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28-Norcastasterone is biosynthesized from castasterone
S Fujioka1, T Noguchi, M Sekimoto
1RIKEN, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Saitama, Japan. sfujioka@postman.riken.go.jp
Abstract:
Metabolic experiments with deuterium-labeled castasterone in seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza saliva and Lycopersicon esculentum, and cultured cells of Catharanthus roseus were performed, and the metabolites were analyzed by GC-MS. In all the plant species examined, [2H3]28-norcastasterone was identified as a metabolite of [26,28-2H6]castasterone, indicating that castasterone is the biosynthetic origin of 28-norcastasterone. Moreover, the natural occurrence of 28-norcastasterone and 28-nortyphasterol in seedlings of A. thaliana has been demonstrated. This is the first report of the natural occurrence of 28-nortyphasterol in plants.