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Isolation and structural assignment of 5-deoxytetrodotoxin from the puffer fish Fugu poecilonotus
M Yotsu-Yamashita1, B Schimmele, T Yasumoto
1Graduate School of Agriculture, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. myama@biochem.tohoku.ac.jp
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
|June 25, 1999
Abstract:
A novel 10,7-lactone type of tetrodotoxin analog, 5-deoxytetrodotoxin, was isolated from the puffer fish, Fugu poecilonotus, and its structure was assigned by spectroscopic methods.