MOLECULAR-OXYGEN AND THE STATE OF GEOMETRIC ISOMERISM OF INTERMEDIATES ARE ESSENTIAL IN THE CAROTENE DESATURATION AND CYCLIZATION REACTIONS IN DAFFODIL CHROMOPLASTS
MOLECULAR-OXYGEN AND THE STATE OF GEOMETRIC ISOMERISM OF INTERMEDIATES ARE ESSENTIAL IN THE CAROTENE DESATURATION AND CYCLIZATION REACTIONS IN DAFFODIL CHROMOPLASTS
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10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb15000.x
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1989-09-01
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KLEINIG, H
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BEYER, P;MAYER, M;KLEINIG, H
The membrane-bound carotensogenic reaction sequence in daffodil chromoplasts can be subdivided in vitro into three reaction segments by varying the incubation parameters O2 and light. In the first segment, 15-cis-phytoene is desaturated to 15-cis-.zeta.-carotene (trans elimination of hydrogen) in the dark and in the presence of O2 as an essential cofactor. A photoisomerization of the 15-cis double bond of the accumulated .zeta.-carotene to trans is the prerequisite for the function of the second segment, the desaturation to 7,9,9'',7''-tetra-cis-lycopene (prolycopene, cis elimination of hydrogen). The role of O2 as an electron acceptor is discussed and evidence for an oxidorectase acting as a redox mediator between the desaturase (forming the polyene chromophore) and O2 is presented. A certain analogy to the desaturation of stearoyl-carrier protein, which also occurs in plastids, is proposed. The third segment, the cyclization of prolycopene, is active only in the absence of O2 and involves additional cis-trans isomerization reactions.