The Aromatization of Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acid to Hippuric Acid: Substrate Specificity and Species Differences

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Journal Mol Cell Biochem

Publisher Springer

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1985 Jul 1

PMID 4047028

Authors

A M Svardal

R R SCHELINE

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Abstract

The ability to convert cyclohexanecarboxylic acid to hippuric acid has been studied in liver from guinea pigs, rabbits, rats and mice using a gas chromatographic - mass spectrometric method employing selected ion monitoring. Guinea pig liver showed the highest activity, giving values double of those found in rabbit liver and five times those in rat liver. Only very weak activity was found in mouse liver. (Hydroxymethyl)cyclohexane, cyclohexanealdehyde and alpha-hydroxyethylcyclohexane, which are structurally related to cyclohexanecarboxylic acid but lack the carboxyl group, were not aromatized by guinea pig liver mitochondria. This finding indicates that the carboxyl group is essential for aromatization. Absence of aromatization was also found with the homologs cyclohexaneacetic acid and cyclohexanepropionic acid and with the di-acids trans-1,2- and trans-1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid. The effect of a methyl group in cyclohexanecarboxylic acid depended on its position. 2-Methyl-1-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid was not aromatized, however the 3- and 4-methyl derivatives underwent aromatization and subsequent conjugation with glycine. The rates of formation of m-methyl- and p-methylhippuric acid were 16% and 9%, respectively, of that found for hippuric acid from cyclohexanecarboxylic acid (8.0 nmol/min/mg protein).

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