Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 68, Issue 19, Pages 5375-5383Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c01019
Keywords
aromas; apocarotenoids; ionones; damascones; peroxygenases; biocatalysis; UPO
Funding
- EnzOx2 [H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-2-1-720297]
- EU-project
- CSIC [201740E071]
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Apocarotenoids are among the most highly valued fragrance constituents, being also appreciated as synthetic building blocks. This work shows the ability of unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs, EC1.11.2.1) from several fungi, some of them being described recently, to catalyze the oxyfunctionalization of alpha- and beta-ionones and alpha- and beta-damascones. Enzymatic reactions yielded oxygenated products such as hydroxy, oxo, carboxy, and epoxy derivatives that are interesting compounds for the flavor and fragrance and pharmaceutical industries. Although variable regioselectivity was observed depending on the substrate and enzyme, oxygenation was preferentially produced at the allylic position in the ring, being especially evident in the reaction with alpha-ionone, forming 3-hydroxy-alpha-ionone and/or 3-oxo-alpha-ionone. Noteworthy were the reactions with damascones, in the course of which some UPOs oxygenated the terminal position of the side chain, forming oxygenated derivatives (i.e., the corresponding alcohol, aldehyde, and carboxylic acid) at C-10, which were predominant in the Agrocybe aegerita UPO reactions, and first reported here.
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