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COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 137, Issue 1, Pages 75-79Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2003.10.003
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bristletail; insect; norspermidine; norspermine; polyamine; silverfish; spermidine; springtails; thermospermine
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Polyamines extracted from whole bodies of four springtails, Tomocerus ishibashii, Hypogastrura communis, Sinella cruviseta and Folsomia candida, a bristletail, Pedetontus nipponicus, and two silverfish, Lepisma saccharina and Thermobia domestica, were analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography. All seven apterous insect species contained putrescine, cadaverine and spermidine as the common major polyamines, detected at the level of mumol/g wet mass. T ishibashii also contained spermine, S. cruviseta contained norspermidine and norspermine and H. communis, E candida and P nipponicus contained diaminopropane, norspermidine and norspermine, as minor polyamines above the detection limit (0.01 mumol/g wet mass). The occurrence of diaminopropane, norspermidine, norspermine, spermine and thermospermine was confirmed in L. saccharina and T domestica. The novel polyamines norspermidine, norspermine and thermospermine, widespread in higher insects, were also distributed within the primitive apterygotan insects. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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