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. 2012 Jul 16;18(35):10873–10885. doi: 10.1002/chem.201201023

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Structural outline of the "common" main path of chlorophyll breakdown in senescent leaves and ripening fruit.[13] Chlorophylls are degraded in the chloroplast by enzyme catalyzed processes via pheophorbide a (Pheo a) and the red chlorophyll catabolite (RCC) to "primary" fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites (pFCC, or its C1 epimer, epi-pFCC). FCCs with a free propionic acid group isomerize in the vacuole by an acid-catalyzed reaction to the corresponding nonfluorescent chlorophyll catabolites (NCCs). Hv-NCC-1 is the main NCC in senescent leaves of barley (Hordeum vulgare) and derived from pFCC.[8]