First insights into the mode of action of a “lachrymatory factor synthase??Implications for the mechanism of lachrymator formation in Petiveria alliacea, Allium cepa and Nectaroscordum species

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• 作者：Quan He^a ; Roman Kubec^b ; Abhijit P. Jadhav^a ; Rabi A. Musah^a ;   ; ^{musah@albany.edu}
• 关键词：Petiveria alliacea ; Phytolaccaceae ; Lachrymatory factor synthase ; Sulfenic acid ; Sulfenic acid dehydrogenase ; Phenylmethanesulfenic acid dehydrogenase ; Sulfenic acid isomerase ; 1-Propenesulfenic acid isomerase ; 1-Butenesulfenic acid isomerase ; Onion ; Petiveriin ; Isoalliin ; Homoisoalliin ; Sulfine
• 刊名：Phytochemistry
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：November 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：72
• 期：16
• 页码：1939-1946
• 全文大小：718 K

文摘

A study of an enzyme that reacts with the sulfenic acid produced by the alliinase in Petiveria alliacea L. (Phytolaccaceae) to yield the P. alliacea lachrymator (phenylmethanethial S-oxide) showed the protein to be a dehydrogenase. It functions by abstracting hydride from sulfenic acids of appropriate structure to form their corresponding sulfines. Successful hydride abstraction is dependent upon the presence of a benzyl group on the sulfur to stabilize the intermediate formed on abstraction of hydride. This dehydrogenase activity contrasts with that of the lachrymatory factor synthase (LFS) found in onion, which catalyzes the rearrangement of 1-propenesulfenic acid to (Z)-propanethial S-oxide, the onion lachrymator. Based on the type of reaction it catalyzes, the onion LFS should be classified as an isomerase and would be called a “sulfenic acid isomerase? whereas the P. alliacea LFS would be termed a “sulfenic acid dehydrogenase?