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Entry
CA00422                                                            

Classification
Carotenoid Name
(9'Z)-Neoxanthin;
9'-cis-Neoxanthin
IUPAC name (9'Z)-(3S,5R,6R,3'S,5'R,6'S)-5',6'-Epoxy-6,7-didehydro-5,6,5',6'-tetrahydro-beta,beta-carotene-3,5,3'-triol
Formula
C40H56O4
Molecular Weight 
600.848 g/mol
Structure      Search similar carotenoids

Mol file
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Biological functions/Properties 
  • Photosynthetic pigment of higher plants (Ref.503).
  • Antimicrobial activity - anti-H. pylori (Ref.492).
  • Number of
    conjugated double bonds 
    9
    Number of
    conjugated multiple bonds 
    9
    Isomers 
    InChI

    InChIKey

    Canonical SMILES

    XLogP
    10.319
    Hydrogen Bond donors
    (Lipinski's definition)
    3
    Hydrogen Bond Acceptors
    (Lipinski's definition)
    4
    LipinskiFailures
    1
    Complexity of molecule
    0.310
    Number of heavy atoms
    44
    TPSA
    (Topological Polar Surface Area) 
    73.220 Å2
    Reaction
  • Substrate: CR00044,  CR00046,  CR00048,  CR00091,  CR00418
  • Product: CR00359,  CR00383
  • Pathway
  • Pathway: CB000040,  CB000080,  CB000081
  • Major carotenoid information
    Dominant pigment in chlorophytes, prasinophytes and in dinoflagellates (Ref.707).
    Minor carotenoid information
    Minor in euglenophytes, chlorarachniophytes and trebouxiophytes (Ref.707).
    Source organisms
    Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Ref.12, Ref.13, Ref.14) - Green alga: Chlamydomonadales, unicellular green alga (Chlorophyta - Chlamydomonadaceae)
    Microdictyon boergesenii (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Anadyomenaceae)
    Basicladia sp. (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Chaetomorpha okamurae (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora horii (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora kosterae (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Aegagrophila linnaei (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Chaetomorpha crassa (Ref.24, Ref.14) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora conchopheria (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora albida (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora coelothrix (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora japonica (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora pellucida (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora sericea (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora vagabunda (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora ohkuboana (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Cladophora glomerata (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Rhizoclonium grande (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Cladophoraceae)
    Pithophora sp. (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Pithophoraceae)
    Wittrockiella lyallii (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Pithophoraceae)
    Wittrockiella paradoxa (Ref.24) - Green alga: Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta - Pithophoraceae)
    Cladophoropsis vaucheriaeformis (Ref.24) - Green alga: Siphonocladaceae (Chlorophyta - Siphonocladaceae)
    Cladophoropsis fasciculatus (Ref.24) - Green alga: Siphonocladaceae (Chlorophyta - Siphonocladaceae)
    Cladophoropsis membranacea (Ref.24) - Green alga: Siphonocladaceae (Chlorophyta - Siphonocladaceae)
    Siphonocladus tropicus (Ref.24) - Green alga: Siphonocladaceae (Chlorophyta - Siphonocladaceae)
    Tetraselmis chui (Ref.48, Ref.14) - Green alga: Chlorodendraceae (Chlorophyta - Chlorodendraceae)
    Mantoniella squamata (Ref.46, Ref.47) - Green alga: Prasinophyte (Chlorophyta - Mamiellaceae)
    Pseudoscourfieldia marina (Ref.14) - Green alga: Prasinophyte (Chlorophyta - Pycnococcaceae)
    Euglena gracilis (Ref.14) - Alga: Euglena (Euglenida - Euglenaceae)
