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  • Title: Mechanism of photooxidation of bacteriochlorophyll c derivatives. A possible model for natural chlorophyll breakdown.
    Author: Brown SB, Smith KM, Bisset GM, Troxler RF.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1980 Sep 10; 255(17):8063-8. PubMed ID: 7410349.
    Abstract:
    The photooxidation of methyl pheophorbides, derived from bacteriochlorophyll c, yields ring-opened acetylbilitrienes which are structurally related to mammalian bile pigments. The mechanism of this photooxidation, and that of certain mesomethyl-substituted model compounds, has been studied using 18O labeling with molecular oxygen. In all cases, the methine bridge carbon atoms were retained in the ring-opened photoproducts and both oxygen atoms incorporated into the acetylbilitriene photoproducts were derived from a single oxygen molecule. In this respect, ring opening of bacteriochlorophyll c derivatives and mesomethyl-substituted model compounds differs from the nonphotochemical (enzymatic) ring opening of heme which involves elimination of the methine bridge carbon atom as carbon monoxide and insertion of two oxygen atoms, each from a different molecule of molecular oxygen. The process of photooxidation of bacteriochlorophyll c and mesomethyl-substituted model compounds studied may have implications for the mechanism of natural degradation of chlorophyll a and b during leaf senescence and grain ripening.
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