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In aqueous trichloroacetic acid extracts of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum the following compounds, which are supposed to be precursors in the biosynthesis of the glycan strand of the pseudomurein, were isolated and identified: (i) a disaccharide (compound II) composed of uridine 5'-diphosphate, N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid with N-acetylglucosamine at the reducing end, (ii) uridine 5'-diphospho-N-acetylglucosamine, and (iii) uridine 5'-diphospho-N-acetylgalactosamine. However, the corresponding monomeric derivative of N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid could not be detected. It is assumed that N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid may be formed from N-acetylgalactosamine by epimerisation and oxidation at the disaccharide level. These findings indicate that the biosynthetic pathways of murein and pseudomurein are quite different.  相似文献   

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We have cloned a novel diterpene synthase (OsKSL11) from rice that produces stemod-13(17)-ene from syn-copalyl diphosphate. Notably, this gene sequence was not predicted from the extensive sequence information available for rice, nor, despite extensive phytochemical investigations, has this diterpene or any derived natural product previously been reported in rice plants. OsKSL11 represents the first identified stemodene synthase, which catalyzes the committed step in biosynthesis of the stemodane family of diterpenoid natural products, some of which possess antiviral activity. In addition, OsKSL11 is highly homologous to the mechanistically similar stemarene synthase recently identified from rice, making this pair of diterpene cyclases an excellent model system for investigating the enzymatic determinants for differential product outcome. The unexpected nature of this cyclase and its product parallels recent observations of previously unrecognized natural products metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana, suggesting that many, if not all, plant species will prove to have extensive biosynthetic capacity.  相似文献   

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Feeding experiments have demonstrated that 7,2′-dihydroxy-4′-methoxy-isoflavone-[14C-Me] and -isoflavanone-[14C-Me] are extremely efficient precursors of the phytoalexin demethylhomopterocarpin in Cu2+-treated red clover seedlings. Neither of these compounds, nor demethylhomopterocarpin-[14C-Me], was incorporated into a second pterocarpan phytoalexin, maackiain. 3-Hydroxy-9-methoxypterocarp-6a-ene-[14C-Me] was a poor precursor of both pterocarpans. A biosynthetic pathway to demethylhomopterocarpin via 2′-hydroxylation of formononetin (7-hydroxy-4′-methoxyisoflavone) and subsequent reduction to the isoflavanone is proposed. The conversion of this isoflavanone into the pterocarpan may involve the corresponding isoflavanol and a carbonium ion intermediate. The branch-point to maackiain is probably at the formononetin stage. The presence of two coumestans, 9-O-methylcoumestrol and medicagol, previously unreported in red clover, is demonstrated. Biosynthetic implications are discussed.  相似文献   

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《Phytochemistry》1986,25(5):979-995
Isoflavonoid phytoalexins are a major class of low molecular weight, inhibitory compounds synthesized by certain plants, notably members of the Leguminosae. Accumulation of these isoflavonoids is often very marked following infection. This review summarizes their biosynthesis, elicitation and biological properties. Consideration is also given to their inferred function of limiting microbial invasion in plant tissues.  相似文献   

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Feeding experiments in cupric chloride-treated Pisum sativum pods and seedlings have demonstrated the preferential incorporation of (+)-(6aS,11aS)-[3H]maackiain over (?)-(6aR, 11aR)-[14C]maackiain into (+)-(6aR, 11aR)-pisatin, establishing that the 6a-hydroxylation of pterocarpans proceeds with retention of configuration. (+)- (6aR,11aR)-6a-hydroxymaackiain was similarly incorporated much better than (?)-(6aS,11aS)-6a- hydroxymaackiain. Where (?)-isomers were incorporated, optical activity measurements on the pisatin produced indicated significant synthesis of (?)-pisatin as well as the normal (+)-pisatin. 7,2′-Dihydroxy-4′,5′- methylenedioxyisoflav-3-ene and both enantiomers of 7,2′-dihydroxy-4′,5′-methylenedioxyisoflavan were poor precursors of pisatin.  相似文献   

