Journal of chemical ecology

Substrate specificity of acetyltransferase and reductase enzyme systems used in pheromone biosynthesis by Asian corn borer, Ostrinia furnacalis

CH Zhao, F Lu, M Bengtsson, C Löfstedt

Index: Zhao Cheng-Hua; Lu Fang; Bengtsson; Lofstedt Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1995 , vol. 21, # 10 p. 1495 - 1510

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Abstract

Abstract The substrate specificity of the acetyltransferase and the reductase enzyme systems used by Ostrinia furnacalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in pheromone biosynthesis was studied in vivo by topical application of precursors to pheromone glands. Each of the tetradecenols, varying in double bond position (from 7 to 13) and geometry of the double bond, was converted to the corresponding acetate by the acetyltransferase. The similarity in the ...