Precursors of ricinine in the castor bean plant |
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Authors: | Trevor Robinson |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Isotopic tracer experiments confirmed that glycerol and succinic acid are good precursors of the pyridine ring of ricinine in castor bean plants. Tritium from C-2 was lost from tritiated glycerol while tritium from C-1 was retained. Thus a derivative of dihydroxyacetone is likely to be intermediate. By simultaneous feeding of glycerol-1-(3)-[3H] and succinic acid-2(3)-[14C], it was hoped to find precursors of ricinine containing both labels, but none could be found. There was no evidence for the appearance of labeled quinolinic acid, which is presumed to be a precursor of ricinine. |
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Keywords: | Euphorbiaceae castor bean ricinine alkaloid biosynthesis. |
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