title: Muscarine, imidazole, oxazole and thiazole alkaloids.
abstract: Nature abounds with a great number of natural products containing five-membered heterocyclic subunits, such as imidazoles, oxazoles and thiazoles, and their corresponding saturated imidazolines, oxazolines and thiazolines. These naturally occurring metabolites often exhibit pharmacologically important biological activities. In this review, the isolation, biological activities, chemical synthetic studies, and biosynthetic pathways of these natural products are summarized.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 30001, P. R. China. zjin@nankai.edu.cn
authors.forename: Zhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jin
mesh_terms: D000470:Alkaloids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000494:pharmacology; D001685:Biological Factors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000494:pharmacology; D007093:Imidazoles / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009116:Muscarine / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D010080:Oxazoles / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013844:Thiazoles / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000470:Alkaloids; D001685:Biological Factors; D007093:Imidazoles; D010080:Oxazoles; D013844:Thiazoles; D009116:Muscarine