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Rice (Oryza sativa) produces momilactone diterpenoids as both phytoalexins and allelochemicals. Strikingly, the rice genome contains a biosynthetic gene cluster for momilactone production, located on rice chromosome 4, which contains two cytochrome P450 (CYP) mono-oxygenases, CYP99A2 and CYP99A3, with undefined roles; although it has been previously shown that RNA interference double knock-down of this pair of closely related CYPs reduced momilactone accumulation. Here we attempted biochemical characterization of CYP99A2 and CYP99A3, which was ultimately achieved by complete gene recoding, enabling functional recombinant expression in bacteria. With these synthetic gene constructs it was possible to demonstrate that while CYP99A2 does not exhibit significant activity with diterpene substrates, CYP99A3 catalyzes consecutive oxidations of the C19 methyl group of the momilactone precursor syn-pimara-7,15-diene to form, sequentially, syn-pimaradien-19-ol, syn-pimaradien-19-al, and syn-pimaradien-19-oic acid. These are presumably intermediates in momilactone biosynthesis, as a C19 carboxylic acid moiety is required for formation of the core 19,6-γ-lactone ring structure. We further were able to detect syn-pimaradien-19-oic acid in rice plants, which indicates physiological relevance for the observed activity of CYP99A3. In addition, we found that CYP99A3 also oxidized syn-stemod-13(17)-ene at C19 to produce, sequentially, syn-stemoden-19-ol, syn-stemoden-19-al, and syn-stemoden-19-oic acid, albeit with lower catalytic efficiency than with syn-pimaradiene. Although the CYP99A3 syn-stemodene-derived products were not detected in planta, these results nevertheless provide a hint at the currently unknown metabolic fate of this diterpene in rice. Regardless of any wider role, our results strongly indicate that CYP99A3 acts as a multifunctional diterpene oxidase in momilactone biosynthesis.  相似文献   

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Considerable amounts of the following substances were found in uninfected parsley (Petroselinum crispum) cotyledons: furanocoumarins, the putative phytoalexins of this and some related plant species, two enzymes of the furanocoumarin pathway (S-adenosyl-L-methionine: xanthotoxol and S-adenosyl-L-methionine: bergaptol O-methyltransferases), two hydrolytic enzymes (1,3--glucanase, EC 3.2.1.39, and chitinase, EC 3.2.1.14), and pathogenesis-related proteins. The furanocoumarins and the methyltransferase activities reached their highest levels at the onset of cotyledon senescence as the hydrolytic enzymes increased from low to relatively high activity values. The relative amounts of pathogenesis-related proteins 1 and 2, as well as the corresponding mRNAs, also increased markedly. Two enzymes of general phenylpropanoid metabolism, L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and 4-coumarate: CoA ligase, decreased in activity in a biphasic fashion during cotyledon development. At all developmental stages, the levels of these putative defense-related agents in total cotyledon extracts were too high to enable detection of, possibly, additional changes upon infection with zoospores of Phytophthora megasperma f. sp. glycinea, a fungal pathogen to which parsley shows a non-host, hypersensitive resistance response.Abbreviations BMT S-adenosyl-L-methionine: bergaptol O-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.-) - 4CL 4-coumarate: CoA ligase (EC 6.1.1.12) - CMT S-adenosyl-L-methionine: caffeate O-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.-) - PAL L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (EC 4.3.1.5) - PR pathogenesis-related - XMT S-adenosyl-L-methionine: xanthotoxin O-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.-)  相似文献   

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Phytocassanes and momilactones are the major diterpenoid phytoalexins inductively produced in rice as bioactive substances. Regardless of extensive studies on the biosynthetic pathways of these phytoalexins, bioconversion of diterpene hydrocarbons is not shown in planta. To elucidate the entire biosynthetic pathways of these phytoalexins, uniformly 13C-labeled ent-cassadiene and syn-pimaradiene were enzymatically synthesized with structural verification by GC–MS and 13C-NMR. Application of the 13C-labeled substrates on rice leaves led to the detection of 13C-labeled metabolites using LC-MS/MS. Further application of this method in the moss Hypnum plumaeforme and the nearest out-group of Oryza species Leersia perrieri, respectively, resulted in successful bioconversion of these labeled substrates into phytoalexins in these plants. These results demonstrate that genuine biosynthetic pathways from these diterpene hydrocarbons to the end product phytoalexins occur in these plants and that enzymatically synthesized [U-13C20] diterpene substrates are a powerful tool for chasing endogenous metabolites without dilution with naturally abundant unlabeled compounds.  相似文献   

