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    Starfish saponins. Part 39. Steroidal oligoglycoside sulfates and polyhydroxysteroids from the starfish Asterina pectinifera

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    A reinvestigation of the exts. of the starfish A. pectinifera has led to the isolation of a novel asterosaponin pectinioside G (I) along with the already reported pectiniosides A, D, and acanthaglycoside C. The exts. contained asterosaponin P-1, previously isolated as sodium salt from Patiria pectinifera and Oreaster reticulatus, and now isolated also as tyramonium salt, and 5 highly hydroxylated steroids, among which I is new

    Paniceins and Related Sesquiterpenoids From the Mediterranean Sponge Reniera-fulva

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    Two novel sesquiterpenes,fulvanin 1 [1] and fulvanin 2[2], have been isolated from the Mediterranean sponge Reniera fulva. Compound 2 is a sesquiterpenoid linked to a hydroquinone. Also found in Reniera fulva are four known paniceins, a group of aromatic sesquiterpenoids linked to a quinol, isolated previously from Halichondria panicea. The total assignments of C-13-nmr spectra of paniceins have been made with the aid of 2D(HC)-H-1-C-13 correlation techniques, confirming their structures. The paniceins were tested in the in vitro disease-oriented primary antitumor screen at NCI, Bethesda. Paniceins C and B3 showed cytotoxicity against NCI-H522 non-small lung cancer cells and CCRF-CEM leukemia cells, while panicein A hydroquinone revealed more selective cytotoxicity against the latter ones

    Steroids from sponges: occurrence of steroidal Δ4,7-3,6-diketones in the marine sponge Raphidostila incisa

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    R. incisa contained C27-C29 steroidal 4,7,22-triene-3,6-diones along with major amts. of 5α,8α-epidioxy-Δ6 sterols. The structures of the hitherto undescribed steroidal 4,7-diene-3,6-diketones were proven by the synthesis of 4,7,22-ergostatriene-3,6-dione

    Constituents of the digestive gland of molluscs of the genus Aplysia. II. Halogenated monoterpenes from Aplysia limacina

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    The digestive gland of the sea hare A. limacina contained an array of polyhalogenated monoterpenes. The 2 major components were 3,4-erythro-7-dichloromethyl-3-methyl-3,4,8-trichloro-1,5(E),7(Z)-octatriene (I), previously isolated from pacific red alga Plocamium cartilagineum, and the new 3,4-threo-7-dibromomethyl-3-methyl-3,4,8-trichloro-1,5(E),7(E)-octatriene. Examn. of exts. of local red algae revealed that I was present in P. coccineum
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