NZ785123B2 - Novel steviol glycoside, method for producing same, and sweetener composition containing same - Google Patents

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NZ785123B2
NZ785123B2 NZ785123A NZ78512320A NZ785123B2 NZ 785123 B2 NZ785123 B2 NZ 785123B2 NZ 785123 A NZ785123 A NZ 785123A NZ 78512320 A NZ78512320 A NZ 78512320A NZ 785123 B2 NZ785123 B2 NZ 785123B2
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Kohki Fujikawa
Tadayoshi HIRAI
Kazunari Iwaki
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Abstract

The present invention provides a novel steviol glycoside containing xylose. According to the present invention, there is provided a compound represented by formula (1), or a salt or hydrate thereof. (In formula, (i) R1 represents Xyl(1-2)Glc1- and R2 represents Glc(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-; or (ii) R1 represents Glc(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1- and R2 represents Xyl(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-, where Glc represents glucose and Xyl represents xylose.)

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Description NOVEL STEVIOL GLYCOSIDE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND SWEETENER COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME cal Field The present invention relates to a novel steviol glycoside, a method for producing the same, and a sweetener composition comprising the same. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to a food or beverage, a plant, an extract thereof and a flavor controlling agent comprising the novel steviol glycoside.
Background Art A leaf of Stevia rebaudiana contains a secondary metabolite called steviol which is one kind of diterpenoids, where the steviol glycosides provide sweetness that is nearly 300 times the sweetness of sugar and is therefore utilized as a calorieless sweetener in the food industry. The demand for calorieless sweeteners is growing day by day as obesity has become a serious social problem worldwide and also for the sake of health ion and ion in the l expenditure. Currently, aspartame and acesulfame potassium, i.e., artificially synthesized amino acid derivatives, are utilized as artificial sweeteners, but natural eless sweeteners like the l glycosides are expected to be safer and more likely to gain public acceptance.
The major steviol glycosides from stevia are ultimately glycosylated to a ide called rebaudioside A (Reb.A) that has four sugar moieties (Figure 1).
Stevioside, namely, a tri-glycosylated steviol glycoside which is a sor of Reb.A, is the most abundant glycoside. These two glycosides are the main substances responsible for the sweetness of stevia. Stevioside accounts for the largest content in a stevia leaf and is known to provide sweetness that is about 250-300 times the sweetness of sugar. Reb.A is a tetra-glycosylated steviol glycoside that has strong sweetness (350-450 times sugar) with good taste quality. They have been draw ing ion as calorieless ners.
Besides them, existence of glycosides that are considered to be reaction intermediates and analogs having different types of sugar moieties are known. For example, while all of the four glycoside sugar es of Reb.A are glucose, rebaudioside C (Reb.C) is known to have rhamnose instead of glucose attached to C-2 of glucose at C-13, and rebaudioside F ) is known to have xylose attached at the same position.
To date, attempts have been made to obtain a stevia plant having a higher Reb.A t than wild-type stevia plants by variety improvement or the like since taste quality of Reb.A, in which all of the four glycoside sugar moieties are glucose, is good (for example, Patent ture 1). In addition, an attempt has also been made to obtain a novel steviol glycoside by decomposing a known steviol glycoside such as rebaudioside M (Reb.M (also referred to as Reb.X)) that has good taste quality with an acid (for example, Patent literature 2).
Citation List Patent Literature [Patent Literature 1] Japanese Patent No. 3436317 [Patent Literature 2] International Patent Application Publication Summary of Invention Problem to be Solved by the Invention Since the sweetness level and the taste quality of steviol glycosides may vary greatly depending on the ence in the number and the type of the sugar moiety that attaches to the ene structure g as a backbone, there has been a need for a novel steviol glycoside.
Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides a novel steviol glycoside comprising xylose, and a sweetener composition, a food or beverage and the like comprising the same as shown below.
A compound represented by Formula (1), or a salt or a e thereof: R2 O O (1) wherein, (i) R1 represents Xyl(1-2)Glc1- while R2 represents Glc(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-; or (ii) R1 represents Glc(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1- while R2 represents Xyl(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-, where Glc represents glucose and Xyl ents xylose).
