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Cohen SA. Analytical techniques for the detection of α-amino-β-methylaminopropionic acid. Analyst 2012; 137:1991-2005. [DOI: 10.1039/c2an16250d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Sakagami Y, Yoshida M, Isogai A, Suzuki A. Peptidal Sex Hormones Inducing Conjugation Tube Formation in Compatible Mating-Type Cells of Tremella mesenterica. Science 2010; 212:1525-7. [PMID: 17790543 DOI: 10.1126/science.212.4502.1525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The pair of peptidal sex hormones (tremerogen A-10 and tremerogen a-13) that induce conjugation tube formation in compatible type cells (A and a types) of Tremella mesenterica were isolated. Tremerogen A-10 is a dodecapeptide and tremerogen a-13, a tridecapeptide. In both peptides, the sulfiydryl group of the cysteines at the carboxyl terminus was blocked by farnesyl moieties.
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Alborn HT, Hansen TV, Jones TH, Bennett DC, Tumlinson JH, Schmelz EA, Teal PEA. Disulfooxy fatty acids from the American bird grasshopper Schistocerca americana, elicitors of plant volatiles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:12976-81. [PMID: 17664416 PMCID: PMC1941812 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705947104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A previously unidentified class of compounds has been isolated from the regurgitant of the grasshopper species Schistocerca americana. These compounds (named here "caeliferins") are composed of saturated and monounsaturated sulfated alpha-hydroxy fatty acids in which the omega-carbon is functionalized with either a sulfated hydroxyl or a carboxyl conjugated to glycine via an amide bond. The regurgitant contains a series of these compounds with fatty acid chains of 15-20 carbons and in varying proportions. Of these, the 16-carbon analogs are predominant and are also most active in inducing release of volatile organic compounds when applied to damaged leaves of corn seedlings. Caeliferins are nonlepidopteran elicitors identified in insect herbivores. This adds a category of insect herbivore-produced elicitors of plant responses, providing further evidence of the ability of plants to detect and respond to a broad range of insect herbivore-produced compounds.
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- Hans T. Alborn
- *Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, 1600/1700 Southwest 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: or
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- *Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, 1600/1700 Southwest 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA 24450; and
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- *Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, 1600/1700 Southwest 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608
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- Department of Entomology, Center for Chemical Ecology, 111 Chemical Ecology Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: or
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- *Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, 1600/1700 Southwest 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608
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- *Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, 1600/1700 Southwest 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608
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Sawada Y, Yoshinaga N, Fujisaki K, Nishida R, Kuwahara Y, Mori N. Absolute configuration of volicitin from the regurgitant of lepidopteran caterpillars and biological activity of volicitin-related compounds. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2006; 70:2185-90. [PMID: 16960380 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.60133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Volicitin [N-(17-hydroxylinolenoyl)-L-glutamine] and N-linolenoyl-L-glutamine are known as insect-produced plant volatile elicitors. The absolute configuration of the hydroxylinolenoyl moiety of volicitin from three noctuid species, Helicoverpa armigera, Mythimna separata and Spodoptera litura, was determined to be all 17S in high enantiomeric excess. When treated with 30 pmol of (17S)- and (17R)-volicitin, corn seedlings were induced to release volatiles, there being no significant difference in the amount released between the two isomers. On the other hand, N-linolenoyl-L-glutamine was only about 30% as active as volicitin. Among several synthesized N-linolenoylamino acid conjugates, only the L-glutamine conjugate induced the emission of volatile organic compounds. These results show that the L-glutamine moiety of volicitin played a more critical role than the hydroxyl moiety, although both moieties affected the elicitor activity inducing the release of volatiles.
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- Yoshitsugu Sawada
- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan
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Alborn HT, Brennan MM, Tumlinson JH. Differential activity and degradation of plant volatile elicitors in regurgitant of tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) larvae. J Chem Ecol 2003; 29:1357-72. [PMID: 12918921 DOI: 10.1023/a:1024209302628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Plants respond to insect herbivory by emitting volatile compounds that attract natural enemies of the herbivores. Biosynthesis of many of these volatiles in plants is induced by herbivore-produced compounds. Components of tobacco hornworm (THW) regurgitant were investigated for their efficacy as elicitors of corn seedling volatiles. Two components that elicited the strongest release of volatiles were isolated and identified as N-linolenoyl-L-glutamine (18:3-GLN) and N-linolenoyl-L-glutamic acid (18:3-GLU). The approximately 10 times more active 18:3-GLN, which also is found in the regurgitant of several other Lepidopteran larvae, was rapidly degraded when THW regurgitant was left at room temperature, while 18:3-GLU degraded at a much slower rate. Different dietary sources of THW and tobacco bud worm larvae, including both host and nonhost plants, did not affect the amino acid composition of the fatty acid-amino acid conjugates in the regurgitant.
