• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.193-203
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• 1977

Three sterol fractions; 4-desmethyl-, 4-monomethyl-, and 4,4-dimethylsterol, separated by thin layer chromatography from the unsaponifiables of five Cucurbitaceae (cucumber, watermelon, sponge cucumber, gourd and snake gourd) seed oils were analyzed by gas liquid chromatography and combined gas liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. ${\alpha}$-Spinasterol, ${\Delta}^{7,22,25}$-stigmastatrienol and ${\Delta}^{7,25}$-stigmastadienol isolated from the 4-desmethylsterol fraction were identified by IR, NMR and mass spectrometry.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.281-286
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• 1970

A experiment was performed to investigate the stigmasterol and campesterol in the Panax ginseng. Crude sterol fraction obtained from the ginseng was analysed by TLC and quantitative determination of ${\beta}$-sitosterol was performed with colorimetric method. The results were summarized as follwer, 1. It was observed with ethyl ether-petroleum ether extract of the ginseng that there was no evidence of showing the presence of both free capesterol and stigmasterol but that only ${\beta}$-sitosterol was presence in an significant amount. 2. Average amount of the ${\beta}$-sitosterol was 0.20-0.35mg per gram of the sample.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.219-225
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• 1978

From the dried roots of Caragana chamlagu Lamarck which have been known to be effective against neuralgia, arthritis, migraine, and sputum, etc. in the folk medicines of Korea, a colorless sterol-like substance, C$_{29}H_{50}O$, m.p. $115-117^{\circ}$, was isolated from the non-saponified fraction of methanolic extract. It was confirmed to be a mixture of four sterols, namely cholesterol, brassicasterol, campesterol, and $\beta$-sitosterol by physico-chemical properties, ir, nmr, mass spectra and gas liquid chromatographic method with the comparison of the authentic samples. In mass fragments of four sterols, furthermore, the same ions of m/e 273, 255, 229 and 213 were assigned to fragments of stigmastane skeletons of the unsaturated phytosterol, and the characteristic ions of each sterol were observed 386, 371, 368, 353 in cholesterol, 398, 383, 380, 365, 355, 337 in brassicasterol, 400, 385, 382, 367 in campesterol and 414, 399, 396, 381 in $\beta$-sitosterol, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.401-406
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• 2000

Marine sponges are known to be a source of diverse sterols. In our study on the cytotoxic components of the marine sponge Spirastrella abata, $5{\alpha},8{\alpha}-epidioxy\;{\Delta}^6$ sterols (1-5) and $5{\alpha},8{\alpha}-epidioxy\;{\Delta}^{6,9(11)}$ sterols (6-7) were isolated. The structures were identified based on the analyses of $^1H-NMR,\;^{13)C-NMR$, and MS data. These compounds were assayed for cytotoxicity against 5 human solid tumor cell lines including A549, SK-OV- 3, SK-MEL-2, XF498, and HCT15.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.26-30
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• 1976

The contents of sterols in bean sprouts have been determined by mass spectrical analysis. From non-saponifiable fraction of n-Hexane extracts of the under ground parts sterol-like substance $(m.P.\;142-145^{\circ}C)$ was isolated. It was shown to be a sterol mixture on the basis of three peaks in gas liquid chromatogram. By mass spectrometrical analysis of the mixture, it was composed of 4.52mg% of Campesterol $(C_{28},\;{\Delta}^{5})$, 10.35mg% of ${\beta}-sitosterol\;(C_{29},\;{\Delta}^{5})$ and 7.75mg% of stigmasterol $(C_{29},\;{\Delta}^{5,\;22})$.

• The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.468-472
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• 2013

Chrysanthemum is an economically important horticultural plant in many countries. The white rust is one of the most devastating diseases caused by an obligate fungal pathogen Puccinia horiana. This is being controlled mostly by application of chemicals. In Korea, 26 items are registered and 10 items contain 6 triazole compounds. To identify and to obtain the information of the drug target for triazoles, possible sterol 14-demethylase orthologues were extracted. From the draft genome information, the nucleotide sequence of the sterol 14-demethylase gene was identified. The amino acid sequence was deduced and the tertiary structure of the enzyme was predicted. This protein showed no less than 84% amino acid sequence identities to those of genus Puccinia and no more than 68% to those of other genus.

• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.237-244
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• 2000

It has been reported that plasma membrane activity of the spermatozoa may be susceptible to be influenced by extracellular osmolality and such membranous changes involve infracellular molecular changes, special regard to the structure of membranous lipids, and the accompanying ion-channel of which are closely related with their fluidity of $Ca^{2+}$ and HCO$^{-}_{3}$. It is of common recognition that a certain kind of sterol acceptor player an important to induce lipid fluctuation of the sperm plasma membrane which have been influenced by BSA administration and came in effect to outflow of cholesterol from the spermatozoa and resulted in changes of ionic fluidity to facilitate adenylyl cyclase, and to induce protein tyrosine phosphorylation by increase of cAMP and activation of PKA. Thus it seems likely that an augmentation of the acrosomal reaction is closely related with protein tyrosine phosphorylation. The following experimental results were obtained in the present study; Under the high osmolality conditions, the spermatozoa motility declined significantly and the structural change of the plasma membrane diminished to confirm that the response degrees to the osmolality depended upon the water transfer volume through the plasma membrane and the changes of cellular volume. Those experimental results suggest that a physiological parameter such as low temperature condition played an important role for presentation of spermatozoa and that inducement of spermatozoa activation for reinforcement of protein tyrosine phosphorylation. On the other hand, it seemed likely that the BSA administration as one of sterol accepters might represent a key role also under the high osmolality condition and their result also suggests that osmolality change, special regard to high osmolality condition may play an important role also in the processes of signal transmission.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.93-103
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• 1988

Diversities of lipid compositions according to the morphological differences of the Panax ginseng root were studied by means of column, thin layer, gas-liquid chromate-graphies and histochemical stainings. Purified lipids from various parts were 1.08-2.23% of dry weight, of which 64.2-73.5% were neutral lipids, 15.4-17.4% were glycolipids and 10.4-19.2% were phospholipids. Especially the contents of neutral lipids were highest in cortex, suggesting to be the presence of lipid ducts only in cortex. Triglycerides, sterol esters and hydrocarbons were abundant in the neutral lipid fractions. Twelve components were identified in the periderm and cortex, but unidentified II, IV and V components were not present in the medulla. The major components of glycolipid freactions were sterol glycoside, digalactosyl diglyceride and esterified sterol glucoside. Phosphatidyl glycerol, phosphatidyl choline and phosphatidyl ethanolamine were major components of phospholipid fractions, And phosphatidyl choline was extreamly much in the periderm and medulla, but phosphatidyl glycerol was largest in quantity in the cortex. Eighteen kinds of fatty acids were identified in the neutral lipid, glycolipid and phospholipid fractions. Linoleic, palmitic, oleic and linolnic acids were the main components of fatty acids. The contents of saturated fatty acids, unsaturated fatty acids and essential fatty acids of each three fractions were different one another regardless of the Periderm, cortex and medulla.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.351-363
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• 1990

A mutant was selected by NTG treatment of Mycobacterium sp. NRRL B-3805, which was capable of degrading plant sterol to androsta-4-ene-3, 17-dione and yields was higher than NRRL B-3805. Also this mutant produced androst-4-ene-3, 17-dione faster than NRRL B-3805. It described the mode of sitosteroidal degradation, and the interrelation between cell membrane and its attachment to substrate during the sterol degradation process by this mutant and it was compared with Mvcobacterium sp. NRRL B-3805.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.402-404
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• 1987

Fermentation processes have been employed to produce 17-ketosteroids from sterol with chelator of Fe$^{2+}$ such as $\alpha$, ${\alpha}'$-dipyriyl. To analyze the products of sterol fermentation, we developed a simple TLC method without interference of the chelator $\alpha$, ${\alpha}'$-dipyridyl, using Ag$^+$ band on TLC plate.