Abstract
The formation mechanisms of melanoidins as advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have not been resolved. Blue and red pigments generated in the D-xylose-glycine reaction system are postulated to be intermediate oligomers in the generation of melanoidins. A novel blue pigment, designated blue-M5, was identified as a similar structure to blue-M1 except for the side chain of two dihydroxypropyl groups. Blue pigments were also generated in the D-glucose-glycine and D-xylose-beta-alanine reaction systems as well as in the D-xylose-glycine reaction system. Blue pigments by the Maillard reaction might be formed by the decarboxylation of two molecules of pyrrolopyrrole-2-carbaldehydes (PPA). PPA, composed of a side chain of a dihydroxypropyl group, was identified as a precursor of blue pigments. In fact, blue-M5 was generated by the incubation of PPA alone. Blue pigments, which involved pyrrolopyrrole structures, were readily changed to brown polymers. Glyceraldehyde-derived pyridinium (GLAP) compound, a glyceraldehyde-derived fluorescent AGE, and lysyl-pyrropyridine, a 3-deoxyglucosone-derived fluorescent AGE, were detected at higher levels in the plasma proteins and the tail tendon collagen of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats compared to normal rats. GLAP and lysyl-pyrropyridine, therefore, might be related to the progression of diabetic complications.
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