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Dolichols of the fern Matteucia struthiopteris
Magdalena Wojtas1, Tomasz Bieńkowski, Monika Zelman-Femiak
1Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland.
Abstract:
Dolichols isolated from leaves of the fern Matteucia struthiopteris were present as a mixture of prenologues composed of 14 up to 20 isoprene units with Dol-16 dominating. They comprised approximately 0.004% of the fresh weight of fresh plant tissue and were accompanied by traces of polyprenols (Pren-14 up to Pren-17, Pren-16 dominating). Their structure was confirmed by electropray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). This is the first time that dolichols have been reported as dominating polyisoprenoid alcohols in plant photosynthetic tissue.
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