A survey of the nature of glucose acylation reactions in plant extracts
摘要:
A variety of plant species have been shown to catalyse anomeric acyl exchange from a number of 1-O-fatty-acyl-beta-glucoses as donor substrates to [(14)C]-glucose as an acceptor. The activity in wild tomato Lycopersicon penneliii has been analysed in detail by using analogs of glucose as accepters and a number of 1-O-acyl-beta-glucoses and 1-O-acyl-2-deoxyglucoses as acyl donors. Compared to 1-O-isobutyryl-beta-glucose, the analogous 1-O-isobutyryl-beta-2-deoxyglucose is an effective donor both to glucose (ca. 75%) and to 2-deoxyglucose (ca. 95%). On the contrary, compared to 1-O-isobutyryl-beta-glucose, 1-O-isobutyryl-alpha-2-deoxyglucose is a poor donor both to glucose (ca. 4%) and to deoxyglucose (ca. 6%). The glucose analogs free at the anomeric center such as 3-O-methylglucose and 2-deoxyglucose are competent acyl accepters from various 1-O-acyl-beta-glucoses whereas 1-O-methylglucose is not. The primary initial product of acyl transfer from 1-O-isobutyryl-beta-glucose to [(14)C]-glucose is beta-glucosidase-cleavable 1-O-acyl-[(14)C]-beta-glucose, whereas the isobutyryl-[(14)C]-3-O-methylglucose generated from 1-O-isobutyryl-beta-glucose and [(14)C]-3-O-methylglucose is beta-glucosidase-resistant. The transfer of the acyl group to 3-O-methylglucose occurs at the anomeric center; therefore the resistance to beta-glucosidase reflects the strict specificity of beta-glucosidase for glucose. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.