BIOGENERATION AND BIODEGRADATION OF RASPBERRY KETONE IN THE FUNGUS BEAUVERIA-BASSIANA

Authors
FUGANTI C MENDOZZA M JOULAIN D MINUT J PEDROCCHIFANTONI G PIERGIANNI V SERVI S ZUCCHI G
Citation
C. Fuganti et al., BIOGENERATION AND BIODEGRADATION OF RASPBERRY KETONE IN THE FUNGUS BEAUVERIA-BASSIANA, Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 44(11), 1996, pp. 3616-3619
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Food Science & Tenology",Agriculture,"Chemistry Applied
Journal title
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00218561
Volume
44
Issue
11
Year of publication
1996
Pages
3616 - 3619
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-8561(1996)44:11<3616:BABORK>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
In growing cultures of the fungus Beauveria bassiana (ATCC 7159) the i ncubation of 4-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)but-3-en-2-one (p-hydroxybenzylidenac etone, 3), of 4-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)butan-2-one (raspberry ketone, 1), a nd of the S and R,S forms of 4-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)butan-2-ol (2) yields 2-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)ethanol (tyrosol, 4) as a final product. The expe riments support the view that the actual substrate for the Baeyer-Vill iger-type degradation is raspberry ketone (1) and that there is a kine tic preference in the microbial enzymatic system for the oxidation to 1 of the S form of the 4-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)butan-2-ol (2).