Seaweed Dermatitis: Structure of Lyngbyatoxin A

John H. Cardellina, Franz‐Josef Marner, Richard E. Moore

Science · 1979 · 345 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

A highly inflammatory and vesicatory substance, lyngbyatoxin A, has been isolated from the lipid extract of a Hawaiian shallow-water variety of Lyngbya majuscula Gomont; its gross structure was determined from chemical and spectral data. Lyngbyatoxin A is closely related to teleocidin B, a poisonous substance associated with several strains of Streptomyces.

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