Biosynthesis of the tiglic acid moiety of meteloidine in Datura meteloides

✍ Scribed by Edward Leete; J.Brendan Murrill

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 171 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)90710-x

✦ Synopsis

Tlgllc acid Is esterlfied with the amino-alcohol teloldlne in the alkaloid meteloidlne, which occurs with hyoscyamlne and hyoscine in the plant Datura meteloides. Several other tiglic acid esters have been found In higher plants(l). Robinson s al. (2) discovered that tigllc acid was formed from ISOleUClne in animal tissues, and It was suggested that a-keto-B-methylvaleric acid and