Hydnocarpic acid

Product name: Hydnocarpic acid

Product description: Recent work in this laboratory has shown that hydnocarpic acid (HA), a principal constituent of chaulmoogra oil, inhibits multiplication in vitro of a number of mycobacterial species. This activity of HA was not shared by several straight-chain fatty acids and by dihydrochaulmoogric acid. A study of the interaction of HA with biotin has been undertaken, based on a structural analogy between biotin and the cyclopentenyl fatty acid. The multiplication of a strain of Mycobacterium intracellulare susceptible to 2 ?g of HA/ml was measured turbidimetrically in Dubos medium, in the presence and absence of biotin and several other compounds.