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Appl Microbiol Biotechnol
October 2019
Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China.
The 14α-hydroxysteroids have specific anti-gonadotropic and carcinolytic biological activities and can be produced by microbial biotransformation. The steroid 11β-/14α-hydroxylase P-450 from Cochliobolus lunatus is the only fungal cytochrome P450 enzyme identified to date with steroid C14 hydroxylation ability. Previous work has mainly revealed the 11β-hydroxylation activity of the P-450 towards cortexolone (RSS) substrate; however, the potential steroid 14α-hydroxylation activity of this enzyme, especially for androstenedione (AD) substrate, has not yet conducted in-depth testing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA few 1,2-bis(N-alkylaminomethyl)indolizines, simple indolizinecarboxylic acids, and several 6-alkoxyindolizine-2-carboxylic acids were synthesized and screened as possible oral hypoglycemic agents. The absence of any significant hypoglycemic activity excludes these compounds from the predicted structural lead provided by some hypoglycemic Vinca alkaloids, such as vincamine, vindoline, and vindolinine, having the indolizine ring as one structural component. But an extension of the rationale that indolizines are also the structural components of some carcinolytic Vinca alkaloids, such as vincristine and vinblastine, used in cancer chemotherapy provided encouraging results.
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