The compound, or the salt or the e thereof according to [1], wherein the compound is ented by Formula (2) or (3) below: OH OH HO O HO O OH OH HO O O HO O HO O OH HO O O OH OH HO OH O HO HO O O HO O OH OH HO O HO O O OH HO O O HO O O OH O OH HO HO O HO O HO OH O (2) (3) HO O .
The compound, or the salt or the hydrate thereof according to [1] or [2], wherein the compound is represented by Formula (4) or (5) below: OH OH HO O HO O OH OH HO O O HO O HO O OH HO O O OH OH HO OH O HO HO O O HO O OH OH HO O HO O O OH HO O O HO O O OH O OH HO HO O HO O HO OH O (4) (5) HO O .
The compound according to any one of [1] to [3], wherein the compound is a derived product, a ally synthesized product or a biosynthetic product.
A food or beverage comprising the compound according to any one of [1] to [4].
The food or beverage according to [5], wherein the content of the compound according to any one of [1] to [4] is 1-600 mass ppm.
A ner composition comprising the compound according to any one of [1] to The sweetener composition according to [7], wherein the content of the compound according to any one of [1] to [4] is 1-99 wt%.
The sweetener composition according to [7] or [8], further comprising one or more types of steviol glycosides ed from the group consisting of rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B, rebaudioside C, ioside D, ioside E, rebaudioside F, rebaudioside I, rebaudioside J, rebaudioside K, rebaudioside N, rebaudioside M, rebaudioside O, rebaudioside Q, ioside R, dulcoside A, dulcoside C, rubusoside, steviol, steviol monoside, steviol bioside and stevioside.
A food or beverage comprising the sweetener composition according to any one of to [9].
The food or beverage according to [10], which is a ge.
Use of the compound according to any one of [1] to [3] as a sweetener. [0007a] The present invention as claimed herein is described in the ing items 1 to 12: 1. A compound represented by Formula (1), or a salt or a hydrate thereof: wherein, (i) R1 represents Xyl(1-2)Glc1- while R2 represents 2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-; or (ii) R1 represents Glc(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1- while R2 represents Xyl(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-, where Glc represents glucose and Xyl represents xylose. 2. The compound according to Item 1, or a salt or a hydrate thereof, wherein the compound is represented by Formula (2) or (3) below: 19495372_1 (GHMatters) P117771.NZ 3. The compound according to Item 1 or 2, or a salt or a hydrate thereof, wherein the compound is represented by a (4) or (5) below: 4. The compound according to any one of Items 1 to 3, wherein the compound is a plant-derived product, a chemically synthesized product or a biosynthetic product.
. A food or ge comprising the compound according to any one of Items 1 to 4 in an amount of 1-600 mass ppm. 19495372_1 (GHMatters) P117771.NZ 6. A sweetener composition comprising the compound according to any one of Items 1 to 4 in an amount of 1-99 wt%. 7. The ner composition ing to Item 6, r comprising one or more types of steviol glycosides selected from the group consisting of rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B, rebaudioside C, rebaudioside D, ioside E, rebaudioside F, rebaudioside I, rebaudioside J, rebaudioside K, rebaudioside N, rebaudioside M, rebaudioside O, rebaudioside Q, rebaudioside R, dulcoside A, dulcoside C, rubusoside, steviol, steviol monoside, steviol bioside and stevioside. 8. Use of the compound according to any one of Items 1 to 3 as a sweetener. 9. The compound according to Item 1, or a salt or a hydrate thereof, substantially as herein described with reference to any one of the Examples or Figures.
. The food or beverage according to Item 5, substantially as herein described with reference to any one of the Examples or Figures. 11. The ner composition according to Item 6, substantially as herein described with reference to any one of the Examples or Figures. 12. The use according to Item 8, substantially as herein described with reference to any one of the Examples or s.
Advantageous s of Invention The present invention can provide a novel steviol glycoside comprising xylose, a method for ing the same, and a sweetener composition, a food or beverage, a plant, an extract thereof and a flavor controlling agent comprising the novel steviol ide.
