Reaction mechanism of oxidative rearrangement of flavanone in isoflavone biosynthesis.
Microsomes that were prepared from elicitor-treated Pueraria lobata cell cultures catalyzed the conversion of liquiritigenin, a flavanone, into daidzein, an isoflavone. The reaction was resolved into two steps. 2, 7, 4'-Trihydroxyisoflavonone was formed as a major product when liquiritigenin was incubated with carefully washed microsomes in the presence of NADPH. The structure of 2, 7, 4'-trihydroxyisoflavanone was confirmed by mass and 1H NMR spectroscopies. The enzyme responsible for this rearrangement reaction is a cytochrome P-450-dependent monooxygenase. Upon treatment with a soluble enzyme fraction 2, 7, 4'-trihydroxyisoflavone yielded daidzein quantitatively. The incorporation of 18O from 18O2 into the 2-hydroxy group of 2, 7, 4'-trihydroxyisoflavanone was demonstrated by the shift of molecular ion in its mass spectrum. Based on these observations a new reaction mechanism, hydroxylation associated with 1,2-migration, is proposed for the oxidative rearrangement reaction catalyzed by the cytochrome P-450 enzyme of Pueraria lobata.[1]References
- Reaction mechanism of oxidative rearrangement of flavanone in isoflavone biosynthesis. Hashim, M.F., Hakamatsuka, T., Ebizuka, Y., Sankawa, U. FEBS Lett. (1990) [Pubmed]
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