Transformations of Steroids by Beauveria bassiana

2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Huszcza ◽  
Jadwiga Dmochowska-Gładysz ◽  
Agnieszka Bartmańska
Keyword(s):  
Double Bond ◽  
Beauveria Bassiana ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Double Bonds ◽  
Methyl Group ◽  
Group Reduction ◽  
Group A ◽  
Acetyl Group

The course of transformations of testosterone and its derivatives, including compounds with an additional C1,C2 double bond and/or a 17α-methyl group, a 17β-acetyl group or without a 19-methyl group, by a Beauveria bassiana culture was investigated. The fungi promoted hydroxylation of these compounds at position 11α, oxidation of the 17β-hydroxyl group, reduction of the C1,C2 or C4,C5 double bonds and degradation of the progesterone side-chain, leading to testosterone. The structure of 4-ene-3-oxo-steroids had no influence on regio- and stereochemistry of hydroxylation. In a similar manner, dehydroepiandrosterone was hydroxylated by Beauveria bassiana at position 11α, however, a small amount of 7α- hydroxylation product was also formed.

Structural Homogeneity in Unsaturated Fatty Acids of Marine Lipids. A Review

1964 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Ackman
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Double Bond ◽  
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Chain Length ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Double Bonds ◽  
Marine Origin ◽  
Methyl Group ◽  
Marine Lipids

Consideration of recent analytical data supports the conclusion that the longer-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids of marine origin are all structurally homogeneous in that the double bonds are cis, the double bonds methylene interrupted, and that, with the exception of the C16 chain length, the ultimate double bond will normally be three, six or nine carbon atoms removed from the terminal methyl group.

BEZIEHUNGEN ZWISCHEN SUBSTITUTION IM RING A UND ABBAU IM STOFFWECHSEL BEI VERWANDTEN DES TESTOSTERONS

1962 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 494-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Langecker
Keyword(s):  
Double Bond ◽  
Ring System ◽  
Keto Group ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Methyl Group ◽  
Structural Peculiarities ◽  
Metabolic Degradation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Testosterone Metabolites ◽  
Derivatives Of

ABSTRACT Judging from the metabolites found in the urine, 1-methyl-androst-1-en-17β-ol-3-one (methenolone) and testosterone are metabolized in a different manner. For further clarification, other derivatives of testosterone with modifications in Ring A were investigated with regard to the oxidation of the 17-hydroxyl group. The production of urinary 17-ketosteroids decreased in the following sequence: testosterone; 1α-methyltestosterone and androstan-17β-ol-3-one; 1β-methyl-androstan-17β-ol-3-one; 2α-methyl-androstan-17β-ol-3-one and androst-1-en-17β-ol-3-one; 1α-methyl-androstan-17β-ol-3-one; 1-methyl-androsta-1,4-dien-17β-ol-3-one; 1,17α-dimethyl-androst-1-en-17β-ol-3-one and 1 -methyl-androst-1 -en-17β-ol-3-one (methenolone). The difference in metabolic degradation is also demonstrated in the fractionation of the urinary ketones. While after the administration of testosterone practically only hydrogenated 17-ketones are observed in the urine, the unchanged compound is still traceable in remarkable quantities after the administration of methenolone, along with minor quantities of the corresponding diketone. Testosterone-metabolites here are absent, whereas they represent the major substances present after the administration of androst-1-en-17β-ol-3-on. Following the administration of 1α-methyltestosterone only hydrogenated 17-ketones are detected which are still partly methylated. The 1-methyl-group and the Δ 1-double-bond seem to be responsible for the inhibition of the oxidation of methenolone in the 17-position. In addition, the hydrogenation of the double-bond and the reduction of the 3-keto-group are inhibited, obviously on account of the same structural peculiarities. The demethylation of methenolone is also inhibited. Any change in the steroid ring system forms a new substrate, thus producing new conditions for the enzymatic attack in the metabolic degradation.

ALKALOIDS OF LYCOPODIUM ANNOTINUM: PART II. ISOLATION OF FOUR NEW ALKALOIDS

1959 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 1589-1596 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. L. Anet ◽  
N. H. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Double Bond ◽  
Countercurrent Distribution ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Lycopodium Annotinum ◽  
Acetyl Group

Countercurrent distribution of the alkaloids of Lycopodiumannotinum gave four new bases: annofoline, lycofoline, and α- and β-lofoline. Annofoline, C16H25O2N, contained a keto and a hydroxyl group. Lycofoline, C16H25O2N, possessed at least one hydroxyl group and possibly a double bond, α- and β-Lofoline each had the formula C18H29O3N and contained a hydroxyl and an O-acetyl group.

