Chemistry:Bombykol
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(10E,12Z)-Hexadeca-10,12-dien-1-ol | |
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| Molar mass | 238.415 g·mol−1 |
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Bombykol is a pheromone released by the female silkworm moth to attract mates. It is also the sex pheromone in the wild silk moth (Bombyx mandarina).[1][2] Discovered by Adolf Butenandt in 1959, it was the first pheromone to be characterized chemically.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
In vivo it appears that bombykol is the natural ligand for a pheromone binding protein, BmorPBP, which escorts the pheromone to the pheromone receptor.[3]
Biosynthesis
Bombykol is known to be derived from acetyl-CoA via the C-16 fatty acyl palmitoyl-CoA.[4] Palmitoyl-CoA is converted to bombykol in steps that involve desaturation and reductive modification of the carbonyl carbon.[5] Compared to other Type I pheromones, bombykol biosynthesis does not need chain-shortening or any other kind of modification of the terminal hydroxyl group.
A desaturase enzyme encoded by the gene Bmpgdesat1 (Desat1), produces the monoene (11Z)-hexadecenoyl-CoA as well as the diene (10E,12Z)-10,12-hexadecadienoyl-CoA. This desaturase is the only enzyme necessary to catalyze these two consecutive desaturation steps.[6]
The bombykol acyl precursor (10E,12Z)-10,12-hexadecadienoate is primarily found as a triacylglycerol ester in the cytoplasmic lipid droplets of pheromone gland cells of the moth. And when the adult females emerge from their pupae, the neurohormone PBAN (pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide) start signaling events that help control the lipolysis of the stored triacylglycerols, releasing (10E,12Z)-10,12-hexadecadienoate for its final reductive modification.[7][8][9] The mechanism of the lipolytic release of (10E,12Z)-10,12-hexadecadienoate from triacylglycerols is not completely known but the candidate lipase-encoding genes have been identified.[7][8]
References
- ↑ Kuwahara, Yasumasa (1984). "Flight Time of Bombyx mandarina Males to a Pheromone Trap Baited with Bombykol". Applied Entomology and Zoology 19 (3): 400–401. doi:10.1303/aez.19.400.
- ↑ Kuwahara, Yasumasa; Mori, Naoki; Yamada, Shigeki; Nemoto, Tadashi (1984). "Evaluation of Bombykol as the Sex Pheromone of Bombyx mandarina(Lepidoptera : Bombycidae)". Applied Entomology and Zoology 19 (2): 265–267. doi:10.1303/aez.19.265.
- ↑ Leal, Walter S. (2005). "Pheromone Reception". in Schulz, Stefan. The Chemistry of Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals II. Topics in Current Chemistry. 240. Springer. pp. 1–36. doi:10.1007/b98314. ISBN 9783540213086. https://books.google.com/books?id=MHza8Kvo5T8C&q=Bombykol&pg=PA1. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
- ↑ Caspi et al, Nucleic Acids Research 42:D459-D471 2014.
- ↑ Ando, T; Hase, T; Arima, R; Uchiyama, M (1988). "Biosynthetic pathway of bombykol, the sex pheromone of the female silkworm moth". Agricultural and Biological Chemistry 52 (2): 473–478. doi:10.1271/bbb1961.52.473.
- ↑ Moto, K; Suzuki, MG; Hull, JJ; Kurata, R; Takahashi, S; Yamamoto, M; Okano, K; Imai, K et al. (2004). "Involvement of a bifunctional fatty-acyl desaturase in the biosynthesis of the silkmoth, Bombyx mori, sex pheromone". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (23): 8631–6. doi:10.1073/pnas.0402056101. PMID 15173596. Bibcode: 2004PNAS..101.8631M.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Zhang, SD; Li, X; Bin, Z; Du, MF; Yin, XM; An, SH (2014). "Molecular identification of a pancreatic lipase-like gene involved in sex pheromone biosynthesis of Bombyx mori". Insect Science 21 (4): 459–68. doi:10.1111/1744-7917.12053. PMID 23955937.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ohnishi, A; Kaji, M; Hashimoto, K; Matsumoto, S (2011). "Screening for the Genes Involved in Bombykol Biosynthesis: Identification and Functional Characterization of Bombyx mori Acyl Carrier Protein". Frontiers in Endocrinology 2: 92. doi:10.3389/fendo.2011.00092. PMID 22649392.
- ↑ Matsumoto, S; Ozawa, R; Uchiumi, K; Kurihara, M (1996). "Cell-free production of the silkworm sex pheromone bombykol". Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry 60 (2): 369–73. doi:10.1271/bbb.60.369. PMID 9063992.
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