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A K Batta  G Salen  S Shefer 《Steroids》1988,52(1-2):109-122
This paper describes convenient syntheses for labeled and unlabeled cholest-5-en-3-one, cholest-4-en-3-one, epicholesterol, cholest-4-en-3 beta-ol, and cholest-4-en-3 alpha-ol. The thin-layer chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatography, and gas-liquid chromatography of these compounds and of cholestanol and epicholestanol are also described. The synthesized compounds are potential precursors in the biosynthesis of cholestanol in mammals.  相似文献   

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A previously unspecified "starter" unit in the predicted biosynthesis pathway of 5-alkylresorcinols has now identified as a fatty acid or its equivalent, using an efficient 5-alkylresorcinol production system of etiolated rice seedlings. Feeding saturated, odd-carbon fatty acid ester substrates from C11 to C19 specifically and markedly increased the amount of the corresponding 5-alkylresorcinol homologs with even-carbon chains that are shorter by one carbon than those of the supplied fatty acids. The amount of these homologs depended on substrate concentration. Some of the homologs whose amounts increased had linear carbon chains and the dodecyl homolog was shown to be 5-n-dodecylresorcinol. Moreover, the 13C label in the dodecyl homolog that was biosynthesized from the [1-13C]tridecanoate substrate was localized on the C-5 carbon of the resorcinol ring. These results obviously show that the fatty acid unit acts as a direct precursor and forms the side-chain moiety of 5-n-alkylresorcinol via the predicted biosynthesis pathway.  相似文献   

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The biosynthesis of the diterpene 8alpha-acetoxy-13alpha-hydroxy-5-oxo-13-epi- neoverrucosane in the arctic liverwort Fossombronia alaskana was studied by incorporation experiments using [1-(13)C]- and [U-(13)C(6)]glucose as precursors. The (13)C-labeling patterns of acetyl-CoA, pyruvate, and phosphoenolpyruvate in intermediary metabolism were reconstructed from the (13)C NMR data of biosynthetic amino acids (leucine, alanine, phenylalanine) and were used to predict hypothetical labeling patterns for isopentenyl pyrophosphate formed via the mevalonate pathway and the deoxyxylulose pathway. The labeling patterns observed for the neoverrucosane diterpene were consistent with the intermediate formation of geranyllinaloyl pyrophosphate assembled from dimethylallyl pyrophosphate and three molecules of isopentenyl pyrophosphate generated predominantly or entirely via 1-deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate. The experimental data can be integrated into a detailed biosynthetic scheme involving a 1,5-hydride shift. The postulated involvement of the 1,5-hydride shift was confirmed by an incorporation experiment with [6,6-(2)H(2)]glucose.  相似文献   

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Incubation of calli and prothalli of Polypodium vulgare with different tritium-labelled ecdysteroids has led to modification of some previous assumptions about the biosynthesis of ecdysteroids in plants. Thus, 25-deoxy-20-hydroxyecdysone was transformed efficiently in both tissues into 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E), but no 25-deoxyecdysteroids such as pterosterone and inokosterone were formed. Likewise, incubation of 2-deoxyecdysone (2dE) produced exclusively ecdysone (E) and 20E, indicating a high 2-hydroxylase activity in both tissues, despite calli not producing phytoecdysteroids. This 2-hydroxylation was also evident in the transformation of 2,22-dideoxyecdysone (2,22dE) into 22-deoxyecdysone (22dE). Different ecdysteroids that do not occur in P. vulgare were formed in the incubation of 3-dehydro-2,22,25-trideoxyecdysone (3D2,22,25dE) by 3alpha-reduction and 3beta-reduction and 25-hydroxylation processes. The fact that 22,25-dideoxyecdysone and 22dE were the only 2-hydroxylated products formed in this case suggests that only compounds bearing a 3beta-hydroxyl group are substrates for the 2-hydroxylase. Surprisingly, 22-hydroxylation was never observed with either 2,22dE or 3D2,22,25dE, raising the possibility that it could occur at an early step in the biosynthetic pathway. In this respect, labelled 22R-hydroxycholesterol was efficiently converted into E and 20E, whereas 22S-hydroxycholesterol was not transformed into ecdysteroids, because of its unsuitable configuration at C22. Finally, the conversion of 25-hydroxycholesterol into E and 20E was greatly enhanced after thermal treatment of prothalli which induces the release of previously stored ecdysteroids. Thus, P. vulgare prothalli and calli appear to be particularly suitable models for the study of ecdysteroid biosynthesis and its regulation in plants.  相似文献   

