Schwender J, Seemann M, Lichtenthaler H K, Rohmer M
Botanisches Institut II, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany.
Biochem J. 1996 May 15;316 ( Pt 1)(Pt 1):73-80. doi: 10.1042/bj3160073.
Isoprenoid biosynthesis was investigated in the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus grown heterotrophically on 13C-labelled glucose and acetate. Several isoprenoid compounds were isolated and investigated by 13C-NMR spectroscopy. According to the 13C-labelling pattern indicated by the 13C-NMR spectra, the biosynthesis of all plastidic isoprenoids investigated (prenyl side-chains of chlorophylls and plastoquinone-9, and the carotenoids beta-carotene and lutein), as well as of the non-plastidic cytoplasmic sterols, does not proceed via the classical acetate/mevalonate pathway (which leads from acetyl-CoA via mevalonate to isopentenyl diphosphate), but via the novel glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate/pyruvate route recently detected in eubacteria. Formation of isopentenyl diphosphate involves the condensation of a C2 unit derived from pyruvate decarboxylation with glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and a transposition yielding the branched C5 skeleton of isoprenic units.
在以13C标记的葡萄糖和乙酸盐为异养生长的斜生栅藻中研究了类异戊二烯的生物合成。分离出几种类异戊二烯化合物,并通过13C核磁共振光谱进行研究。根据13C核磁共振光谱显示的13C标记模式,所研究的所有质体类异戊二烯(叶绿素和质体醌-9的异戊烯基侧链,以及类胡萝卜素β-胡萝卜素和叶黄素)以及非质体细胞质甾醇的生物合成,并非通过经典的乙酸盐/甲羟戊酸途径(该途径从乙酰辅酶A经甲羟戊酸生成异戊烯基二磷酸)进行,而是通过最近在真细菌中检测到的新的甘油醛3-磷酸/丙酮酸途径进行。异戊烯基二磷酸的形成涉及丙酮酸脱羧衍生的C2单元与甘油醛3-磷酸的缩合以及一次转位,从而产生异戊二烯单元的支链C5骨架。