Characterization of Microbial Degradation Products of Steviol Glycosides.

ABSTRACT: Steviol glycosides were subjected to bacteria present in a soil sample collected from a Stevia plantation in Paraguay. During the incubation experiments, next to the aglycon steviol, steviol degradation products were also formed. X-ray analysis and NMR methods in combination with chemical synthesis and GIAO NMR calculations were used to fully characterize the structure of these compounds as a tricyclic ketone and the corresponding reduced form. They were nicknamed monicanone and monicanol. The latter has the (S)-configuration at the alcohol site.

SUBMITTER: Steurs G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8625998 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature