Disease relevance of Araceae

• Enzymatic synthesis of phenoxymethylpenicillin from 6-aminopenicillanic acid and phenoxyacetic acid methyl ester was attempted by using partially purified alpha-acylamino-beta-lactam acylhydrolase I (ALAHase I) enzyme from Erwinia aroideae NRRL B-138 [1].
• R-irniine is a natural 2-alkylpyrrolidine alkaloid extracted from Arisarum vulgare Targ., a species belonging to the Araceae family known in Morocco for its toxicity [2].

High impact information on Araceae

• Multiple acquisitions via horizontal transfer of a group I intron in the mitochondrial cox1 gene during evolution of the Araceae family [3].
• The functional molecular mass of cytochrome c oxidase activity from skunk-cabbage and bovine heart mitochondria was also investigated [4].
• The functional molecular mass of the cyanide-resistant salicylhydroxamate-sensitive duroquinol oxidase activity from Sympocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) and Sauromatum guttatum spadix mitochondria was determined by radiation-inactivation analysis [4].
• PTA was a heterotetrameric mannose-binding lectin with three mannose-binding boxes like lectins from other Araceae and Amaryllidaceae species [5].
• Based on its molecular structure, carbohydrate-binding specificity and amino acid sequence, TxLMII belongs to the superfamily of mannose-binding monocot lectins which are also found in representatives of the plant families Amaryllidaceae, Alliaceae, Orchidaceae and Araceae [6].

Chemical compound and disease context of Araceae

• The released glycerol is oxidized with glycerol dehydrogenase from Erwinia aroideae in the presence of NAD+, were the reduction of the enzyme-linked NAD+ is coupled to the reduction of nitro blue tetrazolium as a chromogenic indicator with phenazine methosulfate serving as an intermediate electron carrier of NADH [7].

Anatomical context of Araceae

• A lectin with in-vitro anticancer activity against established human cancer cell lines has been purified by affinity chromatography on asialofetuin-linked amino activated silica beads from the tubers of Arisaema tortuosum, popularly known as Himalayan Cobra lily, a monocot plant from the family Araceae [8].

Associations of Araceae with chemical compounds

• This work was done to discover how those nonphotosynthetic tissues of the Araceae that become thermogenic release, as CO2, carbon recently fixed by phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase [9].
• Calcium channels are involved in calcium oxalate crystal formation in specialized cells of Pistia stratiotes L [10].
• BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Pistia stratiotes produces large amounts of calcium (Ca) oxalate crystals in specialized cells called crystal idioblasts [10].
• Nitrate removals were 72%, 70%, and 36%, respectively for duckweed, pistia, and algal ponds [11].
• Cadmium% removal by Pistia stratiotes was greater in the first 24 h of the experiments (63, 65, 72 and 74% of the added Cd for 1, 2, 4 and 6 mg Cd 1(-1), respectively) [12].

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