Guaiacylglycerol-beta-guaiacyl Ether is degraded by microorganisms and is commonly used as a substrate to mimic microbial degradation of cell walls of lignin-living plants.

Carnidazole, an antiprotozoal drug of the nitroimidazole class, is used in veterinary medicine.

Venuloside A (ESK246), a monoprostane glycoside from Pittosporum venulosum, is a LAT3 inhibitor and a leucine uptake inhibitor that inhibits the transporter of leucine through LAT3, and may be used in the study of prostate cancer.