• 한국균학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.202-208
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• 1989

N-methylmaleimide와 Harmaline의 혼합용액에서 자외선을 조사시켜 합성한 주생성물을 분광학적으로 분석하였다. 그 결과 harmaline의 아민기와 N-methylmaleimide의 탄소-탄소 이중결합 사이에 광부가 반응을 한 harmaline의 N-methylmaleimide 유도체가 얻어졌으며 이 유도체는 몇 가지의 효모 및 광합성 세균의 성장을 억제하므로 생물학적 독성을 가지고 있는 것으로 보여진다.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제38권10호
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• pp.911-917
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• 2015

Citronellal, a well-known plant-derived mosquito repellent, was previously reported to repel Drosophila melanogaster via olfactory pathways involving but not directly activating Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1). Here, we show that citronellal is a direct agonist for Drosophila and human TRPA1s (dTRPA1 and hTRPA1) as well as Anopheles gambiae TRPA1 (agTRPA1). Citronellal-induced activity is isoform-dependent for Drosophila and Anopheles gambiae TRPA1s. The recently identified dTRPA1(A) and ag-TRPA1(A) isoforms showed citronellal-provoked currents with EC50s of $1.0{\pm}0.2$ and $0.1{\pm}0.03mM$, respectively, in Xenopus oocytes, while the sensitivities of TRPA1(B)s were much inferior to those of TRPA1(A)s. Citronellal dramatically enhanced the feeding-inhibitory effect of the TRPA1 agonist N-methylmaleimide (NMM) in Drosophila at an NMM concentration that barely repels flies. Thus, citronellal can promote feeding deterrence of fruit flies through direct action on gustatory dTRPA1, revealing the first isoform-specific function for TRPA1(A).