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Sigma-Aldrich

Cinnabarinic Acid

≥98% (HPLC)

Synonym(s):

2-amino-3-oxo-3H-phenoxazine-1,9-dicarboxylic acid, Cinnabaric acid

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About This Item

Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C14H8N2O6
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
300.22
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352106
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.25

Quality Level

Assay

≥98% (HPLC)

form

powder

storage condition

desiccated

color

red to very dark red

solubility

DMSO: ≥4 mg/mL

storage temp.

2-8°C

SMILES string

NC1=C(C(O)=O)C2=Nc3c(OC2=CC1=O)cccc3C(O)=O

InChI

1S/C14H8N2O6/c15-10-6(17)4-8-12(9(10)14(20)21)16-11-5(13(18)19)2-1-3-7(11)22-8/h1-4H,15H2,(H,18,19)(H,20,21)

InChI key

FSBKJYLVDRVPTK-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Application

Cinnabarinic acid may be used in studies of the functions of components of the kynurenine metabolic pathway. It may be used to study it role as a metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGlu4R-specific) agonist.

Biochem/physiol Actions

Caspase Inducer; mGlu4R agonist
Cinnabarinic acid (CA) connects between initiation of the kynurenine pathway and immune tolerance that is used to prevent neuroinflammation.
Cinnabarinic acid is a kynurenine pathway metabolite of tryptophan, produced by the oxidation of 3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid. Cinnabarinic acid leads to loss of mitochondrial respiration and apoptosis, and has also been shown to be an mGlu4R-specific agonist.

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Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable


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Y Nagamura et al.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 467, 419-423 (2000-03-18)
Tryptophan administration aggravates experimental mouse liver injury caused by carbon tetrachloride when 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid concentration elevates in serum. Tryptophan metabolism is changed by macrophages in injured liver. 3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid may be oxidized to cinnabarinic acid by injured mitochondria in the
C Eggert
Microbiological research, 152(3), 315-318 (1997-11-14)
Concentrated culture fluid of the wood-rotting basidiomycete Pycnoporus cinnabarinus showed biological activity against a variety of bacterial strains. The maximal inhibitory effect was obtained for Gram-positive bacteria of the genus Streptococcus. In general, inhibition was higher for Gram-positive than Gram-negative
J A Dykens et al.
Biochemical pharmacology, 36(2), 211-217 (1987-01-15)
The oxidative reactivities of four tryptophan metabolites in the kynurenine pathway were examined as a potential mechanism for their reported neurotoxicities and carcinogenicities. Neither quinolinic acid, a neurotoxin, nor its monocarboxylic analogue, picolinic acid, auto-oxidized over a wide pH range.
U Temp et al.
Applied and environmental microbiology, 65(2), 389-395 (1999-01-30)
When glucose is the carbon source, the white rot fungus Pycnoporus cinnabarinus produces a characteristic red pigment, cinnabarinic acid, which is formed by laccase-catalyzed oxidation of the precursor 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid. When P. cinnabarinus was grown on media containing cellobiose or
Hideaki Iizuka et al.
Biomedical chromatography : BMC, 24(3), 231-234 (2009-07-25)
A fluorimetric detection method for one of the tryptophan metabolites, cinnabarinic acid (CA), which has recently been reported to have the ability to induce apoptosis in thymocytes, was developed using o-tolyl hydrazine (TH) as the derivatization reagent. The carbonyl group

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