A steviol glycoside in a preferable aspect of the present invention has excellent taste quality and a high sweetness level. A sweetener ition in another aspect of the present invention has excellent taste quality. 19495372_1 (GHMatters) P117771.NZ Brief Description of Drawings Figure 1 is a diagram showing structures and names of steviol glycosides.
Figure 2 is a diagram showing a selected ion chromatogram of ar A at m/z of 1097.4.
Figure 3 is a diagram showing a ed ion chromatogram of Cultivar A at m/z of 1259.5.
Figure 4 is a diagram showing MS/MS and MS3-fragmented mass spectra of Novel steviol glycoside 1E.
Figure 5 is a diagram showing MS/MS and MS3-fragmented mass spectra of Novel steviol glycoside 2E.
Figure 6 is a diagram showing a 1H-NMR spectrum of Compound 15 (400 MHz, Pyr-d5).
Figure 7 is a diagram showing a 13C-NMR spectrum of Compound 15 (100 MHz, Pyr-d5).
Figure 8 is a diagram showing a 1H-NMR spectrum of Compound 17 (400 MHz, Pyr-d5).
Figure 9 is a diagram showing a 13C-NMR um of Compound 17 (100 MHz, Pyr-d5).
Figure 10 is a diagram showing extracted ion chromatograms of Novel steviol glycoside 1E (stevia leaf t) and a chemically synthesized t (ß-form of Compound 15).
Figure 11 is a diagram showing MS/MS and MS3-fragmented mass spectra of Novel steviol glycoside 1E (stevia leaf extract) and the chemically synthesized product (ß-form of 4c (The next page is page 5.) 19495372_1 ters) P117771.NZ Compound 15).
Figure 12 is a diagram showing extracted ion chromatograms of Novel l ide 2E (stevia leaf extract) and a ally synthesized product (ß-form of nd 17).
Figure 13 is a diagram showing MS/MS and MS3-fragmented mass spectra of Novel steviol glycoside 2E (stevia leaf extract) and the chemically synthesized t (ß-form of Compound 17).
Figure 14 is a diagram showing s of sensory evaluations for comparison of Novel steviol glycoside A with sugar, rebaudioside A, rebaudioside D and rebaudioside M.
Figure 15 is a diagram showing results of sensory evaluations for comparison of Novel steviol ide B with sugar, rebaudioside A, rebaudioside D and rebaudioside M.
Figure 16 is a diagram showing results of an expression analysis in relation to identification of the genetic features in the example.
Description of Embodiments Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail. The following embodiment is provided for illustrating the present invention with no intention of limiting the present invention solely to this embodiment. The present invention may be carried out in various modes t departing from the scope thereof. All of the nts, publications, patent publications and other patent documents cited herein are incorporated herein by reference. The present specification incorporates the contents of the specification and the drawings of Japanese Patent Application No. 2019-141627, filed on July 31, 2019, from which the present application claims priority.
The terms "rebaudioside", "Reb" and "Reb." as used herein have the same meaning and all of them refer to "rebaudioside". Similarly, the term "dulcoside" as used herein refers to "dulcoside". 1. Novel steviol glycoside For the first time, the present inventors fied the structure of a novel steviol glycoside that contains xylose. The novel steviol glycoside of the present invention (herein, also referred to as the "glycoside of the present invention") is a compound represented by a (1), or a salt or a hydrate thereof: R2 O O (1) wherein, (i) R1 represents Xyl(1-2)Glc1- while R2 represents Glc(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-; or (ii) R1 ents Glc(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1- while R2 represents Xyl(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-, where Glc represents glucose and Xyl represents xylose. Herein, a glucose moiety and a xylose moiety in a sugar chain may also be referred to as glucopyranosyl and xylopyranosyl, respectively.
As represented above, the glycoside of the present invention ses a steviol glycoside having a sugar chain containing three glucose moieties at C-13 of steviol and one e moiety and one xylose moiety at C-19 of steviol n, also referred to as "Glycoside A of the present ion"), and a l glycoside having a sugar chain containing two glucose moieties and one xylose moiety at C-13 of steviol and a sugar chain containing three glucose moieties at C-19 of steviol (herein, also referred to as "Glycoside B of the present invention").
