STRUCTURAL IDENTIFICATION OF AUTOINDUCER OF PHOTOBACTERIUM-FISCHERI LUCIFERASE
STRUCTURAL IDENTIFICATION OF AUTOINDUCER OF PHOTOBACTERIUM-FISCHERI LUCIFERASE
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00512a013
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
OPPENHEIMER, NJ
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作者:
EBERHARD, A;BURLINGAME, AL;OPPENHEIMER, NJ
Synthesis of bacterial luciferase in some strains of luminous bacteria requires a threshold concentration of an autoinducer synthesized by the bacteria and excreted into the medium. Autoinducer excreted by P. fischeri (Vibrio fischeri) strain MJ-1 was isolated from the cell-free medium by extraction with ethyl acetate, evaporation of solvent, workup with ethanol-water mixtures and silica gel chromatography, followed by normal-phase and then reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The final product was > 99% pure. The structure of the autoinducer as determined by high-resolution 1H NMR spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy and high-resolution mass spectrometry was N-(3-oxohexanoyl)-3-aminodihydro-2(3H)-furanone [or N-(.beta.-ketocaproyl)homoserine lactone]. The formation of homoserine by hydrolysis of the autoinducer was consistent with this structure. Synthetic autoinducer, obtained as a racemate, was prepared by coupling homoserine lactone to the ethylene glycol ketal of sodium 3-oxohexanoate, followed by mildly acidic removal of the protecting group; this synthetic material showed the appropriate biological activity.