A pathway for biosynthesis of divinyl ether fatty acids in green leaves |
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Authors: | Mats Hamberg |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Division of Physiological Chemistry II, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | 1-14C]α-Linolenic acid was incubated with a particulate fraction of homogenate of leaves of the meadow buttercup (Ranunculus acris L.). The main product was a divinyl ether fatty acid, which was identified as 12-1′(Z),3′(Z)-hexadienyloxy]-9(Z), 11(E)-dodecadienoic acid. Addition of glutathione peroxidase and reduced glutathione to incubations of α-linolenic acid almost
completely suppressed formation of the divinyl ether acid and resulted in the appearance of 13(S)-hydroxy-9(Z), 11(E), 15(Z)-octadecatrienoic acid as the main product. This result, together with the finding that 13(S)-hydroperoxy-9(Z), 11(E), 15(Z)-octadecatrienoic acid served as an efficient precursor of the divinyl ether fatty acid, indicated that divinyl ether biosynthesis
in leaves of R. acris occurred by a two-step pathway involving an ω6-lipoxygenase and a divinyl ether synthase. Incubations of isomeric hydroperoxides
derived from α-linolenic and linoleic acids with the enzyme preparation from R. acris showed that 13(S)-hydroperoxy-9(Z), 11(E)-octadecadienoic acid was transformed into the divinyl ether 12-1′(Z)-hexenyloxy]-9(Z), 11(E)-dodecadienoic acid. In contrast, neither the 9(S)-hydroperoxides of linoleic or α-linolenic acids nor the 13(R)-hydroperoxide of α-linolenic acid served as precursors of divinyl ethers. |
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