myo-Inositol dihydrate: a redetermination

Role of myo-inositol

myo-Inositol oxygenase: molecular cloning and expression of a unique enzyme that oxidizes myo-inositol and D-chiro-inositol.

myo-Inositol oxygenase (MIOX) catalyses the first committed step in the only pathway of myo-inositol catabolism, which occurs predominantly in the kidney. The enzyme is a non-haem-iron enzyme that catalyses the ring cleavage of myo-inositol with the incorporation of a single atom of oxygen. A full-length cDNA was isolated from a pig kidney library with an open reading frame of 849 bp and a corr...

myo-Inositol metabolism in plants

The multifunctional position supplied by myo-inositol is emerging as a central feature in plant biochemistry and physiology. In this critique, attention is drawn to metabolic aspects and current assessment is made of manifold ways in which myo-inositol and its metabolic products impact growth and development. The fact that a unique enzyme, common to all eukaryotic organisms where such assessmen...

2-Benzyl-myo-inositol monohydrate

The title structure, C(13)H(18)O(6)·H(2)O, contains two independent 2-benzyl-myo-inositol and water mol-ecules. In the crystal, the mol-ecules are strongly hydrogen bonded into an infinite two dimensional network utilizing all OH protons.

Loss of murine Na+/myo-inositol cotransporter leads to brain myo-inositol depletion and central apnea.

myo-Inositol (Ins) and its polyphosphoinositide derivatives that are important in membrane signaling have long been held to play a special role in brain metabolism. As polyphosphoinositides turn over rapidly and are exceptionally abundant in nervous tissue, high Ins levels in the range of 2-15 mm that have been observed in brain may be necessary to maintain the rates of phosphoinositide synthes...