The Metabolism of (4-$^{14}C$) Cholesterol on Photoperiodism in Solanum andigena

Solanum andigena의 광주성 주기중의 방사성 콜레스테롤의 대사를 연구하였다. 대사산물로서 방사성 솔라닌과 그 가수분해물 솔라니딘을 분리 결정화하였으며, 콜레스테롤은 이 식물체 내에서 형성되는 에스테르화된 형태로 분리하였다. 단일 및 장일식물간의 콜레스테롤을 대사에는 뚜렷한 차이는 찾아 볼 수 없으나. 괴경중의 스테로이드 알카로이드에 콜레스테롤이 관여하고 있는 것으로 논의되었다.

(4-$^{14}$ C) Cholesterol was administered to the leaves of Solanum andigena during photoperiodic induction. Radioactive products converted from cholesterol were studied by thin-layer chromatography and gas-chromatography. The major products from cholesterol were shown to be esterified cholesterol in lipid and solanine in the aqueous ethanolic phase in SD-and LD-leaves. The radioactive solanidine was isolated by chromatography and crystallized to constant specific activity. Short-day condition did not stimulate the conversion of cholesterol into solanine in the leaves, but both groups of leaves converted cholesterol into solanine at the about same rate. Incorporation of radioactivity into aqueous ethanolic phase of tubers and stolons, containing storied glycoalkaloid, was very much higher than that into lipid phase, contrary to those in the leaves and the stems.