著者
Masaaki SHIONO Naohiro MATSUGAKI Kosaku TAKEDA
出版者
The Japan Academy
雑誌
Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B (ISSN:03862208)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.84, no.10, pp.452-456, 2008-12-30 (Released:2008-12-11)
参考文献数
29
被引用文献数
26 29

The X-ray crystal structure of natural commelinin is investigated. The results demonstrate that commelinin is a tetranuclear (4 Mg2+) metal complex, in which two Mg2+ ions chelate to six anthocyanin molecules, while the other two Mg2+ ions bind to six flavone molecules, stabilizing the commelinin complex, a new type of supramolecular complex.(Communicated by Shoji SHIBATA, M.J.A.)