LYCOPODIUM ALKALOIDS: XVI. ANNOTINE

1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 2584-2594 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Szarek ◽  
K. A. H. Adams ◽  
M. Curcumelli-Rodostamo ◽  
D. B. MacLean
Keyword(s):  
Double Bond ◽  
Nitrogen Atom ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Tertiary Nitrogen Atom ◽  
Chemical Studies ◽  
Group A ◽  
Instrumental Methods ◽  
Tertiary Hydroxyl ◽  
Plausible Structure ◽  
Tertiary Nitrogen

Annotine, C16H21O3N, is shown to be pentacyclic and to contain a tertiary hydroxyl group, a lactone function, a tertiary nitrogen atom, and a dialkylated double bond. The position of the double bond and the tertiary hydroxyl group relative to the nitrogen atom has been established by Emde degradation of annotine methiodide. The presence of a lactone function is inferred from the reduction of annotine to dihydroannotinol, a hemiacetal, which reacts with 1 mole of ethyl mercaptan. The reduction of the lactone to a diol in an annotine derivative has been carried out. The chemical studies and the examination of annotine and its derivatives by modern instrumental methods allow the assignment of a plausible structure to the alkaloid.

Chemistry of amidyl radicals: intramolecular reactivities of alkenyl amidyl radicals

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (8) ◽  
pp. 2203-2210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan L. Chow ◽  
Richard A. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Double Bond ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Double Bonds ◽  
Kinetic Rate ◽  
Cyclic Radical ◽  
Kinetic Rate Constants ◽  
Acyl Side Chain ◽  
Complete Reversal

Amidyl radicals possessing Δ4,5, Δ5,6, and Δ6,7 double bonds were generated from the photodecomposition of nitrosamides and chloramides and the products were identified. Dichotomies of amidyl radical reactivities were discovered and compared with published kinetic rate constants. In complete reversal to intermolecular reactivities, intramolecularly the alkenyl amidyl radicals preferentially add to the double bonds rather than abstract a C-5 hydrogen even if it is allylic. In intramolecular competition, amidyl radicals add to an acyl side chain double bond more efficiently than to an alkyl one; this is just the opposite to intramolecular H-abstraction of amidyl radicals. Taken together with the published results, it is established that, in intramolecular attacks of double bonds, amidyl radicals selectively undergo the propia-addition to generate an exo-cyclic radical rather than the longa-addition to an endo-cyclic radical: this rule should replace the old one that amidyl radicals preferentially cyclize to form five-membered rings if choices are available.

Recent investigations on the nature of sterol intermediates in the biosynthesis of cholesterol

1972 ◽  
Vol 180 (1059) ◽  
pp. 125-146 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Double Bond ◽  
Carbon Atom ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Liver Homogenate ◽  
Methyl Groups ◽  
Double Bonds ◽  
Animal Tissues ◽  
Methyl Group ◽  
Chromatographic Methods

Lanosterol(4,4,14α-trimethyl-cholesta-8,24-dien-3β-ol) has been proposed as the primary product of the cyclization of 2,3-epoxysqualene in animal tissues. Enzymic conversion of lanosterol to cholesterol requires reduction of the ∆ 24 double bond, removal of the three extra methyl groups, and shift of the nuclear double bond from ∆ 8 position to the ∆ 5 position. Until very recently, all of the proposed sterol intermediates in the biosynthesis of cholesterol possessed nuclear double bonds in the ∆ 8 , ∆ 7 , ∆ 5,7 or ∆ 5 positions. Consideration of possible mechanisms for the removal of the methyl group at carbon atom 14 of sterol precursors led to our demonstration of the presence of cholest-8(14)-en-3β-ol in animal tissues and establishment of the convertibility of this sterol to cholesterol in rat liver homogenate preparations. Reports (from other laboratories) of the stereospecific loss of the 15α-hydrogen of lanosterol upon enzymic conversion to cholesterol led to the demonstration of the convertibility of cholesta-8,14-dien-3β-ol, cholesta-7,14-dien-3β-ol, 14α-methyl-cholest-7-en-3β,15-diol, cholest-8(14)-en-3β,15α-diol, and cholest-8(14)-en-3β,15β-diol to cholesterol in rat liver preparations. We have recently developed chromatographic methods permitting the resolution of all of the C 27 sterols in question. The results of recent experiments directed towards an understanding of the detailed metabolism of these compounds are presented herein.

Carnaubadiol, a triterpene from carnauba wax

1965 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 1411 ◽  
Author(s):  
CS Barnes ◽  
MN Galbraith ◽  
E Ritchie ◽  
WC Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Spectroscopic Methods ◽  
Carnauba Wax ◽  
Group A ◽  
Tertiary Hydroxyl

By chemical and spectroscopic methods, carnaubadiol, C31H54O2, a constituent of carnauba wax, was shown to contain one secondary and one tertiary hydroxyl group, and one isopropenyl group. A series of degradative reactions yielded a heptanorketone, identical with the known 3β-acetoxyhexanordammaran-20-one, previously obtained from dammarenediol. The structure and configuration of the side-chain were established by oxidation of dihydrocarnaubadiol to the known (-)-(S)-5,6-dimethylheptan-2-one. Carnaubadiol was thus shown to be 24β-methyl- dammar-25-ene-3β,20ξ-diol.

