cysts decreased while nauplii contained only gadusol (1,4,5-trihydroxy-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methoxycyclohex-1-en-3-one).

DOI： 10.1016/0305-0491(85)90457-2

The isolation of four aminocyclohexenimines (mycosporines) and a structurally related derivative of cyclohexane-1:3-dione (gadusol) from the brine shrimp, Artemia

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Comparative Biochemistry 1985.0

Isolation and Structure of a Novel Mycosporine-like Amino Acid from the Reef-building Corals Pocillopora damicornis and Stylophora pistillata

Tetrahedron Letters 1995.0

Mycosporine-2-glycine is the major mycosporine-like amino acid in a unicellular cyanobacterium (Euhalothecesp.) isolated from a gypsum crust in a hypersaline saltern pond

FEMS Microbiology Letters 2002.0

A uv protective compound from Glomerella cingulata—a mycosporine

Phytochemistry 1982.0

Ultraviolet absorbing pigments from the marine sponge Dysidea herbacea: Isolation and structure of a new mycosporine

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Endocrinology 1996.0

Structure of euhalothece-362, a novel red-shifted mycosporine-like amino acid, from a halophilic cyanobacterium (Euhalothece sp.)