Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Ken Ishigami.
Chenodiol is an important bile acid widely used for gallstone dissolution and cholestatic liver diseases. We succeeded in a short-step synthesis of chenodiol, starting from the safer phytosterol, stigmasterol.
The structure-activity relationship for FR901464, a potent cell-cycle inhibitor, was examined by synthesizing its analogs. A versatile method for converting FR901464 was devised. This method made it possible to synthesize biologically active FR901464-biotin conjugates which could be used to isolate the binding proteins.