“…Water-soluble pigments obtained from pterinosomes consist of the pteridines shown in Fig. 3: Two orange and orange-fluorescing, one red and red-fluorescing, and one yellow and yellowfluorescing substances, found in abundance, were identified, respectively, as drosopterin, isodrosopterin, neodrosopterin (hence drosopterin group references 25,26), and sepiapterin (27); two blue, one green, and one violet-fluore, scing, found in large quantity, proved to be biopterin, Ranachrome 3 (presumably, 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6hydroxymethylpteridine) (28), xanthopterin, and isoxanthopterin; one blue and one green-fluorescing, found in smaller amounts, were identified as 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-carboxypteridine and, presumably, dihydroxanthopterin (24). Besides these substances, three unidentified fluorescent substances were detected: one, found in large quantity, was extremely unstable and easily decomposed to 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-carboxypteridine, while the others were unknown with respect to chemical structure.…”