Stereospecific reduction of the butenolide in strigolactones in plants

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
Misa YamauchiYukihiro Sugimoto

Abstract

Reductive metabolism of strigolactones (SLs) in several plants was investigated. Analysis of aquaculture filtrates of cowpea and sorghum each fed with four stereoisomers of GR24, the most widely used synthetic SL, revealed stereospecific reduction of the double bond at C-3' and C-4' in the butenolide D-ring with preference for an unnatural 2'S configuration. The cowpea metabolite converted from 2'-epi-GR24 and the sorghum metabolite converted from ent-GR24 had the methyl group at C-4' in the trans configuration with the substituent at C-2', different from the cis configuration of the synthetic H2-GR24 reduced with Pd/C catalyst. The plants also reduced the double bond in the D-ring of 5-deoxystrigol isomers with a similar preference. The metabolites and synthetic H2-GR24 stereoisomers were much less active than were the GR24 stereoisomers in inducing seed germination of the root parasitic weeds Striga hermonthica, Orobanche crenata, and O. minor. These results provide additional evidence of the importance of the D-ring for bioactivity of SLs.

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