Enzymatic cyclization reactions of geraniol, farnesol and geranylgeraniol, and those of truncated squalene analogs having C20 and C25 by recombinant squalene cyclase

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
Tsutomu HoshinoShumi Ohashi

Abstract

The substrate specificity of squalene-hopene cyclase was investigated using the C10-C25 analogs including naturally occurring substances, e.g. geraniol (C10), farnesol (C15) and geranylgeraniol (C20). No cyclization occurred for geraniol, but a significantly high conversion ratio (64%) was observed for farnesol, yielding the cyclic sesquiterpenes consisting of 6/6-fused bicyclic ring systems. Among them, an attractive compound having C30 was produced, in the structure of which acyclic the farnesol unit is linked to the bicyclic skeleton through ether linkage. Conversion of geranylgeraniol was low (ca. 12%). The squalene analogs having C20 and C25 also were cyclized in yields of ca. 33-36%, but the analogs having the methyl group at C7 and/or at C11 underwent no cyclization; the large steric bulk size of C7-Me and/or C11-Me, which is arranged in [small alpha]-disposition for all the pre-chair conformation, would have interacted repulsively with the cyclase recognition site near to the C7 and/or C11, resulting in no construction of the all-chair conformation inside the reaction cavity. A relatively low yield of geranylgeraniol indicated that a less bulky hydrogen atom must be located at C14 for the efficient polycyclization react...Continue Reading

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