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Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2005) 67: 322–335 DOI 10.1007/s00253-004-1806-0

MINI-REVIEW

Sergi Maicas . José Juan Mateo

Hydrolysis of terpenyl glycosides in grape juice and other fruit juices: a review

Received: 28 July 2004 / Revised: 30 September 2004 / Accepted: 19 October 2004 / Published online: 6 January 2005 # Springer-Verlag 2005

Abstract The importance of monoterpenes on varietal flavour of must and other fruit juices has been reviewed. These compounds were mainly found linked to sugar moieties in grape juice and wines, showing no olfactory characteristics. In this way, analytical techniques developed to study these compounds, in both free or glycosidically forms, are discussed. Mechanisms to liberate terpenes were studied, making a comparative study between acidic and enzymic hydrolysis of terpene glycosides; as enzymic hydrolysis seems to be the most natural way to liberate terpenes, the ability to use glycosidases from grapes, yeasts, bacterial or exogenous, i.e. fungal commercial preparations, were reviewed. Re-arrangements of terpenes after acidic hydrolysis of glycoconjugated are discussed as well as potential adverse effects of enzyme preparations.

Introduction Research over the last decades has revealed that a great number of plant-tissue flavour compounds are glycosilated and accumulate as non-volatile and flavourless glycoconjugates (Stahl-Bishop et al. 1993; Winterhalter and Skouroumounis 1997; Mateo and Jimenez 2000). Although results in literature had long suggested the occurrence of glycosidically bound flavour compounds in plants, the first clear evidence was found in 1969 by Francis and Allock in

S. Maicas Department of Food Science and Technology, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, Seminari s/n, 46113 Montcada, Spain S. Maicas . J. Mateo J. Department of Microbiology and Ecology, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100, Burjassot, Spain Tel.: +34-96-3983145 Fax: +34-96-3983099 e-mail: Jose.J.Mateo@uv.es

rose (Francis and Allcock 1969). The work of Cordonnier and Bayonove (1974), suggesting the occurrence in grapes of monoterpenes (important flavour compounds) as glycoconjugates on the basis of enzymatic works, was later confirmed by identification of glycosides (Williams et al. 1982). These findings opened a new field of intensive research on the chemistry of glycoconjugated flavour compounds to exploit this important flavour source present in both plants and fruit tissues. Glycoconjugates of flavour compounds are present in several fruits such as grapes (Williams et al. 1982; Gunata et al. 1985), apricot (Krammer et al. 1991; Salles et al. 1991), peach (Krammer et al. 1991), yellow plum (Krammer et al. 1991), quince (Lutz and Winterhalter 1992), sour cherry (Schwab et al. 1990), passion fruit (Chassagne et al. 1996; Winterhalter 1990), kiwi (Young and Paterson 1995), papaya (Heidlas et al. 1984; Schwab et al. 1989), pineapple (Wu et al. 1991), mango (Sakho et al. 1997), lulo (Suarez et al. 1991), raspberry (Pabst et al. 1991) and strawberry (Roscher et al. 1997). The occurrence of glycosidically bound volatiles is typically two to eight times greater than that of their free counterparts (Gunata et al. 1985; Krammer et al. 1991). Moreover, most norisoprenoids in fruit, some of which are precursors of very potent flavour compounds, have been detected mainly in glycosidic forms. This, together with the low aroma threshold and sensory properties of aglycones, makes the glycosidic compounds an important potential source of flavour volatiles during fruit juice processing. Some aglycones are already odourous when released from glycosides. They can therefore contribute to the floral aroma of some wines (Mateo and Jimenez, 2000), grapes (Gunata et al. 1993), apricots (Chairote et al. 1981), peaches (Engel et al. 1988) and tea (Ogawa et al. 1997). This is the case of monoterpenes such as geraniol, nerol and linalool, which possess mainly floral attributes and low odour thresholds (100–400 ppb, Rapp and Mandery 1986). Terpene compounds belong to the secondary plant constituents, the biosynthesis of which begins with acetylCoA (Manitto 1980; Fig. 1). Microorganisms are also able to synthesize terpene compounds (Hock et al. 1984), but the


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