BIOSYNTHESIS OF SYNEPHRINE IN CITRUS

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作者
WHEATON, TA
STEWART, I
机构
[1] University of Florida Citrus Experiment Station, Lake Alfred
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1016/S0031-9422(00)85799-4
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Synephrine is formed in citrus by a pathway involving tyramine and N-methyltyramine. Octopamine is probably not an important intermediate. 14C-labeled tyramine was converted to N-methyltyramine, hordenine, octopamine, and synephrine in one of the citrus cultivars studied. Tyrosine was a less efficient precursor and phenylalanine, serine, ethanolamine, and epinephrine were ineffective. © 1970.
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