| Title: | "Enantioselective monoterpene alcohol acetylation in Origanum, Mentha and Salvia species" |
| Author(s): | Larkov O; Zaks A; Bar E; Lewinsohn E; Dudai N; Mayer AM; Ravid U; |
| Address: | "Department of Vegetable Crops, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Newe Ya'ar Research Center, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30095, Israel" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.phytochem.2008.07.018 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0031-9422 (Print) 0031-9422 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Selected plants within the Origanum, Mentha and Salvia genera, that contain significant amounts of chiral volatile alcohols and their related acetates, exhibit remarkable enantioselectivity of alcohol acetyl transferase (AAT) activity and particularly can discriminate between linalool enantiomers. Origanum dayi AAT produced almost enantiomerically pure (R)-linalyl acetate by enzymatic acetylation of racemic linalool, whereas the closely related O. majorana AAT produced a mixture of (R)- and (S)-linalyl acetate with a ratio of 6:4. V(max) of O. dayi acetylation activity was 30-fold higher for (R)-linalool, whereas in O. majorana no such differences were found" |
| Keywords: | "Acetylation Acetyltransferases/*metabolism Acyclic Monoterpenes Alcohols/*metabolism Mentha/*enzymology Molecular Structure Monoterpenes/*metabolism Oils, Volatile/metabolism Origanum/*enzymology Plant Leaves/metabolism Salvia/*enzymology Substrate Specif;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineLarkov, Olga Zaks, Alon Bar, Einat Lewinsohn, Efraim Dudai, Nativ Mayer, Alfred M Ravid, Uzi eng England 2008/10/07 Phytochemistry. 2008 Oct; 69(14):2565-71. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2008.07.018. Epub 2008 Oct 1" |
