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K Matsubara1, S Sakuda1, T Kondo1
1a Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, The University of Tokyo.
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
|July 8, 2016
Abstract:
Nocardamine, a kind of siderophore, was isolated as an inducer of morphological changes in the insect cells, BM-N4. It changed the morphology of the cells from round to an unusual spindle shape. This activity of nocardamine was inhibited by adding the ferric ion.

