Claim · model-written summary
Plastoquinone, tocopherols and alpha-tocopherolquinone are formed from p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate.
- Compound
- p-hydroxyphenylpyruvatee0
- Outcome
- Plastoquinone, tocopherols and alpha-tocopherolquinonee0
- Qualifier
- aromatic ring and C-3 of the side chaine0
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Verbatim
e0“Plastoquinone, tocopherols and alpha-tocopherolquinone are formed from p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate by a pathway in which the aromatic ring and C-3 of the side chain give rise respectively to the nucleus and to one nuclear methyl group.”
t0“maize shoots”
Title
G R Whistance; D R Threlfall Biochemical Journal 1968. doi:10.1042/bj1090577
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Observation In maize, phenylalanine or tyrosine forms plastoquinone, gamma-tocopherol and alpha-tocopherolquinone nuclei and methyl groups.
- Observation In maize ubiquinone uses only the amino-acid aromatic ring for its nucleus.
- Observation A directly derived C(6)-C(1) amino-acid unit contributes to plastoquinone and gamma-tocopherol.
- Observation Cinnamic-acid beta-carbon label was not incorporated into the quinones.
- Observation Beans differed from maize because phenylalanine was used only for ubiquinone biosynthesis.
- Mechanism The authors attribute that bean difference to absent phenylalanine hydroxylase.
- Observation In ivy, tyrosine beta-carbon forms the 8-methyl group of delta-tocopherol.
- Mechanism Ivy tyrosine beta-carbon may form the nuclear methyl group in other compounds.
- Observation Euglena tyrosine ring opening made radiochemical incorporation results uninterpretable.
- Mechanism Higher-plant ubiquinone nuclei can arise from phenylalanine or tyrosine through p-coumaric and p-hydroxybenzoic acids.
- Observation Dilution experiments implicate p-hydroxyphenylpyruvic and homogentisic acids in maize plastoquinone biosynthesis.
- Observation Toluquinol showed no dilution effect and its label was not incorporated.
- Observation 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde and 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid were excluded from maize ubiquinone and phylloquinone synthesis.
- Observation Aromatic amino-acid ring opening occurs in maize shoots.
- Mechanism The authors suggest maize amino-acid ring opening may occur via homogentisic acid.