Nambudiri, AMD and Rao, Subba PV and Bhat, Janardhana V (1970) Metabolism of aromatic compounds by an alternaria species. In: Phytochemistry, 9 (4). pp. 687-693.
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Abstract
Washed mycelial felts of an Alternaria sp. isolated from soil, when grown on a malt extract medium, rapidly metabolized various cinnamic and benzoic acids. The intermediates in the degradation of trans-cinnamic, m-coumaric, p-coumaric, ferulic and sinapic acids have been identified. In vivo studies with ${^1^4}C$-labelled cinnamic acid, p-coumaric acid and benzoic acid have shown that these compounds are converted to p-hydroxybenzoic acid and protocatechuic acid. When the organism was fed with cinnamic $acid-2-^1^4C$, a part of the radioactivity after 6 hr was trapped in glutamic and aspartic acids. These results strongly suggest that Alternaria shortens the cinnamic acid side-chain by $\beta$-oxidation. The organism did not have any detectable levels of phenylalanine and tryosine ammonia-lyase activities.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Phytochemistry |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Additional Information: | The Copyright belongs to Elsevier. |
Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Microbiology & Cell Biology |
Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2006 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 04:24 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/6045 |
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