pteroenone

English

Noun

pteroenone (uncountable)

(chemistry, biology) A hydroxyketone synthesized by Clione species as a defense against being eaten.
- 2001, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology: Biochemistry & molecular biology:
  A B - hydroxy ketone ("pteroenone") with the formula CH40, has been reported to be the chemical defense compound (McClintock and Baker, 1998). Pteroenone causes a significant feeding deterrence in the Antarctic fishes […]
- 2001 June 13, James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, Marine Chemical Ecology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 207:
  Employing flash and high-pressure liquid chromatographic (HPLC) techniques, pteroenone (Figure 5.2), a linear β-hydroxyketone and the first example of a defensive secondary metabolite from a pelagic gastropod, was isolated from tissues […]
- 2004 October 22, Tetsu Ando, The Chemistry of Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals I, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 195:
  In a bioassay-guided structure elucidation, pteroenone could be isolated and characterized as the main defensive principle of C. antarctica [82,83]. If embedded in alginate, this compound is a feeding-deterrent […]
- 2018 August 30, Melany P. Puglisi, Mikel A. Becerro, Chemical Ecology: The Ecological Impacts of Marine Natural Products, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 105:
  ... provided a polypropionate-derived natural product, pteroenone (Figure 3.7), with strong feeding deterrence against fish predators […] Structure of pteroenone from the pteropod Clione limacina. (Yoshida et al.