Furthermore, as described above, Glc represents glucose and Xyl represents xylose. As used herein, "G lc" may be a- or ß-glucose while Xyl may be a- or ß-xylose.
Alternatively, as used herein, Glc may be a- and ß-glucose while Xyl may be a- and ßxylose.
Moreover , "Glc1-" tes that the carbon atom at C-1 of e is attached to steviol via a glycosidic bond, and "Glc(1-3)-Glc1-" indicates that the carbon atom at C-3 of glucose represented by "Glc1-" is attached to a carbon atom at C-1 of another glucose via a glycosidic bond. Furthermore, "Xyl(1-2)-Glc1-" indicates that the carbon atom at C-2 of glucose represented by "Glc1-" is ed to the carbon atom at C-1 of xylose via a idic bond. Furthermore, "Xyl(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-" indicates that the carbon atom at C-2 of glucose represented by "Glc1-" is attached to the carbon atom at C-1 of xylose via a glycosidic bond, and the carbon atom at C-3 of glucose represented by "Glc1-" is attached to the carbon atom at C-1 of glucose via a glycosidic bond.
Examples of Glycoside A include ides having the structures represented by Formulae (2), (2)', (4) and (4)'.
OH OH OH OH O O HO O HO HO O O O HO O O HO OH OH OH OH HO HO O O HO HO O O OH OH H H OH OH O O HO O O HO O O HO HO OH O HO HO O (2) HO (2)' HO O HO O OH OH OH OH HO O HO O HO O HO O HO O O HO O O OH OH OH OH HO O HO O HO O HO O OH OH H H OH OH HO O O HO O O O O HO HO OH HO HO O HO (4) (4)' HO O HO O In Glycoside A represented by Formula (2), glucose is attached to the carboxylic group at C-19 of steviol via a ß-glycosidic bond and xylose is attached to said glucose via a ß1-2 bond, whereas in Glycoside A represented by Formula (2)', e is attached to the carboxylic group at C-19 of steviol via a ß-glycosidic bond, and xylose is attached to said glucose via an a1-2 bond. Formulae (4) and (4)' represent structures having further specified conformations of Glycosides A represented by Formulae (2) and (2)', tively.
Examples of Glycoside B include glycosides having the structures represented by Formulae (3), (3)', (5) and (5)'.
OH OH OH OH HO O HO O HO O HO O HO O O HO O O OH OH OH HO O HO HO O HO O H H OH OH OH OH HO O HO O O O O HO O HO HO O O HO O O OH OH OH OH HO O HO O HO O HO O OH OH (3) (3)' OH OH OH OH O O HO O HO O HO HO HO O O HO O O OH OH HO O HO HO HO O HO O H H OH OH OH OH HO O HO O O HO O HO O O O O HO O HO O OH OH OH OH HO HO O O HO HO O O OH OH (5) (5)' In Glycoside B represented by Formula (3), glucose is ed to the hydroxy group at C-13 of steviol via a ß-glycosidic bond, another glucose is attached to said glucose via a ß1-3 bond and xylose is attached to said glucose via a ß1-2 bond. In Glycoside B represented by Formula (3)', glucose is attached to the hydroxy group at C-13 of steviol via a ß-glycosidic bond, another glucose is attached to said glucose via a ß1-3 bond and xylose is attached to said glucose via an a1-2 bond. Formulae (5) and (5)' represent structures having further specified conformations of Glycosides B represented by Formulae (3) and (3)', respectively.
The glycoside of the present invention also comprises s such as the a- and ß-forms as described above. Therefore, the glycoside of the t invention may se only the a-form, only the ß-form or a mixture of the a- and ß-forms. The proportion of the ß-form in the glycoside of the present invention is preferably 80% or more, more ably 90% or more, still more ably 95% or more and particularly preferably 99% or more. The a- and ß-forms can be isolated/purified by a known method such as erformance liquid chromatography (HPLC), ultra (high) performance liquid chromatography (UPLC), or the like.
