Masao Miyazaki   Tetsuro Yamashita   Yusuke Suzuki   Yoshihiro Saito   Satoshi Soeta   Hideharu Taira   Akemi Suzuki   
Chemistry & biology 13(10) 1071-9 2006年10月
Domestic cats spray urine with species-specific odor for territorial marking. Felinine (2-amino-7-hydroxy-5,5-dimethyl-4-thiaheptanoic acid), a putative pheromone precursor, is excreted in cat urine. Here, we report that cauxin, a carboxylesterase...