BIOSYNTHESIS OF PULVILLORIC ACID .I. PRODUCTION, ISOLATION, AND DEGRADATIONS
BIOSYNTHESIS OF PULVILLORIC ACID .I. PRODUCTION, ISOLATION, AND DEGRADATIONS
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00839a058
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发表时间:
1969-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
NAKAJIMA, S
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作者:
TANENBAUM, SW;NAKAJIMA, S
A study of the environmental conditions needed for maximal laboratory yields of pulvilloric acid, an antibiotic substance produced by Penicillium pulvillorum, ledto the estimated production in stationary cultures of quantities over 1.3 g/1. The requisite medium is 5% glycerol-Czapek-Dox supplemented with 0.1 ml of corn steep liquor/1. Improvements in isolation and purification steps were found which overcame the major difficulty involved in work with this metabolite, ie, itsinstability. A completestepwise degradation procedure, adaptable for radioactive tracer experiments, was de-veloped. This process involved hydrolysis of pulvilloric acid into the known l-(3-dihydroxyphenyl)-2-heptanol, followed by methylation and dehydration which providedl-(3, 5-dimethoxyphenyl)-1-heptene. The latter intermediate was pX. ulvilloric acid is a yellow antifungal and antibacterial substance produced by Penicilliumpulvillorum (Brian et al., 1957). Its molecular structure (I) has been determined by degradative (McOmie et al., 1963, 1966) and synthetic (Bulli-more et al., 1967) studies. Both in biogenetic and structural terms, pulvilloric acid closely resembles two other secondary metabolites. These are citrinin, whose biogenesis has been worked out by several groups (Birch et al., 1958; Schwenk et al., 1958; Rodig et al., 1966) and has been shown to involve the acetate-polymalonate single carbon-transfer pathways; and ascochitine, more recently characterized by Iwai and Mishima (1965).This paper reports strain and fermentation improvements which have lead to consistent, high yield production of pulvilloric acid; anddescribes a facile isolation method for obtaining the analytically pure antibiotic. As a preliminary to radioactive tracer experiments on the elucidation of the biosynthesis of pulvilloric acid, a carbon-by-carbon degradative procedure, with satisfactory yields of intermediates at each stage, has been developed.