Phenyllactic acid but not tropic acid is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of tropane alkaloids in Datura and Brugmansia transformed root cultures |
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Authors: | Richard J. Robins Jack G. Woolley Morteza Ansarin John Eagles Brian J. Goodfellow |
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Affiliation: | (1) Genetics and Microbiology Department, Institute of Food Research (Norwich Laboratory), Norwich Research Park, Colney, NR4 7UA Norwich, UK;(2) Natural Products Research, School of Applied Sciences, De Montfort University, The Gateway, LE1 9BH Leicester, UK;(3) Nutrition, Diet and Health Department, Institute of Food Research (Norwich Laboratory), Norwich Research Park, Colney, NR4 7UA Norwich, UK;(4) Food Biophysics Department, Institute of Food Research (Norwich Laboratory), Norwich Research Park, Colney, NR4 7UA Norwich, UK |
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Abstract: | (S)-(-)-Tropic acid is the acidic moiety of the tropane ester alkaloids, hyoscyamine and scopolamine (hyoscine). When tropic acid is fed to transformed root cultures of Datura stramonium L. or a Brugmansia (Datura) Candida x B. aurea hybrid, the formation of these alkaloids is inhibited. Phenyllactic acid, from which the tropoyl moiety is derived, is considerably less inhibitory. Label from (RS)-phenyl[1,3-13C2]lactic acid is incorporated at high levels into apoatropine, littorine, aposcopolamine, hyoscyamine, 7 -hydroxyapoatropine, scopolamine and 7 -hydroxyhyoscyamine when fed to these cultures. The presence of an excess concentration of unlabelled tropic acid has little influence on the specific incorporation into these products. It is concluded that free tropic acid is not an intermediate in hyoscyamine biosynthesis but rather that the rearrangement of phenyllactic acid occurs subsequent to its esterification.Abbreviations FM fresh mass - NMR nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopyWe are grateful to Drs. N.J. Walton, A.J. Parr, M.J.C. Rhodes (Institue of Food Research, Norwich) and B. Dräger (Münster, Germany) for helpful and critical discussions. We also wish to thank Dr. P. Bachmann (Braunschweig, Germany) for suggesting the use of the DB-17 column to separate littorine from hyoscyamine and for the modified Excel programme used to calculate the specific incorporations, Yannick Ford (AFRC Co-operative Award Studentship, University of Oxford) and Abigael Peerless for their able assistance, Dr. I. Colquhoun for assistance with some of the NMR spectroscopy and Drs. K. Shimomura (Tsukuba, Japan) and T. Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan) for pure samples of 7 -hydroxyhyoscyamine. J.G.W, gratefully acknowledges support from the Nuffield Foundation under the Small Grants Scheme to promote collaborative experimentation and M.A. is grateful to the Ministry of Education, Iran for a research scholarship. |
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Keywords: | Brugmansia (root, alkaloid) Datura (root, alkaloid) (RS)-phenyl [1,3-13C2]lactic acid Root culture (alkaloid production) Phenyllactic acid (2-hydroxy-3-phenylpropanoic acid) Tropic acid [2-hydroxymethyl-2-phenylacetic acid] Tropine (tropan-3 /content/prgk2115qh133u85/xxlarge945.gif" alt=" agr" align=" BASELINE" BORDER=" 0" >-ol) |
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