Effects of beauvericin on the blood cells of Bombyx mori.

In this study, silkworms were treated by injection of the bioactive depsipeptide beauvericin (BEA) to explore its effect on the cellular immunity of larvae of the silkworm Bombyx mori. The results showed that: The LC of BEA for silkworms on the 3 day of the 4 instar was 362.36 µM.

1,3-Bis(carboxy-meth-yl)imidazolium triiodide 1-carboxyl-atomethyl-3-carboxy-methyl-imidazolium.

In the title compound, C(7)H(9)N(2)O(4) (+)·I(3) (-)·C(7)H(8)N(2)O(4), the two imidazolium units are hydrogen bonded through the carboxyl groups. The units are further linked via inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonding, resulting in a one-dimensional ladder-type structure. As a result, the two carb-oxy groups of each imidazolium unit adopt a cis configuration with respect to the imidazolium ring.