Chemistry:Digitonin
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Chemical structure of digitonin
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Digitin
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C56H92O29 | |
Molar mass | 1229.323 g·mol−1 |
Appearance | White to off-white powder |
Melting point | 244.0–248.5 °C (471.2–479.3 °F; 517.1–521.6 K)[1] |
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-40° (589.3 nm; 20 °C)[1] |
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23 mg/kg (rat, intravenous)[2]
4 mg/kg (mouse, intravenous)[3] |
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Digitonin is a steroidal saponin (saraponin) obtained from the foxglove plant Digitalis purpurea. Its aglycone is digitogenin, a spirostan steroid. It has been investigated as a detergent, as it effectively water-solubilizes lipids. As such, it has several potential membrane-related applications in biochemistry, including solubilizing membrane proteins, precipitating cholesterol, and permeabilizing cell membranes.[4][5]
Digitonin is sometimes confused with the cardiac drugs digoxin and digitoxin; all three can be extracted from the same source.
Chemical properties
- Critical micelle concentration = < 0.5 mM
- Average micellar weight = 70000
- Aggregation number = 60
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tschesche, R.; Wulff, G. (January 1963). "Über saponine der spirostanolreihe—IX" (in German). Tetrahedron 19 (4): 621–634. doi:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)98548-5.
- ↑ Segal, Ruth; Milo-Goldzweig, Ilana; Kaplan, Gideon; Weisenberg, Emil (April 1977). "The protective action of glycyrrhizin against saponin toxicity". Biochemical Pharmacology 26 (7): 643–645. doi:10.1016/0006-2952(77)90039-9. PMID 856195.
- ↑ Pitha, Josef; Szente, Lajos (February 1984). "Digitonin derivatives of low toxicity: Potential solubilizers for lipophilic compounds". Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 73 (2): 240–243. doi:10.1002/jps.2600730224. PMID 6707892.
- ↑ Geelen, Math J.H. (December 2005). "The use of digitonin-permeabilized mammalian cells for measuring enzyme activities in the course of studies on lipid metabolism". Analytical Biochemistry 347 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.ab.2005.03.032. PMID 16291302.
- ↑ Fiskum, Gary (April 1985). "Intracellular levels and distribution of Ca2+ in digitonin-permeabilized cells". Cell Calcium 6 (1–2): 25–37. doi:10.1016/0143-4160(85)90032-6. PMID 4016893.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitonin.
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