Assembling the biosynthetic puzzle of crucifer metabolites: indole-3-acetaldoxime is incorporated efficiently into phytoalexins but glucobrassicin is not

M. Soledade C. Pedras; Sabine Montaut; Yiming Xu; Abdul Q. Khan; Ali Loukaci

doi:10.1039/B103442C

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Assembling the biosynthetic puzzle of crucifer metabolites: indole-3-acetaldoximeThe IUPAC name for an acetaldoxime is acetaldehyde oxime. is incorporated efficiently into phytoalexins but glucobrassicin is not

M. Soledade C. Pedras,*^a Sabine Montaut,^a Yiming Xu,^a Abdul Q. Khan^a and Ali Loukaci^a

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^a Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
E-mail: soledade.pedras@usask.ca

Abstract

First biosynthetic studies utilizing tetradeuterated precursors indicate that the indole glucosinolate glucobrassicin is not a precursor of the phytoalexin brassinin, and that indole-3-acetaldoxime is an efficient precursor.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B103442C
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 18 Apr 2001
Accepted: 27 Jun 2001
First published: 09 Aug 2001

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Chem. Commun., 2001, 1572-1573

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