Very Fast Death Factor - Periodic Table of Videos
Anatoxin-a is also known as Very Fast Death Factor. it is found in some forms of cyanobacteria (better known as blue green algae). More videos at http://www.periodicvideos.com/
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So today I want to talk to you about a molecule which,when it was first isolated, was called "Very Fast Death Factor".Now this molecule is a really potent toxin, and it's found in pond scum.The green, sort of gloopy algae stuff that you find sometimes on freshwater ponds.It's actually not algae that makes this, it's called cyanobacteria.And that green, it turns out, is kind of really important for this molecule.As it turns out, the molecule itself is unstable to light.So nature's clever, it didn't really - it wants a toxic molecule, for some reason, in that cyanobacteria,in that algal bloom, but it didn't want to spread too much.So as soon as you take the molecule out of that, it becomes destroyed by light.But nonetheles...
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So today I want to talk to you about a molecule which,when it was first isolated, was called "Very Fast Death Factor".Now this molecule is a really potent toxin, and it's found in pond scum.The green, sort of gloopy algae stuff that you find sometimes on freshwater ponds.It's actually not algae that makes this, it's called cyanobacteria.And that green, it turns out, is kind of really important for this molecule.As it turns out, the molecule itself is unstable to light.So nature's clever, it didn't really - it wants a toxic molecule, for some reason, in that cyanobacteria,in that algal bloom, but it didn't want to spread too much.So as soon as you take the molecule out of that, it becomes destroyed by light.But nonetheles...
