3^7 Amino Acids and Related Compounds 



697 8-Oxy-L-lysine (a.f-Diamino-8-hydroxycaproic acid), C,.H,.,0:jNo. 



H .NCH,CHCH CH CHCOOH 



I I 



OH NH, 



Mycobacterium phlei 



Occurs bound in a phosphatide (yellow powder, m.p. 

 180-190°), molecular weight about 16,000. It is the sole 

 amino acid, and constitutes about 1 % of the phosphatide. 



M. Barbier and E. Lederer, Biochim. et Biophys. Acta 8 590 

 (1952). 



698 Anthranilic Acid, C^H^O.N, leaflets, m.p. 144°. 



COOH 



NHa 



Corynebacterium diphtheriae 



Detected by paper chromatography. 



A. J. Woiwood and F. V. Lniggood, Intern. Congr. Biochem., 

 Abstrs. of Communs. 1st Congr., Cambridge, England, 320 

 (1949). 



Anthranilic acid has been isolated also from a pseu- 

 domonas culture: 



Rokuro Takeda and 1. Nakanishi, /. Fermentation Technol. 

 37 No. 2 (1959). 



It also accumulates in certain bacterial auxotrophs. 



699 p-Aminobenzoic Acid, C7H7O0N, yellowish red crystals, m.p. 

 186°. 



H2N— / V-COOH 



Hansenula anomala, Mycotorula lipolytica 

 Yields about 1 mg. per gram of dry cells. 

 W. H. Peterson, "Yeasts in Feeding" Symposium, Milwaukee, 

 1948. 



700 Trigonelline, CtH-O^.N, colorless crystals, m.p. (anhyd.) 218° 

 (dec.) (Picrate) m.p. 205° (dec). 





 COO 



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CH3 