The ide of the present invention may not only be the compound represented by Formula (1) but may also be a derivative, a salt or a hydrate thereof. The term "derivative" as used herein refers to a compound resulting from a structural change of a minor moiety of the compound, for example, a nd in which some of the hydroxy groups are substituted with other substituents. Therefore, derivatives of the compound represented by Formula (1) include compounds in which some of the hydroxy groups contained in the nd have been substituted with a substituent selected from hydrogen, a halogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group, an amino group, a cyano group or the like. As used herein, a "salt of the compound represented by Formula (1)" refers to a physiologically acceptable salt, for example, a sodium salt, of the compound represented by Formula (1). Furthermore, a "hydrate of the compound represented by Formula (1)" as used herein refers to a compound resulting from attachment of a water molecule to the compound represented by a (1).
While the glycoside of the present invention is not particularly limited, it may be a derived product, a chemically synthesized product or a biosynthetic product. For example, it may be isolated and purified from a plant rich in the glycoside of the present invention, or it may be obtained by a al synthesis or a biosynthesis. Details of a method for producing the glycoside of the present invention will be described later herein.
The glycoside of the present invention is sweeter than sugar (sucrose), and can affect the sweetness of a food or beverage in a small . Thus, the glycoside of the present invention can be used as a novel sweetener.
A glycoside in a preferable aspect of the t invention is selected from ide A or Glycoside B. Glycoside A is sweeter than sugar, has less lingering sweet and bitter aftertastes, and has weaker bitterness than other components ing sugar. ide B is also r than sugar, and has weaker bitterness than other l glycosides. Accordingly, the steviol glycoside of the present invention can favorably be used as a sweetener in various applications as will be described later. 2. Sweetener ition comprising novel steviol glycoside In one aspect of the t ion, a sweetener composition comprising the compound represented by Formula (1), or a derivative, a salt or a hydrate thereof (hereinafter, also ed to as the "sweetener composition of the present invention") is provided. The sweetener composition of the present invention is not particularly limited as long as it contains the compound represented by Formula (1), or a derivative, a salt or a hydrate thereof, and it may be a composition comprising an extract comprising the compound represented by Formula (1), or a derivative, a salt or a hydrate thereof.
The amount of the glycoside of the present invention contained in the sweetener composition of the present invention is not particularly limited, and may be, for e, 1-99 wt%, 5-95 wt%, 10-90 wt%, 15-85 wt%, 20-80 wt%, 25-75 wt%, 30-70 wt%, 35-65 wt%, 40-60 wt%, 45-55 wt%, 1-5 wt%, 1-10 wt%, 1-15 wt%, 1-20 wt%, 1-25 wt%, 1-30 wt%, 1-35 wt%, 1-40 wt%, 1-45 wt% or 1-50 wt% relative to the total amount of the sweetener composition.
The sweetener composition of the present invention may further n other steviol glycosides. For example, the sweetener composition of the present invention may contain, in addition to the glycoside of the present invention, one or more types of steviol glycosides selected from the group consisting of rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B, rebaudioside C, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside E, rebaudioside F, rebaudioside I, rebaudioside J, rebaudioside K, rebaudioside N, ioside M, rebaudioside O, ioside Q, rebaudioside R, ide A, dulcoside C, rubusoside, steviol, steviol monoside, steviol bioside and stevioside.
In a case where other steviol glycoside is contained, the composition ratio of the glycoside of the present invention and other steviol glycoside may be 1:99 to 99:1, 5:95 to 95:5, 10:90 to 90:10, 15:85 to 85:15, 20:80 to 80:20, 25:75 to 75:25, 30:70 to 70:30, 35:65 to 65:35, 40:60 to 60:40, 45:65 to 65:45 or 50:50 in a mass ratio. Moreover, either a single or multiple types of glycosides of the present invention may be used.
