Hypericin and stentorin are the most important representatives of the phenanthroperylene
quinones. Their tautomerism, dissociation, conformation, and association equilibria make …

Antiviral action of various photosensitizers is already summarized in several comprehensive
reviews, and various mechanisms have been proposed for it. However, a critical …

Exocytosis is, in all likelihood, an important communication method among microbes.
Ciliates are highly differentiated and specialized micro‐organisms for which versatile and/or …

Although industrial researchers have been involved in interdisciplinary studies pertaining to
virology for several decades, the participation of academic chemists has been significantly …

Natural products from both plants and fungi exhibit light-mediated or photodynamic
biological activity against viruses, microorganisms, cells and insects. We review new …

Pigment granules in Stentor coeruleus are extrusive organelles containing the pigment,
stentorin, which provides the blue-green colouration to this ciliate. We studied the defence …

We report here the chemical structure of the photosensor molecule, the major component of
blepharismins.[The blepharismin family includes at least five derivatives.] The proposed …

Climacostol (5-(Z)-non-2-enyl-benzene-1, 3-diol) is a natural toxin isolated from the
freshwater ciliated protozoan Climacostomum virens and belongs to the group of …

Climacostol is a defense toxin produced by the ciliated protozoan Climacostomum virens
and belongs to resorcinolic lipids, a group of compounds that shows antimicrobial …

On the Structure of Oxyblepharismin and its Formation from Blepharismin JI ~JJ~ li Page 1
Pergamon Tetrahedron Letters 39 (1998) 4003-4006 TETRAHEDRON LETTERS On the …