Lack of tryptophan-niacin relationship in corn and tobacco.

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  • L M HENDERSON
  • J F SOMEROSKI
  • D R RAO
  • P H L WU
  • T GRIFFITH
  • R U BYERRUM
چکیده

Although the biosynthesis of niacin in Neurospora and mammals has been elucidated in a general way, the pathway by which this vitamin is formed in plants has remained obscure. An increase in the niacin content of cereals during germination has been observed (1). Winterstein and Trier (2) suggested that niacin is derived from proline, whereas Guggenheim (3) proposed ornithine as a precursor. Following the observation of Krehl et al. (4) that tryptophan could replace niacin in the diet of the rat, evidence of a tryptophan-niacin relationship in plants has been sought (5-13). Several of these efforts have led to suggestive evidence that tryptophan or various of its metabolites are precursors of niacin. In general, the evidence has been based on observed small increases in the niacin content of plants grown in the presence of suspected precursors. Recently, isotopic evidence has conclusively excluded the niacin-precursor role of tryptophan in some plants and bacteria (14). The failure of ring-labeled tryptophan to serve as a precursor of nicotine formed by root cultures of tobacco (15) coupled with the evidence that the pyridine ring of nicotine arises directly from nicotinic acid (16) constitutedstrong evidence against the conversion of tryptophan to niacin in this plant. Leete (17) and Grimshaw and Marion (18) have confirmed the failure of tryptophan and its metabolites to serve as a precursor of nicotine using intact Nicotiana glauca.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of biological chemistry

دوره 234 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1959