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Bitte beziehen Sie sich beim Zitieren dieses Dokumentes immer auf folgende URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-16759 URL: http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1675/ Peter, Martin G.
Products of in vitro oxidation of N-acetyldopamine as possible components in the sclerotization of insect cuticle
Kurzfassung auf Englisch[1-14C]-N-Acetyldopamine (NADA) was oxidized in the presence of methyl [3-3H]-β-alanate with mushroom tyrosinase. The complex mixture of reaction products was partly resolved by chromatographic procedures and analyzed by spectroscopic methods. Methyl-β-alanate is incorporated to only a small extent into oxidation products of NADA which inter alia are presumed to be oligomeric hydroxyquinones. After oxidation of [1-14C, 2-3H]-NADA with preparations from tanning Manduca sexta pupal cuticle, N-acetylnoradrenalin was identified as one of the products. Binding of radioactivity to melanin-like material was also observed. These results suggest that oxidation products different from those formulated usually for the crosslinkages between protein amino groups and N-acetyldopaquinone are deposited in darkly brown coloured insect cuticles during sclerotization.
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