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Extracts from Chlamydomonas, corn, soybean and tobacco were tested for enzymes of the lysine biosynthetic pathway. Dihydrodipicolinic acid (DHD) synthase, DHD reductase, diaminopimelate (DAP) epimerase and DAP decarboxylase were present in all. However, in contrast to the report of Wenko et al., meso-DAP dehydrogenase could not be detected in extracts prepared from soybean. Moreover, it was not found in Chlamydomonas, corn and tobacco as well. In order to set an upper limit to the amount of meso-DAP dehydrogenase that might be present, reconstruction experiments were performed with soybean and corn extracts in which the conversion of dihydrodipicolinate to lysine was made dependent on the addition of limited amounts of the meso-DAP dehydrogenase purified from Bacillus sphaericus. The presence of DAP epimerase and the absence of meso-DAP dehydrogenase indicates that the meso-DAP dehydrogenase abbreviated pathway for lysine synthesis is not operative in plants.  相似文献   

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We have developed 85 new markers (50 RFLPs, 5 SSRs, 12 DD cDNAs, 9 ESTs, 8 HSP-encoding cDNAs and one BSA-derived AFLP marker) for saturation mapping of QTL regions for drought tolerance in rice, in our efforts to identify putative candidate genes. Thirteen of the markers were localized in the close vicinity of the targeted QTL regions. Fifteen of the additional markers mapped, respectively, inside one QTL region controlling osmotic adjustment on chromosome 3 ( oa3.1) and 14 regions that affect root traits on chromosomes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12. Differential display was used to identify more putative candidate genes and to saturate the QTL regions of the genetic map. Eleven of the isolated cDNA clones were found to be derived from drought-inducible genes. Two of them were unique and did not match any genes in the GenBank, while nine were highly similar to cDNAs encoding known proteins, including a DnaJ-related protein, a zinc-finger protein, a protease inhibitor, a glutathione-S-transferase, a DNA recombinase, and a protease. Twelve new cDNA fragments were mapped onto the genetic linkage map; seven of these mapped inside, or in close proximity to, the targeted QTL regions determining root thickness and osmotic adjustment capacity. The gene I12A1, which codes for a UDP-glucose 4-epimerase homolog, was identified as a putative target gene within the prt7.1/brt7.1 QTL region, as it is involved in the cell wall biogenesis pathway and hence may be implicated in modulating the ability of rice roots to penetrate further into the substratum when exposed to drought conditions. RNAs encoding elongation factor 1, a DnaJ-related protein, and a homolog of wheat zinc-finger protein were more prominently induced in the leaves of IR62266 (the lowland rice parent of the mapping materials used) than in those of CT9993 (the upland rice parent) under drought conditions. Homologs of 18S ribosomal RNA, and mRNAs for a multiple-stress induced zinc-finger protein, a protease inhibitor, and a glutathione-S-transferase were expressed at significantly higher levels in CT9993 than in IR62266. Thus several genes involved in the regulation of DNA structure and mRNA translation were found to be drought-regulated, and may be implicated in drought resistance.Communicated by R. Hagemann  相似文献   

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We have previously isolated and characterized the rice (Oryza sativa) cDNAs, OsCyc1/OsCPS4, OsCyc2/OsCPS2, OsKS4, OsDTC1/OsKS7, OsDTC2/OsKS8 and OsKS10, which encode cyclases that are responsible for diterpene phytoalexin biosynthesis. Among the other members of this gene family, OsCPS1 and OsKS1 have been suggested as being responsible for gibberellin biosynthesis, OsKSL11 has recently been shown to encode stemodene synthase, and the functions of the three other diterpene cyclase genes in the rice genome, OsKS3, OsKS5 and OsKS6, have not yet been determined. In this study, we show that recombinant OsKS5 and OsKS6 expressed in E. coli converted ent-copalyl diphosphate into ent-pimara-8(14),15-diene and ent-kaur-15-ene, respectively. Neither product is a hydrocarbon precursor required in the biosynthesis of either gibberellins or phytoalexins. OsKS3 may be a pseudogene from which the translated product is a truncated enzyme. These results suggest that the diterpene cyclase genes responsible for gibberellin and phytoalexin biosynthesis are not functionally redundant.  相似文献   

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