scholarly journals C-Lactam Derivatives of Oleanolic Acid. The Synthesis of C-lactam by Beckmann Rearrangement of C-oxime

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 1934578X1100601
Author(s):  
Barbara Bednarczyk – Cwynar
Keyword(s):  
Double Bond ◽  
Nitrogen Atom ◽  
Oleanolic Acid ◽  
Structure Elucidation ◽  
Beckmann Rearrangement ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Chemical Transformations ◽  
Group A ◽  
Derivatives Of ◽  
Carbonyl Function

Oleanolic acid, one of the most known triterpenes, was subjected to different chemical transformations within C-3 β-hydroxyl group, a double bond between C-12 and C-13, and a carboxyl function at C-17 in order to obtain new derivatives. The key compound consists of four six-membered rings (A, B, D, E) and one enlarged ring (C ring) containing a nitrogen atom and a carbonyl function – lactam. This type of derivative can be obtained by Beckmann rearrangement of the appropriate oxime. The lactam can be transformed into thiolactam with the use of Lavesson's reagent. The method is also presented for new derivatives synthesis, as well as their structure elucidation by spectroscopic means.

scholarly journals Refractive dispersion of organic compounds. V-Oxygenated derivatives of cyclohexane the inadequacy of the Ketteler-Helmholtz equation

1934 ◽  
Vol 146 (857) ◽  
pp. 300-312 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Double Bond ◽  
Preceding Paper ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Double Bonds ◽  
Ring Compounds ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Olefinic Double Bond ◽  
The One ◽  
Conjugated Compounds ◽  
Derivatives Of

In the preceding paper of this series, refractive indices and molecular extinction coefficients over a wide range of wave-lengths were recorded for the two cyclic hydrocarbons cyclohexene and 1:3- cyclohexadiene . These observations completed a study of the refractive dispersions of the series of 6-ring compounds C 6 H 12 , C 6 H 10 , C 6 H 8 , C 6 H 6 ; they also provided a basis for the study of the phenomenon of "optical exaltation," which is exhibited by compounds containing conjugated double bonds, since the last two members of the series belong to this type. Conjugation, however, may be effected, not only between two olefinic double bonds, but also between an olefinic double bond and an oxygenated radical, such as the carboxyl, carbonyl, or hydroxyl group. The present paper, therefore, records the absorption spectra and refractive dispersions of three oxygenated derivated of cyclohexane, namely, cyclohexanol , cyclohexanone , and ethyl hexahydrobenzoate , in the molecules of which each of the preceding groups is exemplified. Dispersion curves are thus now available for typical compounds of the cyclohexane series containing "unsaturated" radicals of all the principal types which are used in constructing conjugated systems, and the way has been prepared for a detailed study of conjugation, as exemplified on the one hand by cyclo hexadiene, and similar compounds containing two olefinic radicals, and on the other hand by a variety of compounds containing a double bond in addition to a hydroxyl, carbonyl, or carboxyl group. It is anticipated that, with the help of the date set out in the preceding and present papers, it will be possible in a later communication to demonstrate in what respect the behaviour of conjugated compounds differs from that which might be anticipated from a merely additive behaviour of the chromophoric radicals, and thus to determine the nature, and if possible to discover the origin, of the phenomenon of optical exaltation.

scholarly journals Comparison of binding interactions of dibromoflavonoids with transthyretin.

2001 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 885-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Muzioł ◽  
V Cody ◽  
A Wojtczak
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Binding Site ◽  
Competitive Binding ◽  
Hydroxyl Group ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Strong Interactions ◽  
Binding Interactions ◽  
Methyl Group ◽  
Channel Entrance ◽  
Molecular Architectures

The crystal structure of rat transthyretin (rTTR) complex with the dibromoflavone EMD21388 was determined to 2.3 A resolution and refined to R = 0.203 and Rfree = 0.288. Two different orientations of EMD21388, which differ in the channel penetration by 1.6 A, were found in the A/C binding site of rTTR. The single ligand position observed in the BID site is intermediate between the two positions found in the A/C site. The position of the dibromoflavone in the B/D site is similar to that reported for dibromoaurone in human TTR. The bromine atoms of EMD21388 form strong interactions in the P3 and P3' pockets of rTTR. Due to the different molecular architectures of both ligands, dibromoflavone forms only one interaction with Lys-15 near the channel entrance, while direct interactions with the pair of Lys-15 were reported for dibromoaurone. The C3* methyl group of EMD21388 mediates the bridging interactions between two TTR subunits in the P2 pockets. The interactions of the O2* hydroxyl group of dibromoaurone with the Thr-119 side chain in the P3 pockets are not matched by similar interactions in EMD21388. Both these alternative interactions can explain the competitive binding of 3',5'-dibromoflavonoids to transthyretin.

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