Carotenoids capsorubin

Fruits are yet more prodigious than flowers in their synthetic abilities. More than 70 characteristic carotenoids have been described and classified as those with minimal quantities, higher quantities, and specific carotenoids, for example, capsan-thin and capsorubin in pepper fruits. 

Traditionally, carotenoid standards are prepared in each laboratory using the best sources of each individual carotenoid, for example, violaxanthin from spinach, antheraxanthin from potatoes, capsanthin and capsorubin from paprika, a- and P-carotene from carrots, and lycopene from tomatoes. 

Devasagayam, T.P.A., Werner, T., Ippendorf, H., Martin H.-D., and Sies, H. 1992. Synthetic carotenoids, novel polyene polyketones and new capsorubin isomers as efficient quenchers of singlet molecular oxygen. 

Figure 73. The carotenoid biosynthetic pathway. Enzymes are named according to the designation of their genes Ccs, capsanthin-capsorubin synthase CrtL-b, lycopene-b-cyclase CrtL-e, lycopene-e-cyclase CrtR-b, b-ring hydroxylase, CrtR-e, e-ring hydroxylase DMADP, dimethylallyl diphosphate GGDP, geranylgeranyl diphosphate Ggps, geranylgeranyl-diphosphate synthase IDP, isopentenyl diphosphate Ipi, IDP isomerase Pds, phytoene desaturase Psy, phytoene synthase Vde, violaxanthin de-epoxidase Zds, z-carotene desaturase Zep, zeaxanthin epoxidase. (From van den Berg and others 2000.)...

Fig. 2.9. Separation of carotenoid pigments by reversed-phase (I) and normal-phase (II) HPLC. The relative areas of carotenoids (retention time) are shown for latoxanthin (9.7), capsorubin (11.4), neoxanthin...

Fig. 8.3 UPLC analysis of Cupi/cMm-lyoplrilizEd pericarp carotenoids. Carotenoids detected by absorption at 454 nm, following separation on a waters acquity C18 1.8 xm HSS particle, 2.1 x 100 mm column resolved with 10% isopropanol (v/v) (a) and 100% acetonitrile (b). The solvent profile included two linear phases (0-3 min at 75% (b) 3-11 min from 95 to 100%) flow rate of 0.75 mL/min. (a) Standards (each at 100 ppm) capsorubin (1.7 min), capsanthin (2.08 min), antherxanthm (2.69 min), zeaxanthin (2.97 min), f -cryptoxanthin (4.86 min), and P-carotene (8.15 min), (b) Valencia pericarp extract, (c) NuMex Sunset pericarp extract...

Pathways for the biosynthesis of the cyclopentane carotenoids capsanthin [3,3 -dihydroxy- 8,K-caroten-6 -one (146)] and capsorubin [3,3 -dihydroxy-ir,K-caro-tene-6,6 -dione (147)] have been proposed from consideration of the carotenoids identified in extracts of lilies and red peppers. 

This unit focuses on procedures for obtaining the important carotenoids that are found naturally in foods and plant material and that are of nutritional and pharmacological interest. The pigments referred to include a- and (1-carotenes, (3-cryptoxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin, lycopene, capsanthin, and capsorubin, among others. 

The colour of chilli spice powder is due to the presence of red-pigmented carotenoids. The main pigments are capsanthin, capsorubin, zeaxanthin and cryptoxanthin. Carotenoids are very stable in intact plant tissue. However, when chillies are processed by drying and then grinding into spice... 

Red bell peppers contain 280ug/gm total carotenoids. Capsanthin accounts for 60% of the total carotenoids. They also contain 11% (3-carotene and 20% capsorubin. Capsanthin is acylated with C12 to C18 saturated fatty acids (Schweiggert et al., 2005). 

Eleven apo-carotenoids (1-11), including five new compounds, 4, 6, 9,10 and 11, were isolated from the fruits of the red paprika collected from Japan by Maoka et al. (2001b). The structures of new apocarotenoids were determined to be apo-14 -zeaxanthinal (4), apo-13-zeaxanthinone (6), apo-12 -capsorubinal (9), apo-8 -capsorubinal (10) and 9,9 -diapo-10,9 -retro-carotene-9,9 -dione (11) by spectroscopic analysis. The other six known apocarotenoids were identified to be apo-8 -zeaxanthinal (1), apo-lO -zeaxanthinal (2), apo-12 -zeaxan-thinal (3), apo-15-zeaxanthinal (5), apo-11-zeaxanthinal (7) and apo-9-zeaxanthinone (8), which had not been found previously in paprika. These apocarotenoids were assumed to be oxidative cleavage products of C40 carotenoid, such as capsanthin in paprika. 

Neoxanthin, a precursor of the plant hormone abscisic acid, is an allenic xantho-phyll recognized as the last product of carotenoid synthesis in green plants. A cDNA for neoxanthin synthase (NSY) was isolated from tomato cv. Philippino using a molecular approach based on the mechanistic and structural similarities of NSY to two other closely related carotenogenic enzymes, lycopene cyclase (LCY) and capsanthin-capsorubin synthase (CCS) (Bouvier et al., 2000). 

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