Biotechnology Letters 2012-07-01

Biotransformation of isonitrosoacetophenone (2-keto-2-phenyl-acetaldoxime) in tobacco cell suspensions.

Ntakadzeni E Madala, P A Steenkamp, L A Piater, I A Dubery

Index: Biotechnol. Lett. 34(7) , 1351-6, (2012)

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Abstract

Nicotiana tabacum cell suspensions, 2 g wet wt/ml, rapidly took up 1 mM isonitrosoacetophenone (INAP), a plant-derived stress metabolite with anti-oxidative and anti-fungal properties, producing 4'-hexopyranosyloxy-3'-methoxyisonitrosoacetophenone in 54 % yield over 18 h. Unconverted INAP was at 33 μM. UPLC-MS/MS analyses with MassFragment software were used for metabolite identification. INAP had been hydroxylated at its meta- and para-positions as well as undergoing subsequent methoxylation and glycosylation. INAP is thus recognized by the enzymatic machinery of the phenylpropanoid pathway and is converted to a molecule with a substitution pattern similar to ferulic acid.