Occurrence of a methyl derivative of saxitoxin in Bangladeshi freshwater puffers.
A new component of paralytic shellfish poison was isolated from a Bangladeshi freshwater puffer Tetraodon cutcutia. Its structure was deduced to be carbamoyl-N-methylsaxitoxin based on electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, [1H] NMR, and conversion experiments.
Zaman
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Laboratory of Aquatic Resource Science, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University, Shimoarata, Japan.
Arakawa
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Shimosu
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Shida
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Onoue
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Y
D000818:Animals; D005400:Fishes, Poisonous; D005618:Fresh Water; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008387:Marine Toxins / Q000737:chemistry*; D012530:Saxitoxin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry
D008387:Marine Toxins; C114166:carbamoyl N-methylsaxitoxin; D012530:Saxitoxin