Morphinan alkaloids in Papaver bracteatum: Biosynthesis and fate |
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Authors: | Craig C Hodges Jerold S Horn Henry Rapoport |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The known metabolic pathway for hydrophenanthrene alkaloids in Papaver somniferum has been examined for occurrence in P. bracteatum, a species reported to contain thebaine but no codeine or morphine. 1,2-Dehydro-reticulinium-3-14C] chloride and (±)-reticuline-3-14C] were fed to P. bracteatum plants and both were incorporated, the former into reticuline and thebaine and the latter into thebaine, suggesting that thebaine biosynthesis is the same in the two species. Studies of the natural abundance of morphinan alkaloids in P. bracteatum and the results from feeding codeinone-16-3H] and codeine-16-3H] indicate that this species can reduce codeinone to codeine but can not perform either of the demethylations to produce codeinone or morphine. Fed thebaine-16-3H] was substantially metabolized but not by pathways that involved demethylations to either oripavine or northebaine. |
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Keywords: | Papaveracae biosynthesis codeinone codeine morphine reticuline dehydroreticulinium chloride thebaine oripavine northebaine |
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