Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word DITERPENOID

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Definitions of DITERPENOID

1. (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C₂₀ skeleton
2. (chemistry) of or relating to a diterpene or diterpenoid

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Examples of Using DITERPENOID in a Sentence

• All known gibberellins are diterpenoid acids synthesized by the terpenoid pathway in plastids and then modified in the endoplasmic reticulum and cytosol until they reach their biologically active form.
• The toxicity is caused by grayanotoxin 1 which is one of several highly hydroxylated diterpenoid defence chemicals produced in the leaves of Rhododendron to protect against herbivores – e.
• Fusicoccin is a member of a diterpenoid class which shares a 5-8-5 ring structure and is called fusicoccane.
• However, it was established quite early that delphinine was a member of the diterpenoid family of alkaloids, and it is often cited in handbooks of poisonous plants as being a representative toxin of the genus Delphinium.
• Andrographolide is a labdane diterpenoid that has been isolated from the stem and leaves of Andrographis paniculata.
• These researchers reported the presence of a number of diterpenoid alkaloids: hetisine, 2-dehydrohetisine, 6-deoxydelcorine, dictyocarpine, dihydrogadesine, methyllycaconitine, lycoctonine, takaosamine, nudicaulamine, nudicauline, and nudicaulidine.
• General abietane diterpenoid abietic acids have been connected to the diagenetic products simonellite and retene.
• Cascarilla bark contains anything between 1% and 3% volatile oils, a unique series of diterpenoid compounds called , lignins, tannin, and resins.
• These chemists confirmed the presence of methyllycaconitine in the plant, and also isolated another, structurally related diterpenoid alkaloid, which they named browniine.
• Kahweol is a diterpenoid molecule found in the beans of Coffea arabica and is structurally related to cafestol.
• Delphinine is a toxic diterpenoid alkaloid found in plants from the Delphinium (larkspur) and Atragene (a clematis) genera, both in the family Ranunculaceae.
• Taxodone is a naturally occurring diterpenoid found in Taxodium distichum (bald cypress), Rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary), several salvia species and other plants, along with its oxidized rearrangement product, taxodione.
• arborescens contains andromedotoxins, specifically known as grayanotoxins which are water-soluble diterpenoid compounds.
• The rice phytoalexin momilactone A is a diterpenoid secondary metabolite that is involved in the defense mechanism of the plant.
• Examples of psychoactive compounds of plant origin that do not contain nitrogen are tetrahydrocannabinol (a phytocannabinoid from Cannabis sativa) and salvinorin A (a diterpenoid from Salvia divinorum).
• glaucum is a producer of sarcophytol A, a diterpenoid recognized to possess tumor-inhibiting bioactivity.
• 64 Atta-ur-Rahman, Alvi KA, Abbas SA, Sultana T, Shameel M, Choudhary MI & Clardy JC 1991 A diterpenoid lactone from Aplysia juliana.

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