Digitonin

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Digitonin
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Chemical structure of digitonin
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Alternate depiction using sugar abbreviations (Gal = galactose, Glc = glucose, Xyl = xylose
Names
Other names
Digitin
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEBI
ChEMBL
ChemSpider
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EC Number
  • 234-255-6
KEGG
PubChem CID
UNII
  • InChI=1S/C56H92O29/c1-19-7-10-56(75-17-19)20(2)31-45(85-56)37(67)32-22-6-5-21-11-26(24(61)12-55(21,4)23(22)8-9-54(31,32)3)76-50-42(72)39(69)44(30(16-60)80-50)81-53-48(47(36(66)29(15-59)79-53)83-49-40(70)33(63)25(62)18-74-49)84-52-43(73)46(35(65)28(14-58)78-52)82-51-41(71)38(68)34(64)27(13-57)77-51/h19-53,57-73H,5-18H2,1-4H3/t19-,20+,21+,22-,23+,24-,25-,26-,27-,28-,29-,30-,31+,32-,33+,34-,35+,36?,37+,38+,39-,40-,41-,42-,43-,44+,45-,46+,47+,48-,49+,50-,51+,52+,53+,54-,55+,56-/m1/s1 X mark.svgN
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Properties
C56H92O29
Molar mass 1229.323 g·mol−1
AppearanceWhite to off-white powder
Melting point 244.0–248.5 °C (471.2–479.3 °F; 517.1–521.6 K) [1]
-40° (589.3 nm; 20 °C) [1]
Hazards
Lethal dose or concentration (LD, LC):
23 mg/kg (rat, intravenous) [2]

4 mg/kg (mouse, intravenous) [3]

Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Digitonin is a steroidal saponin (saraponin) obtained from the foxglove plant Digitalis purpurea . Its aglycone is digitogenin, a spirostan steroid. It has been investigated as a detergent, as it effectively water-solubilizes lipids. As such, it has several potential membrane-related applications in biochemistry, including solubilizing membrane proteins, precipitating cholesterol, and permeabilizing cell membranes. [4] [5]

Digitonin is sometimes confused with the cardiac drugs digoxin and digitoxin; all three can be extracted from the same source.

Commercial digitonin preparations can often contain other congeners including tigonin, gitonin, digalonin, and desglucodigitonin. [6]

Chemical properties

References

  1. 1 2 Tschesche, R.; Wulff, G. (January 1963). "Über saponine der spirostanolreihe—IX". Tetrahedron (in German). 19 (4): 621–634. doi:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)98548-5.
  2. ↑ Segal, Ruth; Milo-Goldzweig, Ilana; Kaplan, Gideon; Weisenberg, Emil (April 1977). "The protective action of glycyrrhizin against saponin toxicity". Biochemical Pharmacology. 26 (7): 643–645. doi:10.1016/0006-2952(77)90039-9. PMID   856195.
  3. ↑ Pitha, Josef; Szente, Lajos (February 1984). "Digitonin derivatives of low toxicity: Potential solubilizers for lipophilic compounds". Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 73 (2): 240–243. doi:10.1002/jps.2600730224. PMID   6707892.
  4. ↑ Geelen, Math J.H. (December 2005). "The use of digitonin-permeabilized mammalian cells for measuring enzyme activities in the course of studies on lipid metabolism". Analytical Biochemistry. 347 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.ab.2005.03.032. PMID   16291302.
  5. ↑ Fiskum, Gary (April 1985). "Intracellular levels and distribution of Ca2+ in digitonin-permeabilized cells". Cell Calcium. 6 (1–2): 25–37. doi:10.1016/0143-4160(85)90032-6. PMID   4016893.
  6. ↑ Yang, Y. M.; Lloyd, H. A.; Pannell, L. K.; Fales, H. M.; Macfarlane, R. D.; McNeal, C. J.; Ito, Y. "Separation of the components of commercial digitonin using high‐performance liquid chromatography and centrifugal countercurrent chromatography. Identification of the products by californium‐252 plasma desorption mass spectrometry". Biological Mass Spectrometry. 13 (8): 439–445. doi:10.1002/bms.1200130810. PMID   2944559.
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