Phytochemistry and biosynthesis of δ-lactone withanolides

Phytochemistry Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 771-797

  Yang, Bing You ^a   Xia, Yong Gang ^a   Pan, Juan ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Wang, Qiu Hong ^a   Kuang, Hai Xue ^a  

^a HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Classification; Phytochemistry; Spectra

Indexed keywords

1 OXO 2 EN 5,6 DIHYDROXY WITHANOLIDE; 1,10 SECO WITHAMETELIN B; 1,10 SECO WITHAPERUVIN C; 12BETA HYDROXY 1,10 SECO WITHAMETELIN B; 16ALPHA,17ALPHA EPOXY; 16BETA,17BETA EPOXY; 23 HYDROXYTUBOCAPSANOLIDE A; 24ALPHA,25ALPHA EPOXY; 28 HYDROXYWITHANOLIDE E; 2ALPHA 3ALPHA EPOXY; 5ALPHA HYDROXY 6ALPHA,7ALPHA EPOXY; 5ALPHA,6ALPHA EPOXY; 5BETA,6BETA EPOXY; BAIMANTUOLUOLINE G; CHANTRIOLIDE A; CHANTRIOLIDE B; CHANTRIOLIDE C; DATUROLACTONE 7; DELTA LACTONE WITHANOLIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; PHYSACHENOLIDE C; PHYSACOZTOLIDE C; PHYSAGULIN H; PHYSAGULIN I; TUBOCAPSANOLIDE A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VIRGINOL C; WITHANGULATIN E; WITHANOLIDE; WITHASOMNILIDE;

BIOMIMETICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CAS GENE; CPR GENE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; FPPS GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HMGR GENE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LAS GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; SOLANACEAE; SQE GENE; SQS GENE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84934783404     PISSN: 15687767     EISSN: 1572980X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11101-015-9420-6     Document Type: Review

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