Glycine Conjugates in a Lepidopteran Insect Herbivore—The Metabolism of Benzylglucosinolate in the Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris rapae
Glycine Conjugates in a Lepidopteran Insect Herbivore—The Metabolism of Benzylglucosinolate in the Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris rapae
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鳞翅目昆虫草食动物中的甘氨酸结合物——菜粉蝶中苄基芥子油苷的代谢
DOI:
10.1002/cbic.200790053
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发表时间:
2007
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影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
U. Wittstock
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作者:
F. Vergara;A. Svatoš;B. Schneider;M. Reichelt;J. Gershenzon;U. Wittstock
Our recent analyses of the biochemical basis of the metabolism of benzylglucosinolate (2) in Pieris rapae have shown that the assignment of metabolites in the radiochromatograms, as described in our paper ChemBioChem 2006, 7, 1982–1989, was incorrect and led to a wrong conclusion on the designation of the major metabolite of 2 in P. rapae. In recent experiments, we analysed faecal extracts obtained from larvae that had fed on A. thaliana (Col-0) leaves containing C-labelled 2, essentially as described in the former paper. However, we used an optimised HPLC system in conjunction with internal and external standards for hippuric acid (9 ; 2-(benzamido)acetic acid, N-benzoylglycine) and phenylacetylglycine (7). These analyses showed that the major peak in the radiochromatogram (Figure 1 in the 2006 paper), which accounts for about 70% of the total radioactivity in the HPLC sample, comes from 9 rather than 7 as we had reported. Compound 7 elutes as a minor peak after compound 9. Thus, although the highest specific labelling (47%) in feeding experiments with C-labelled 2 was obtained for 7, most of the glucosinolate is metabolised to 9, which we had previously regarded as a minor metabolite. As discussed in the 2006 paper, compound 9 appears to be a metabolite of other compounds as well ; thus leading to the lower specific labelling. The identification of metabolites of 2 by mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy as well as the establishment of a putative metabolic pathway from 2 to 7 remain unaffected by our more recent data. F. Vergara, A. Svatoš, B. Schneider, M. Reichelt, J. Gershenzon, U. Wittstock*