Curindolizine

Ren Xiang Tan and co-workers from Nanjing University have reported in the isolation of a pyrrole alkaloid, curindolizine, from fungi.

 

OL paper

Cycloprodigiosin synthesis

Richmond Sarpong and co-workers have reported in Organic Letters on the synthesis of cyclopropdiogisin. It’s an ACS Editor’s Choice article! Good job!

OL paper

Cyanobacteriochromes

Clark Lagarias and co-workers at UC Davis have reported in UC Davis on the study of cyanobacteriochromes, proteins that sense light.

Biochemistry paper

Tambjamine K

Margherita Ghavagnin and co-workers from CNR in Italy have recently reported on the isolation of tmbjamine K.  This bis-pyrrole containing compound had an IC50 of 14.6 micromolar activity against HeLa cells.

BMCL paper