Identification and distribution of dietary precursors of the Drosophila visual pigment chromophore:: analysis of carotenoids in wild type and ninaD mutants by HPLC

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Giovannucci, DR [1 ]
Stephenson, RS [1 ]
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[1] Wayne State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
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10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00184-9
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Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
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A dietary source of retinoid or carotenoid has been shown to be necessary for the biosynthesis of functional visual pigment in flies. In the present study, the larvae or adults of Drosophila melanogaster were administered specific carotenoid-containing diets and high performance liquid chromatography was used to identify and quantify the carotenoids in extracts of wild type and ninaD visual mutant flies. When beta-carotene was fed to larvae, wild type flies were shown to hydroxylate this molecule and to accumulate zeaxanthin and a small amount of beta-cryptoxanthin. Zeaxanthin content was found to increase throughout development and was a major carotenoid peak detected in the adult fly. Carotenoids were twice as effective at mediating zeaxanthin accumulation when provided to larvae versus adults. In the ninaD mutant, zeaxanthin content was shown to be specifically and significantly altered compared to wild type, and was ineffective at mediating visual pigment synthesis when provided to both larval and adult mutant flies. It is proposed that zeaxanthin is the larval storage form for subsequent visual pigment chromophore biosynthesis during pupation, that zeaxanthin or beta-crytoxanthin is the immediate precursor for light-independent chromophore synthesis in the adult, and that the ninaD mutant is defective in this pathway. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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