I do not understand if pyocyanin is a betaine compound (alkaloid group family being zwitterionic at neutral state) then how is it also a phenazine compound?. Is pyocyanin secreted by plants that it is also an alkaloid?. Betaine composes glycine amino acid and some amino acids are zwitterionic. Pyocyanin has a metabolic precursor that is a betaine molecule beforehand in its biosynthetic pathway of chorismic acid to PCA to enzyme conversion to pyocyanin.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretes pyocyanin mainly as its unique compound.
The structure is chemically identificabile as phenazinone. It seems to be not known as a plant metabolite.
Pyocyanin is considered one of Psudomonas virulence factors. It is a microbial alkaloid of phenazine class.....The are may other phenazines obtained from other microbes.
I do not think that phenazine alkaloids could obtained from a plant source.
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