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- H T Alborn
- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-0620, USA
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Derivatization Reactions for Analytes with Various Functional Groups. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4770(02)80020-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Mori N, Alborn HT, Teal PE, Tumlinson JH. Enzymatic decomposition of elicitors of plant volatiles in Heliothis virescens and Helicoverpa zea. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 47:749-757. [PMID: 11356422 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1910(00)00171-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Feeding by larvae of Heliothis virescens induces cotton, corn and tobacco plants to release blends of volatile organic compounds that differ in constituent proportions from blends released when Helicoverpa zea larvae feed on the same plant species. The same elicitors (and analogs) of plant biosynthesis and release of volatiles, originally identified in oral secretions of Spodoptera exigua larvae, were also found in oral secretions of H. virescens and H. zea. However, relative amounts of these compounds, particularly N-(17-hydroxylinolenoyl)-L-glutamine (volicitin), 17-hydroxylinolenic acid, and N-linolenoyl-L-glutamine, varied among batches of oral secretions, more so in H. virescens than in H. zea. This variation was due to cleavage of the amide bond of the fatty acid-amino acid conjugates by an enzyme, or enzymes, originating in the midgut. The enzymatic activity in guts of H. virescens was significantly greater than that found in guts of H. zea. Furthermore, H. zea frass contains N-linolenoyl-L-glutamine in more than 0.1% wet weight, while this conjugate comprises only 0.003% wet weight in H. virescens frass. These results indicated that physiological differences between these two species affect the proportions of volicitin and its analogs in the caterpillars. Whether this causes different proportions of volatiles to be released by plants damaged by each caterpillar species is yet to be determined.
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- N Mori
- Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1700 Southwest 23rd Drive, 32608, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Paré PW, Alborn HT, Tumlinson JH. Concerted biosynthesis of an insect elicitor of plant volatiles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:13971-5. [PMID: 9811910 PMCID: PMC24993 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.23.13971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A variety of agricultural plant species, including corn, respond to insect herbivore damage by releasing large quantities of volatile compounds and, as a result, become highly attractive to parasitic wasps that attack the herbivores. An elicitor of plant volatiles, N-(17-hydroxylinolenoyl)-L-glutamine, named volicitin and isolated from beet armyworm caterpillars, is a key component in plant recognition of damage from insect herbivory. Chemical analysis of the oral secretion from beet armyworms that have fed on 13C-labeled corn seedlings established that the fatty acid portion of volicitin is plant derived whereas the 17-hydroxylation reaction and the conjugation with glutamine are carried out by the caterpillar by using glutamine of insect origin. Ironically, these insect-catalyzed chemical modifications to linolenic acid are critical for the biological activity that triggers the release of plant volatiles, which in turn attract natural enemies of the caterpillar.
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- P W Paré
- U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Services, Center for Medical Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, 1700 Southwest 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
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Rapid determination of free tryptophan in plant samples by gas chromatography-selected ion monitoring mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr A 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0021-9673(92)85021-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Neurotransmitters. Mass Spectrom (Tokyo) 1992. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1173-5_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Anderson LW, Zaharevitz DW, Strong JM. Glutamine and glutamate: automated quantification and isotopic enrichments by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Anal Biochem 1987; 163:358-68. [PMID: 2889398 DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(87)90236-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A method is described for simultaneous quantification of glutamine and glutamate plasma levels and isotopic enrichments in these compounds. Glutamine and glutamate are analyzed intact as their tertiary-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives. Deuterated glutamine and glutamate are used as internal standards for quantification by reverse isotope dilution. Preparation of plasma samples is accomplished by adding ammonium formate as an ion-pairing agent followed by extraction of the amino acids into 4.3:1 methanol:water. Negligible amounts of glutamine to glutamate conversion are observed during the sample preparation and GC/MS analysis. Since glutamine is analyzed intact, both single and double [15N]glutamine labels can be quantified. [15N]Glutamine at 0.2 to 11 mol% excess was measured in plasma with an average relative standard error of 3.8%, and [15N]glutamate over a range of 0.4 to 9 mol% excess was measured with a mean relative standard error of 12%. At glutamate levels above 1 mol% excess 15N, the mean relative standard error was 6%. Finally, automated sample injection into the GC/MS and automated data reduction are used for the analysis of samples by GC/MS.
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- L W Anderson
- Division of Cancer Treatment, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Chapter 10 Amino acids and oligopeptides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4770(08)61341-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Di Paolantonio C, Rechnitz G. Induced bacterial electrode for the potentiometric measurement of tyrosine. Anal Chim Acta 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2670(01)95305-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Spencer HJ, Tominez G, Halpern B. Mass spectographic analysis of stimulated release of endogenous amino acids from rat hippocampal slices. Brain Res 1981; 212:194-7. [PMID: 6261886 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(81)90050-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Amino acids released from in vitro rat hippocampal slices following stimulation of the Schaffer's collateral pathway, were collected by micro-perfusion and analysed by chemical ionization mass spectrometry, with isotope ratiodetermination as the quantitative technique, through the use of stable, isotopically labeled internal standards. Stimulation at 10 pulses/sec resulted in a doubling of the release of aspartic acid over the resting level and about a 60% increase in glutamate release, which is in essential agreement with studies utilizing K+ depolarization-evoked release from slices.
