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Biochemistry

Title:		Synthesis of brominated heptanones and bromoform by a bromoperoxidase of marine origin
Author(s):		Beissner RS; Guilford WJ; Coates RM; Hager LP;
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Journal Title:		Biochemistry
Year:		1981
Volume:		20
Issue:		13
Page Number:		3724 - 3731
DOI:		10.1021/bi00516a009
ISSN/ISBN:		0006-2960 (Print) 0006-2960 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The presence of naturally occurring volatile halohydrocarbons in marine organisms, seawater, and the upper atmosphere has prompted a serach for their biosynthetic origin. An earlier report documented the preparation of an enzyme extract from a marine algae which catalyzed the formation of dibromomethane, tribromomethane, and 1-bromopentane from 3-oxooctanoic acid. This report did not establish a pathway nor did it examine potential intermediates involved in the synthesis of the halometabolites (Theiler, R., Cook, J., Hager, L., & Siuda, J. (1978) Science (Washington, D.C.) 202, 1094-1096). This paper shows that an extract of the green marine algae, Penicillus capitatus, which contains a potent bromoperoxidase activity, is capable of catalyzing the incorporation of bromide ion into organic combination in the presence of 3-oxooctanoic acid. By use of gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy, it has been possible to identify tribromomethane, 1-bromo-2-heptanone, 1,1-dibromo-2-heptanone, and 1,1,1-tribromo-2-heptanone as products of this reaction. The properties of the enzymatically synthesized products have been compared to authentic compounds and found to be identical. The mono- and dibromoheptanones can be utilized as precursors for the enzymatic formation of tribromoheptanone, but the final hydrolysis of the tribromoheptanone to bromoform appears to be a nonenzymatic reaction with the P. capitatus extracts"
Keywords:		"Chlorophyta/*enzymology Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Hydrocarbons, Brominated/*biosynthesis/*metabolism Ketones/*metabolism Peroxidases/*metabolism Trihalomethanes;"
Notes:		"MedlineBeissner, R S Guilford, W J Coates, R M Hager, L P eng GM 13956/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. 1981/06/23 Biochemistry. 1981 Jun 23; 20(13):3724-31. doi: 10.1021/bi00516a009"