tropine

[troh-peen, -pin]

noun

Chemistry.

1. a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.

tropine

/ -pɪn, ˈtrəʊpiːn /

noun

1. a white crystalline poisonous hygroscopic alkaloid obtained by heating atropine or hyoscyamine with barium hydroxide. Formula: C 8 H 15 NO

Word History and Origins

Origin of tropine¹

First recorded in 1880–85; aphetic variant of atropine

Word History and Origins

Origin of tropine¹

C19: shortened from _atropine

Example Sentences

In module V, tropine and PLA glucoside are transported into the vacuole and together converted to littorine.

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First, Srinivasan and Smolke engineered their strain to express a transporter protein from the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum that imports tropine into vacuoles.

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The tropine produced in module II and the PLA glucoside from module III are imported into the vacuole.

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In module II, putrescine is converted to tropine — the functional core that gives tropane alkaloids their name — through several cytosolic reactions, in addition to one catalysed in the peroxisome and another catalysed by an enzyme anchored to the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum.

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In addition to the types of compounds enumerated above we may also notice purin, tropine and the terpenes.

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