    Eutreptiella gymnastica (Ref.14) - Alga: Euglena (Euglenida - Eutreptiales)
    Lepidodinium chlorophorum (Ref.673) - Alga: Green dinoflagellate, same as Gymnodinium chlorophorum ((Alveolata) - Gymnodiniaceae)
    Pouteria sapota (Ref.773) - Land plant: red mamey sapote, species of tree native to Cuba and Central America. Fruit is commonly eaten in many Latin American countries. It is is about 10 to 25 cm (4 to 10 in) long and 8 to 12 cm (3 to 4.5 in) wide and has flesh ranging in color from pink to orange to red. The fruit's texture is creamy and soft, the flavor is a mix of sweet potato, pumpkin, honey, prune, peach, apricot, cantaloupe, cherry, and almond. (Streptophyta - Chrysophylloideae)
    Malus domestica (Ref.492) - Land plant: Rosaceae: peel and flesh of apple fruits (Streptophyta - Rosaceae)
    References
  • Ref.12: N.I. Krinsky and R. P. Levine, Plant Physiol. Jul 1964; 39(4): 680–687. "Carotenoids of Wild Type and Mutant Strains of the Green Alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardi".
  • Ref.13: PMID: 1190948: Francis GW, Strand LP, Lien T, Knutsen G., Arch Microbiol. 1975 Aug 28;104(3):249-54. "Variations in the Carotenoid Content of Chlamydomonas reinhardii throughout the Cell cycle".
  • Ref.14: S. Tkaichi, and M. Mimuro, Plant Cell Physiol. 39(9): 968-977 (1998) "Distribution and Geometric Isomerism of Neoxanthin in Oxygenic Phototrophs: 9'-Cis, a Sole Molecular Form".
  • Ref.24: Y. Yoshii, I,. Wakana, K. Miriya, S. Arai, K. Ueda, and I. Inouye, J. Phycol. 40, 1170-1177 (2004) "Carotenoid comositions of Cladophora Balls (Aegagropila linnaei) and some members of the Cladophorales (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta): their taxonomic and evolutionary implication".
  • Ref.673: Antonio Gavalas-Olea, Susana Alvarez, Pilar Riobo, Francisco Rodriguez, Jose L. Garrido, and Belen Vaz, Org Lett. 2016 Sep 16;18(18):4642-5. Epub 2016 Sep 1., "19,19’-diacyloxy signature: an atypical level of structural evolution in carotenoid pigments", doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.6b02272.
  • Ref.46: E. S. Egeland, R. R. L. Guillard, and S. Liaaen-Jensen, Phytochemistry, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp.1087-1097, 1997, "Additional carotenoid prototype representatices and general chemosystematic evaluation of carotenoids in prasinophyceae (chlorophyta)".
  • Ref.47: E. S. Egeland, W. Eikrem, J. Throndsen, C. Wilhelm, M. Zapata, and S. Liaaen-Jensen, Biochemical systematics and Ecology, Vol. 23, NO. 7/8, pp. 747-755, 1995 "Carotenoids from Further Prasinophytes".
  • Ref.48: Jose L. Carrido, Francisco Rodriguez, and Mannuel Zapata J. Phycol. 15, 366-374 (2009) "Occurrence of Loroxanthin, Loroxanthin decenoate, and Loroxanthin dodecenoate in Tetraselmis species (Prasinophyceae, Chlorophyta)".
  • Ref.492: Péter Molnár, József Deli, Toru Tanaka,Yoshiyuki Kann, Satoru Tani, Nóra Gyémánt, Joseph Molnár ,and Masami Kawase, Phytotherapy Research, Volume 24, Issue 5, pages 644–648, May 2010, “Carotenoids with anti-Helicobacter pylori activity from Golden deliciousapple”.
  • Ref.773: Attila Agócs et al., Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 65 (2018) 1–5, “Isolation of allene carotenoids from mamey”, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2017.04.004.
  • Ref.503: Javier de las Rivas, Anunciacion Abadia, and Javier Abadia, Plant Physiol. (1989) 91, 190-192, “A New Reversed Phase-HPLC Method Resolving All Major Higher Plant Photosynthetic Pigments1”.
  • Ref.707: Suzanne Roy et al., Phytoplankton Pigments Characterization, Chemotaxonomy and Applications in Oceanography, October 2011, Cambridge University Press, pp 665-674, "Part VII - Data sheets aiding identification of phytoplankton carotenoids and chlorophylls", available at http://www.cambridge.org/gb/files/2013/6697/5826/Data_sheets_part_3_Xanthophylls.pdf, ISBN: 9781107000667.
  • CAS
    14660-91-4
    Links to other DB
    KEGG COMPOUND: C13431
    LipidBank: VCA0059

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