Summary
Diphenylamine (DPA) inhibition of carotenoid biosynthesis with concomitant appearance of detectable amounts of the colourless and fluorescent polyene, phytofluene, is reported inChlorella rubescens Chod.
Preliminary negative results with the hydrosoluble DPA-sulphonic acid suggest that anticarotenogenic activity of the hydro-and liposoluble DPA may well be related to the faculty of this molecule to accumulate at the aqueous-lipidic interphases in the cytoplasm where it would interfere with the enzymatic dehydrogenation of the carotenoid precursors through its noted antioxidant properties.
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Turian, G., Schopfer, J.F. Action anticaroténogène de la diphénylamine chez l'algueChlorella rubescens. Experientia 16, 138 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02157716
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