Digitonin
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digitonin-288-14689459
title:
Digitonin
text:
Digitonin is a steroidal saponin (saraponin) obtained from the foxglove plant Digitalis purpurea. Its aglycone is digitogenin, a spirostan steroid. It has been investigated as a detergent, as it effectively water-solubilizes lipids. As such, it has several potential membrane-related applications in biochemistry, including solubilizing membrane proteins, precipitating cholesterol, and permeabilizing cell membranes. Digitonin is sometimes confused with the cardiac drugs digoxin and digitoxin; all
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description:
Chemical compound
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitonin
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date modified:
2022-08-04T05:35:42Z
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