UROLITHIN A CAS No: 1143-70-0

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Urolithins are microflora human metabolites of dietary ellagic acid derivatives such as ellagitannins. They are produced in the human gut, and found in the urine in the form of urolithin B glucuronide after absorption of ellagitannins-containing food such as pomegranate,strawberries, red raspberries, walnuts or oak-aged red wine.
During intestinal metabolism by bacteria, ellagitannins and punicalagins are converted to urolithins, which have unknown biological activity in vivo in humans. Urolithins metabolites of pomegranate juice ellagitannins localize specifically in the prostate gland, colon, and intestinal tissues of mice.
Ellagitannins exhibit low bioavailability and are transformed in the gut to ellagic acid and its microbiota metabolites. Urolithins are found in plasma mostly as glucuronides at low concentrations.
Urolithins production is dependent on the gut microbiome enterotype. Individuals producing urolithins show a much higher abundance of the Clostridium leptum group of Firmicutes phylum than Bacteroides or Prevotella.
Urolithin M7 has also been synthetized from 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzaldehyde using the inverse electron-demand Diels–Alder reaction.

duct name	Urolithin A	Other name	6H-Dibenzo[b,d]pyran-6-one,3,8-dihydroxy-; 2',7-Dihydroxy-3,4-benzocoumarin; 2-Biphenylcarboxylicacid, 2',4,4'-trihydr
CAS	1143-70-0	Purity	Min 99%
MF:	C13H8O4	MW:	228.2
Structure
Usage	antioxidant; anti-in?ammatory; anticancer

In laboratory studies, urolithin A was shown to induce mitophagy, which is a selective recycling of mitochondria by autophagy, a process that cleans defective mitochondria following damage or stress, and tends to become less efficient during aging. This effect has been observed in different animal species (mammalian cells, rodents and C. elegans).