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Identification and Biosynthetic Pathway of Brassinosteroids in Seedling Shoots of Zea mays L.

옥수수 유식물 신초에서 Brassinosteroid류의 동정 및 생합성 경로 추정

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Abstract

The potent biosynthetic precursors, 24$\alpha$-methylcholesterol and 24$\alpha$-methylcholestanol, and the endogenous brassinosteroids (BRs), castasterone (CS) and 6-deoxocastasterone (6-deoxoCS), were identified from shoots of maize seedlings. In addition, the presence for activities of several enzymes involved in the late C6-oxida-lion pathway from 24$\alpha$-methylcholestanol to CS was demonstrated in the plants. However, activity for brassinolide (BL) synthase which catalyze the conversion of CS to BL, the last step of the late C6-oxidation pathway, was not detected in the enzyme solution obtained from the maize shoots. Together with the fact that BL was not identified from the maize shoots, these results strongly suggested that BRs in the maize shoots are biosynthesized during seedling growth and the active BR in the shoots is not BL but CS.

GC-MS/SIM를 통하여 옥수수 유식물 신초로부터 해 castasterone (CS)과 6-deoxocastasterone (6-deoxoCS)을 동정하였다. 또한 BRs의 생합성 전구물질인 24$\alpha$-methylcholesterol과 24$\alpha$-methylcholestanol이 동정하였다. 이들 BRs와 생합성 전구물질은 BRs의 생합성과정 중 후기 C6산화과정에 속하는 화합물로서, 옥수수 유식물 줄기에서는 BRs의 생합성 과정으로 후기 C6산화과정이 주된 생합성 과정임을 알 수 있었다. 다음으로 옥수수 유식물 줄기내의 BRs가 발아와 더불어 종자에서부터 이동해 온 것인지, 아니면 줄기 생장 시 줄기 자체가 생합성된 것인지를 조사하기 위하여 몇몇 중요한 후기 C6산화과정의 반응을 촉매하는 효소의 활성이 유식물 줄기에 존재하는지를 조사하였다. 그 결과 후기 C6산화과정에 포함되는 24$\alpha$-methylcholestanol에 서 6-deoxocathasterone (6-deoxoCT), 6-deoxoteasterone (6-deoxoTE) 에서 6-deoxo-3-dehydroteasterone (6-deoxo-3-DHT)을 거쳐 6-deoxotyphasterol (6-deoxoTY),그리고 6-deoxoCS에서 CS로의 과정을 촉매하는 24$\alpha$-methylcholestanol 22(R)-hydroxlyase, 6-deoxoTE dehydrogenase/6-deoxo-3-DHT reductase, 6-deoxoCS oxidase의 활성이 옥수수 유식물 줄기에 존재하고 있음이 확인되었다. 이는 유식물 줄기 생장 시 필요한 BRs가 발아종자로부터 이동되는 것이 아니라, 유식물 줄기 자체에서 생합성 될 가능성이 높음을 나타내는 결과라 할 수 있다. 또한 옥수수 유식물 줄기에서 CS를 brassinolide(BL)로 전환하는 BL synthase의 활성이 검출되지 않아, 옥수수 유식물 줄기에서의 활성형 BR은 BL이 아닌 CS임을 밝혔다.

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