The title compound, C15H22O3·H2O, is a natural producr isolated from Chloranthus japonicus, which is a eudesmane sesquiterpenoid. The two trans-fused six-membered rings have chair confomations. In the crystal, O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the components into corrugated layers parallel to the bc plane. There are C-H⋯O inter-actions present within and between the layers.

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Tadayoshi Miyamoto, Toru Kawada, Yusuke Yanagiya, Tsuyoshi Akiyama, Atsunori Kamiya, Masaki Mizuno, Hiroshi Takaki, Kenji Sunagawa, and Masaru Sugimachi Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Morinomiya University of Medical Sciences; and Department of Cardiovascular Dynamics, Advanced Medical Engineering Center, and Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cardiovascular...

influenza: our experience during the 2009 pandemic in Japan Akihisa Okumura, Satoshi Nakagawa, Hisashi Kawashima, Takashi Muguruma, Osamu Saito, Jun-ichi Fujimoto, Chiaki Toida, Shuji Kuga, Toshihiro Imamura, Toshiaki Shimizu, Naomi Kondo, Tsuneo Morishima Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Division of Critical Care Medicine, National Center for Chi...

Background Xyloglucan (XyG) is a ubiquitous and fundamental polysaccharide of plant cell walls. Due to its structural complexity, XyG requires a combination of backbone-cleaving and sidechain-debranching enzymes for complete deconstruction into its component monosaccharides. The soil saprophyte Cellvibrio japonicus has emerged as a genetically tractable model system to study biomass saccharific...

Animals are not only regulated by their own genes but also influenced symbiotic bacteria, most of which colonized in the gut. The gut bacterial community is involved plenty physiological processes; therefore, intestinal colonization commensal microbiota essential to health host animal. Here, metagenome sequencing A. japonicus gut, surrounding water, and feed was performed explore structural fun...

A key question in developmental biology addresses the mechanism of asymmetric cell division. Asymmetry is crucial for generating cellular diversity required for development in multicellular organisms. As one of the potential mechanisms, chromosomally borne epigenetic difference between sister cells that changes mating/cell type has been demonstrated only in the Schizosaccharomyces pombe fission...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Lake Biwa is one of the world's few ancient lakes. Formed ∼4 million years ago, the lake harbours many coastal species that commonly inhabit seashores. The beach pea Lathyrus japonicus is a typical coastal species of this freshwater lake, but its inland populations are faced with the threat of extinction. Here, we investigated the phylogeographical and population structures ...

the association of free radicals and other reactive oxygen species (ROS) to the pathogenesis of various diseases such as atherosclerosis, cancer, hypertension, ischemia-reperfusion, aging and age-related diseases. Antioxidants are believed to play an important role in preventing or alleviating chronic diseases by reducing the oxidative damage to cellular components caused by (ROS). Naturally oc...

Plants can be effectively used as bio-monitors of environmental pollution. However, how the particulate matter (PM) and heavy metal retention ability of plants changes in different areas with human disturbance along with monsoon has not yet been investigated in urban ecosystems. In this study, we measured the amount of PM and heavy metals such as Ni, Cr, Cu, Pb, and Zn accumulated by the leaves...