Seaweed Dermatitis: Structure of Lyngbyatoxin A
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.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- April 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.107586
- Bibcode:
- 1979Sci...204..193C