The sweetener ition of the present ion may further contain a sweetener other than the steviol glycosides. Examples of such a sweetener e l sweeteners such as fructose, sugar, fructose-glucose syrup, glucose, maltose, highfructose syrup, sugar alcohol, oligosaccharide, honey, pressed sugarcane juice (brown sugar syrup), starch syrup, Lo Han Kuo (Siraitia grosvenorii) powder, a Lo Han Kuo (Siraitia norii) extract, licorice powder, a licorice extract, Thaumatococcus daniellii seed powder, a Thaumatococcus daniellii seed extract, and artificial sweeteners such as acesulfame potassium, sucralose, neotame, aspartame and saccharin. Among them, a natural sweetener is preferably used from the aspect of imparting clean taste, easy bility, natural flavor and moderately rich taste, where fructose, glucose, e, sucrose and sugar are particularly preferably used. Either a single or multiple types of these sweetness components may be used.
A method for producing the sweetener composition of the present invention is not ularly limited as long as a sweetener composition having the above-described composition can be obtained. In one aspect of the present invention, a method for producing a sweetener composition of the present invention, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a glycoside of the t invention; and mixing the glycoside with other steviol glycoside or a sweetener other than a steviol glycoside, is provided. The step of obtaining a ide of the present invention may be carried out by isolation/purification from a plant, a chemical synthesis or a biosynthesis, where the glycoside of the present invention resulting from this step may be obtained as a mixture with other steviol ide (for example, Reb.A or Reb.D). 3. Food or beverage, flavoring agent and pharmaceutical product comprising novel steviol glycoside In one aspect of the present invention, a food or beverage, a flavoring agent and a pharmaceutical product comprising the compound represented by Formula (1) or a derivative, a salt or a hydrate thereof or the sweetener composition of the present invention (herein, also referred to as a "food or beverage of the present invention", a "flavoring agent of the t invention" and a "pharmaceutical t of the present invention", respectively) are provided. The food or beverage, the flavoring agent and the ceutical t of the present ion are not particularly limited as long as they contain the compound represented by Formula (1), or a derivative, a salt or a hydrate thereof, and they may be a food or beverage, a flavoring agent and a pharmaceutical product comprising an extract or a sweetener composition sing the compound represented by Formula (1), or a derivative, a salt or a hydrate f. Herein, a food or beverage refers to beverages and foods. Therefore, in some embodiments, the present invention provides a novel beverage or food, and a method for producing said beverage or food.
While the amount of the glycoside of the present ion contained in the food or beverage, the flavoring agent and the pharmaceutical product of the present invention s depending on the specific food or beverage, it is preferably around 1-600 mass ppm, for example, 20-550 mass ppm, 25-550 mass ppm, 30-550 mass ppm, 35-550 mass ppm, 40-550 mass ppm, 45-550 mass ppm, 50-550 mass ppm, 55-550 mass ppm, 20-540 mass ppm, 25-540 mass ppm, 30-540 mass ppm, 35-540 mass ppm, 40-540 mass ppm, 45-540 mass ppm, 50-540 mass ppm, 55-540 mass ppm, 20-530 mass ppm, 25-530 mass ppm, 30- 530 mass ppm, 35-530 mass ppm, 40-530 mass ppm, 45-530 mass ppm, 50-530 mass ppm, 55-530 mass ppm, 20-520 mass ppm, 25-520 mass ppm, 30-520 mass ppm, 35-520 mass ppm, 40-520 mass ppm, 45-520 mass ppm, 50-520 mass ppm, 55-520 mass ppm, 20-510 mass ppm, 25-510 mass ppm, 30-510 mass ppm, 35-510 mass ppm, 40-510 mass ppm, 45- 510 mass ppm, 50-510 mass ppm, 55-510 mass ppm, 20-505 mass ppm, 25-505 mass ppm, -505 mass ppm, 35-505 mass ppm, 40-505 mass ppm, 45-505 mass ppm, 50-505 mass ppm, 55-505 mass ppm, 20-500 mass ppm, 25-500 mass ppm, 30-500 mass ppm, 35-500 mass ppm, 40-500 mass ppm, 45-500 mass ppm, 50-500 mass ppm, 55-500 mass ppm, 20- 495 mass ppm, 25-495 mass ppm, 30-495 mass ppm, 35-495 mass ppm, 40-495 mass ppm, 45-495 mass ppm, 50-495 mass ppm, 55-495 mass ppm, 20-490 mass ppm, 25-490 mass ppm, 30-490 mass ppm, 35-490 mass ppm, 40-490 mass ppm, 45-490 mass ppm, 50-490 mass ppm, 55-490 mass ppm, 100-400 mass ppm, 150-400 mass ppm, 200-400 mass ppm, 250-400 mass ppm, 300-400 mass ppm, 100-150 mass ppm, 100-200 mass ppm, 100-250 mass ppm or 100-300 mass ppm, in a case of a beverage. The t within this range is advantageous for imparting moderate ess. The content within this range is advantageous for suppressing the lingering aftertaste. Unless otherwise specified, "ppm" as used herein refers to "mass ppm".
