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PLANTA
卷 220, 期 5, 页码 785-793出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-004-1395-2
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Capsicum; zeta-carotene desaturase; zeta-carotene isomers; Gentiana; poly-cis carotenoids; phytoene desaturase
The plant carotenoid biosynthetic pathway to cyclic carotenes proceeds via carotene precursors in cis configuration. Involvement of individual isomers was elucidated by genetic complementation of desaturations and in vitro reactions of the corresponding enzyme. Determination of substrate and product specificity of phytoene and zeta-carotene desaturase revealed that 15-cis-phytoene is converted to 9,15,9'-tricis-zeta-carotene with 15,9'-dicis-phytofluene as intermediate by the first desaturase. Prior to a subsequent conversion by zeta-carotene desaturase, the 15-cis double bond of 9,15,9'-tricis-zeta-carotene has to be ( photo) isomerized to all-trans. Then, the resulting 9,9'-dicis-zeta-carotene is utilized by zeta-carotene desaturase via 7,9,9'-tricis-neurosporene to 7,9,7', 9'-tetracislycopene. Other zeta-carotene isomers that are assumed to be spontaneous isomerization products were not converted, except for the asymmetric 9-cis-zeta-carotene. This isomer is desaturated only to 7,9-dicis-neurosporene resembling a dead-end of the pathway. Prolycopene, the product of the desaturation reactions, is finally isomerized by a specific isomerase to all-trans-lycopene, which is a prerequisite for cyclization to beta-carotene. The 5-cis-lycopene and the 9-cis-and 13-cis-beta-carotene isomers detected in leaves are thought to originate independently from cis precursors by non-enzymatic isomerization of their all-trans forms.
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