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Organism name
Pouteria sapota                                Find images with Google
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Description 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.  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese
Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Pouteria sapota carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]

 CA00414  Neoxanthin  (Ref.773)
 

 CA00422  (9'Z)-Neoxanthin  (Ref.773)
 

 CA00760  Sapotexanthin  (Ref.170)
 

 CA01228  (5R,6S,5'R)-Sapotexanthin 5,6-epoxide  (Ref.759)
 

 CA00737  Cryptocapsin  (Ref.765)
 

 CA00761  Cryptocapsin-5,6-epoxide 
 

 CA00762  Cryptocapsin-5,8-epoxide  (Ref.171)
 

 CA00744  Capsoneoxanthin  (Ref.773)
 

References
  • 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.170 : Murillo E, McLean R, Britton G, Agócs A, Nagy V, Deli J., J Nat Prod. 2011 Feb 25;74(2):283-5. doi: 10.1021/np1006982. Epub 2011 Jan 7., "Sapotexanthin, an A-provitamin carotenoid from red mamey (Pouteria sapota)."
  • Ref.759 : Enrique Murillo, Attila Agócs, Veronika Nagy, Sándor Balázs Király, Tibor Kurtán, Eunice Molinar Toribio, Johant Lakey-Beitia, József Deli, Chirality. 2020;32:579–587., DOI: 10.1002/chir.23206, "Isolation and identification of sapotexanthin 5,6-epoxide and 5,8-epoxide from red mamey (Pouteria sapota)"
  • Ref.765 : Johant Lakey-Beitia, Deborah Doens, D Jagadeesh Kumar, Enrique Murillo, Patricia L Fernandez, KS Rao, Armando A Durant-Archibold1,  Clinical Interventions in Aging · May 2017, DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S134605,“Anti-amyloid aggregation activity of novel carotenoids: implications for Alzheimer’s drug discovery”
  • Ref.171 : Gulyas-Fekete, Gergely; Murillo, Enrique; Kurtan, Tibor; Papp, Tamas; Illyes, Tunde-Zita; Drahos, Laszlo; Visy, Julia; Agocs, Attila; Turcsi, Erika; Deli, Jozsef, Journal of Natural Products (2013), 76(4), 607-614., "Cryptocapsinepoxide-​Type Carotenoids from Red Mamey, Pouteria sapota"

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