Novel methylated triterpenoids of the gammacerane series from the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110

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Abstract

The nitrogen-fixing, symbiotic root-nodule forming bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110 contained gammacerane derivatives next to triterpenoids of the hopane series. Diploptene, diplopterol, 2β-methyldiplopterol, amino-bacteriohopanetriol and adenosylhopane were accompanied by tetrahymanol and the corresponding novel methylated homologues 2β-methyltetrahymanol, 20α,-methyltetrahymanol, and 2β,20α-dimethyltetrahymanol. Incorporation of [2H3]methyl-L-methionine indicated that the additional methyl groups originated from methionine, probably with S-adenosylmethionine acting as methyl donor, with retention of the three deuterium atoms. The simultaneous presence of hopane and gammacerane derivatives seems a characteristic feature of the genus Bradyrhizobium and the phylogenetically closely related Rhodopseudomonas palustris.

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Bravo, J. M., Perzl, M., Härtner, T., Kannenberg, E. L., & Rohmer, M. (2001). Novel methylated triterpenoids of the gammacerane series from the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110. European Journal of Biochemistry, 268(5), 1323–1331. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.01998.x

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