Abstract
Maturing eggs of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, contain a variety of ecdysteroid (insect moulting hormone) conjugates and metabolites, four of which have been previously isolated from polar extracts and identified as ecdysonoic acid, 20-hydroxyecdysonoic acid, 3-acetylecdysone 2-phosphate and ecdysone 2-phosphate. In the present study we have isolated eight additional ecdysteroids from similar late-stage eggs by high-performance liquid chromatography. The 22-phosphate esters of ecdysone, 2-deoxyecdysone, 20-hydroxyecdysone and 2-deoxy-20-hydroxyecdysone, all of which were first identified as ecdysteroid components of newly-laid eggs of S. gregaria, were identified by co-chromatography with authentic compounds and by physicochemical techniques. The remaining compounds were identified as 3-acetyl-20-hydroxyecdysone 2-phosphate, 3-epi-2-deoxyecdysone 3-phosphate, 3-acetylecdysone 22-phosphate and 2-acetylecdysone 22-phosphate by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry, p.m.r. spectroscopy and analysis of the steroid moieties after enzymic hydrolysis. The latter two compounds, after isolation, are susceptible to nonenzymic acetyl migration and deacetylation to give mixtures of ecdysone 22-phosphate and its 2- and 3-acetate derivatives. The possible role and significance of these ecdysteroid conjugates with respect to the control of hormone titres in insect eggs is discussed.
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