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Kreek MJ, Bencsath FA, Field FH. Effects of liver disease on urinary excretion of methadone and metabolites in maintenance patients: quantitation by direct probe chemical ionization mass spectrometry. BIOMEDICAL MASS SPECTROMETRY 1980; 7:385-95. [PMID: 7470591 DOI: 10.1002/bms.1200070906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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This study was performed to define the amounts of methadone and metabolites excreted in urine in otherwise healthy maintenance patients, and to determine whether the metabolism and elimination of methadone, as assessed by analyses of urines, is altered in patients with liver disease. A method was developed for the simultaneous quantitation of methadone and six of its major and minor metabolites using chemical ionization mass spectrometry with direct probe introduction to increase sensitivity for analyses of the minor metabolites. Analyses of urine from unmedicated volunteers showed that the interferences at the mass range of interest (264-326) were usually small and therefore would not introduce significant error into analysis. Nineteen patients well-stabilized in chronic long-term methadone treatment were studied, five otherwise healthy males and fourteen patients with chronic liver disease (nine males and four females). Twenty-four hour urine collections were made and analyzed following extraction procedures. The concentrations of methadone and the major pyrrolidine metabolite exceeded 1 microgram ml-1 in all cases; the concentration (listed in descending order) of pyrrolidone, pyrroline, hydroxymethadone, hydroxypyrroline, methadol and hydroxypyrrolidine were all less than 1 microgram ml-1. The total 24 hour urinary excretion of methadone and its metabolites was 48.3% (+/- 1.71 SEM) in otherwise healthy patients but was significantly lower, 32.6% (+/- 3.19 SEM) in patients with liver disease (p less than 0.05). The total 24 hour excretion of the pyrrolidone metabolite, the end product of two pathways of methadone metabolism, was also significantly reduced in patients with liver disease (p less than 0.05). Females with liver disease had significantly higher ratios of pyrrolidine to methadone than did males with liver disease (p less than 0.05).
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Rafter JJ, Ingelman-Sundberg M, Gustafsson JA. Protein amino acid analysis by an isotope ratio gas chromatography mass spectrometry computer technique. BIOMEDICAL MASS SPECTROMETRY 1979; 6:317-24. [PMID: 497356 DOI: 10.1002/bms.1200060802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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A method for quantitative analysis of protein amino acids by a gas chromatography mass spectrometry computer system is described. Amino acids were analysed as their N-trifluoroacetyl n-butyl ester derivatives. Isotope ratio determination was used as the quantitating technique via multiple internal standards. The exact composition of a deuterated amino acid mixture was determined against a standard amino acid calibration mixture and in turn the protein amino acid composition was determined against the deuterated amino acid mixture. The amount of protein taken for analysis was 100 micrograms and the procedure, excluding hydrolysis, could be performed with 2 1/2 hours. The introduction of the internal standards prior to protein hydrolysis provides a method with good precision (mean coefficient of variation less than 5%). The method, tested on insulin, gave results which agreed well with the known composition of the protein and with simultaneous analysis on ion exchangers.
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Robinson JR, Starratt AN, Schlahetka EE. Estimation of nitrogen-15 levels in derivatized amino acids using gas chromatography quadrupole mass spectrometry with chemical ionization and selected ion monitoring. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1978. [DOI: 10.1002/bms.1200051203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Kingston EE, Duffield AM. Plasma amino acid quantitation using gas chromatography chemical ionization mass spectrometry and 13C amino acids as internal standards. BIOMEDICAL MASS SPECTROMETRY 1978; 5:621-6. [PMID: 749957 DOI: 10.1002/bms.1200051106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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A specific and sensitive method for the quantitation of 16 alpha amino acids has been developed. The technique employed uses methane chemical ionization gas chromatography mass spectrometry of the carboxy-n-butyl, N-trifluoroacetyl amino acid derivatives. A commercial 13C amino acid mixture provided individual internal standards for 14 alpha amino acids. A computer controlled quadrupole mass spectrometer was used for selected ion monitoring of those ions characteristic of each N-trifluoroacetyl amino acid/13C amino acid pair. A BASIC computer program located peak maxima and background intensities in each selected ion recording. Standard curves for each amino acid/13C amino acid pair were utilized by the program to calculate the plasma concentration of each detected amino acid. The total instrumental analysis occupied 30 min with sample preparation and derivatization accounting for an additional 2 h. Based on the detection of known amounts of standard amino acids the method will quantitate at the 1-5 nanogram level of detection.
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