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Detoxications in peripatus. Sulphate, phosphate and histidine conjugations

1970; Portland Press; Volume: 118; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1042/bj1180001

ISSN

0306-3283

Autores

T. William Jordan, R W McNaught, J. N. Smith,

Tópico(s)

Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Resumo

Phenols were detoxified in the Onycophoran Peripatoides novaezealandiae by conjugation with sulphuric acid and phosphoric acid, but no evidence for a glycoside detoxication could be found. [14C]Benzoic acid was metabolized in 24h to N2-benzoyl-l-histidine, which was identified by electrophoresis, chromatography and dilution analysis. Similar conjugates were formed with p-aminobenzoic acid and p-nitrobenzoic acid. In longer-duration experiments further unidentified metabolites were formed, two of which appeared to result from the further metabolism of the histidine conjugate.

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