Metabolomics Enables the Structure Elucidation of a Diatom Sex Pheromone | Zendy

Gillard Jeroen | Zendy; Frenkel Johannes | Zendy; Devos Valerie | Zendy; Sabbe Koen | Zendy; Paul Carsten | Zendy; Rempt Martin | Zendy; Inzé Dirk | Zendy; Pohnert Georg | Zendy; Vuylsteke Marnik | Zendy; Vyverman Wim | Zendy

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Metabolomics Enables the Structure Elucidation of a Diatom Sex Pheromone

Author(s) -

Gillard Jeroen,

Frenkel Johannes,

Devos Valerie,

Sabbe Koen,

Paul Carsten,

Rempt Martin,

Inzé Dirk,

Pohnert Georg,

Vuylsteke Marnik,

Vyverman Wim

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

angewandte chemie international edition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831

H-Index - 550

eISSN - 1521-3773

pISSN - 1433-7851

DOI - 10.1002/anie.201208175

Subject(s) - diatom , pheromone , metabolite , metabolomics , sex pheromone , mating , biology , computational biology , zoology , biochemistry , ecology , bioinformatics

Finding a mate : Diatoms use chemical signals to sense the presence of and find their mating partners. When the metabolic profiles of sexually active and inactive cells were compared, a highly up‐regulated metabolite generated in the attracting mating type was identified as di‐ L ‐prolyl diketopiperazine, the first diatom pheromone.

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