The Occurrence, Metabolism and Functions of Amines in Plants

Smith, Terence A.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-185x.1971.tb01182.x

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“…foliage) or (b) with blossoms during flowering (Smith, 1971(Smith, , 1975. These species are MA reservoirs representing strong potential MA emitters.…”

Section: Amines From Living Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further on, Stein von Kamienski (1957aKamienski ( , b, 1958 and Steiner (1966) provided measurements comprising the identification of MAs in foliage and especially blossoms of various plants (trees, bushes, herbs), a larger number of fungi, and even some lichen and moss, demonstrating that enrichment of volatile amines is widespread among some families (like Araceae, Caprifoliaceae, Cornaceae, Rosaceae, Umbelliferae) and almost not found in other families (Labiatae, Papilionaceae) (Smith, 1971). Volatile amine abundance is highly species-specific and may depend on phenology and site (Stein von Kamienski, 1957a;Steiner, 1966;Smith, 1971). Smith (1971) (Steiner, 1966;Smith, 1971).…”

Section: Amines From Living Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The importance of amines for NPF has recently been established by field (Angelino et al, 2001;Makela et al, 2001;Smith et al, 2010;Zhao et al, 2011) and laboratory experiments (Murphy et al, 2007;Berndt et al, 2010;Erupe et al, 2011;Bzdek et al, 2010;Zhao et al, 2011;Yu et al, 2012;Zollner et al, 2012;Almeida et al, 2013;Jen et al, 2014;Kurten et al, 2014), as well as from modelling studies (Kurten et al, 2008;Barsanti et al, 2009;Bzdek et al, 2010;Ortega et al, 2012;Loukonen et al, 2010;Nadykto et al, 2011;Paasonen et al, 2012;Almeida et al, 2013;DePalma et al, 2014). On a molecular level, Kurten et al (2014) observed how DMA stabilises SA, increasing the stable cluster concentration by up to 6 orders of magnitude.…”

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“…The most important identified MA sources (Ge et al, 2011a) are agriculture (Schade and Crutzen, 1995;Kuhn et al, 2011;Sintermann et al, 2014), biomass burning (Lobert et al, 1990;Andreae and Merlet, 2001), and the ocean (van Neste et al, 1987;Gorzelska and Galloway, 1990;Wang and Lee, 1994;Gibb et al, 1999b;Facchini et al, 2008). Many marine algae produce MAs (Steiner and Hartmann, 1968;Smith, 1971Smith, , 1975, and even remote ocean water contains MA (and the TMA-precursor trimethylamine-N-oxide) (Gibb et al, 1999b, a;Gibb and Hatton, 2004). Such marine amines might represent an important contribution to oceanic secondary aerosol (Myriokefalitakis et al, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such marine amines might represent an important contribution to oceanic secondary aerosol (Myriokefalitakis et al, 2010). As amines are ubiquitous in plant and animal life (Smith, 1971;Dey et al, 1997), terrestrial vegetation is thought to provide another, albeit very weak, source of amines, including MAs (Schade and Crutzen, 1995;Ge et al, 2011a). Towards the end of the 19th century until the 1970s, some authors described high MA abundances associated with tissue and the flowering of certain plant species.…”

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Ideas and perspectives: on the emission of amines from terrestrial vegetation in the context of new atmospheric particle formation

Sintermann

Neftel

2015

Biogeosciences

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Abstract. In this article we summarise recent science which shows how airborne amines, specifically methylamines (MAs), play a key role in new atmospheric particle formation (NPF) by stabilising small molecule clusters. Agricultural emissions are assumed to constitute the most important MA source, but given the short atmospheric residence time of MAs, they can hardly have a direct impact on NPF events observed in remote regions. This leads us to the presentation of existing knowledge focussing on natural vegetationrelated MA sources. High MA contents as well as emissions by plants was already described in the 19th century. Strong MA emissions predominantly occur during flowering as part of a pollination strategy. The behaviour is species-specific, but examples of such species are common and widespread. In addition, vegetative plant tissue exhibiting high amounts of MAs might potentially lead to significant emissions. The decomposition of organic material constitutes another, potentially ubiquitous, source of airborne MAs. These mechanisms would provide sources, which could be crucial for the amine's role in NPF, especially in remote regions. Knowledge about vegetation-related amine emissions is, however, very limited, and thus it is also an open question how global change and the intensified cycling of reactive nitrogen over the last 200 years have altered amine emissions from vegetation with a corresponding effect on NPF.

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“…foliage) or (b) with blossoms during flowering (Smith, 1971(Smith, , 1975. These species are MA reservoirs representing strong potential MA emitters.…”

Section: Amines From Living Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Amines From Living Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ideas and perspectives: on the emission of amines from terrestrial vegetation in the context of new atmospheric particle formation

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Neftel

2015

Biogeosciences

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Biosynthesis and Metabolism of 1,4‐diaminobutane, Spermidine, Spermine, and Related Amines

Tabor¹,

Tabor²

1972

Advances in Enzymology - And Related Areas of Molecular Biology

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Metabolism of polyamines and basic amino acids inErwinia amylovora: Application of liquid chromatography/electrospray mass spectrometry to proferrioxamine precursor feeding and inhibition studies

Feistner

1994

Biol. Mass Spectrom.

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Erwinia amylovora, the etiological agent of fire blight, produces a family of proferrioxamine siderophores, which may be essential for the pathogen to establish itself in its hosts. If so, then control of fire blight may perhaps be possible via interference with proferrioxamine biosynthesis. Proof of this hypothesis requires prior knowledge of the corresponding biosynthetic pathways in E. amylovora. As a first step towards understanding proferrioxamine biosynthesis, it was of interest to investigate the ability of the fire blight bacterium to utilize various potential biosynthetic pathways for diamines. Feeding of lysine, ornithine and diaminobutyric acid gave rise to highly elevated levels of cadaverine, putrescine and diaminopropane, respectively, indicating that the corresponding decarboxylase activities are all present in E. amylovora. The conclusion for lysine decarboxylase was confirmed with (15N2)lysine, which was converted to (15N2)cadaverine. Arginine did not increase putrescine levels substantially, but (13C6)arginine nevertheless gave rise to (13C4)putrescine while suppressing excretion of non-labeled putrescine. A serendipitous result of this study was the finding that the growth of E. amylovora can be inhibited with 5-hydroxylysine and 1,4-diamino-2-butanone. The mechanism of inhibition appears complex and is not yet understood. For 5-hydroxylysine, preliminary investigations point to a competitive inhibition of lysine decarboxylase. However, the growth inhibition cannot be reversed by providing cadaverine, the decarboxylation product of lysine.

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The Occurrence, Metabolism and Functions of Amines in Plants

Cited by 140 publications

References 123 publications

Ideas and perspectives: on the emission of amines from terrestrial vegetation in the context of new atmospheric particle formation

Ideas and perspectives: on the emission of amines from terrestrial vegetation in the context of new atmospheric particle formation

Biosynthesis and Metabolism of 1,4‐diaminobutane, Spermidine, Spermine, and Related Amines

Metabolism of polyamines and basic amino acids inErwinia amylovora: Application of liquid chromatography/electrospray mass spectrometry to proferrioxamine precursor feeding and inhibition studies

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