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Elucidation of Differential Accumulation of 1-Phenylethanol in Flowers and Leaves of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plants
1-Phenylethanol (1PE) is a major aromatic volatile in tea (Camellia sinensis) flowers, whereas it occurs in a much smaller amounts in leaves. Enzymes involved in the formation of 1PE in plants and the reason why 1PE differentially accumulates in plants is unknown. In the present study, enzymes in th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6274408/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27563859 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules21091106 |
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author | Dong, Fang Zhou, Ying Zeng, Lanting Peng, Qiyuan Chen, Yiyong Zhang, Ling Su, Xinguo Watanabe, Naoharu Yang, Ziyin |
author_facet | Dong, Fang Zhou, Ying Zeng, Lanting Peng, Qiyuan Chen, Yiyong Zhang, Ling Su, Xinguo Watanabe, Naoharu Yang, Ziyin |
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description | 1-Phenylethanol (1PE) is a major aromatic volatile in tea (Camellia sinensis) flowers, whereas it occurs in a much smaller amounts in leaves. Enzymes involved in the formation of 1PE in plants and the reason why 1PE differentially accumulates in plants is unknown. In the present study, enzymes in the last step leading from acetophenone to 1PE were isolated from tea flowers by traditional biochemical chromatography. The two types of partially purified enzymes were proposed to be responsible for formations of (R)-1PE and (S)-1PE, respectively. Tea leaves also contained such enzymes having equivalent activities with flowers. Stable isotope labeling experiments indicated that weak transformation from l-phenylalanine to acetophenone in leaves mainly resulted in little occurrence of 1PE in leaves. This study provided an example that differential distribution of some metabolites in plant tissues was not only determined by enzyme(s) in the last step of metabolite formation, but also can be due to substrate availability. |
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spelling | pubmed-62744082018-12-28 Elucidation of Differential Accumulation of 1-Phenylethanol in Flowers and Leaves of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plants Dong, Fang Zhou, Ying Zeng, Lanting Peng, Qiyuan Chen, Yiyong Zhang, Ling Su, Xinguo Watanabe, Naoharu Yang, Ziyin Molecules Article 1-Phenylethanol (1PE) is a major aromatic volatile in tea (Camellia sinensis) flowers, whereas it occurs in a much smaller amounts in leaves. Enzymes involved in the formation of 1PE in plants and the reason why 1PE differentially accumulates in plants is unknown. In the present study, enzymes in the last step leading from acetophenone to 1PE were isolated from tea flowers by traditional biochemical chromatography. The two types of partially purified enzymes were proposed to be responsible for formations of (R)-1PE and (S)-1PE, respectively. Tea leaves also contained such enzymes having equivalent activities with flowers. Stable isotope labeling experiments indicated that weak transformation from l-phenylalanine to acetophenone in leaves mainly resulted in little occurrence of 1PE in leaves. This study provided an example that differential distribution of some metabolites in plant tissues was not only determined by enzyme(s) in the last step of metabolite formation, but also can be due to substrate availability. MDPI 2016-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6274408/ /pubmed/27563859 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules21091106 Text en © 2016 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Dong, Fang Zhou, Ying Zeng, Lanting Peng, Qiyuan Chen, Yiyong Zhang, Ling Su, Xinguo Watanabe, Naoharu Yang, Ziyin Elucidation of Differential Accumulation of 1-Phenylethanol in Flowers and Leaves of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plants |
title | Elucidation of Differential Accumulation of 1-Phenylethanol in Flowers and Leaves of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plants |
title_full | Elucidation of Differential Accumulation of 1-Phenylethanol in Flowers and Leaves of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plants |
title_fullStr | Elucidation of Differential Accumulation of 1-Phenylethanol in Flowers and Leaves of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plants |
title_full_unstemmed | Elucidation of Differential Accumulation of 1-Phenylethanol in Flowers and Leaves of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plants |
title_short | Elucidation of Differential Accumulation of 1-Phenylethanol in Flowers and Leaves of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plants |
title_sort | elucidation of differential accumulation of 1-phenylethanol in flowers and leaves of tea (camellia sinensis) plants |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6274408/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27563859 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules21091106 |
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