title: Homarine, a common metabolite in edible Mediterranean molluscs: occurrence, spectral data and revision of a related structure.
abstract: Homarine was isolated from nine edible species of marine molluscs belonging to classes Gastropoda, Bivalvia, and Cephalopoda. A thorough chromatographic, NMR and MS study provided evidence that homarine is a common and abundant metabolite of all these species. This study casts doubt on a previous assertion that 1,1'-dimethyl-[2,2']-bipyridinium is a metabolite of the Bivalve Callista chione.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, University of Athens, Zografou, Greece.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Polychronopoulos
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Magiatis
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Skaltsounis
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tillequin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vardala-Theodorou
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tsarbopoulos
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D006115:Greece; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008522:Mediterranean Sea; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D015394:Molecular Structure; D008974:Mollusca / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D010848:Picolinic Acids / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D011726:Pyridinium Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D016339:Spectrometry, Mass, Fast Atom Bombardment; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: C449259:1,1'-dimethyl-(2,2')-bipyridinium; D010848:Picolinic Acids; D011726:Pyridinium Compounds; C010981:homarine