期刊
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
卷 18, 期 35, 页码 10873-10885出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201201023
关键词
catabolite; chlorophyll; fruit; luminescence; pigment; structure elucidation
资金
- Austrian National Science Foundation (FWF) [P-19596, L-472]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [L 472] Funding Source: researchfish
The disappearance of chlorophyll is a visual sign of fruit ripening. Yet, chlorophyll breakdown in fruit has hardly been explored; its non-green degradation products are largely unknown. Here we report the analysis and structure elucidation of colorless tetrapyrrolic chlorophyll breakdown products in commercially available, ripening bananas (Musa acuminata, Cavendish cultivar). In banana peels, chlorophyll catabolites were found in an unprecedented structural richness: a variety of new fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites (FCCs) and nonfluorescent chlorophyll catabolites (NCCs) were detected. As a rule, FCCs exist only fleetingly and are hard to observe. However, in bananas several of the FCCs (named Mc-FCCs) were persistent and carried an ester function at the propionate side-chain. NCCs were less abundant, and exhibited a free propionic acid group, but functional modifications elsewhere. The modifications of NCCs in banana peels were similar to those found in NCCs from senescent leaves. They are presumed to be introduced by enzymatic transformations at the stage of the mostly unobserved, direct FCC-precursors. The observed divergent functional group characteristics of the Mc-FCCs versus those of the Mc-NCCs indicated two major late processing lines of chlorophyll breakdown in ripening bananas. The last common precursor at the branching point to either the persistent FCCs, or towards the NCCs, was identified as a temporarily abundant secondary FCC. The existence of two downstream branches of chlorophyll breakdown in banana peels, and the striking accumulation of persistent Mc-FCCs call for attention as to the still-elusive biological roles of the resulting colorless linear tetrapyrroles.
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