MICROBIAL DEGRADATION OF THE TOBACCO ALKALOIDS, AND SOME RELATED COMPOUNDS
MICROBIAL DEGRADATION OF THE TOBACCO ALKALOIDS, AND SOME RELATED COMPOUNDS
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-9861(57)90181-9
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发表时间:
1957-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
WADA, E
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作者:
WADA, E
Bacteria isolated from soil which can utilize the tobacco alkaloids as sole sources of both N and C are classified into two types, A and B. Type A breaks down only nicotine; type B decomposes nornicotine and anabasine as well as nicotine. The degradation pathway of nicotine by both types is the same nicotine [image] pseudo-oxynicotine [image] [gamma]-keto-[gamma]-(3-pyridyl) butyric acid[image]3-succinoyl-6-hydroxypyridine[image]aliphatic compounds. Nornicotine is transformed by type B bacteria, by the following scheme: nornicotine [image] 6-hydroxy-myosmine [image] 3-succinoyl-6-hydroxypyridine [image] aliphatic compounds. Anabasine is degraded by the pathway: anabasine [image] l[image],6-dehydro-6 -hydroxy anabasine [image] 3 -glutaroyl -6-hydroxypy ridine [image] aliphatic compounds. The essential action of both types of bacteria on the tobacco alkaloids consists of dehydrogenations and hydroxylations. The sequence of these steps is the reverse in nicotine oxidation as compared with the oxidation of nornicotine and anabasine. Oxygen uptake by the bacteria in the presence of tobacco alkaloids and related compounds was observed. A modified method is described for the preparation of 6- and 2-hydroxynicotine and of dihydrometanicotine. Nicotyrine, 3-pyridylmethylketone, 3-pyridyl-n-propylketone, and oxynicotine cannot be intermediates of the nicotine degradation by the bacteria. Nicotinic acid seems not to be an intermediate in the nicotine degradation, but the acid can serve as sole source of N and C for both types of bacteria, and is degraded through 6-hydroxynicotinic acid.