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N-(3-Oxotetradecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C18H31NO4
Molecular Weight:
325.44
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352209
eCl@ss:
32160406
PubChem Substance ID:

Assay

≥98% (TLC)

Quality Level

form

powder

color

white

application(s)

cell analysis

shipped in

wet ice

storage temp.

−20°C

SMILES string

CCCCCCCCCCCC(=O)CC(=O)N[C@H]1CCOC1=O

InChI

1S/C18H31NO4/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-15(20)14-17(21)19-16-12-13-23-18(16)22/h16H,2-14H2,1H3,(H,19,21)/t16-/m0/s1

InChI key

YQFJJDSGBAAUPW-INIZCTEOSA-N

Application

N-(3-Oxotetradecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone (3-Oxo-C14-HSL), a member of a family of acyl homoserine lactones, may be used to determine its mechanisms and specificity of action as a signaling molecule involved in the regulation of bacterial quorum sensing.

Biochem/physiol Actions

N-(3-Oxotetradecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone (3-oxo-C14-HSL) is among a group of homoserine lactones that includes N-octanoyl-homoserine lactone (N-C8-HSL), N-(3-oxodecanoyl) homoserine-L-lactone (3-oxo-C10 HSL), N-(3-oxododecanoyl)homoserine-L-lactone (3-oxo-C12-HSL), N-(3-hydroxydecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone, and N-(3-hydroxyoctanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone involved in the processes of bacterial quorum sensing. These homoserine lactones are used to study the processes and mechanisms of bacterial quorum sensing.
Acyl homoserine lactone used as an autoinducer of quorum signaling by Sinorhizobium meliloti, Yersinia enterocolitica, and other Gram-negative bacteria.

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Rumana Rashid et al.
Microbes and environments, 26(2), 144-148 (2011-04-20)
N-Acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) are used as quorum-sensing signaling molecules by many Gram-negative bacteria. Here, 413 bacterial strains were obtained from the roots of potato plants and screened for AHL-degrading bacteria using Chromobacterium violaceum reporter strains. Sixty one isolates degraded N-hexanoyl-L-homoserine
Bijay K Khajanchi et al.
Infection and immunity, 79(7), 2646-2657 (2011-05-04)
Aeromonas hydrophila leads to both intestinal and extraintestinal infections in animals and humans, and the underlying mechanisms leading to mortality are largely unknown. By using a septicemic mouse model of infection, we showed that animals challenged with A. hydrophila die
John F Teiber et al.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 692, 291-298 (2010-10-30)
Mammalian paraoxonases (PONs) are a unique, highly conserved family of calcium-dependent esterases consisting of PON1, PON2, and PON3. The PONs can hydrolyze the lactone ring of a range of N-acyl-L: -homoserine lactone (AHL) quorum sensing signaling molecules, rendering them inactive.
Manabu Horikawa et al.
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 16(8), 2130-2133 (2006-02-08)
The synthesis of the analogs of N-3-oxododecanoyl-L-homoserine lactone (1) and their structure-activity relationship for the apoptotic induction in macrophages, P388D1 cells, are described. It was revealed that the position of the oxo group in the acyl side chain in addition
Mair E A Churchill et al.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 692, 159-171 (2010-10-30)
Quorum sensing plays a central role in regulating many community-derived symbiotic and pathogenic relationships of bacteria, and as such has attracted much attention in recent years. Acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) are important signaling molecules in the quorum sensing gene-regulatory processes found

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