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tropine

American

[troh-peen, -pin] / ˈtroʊ pin, -pɪn /

noun

Chemistry.

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

tropine British

/ ˈtrəʊpiːn, -pɪn /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of tropine

First recorded in 1880–85; aphetic variant of atropine

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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.

From Nature ● Sep. 1, 2020

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

From Nature ● Sep. 1, 2020

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

From Nature ● Sep. 1, 2020

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

Before my researches nothing was known of the constitution of tropine.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 by Various

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