15114-79-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Aspects of the progesterone response in Hortaea werneckii: Steroid detoxification, protein induction and remodelling of the cell wall
Krizancic Bombek, Lidija,Lapornik, Ajda,Ukmar, Marjeta,Matis, Maja,Cresnar, Bronislava,Katalinic, Jasna Peter,Zakelj-Mavric, Marija
experimental part, p. 1465 - 1474 (2009/04/06)
Progesterone in sublethal concentrations temporarily inhibits growth of Hortaea werneckii. This study investigates some of the compensatory mechanisms which are activated in the presence of progesterone and are most probably contributing to escape from growth inhibition. These mechanisms lead on the one hand to progesterone biotransformation/detoxification but, on the other, are suggested to increase the resistance of H. werneckii to the steroid. Biotransformation can detoxify progesterone efficiently in the early logarithmic phase, with mostly inducible steroid transforming enzymes, while progesterone biotransformation/detoxification in the late logarithmic and stationary phases of growth is not very efficient. The relative contribution of constitutive steroid transforming enzymes to progesterone biotransformation is increased in these latter phases of growth. In the presence of progesterone, activation of the cell wall integrity pathway is suggested by the overexpression of Pck2 which was detected in the stationary as well as the logarithmic phase of growth of the yeast. Progesterone treated H. werneckii cells were found to be more resistant to cell lysis than mock treated cells, indicating for the first time changes in the yeast cell wall as a result of treatment with progesterone.
PROCESS FOR PREPARING GUGGULSTERONES AND GUGGULSTEROL
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Page 23; 51-52, (2010/02/09)
The present invention relates to a method for selective preparing 4,17 (20)-E-pregnadiene-3,16-dione (E-guggulsterone) of the formula (III) and 4,17 (20)-Z-pregnadiene-3,16-dione (Z-guggulsterone) of the formula (IV) having an effect of lowering the elevated low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high levels of the cholesterol effectively, and elevating the low levels of the high density lipoprotein (HDL) from a easy-available steroid of the following formula (I). Also, the present invention provides a method for preparation of the compound of the above formula (II).
Preparation of a Polymer-supported Diol and Its Use in isolating Aldehydes and Ketones from Mixtures and as a Protecting Group for Aldehydes and Ketones
Hodge, Philip,Waterhouse, Janette
, p. 2319 - 2323 (2007/10/02)
Reaction of cross-linked chloromethylated polystyrenes with 3-mercaptopropane-1,2-diol and sodium hydroxide under phase-transfer conditions gave polymers containing diol residues.A range of aldehydes and ketones were successfully bound to these polymers via acetal formation.The aldehydes and ketones were released by treating the products with aqueous dioxane in the presence of toluene-p-sulphonic acid.The polymer-supported diol could be used to isolate aldehydes or ketones from mixtures with other compounds and to separate a 3-oxosteroid from a 17- or a 20- oxosteroid.The supported diol was successfully used to protect the aldehyde group of undec-10-enal whilst the terminal vinyl group was transformed into -CH2CH2OCOPh.Attempts to monoprotect dicarbonyl compounds were unsuccessful.
METAL-ASSISTED REACTIONS-12. UNUSUAL SELECTIVITY IN THE REDUCTION OF KETONES WITH ZINC OR CADMIUM BIS-TETRAHYDROBORATE/DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE COMPLEX
Hussey, Brendan J.,Johnstone, Robert A. W.,Boehm, Peter,Entwistle, Ian D.
, p. 3769 - 3774 (2007/10/02)
Zinc bis-tetrahydroborate forms a solid complex with dimethylformamide (DMF) of composition, Zn(BH4)2*1.5DMF.Unlike zinc bis-tetrahydroborate itself, the complex with DMF can be stored as a solid at room temperature.Ketones and aldehydes are reduced to the corresponding alcohols by the complex but the mechanism of reduction appears to be different from that using zinc bis-tetrahydroborate itself and from other tetrahydroborates in that only one hydride equivalent from each BH4- unit is utilized and not four.Further, although saturated aliphatic ketones are reduced rapidly to alcohols, aromatic ketones react much more slowly and α,β-unsaturated ketones react very slowly so that the complex appears to have selective reducing potential with regard to different classes of ketones.It is also apparent that the zinc bis-tetrahydroborate/DMF complex reduces sterically hindered saturated ketones much more slowly than it does unhindered ketones.An analogous cadmium bis-tetrahydroborate/DMF complex can be prepared in solution and reacts with ketones similarly to the zinc complex.