The food or beverage, the ing agent and the ceutical product of the present invention may further contain other steviol glycosides. For example, the sweetener composition of the present invention may contain, in addition to the glycoside of the present invention, one or more types of steviol glycosides selected from the group consisting of rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B, rebaudioside C, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside E, rebaudioside F, rebaudioside I, rebaudioside J, rebaudioside K, rebaudioside N, rebaudioside M, rebaudioside O, ioside Q, rebaudioside R, dulcoside A, ide C, rubusoside, steviol, l monoside, l e and stevioside.
In a case where other steviol glycoside is contained, the composition ratio of the glycoside of the present invention and other steviol glycoside may be 1:99 to 99:1, 5:99 to 95:5, 10:90 to 90:10, 15:85 to 85:15, 20:80 to 80:20, 25:75 to 75:25, 30:70 to 70:30, 35:65 to 65:35, 40:60 to 60:40, 45:65 to 65:45 or 50:50 in a mass ratio.
The food or beverage, the flavoring agent and the pharmaceutical product of the present invention may further contain a ner other than a steviol glycoside.
Examples of such a ner include natural sweeteners such as fructose, sugar, fructoseglucose syrup, glucose, maltose, e, ructose syrup, sugar alcohol, oligosaccharide, honey, pressed sugarcane juice (brown sugar syrup), starch syrup, Lo Han Kuo (Siraitia grosvenorii) powder, a Lo Han Kuo (Siraitia grosvenorii) extract, licorice powder, a licorice extract, Thaumatococcus daniellii seed powder and a Thaumatococcus daniellii seed extract, and artificial sweeteners such as acesulfame potassium, sucralose, neotame, aspartame and saccharin. Among them, a natural sweetener is preferably used from the aspect of imparting clean taste, easy drinkability, natural flavor and tely rich taste, where fructose, glucose, maltose, sucrose and sugar are particularly preferably used. Either a single or multiple types of these sweetness components may be used.
Examples of the food of the present invention include, but not particularly limited to, a confection, a bread, cereal flour, s, rice, a processed agricultural/forestry food, a processed livestock product, a processed fishery product, a milk/dairy product, an oiland-fat /processed oil-and-fat product, seasoning or other food materials.
Examples of the beverage of the present invention include, but not particularly limited to, a ated beverage, a non-carbonated beverage, an alcoholic beverage, a non-alcoholic beverage, a beer-taste beverage such as beer or non-alcohol beer, a coffee beverage, a tea beverage, a cocoa beverage, a ious beverage and a functional beverage.
The beverage of the present invention may be heat sterilized and packaged to be prepared as a packaged ge. es of such a package include, but not particularly limited to, a PET bottle, an aluminum can, a steel can, a paper e, a chilled cup and a bottle. If heat sterilization is to be performed, the type of heat sterilization is not particularly limited, and heat sterilization may be performed, for example, by ing a common technique such as UHT sterilization, retort sterilization or the like. W hile the temperature during the heat ization process is not particularly limited, it is, for example, 65-130ºC, preferably 85-120ºC for 10-40 minutes.
Sterilization, however, can be carried out at an appropriate temperature for a several seconds, for example, 5-30 s, without any problem as long as a sterilizing value comparative to that under the above-described conditions can be earned.
The method for producing the food or beverage, the flavoring agent and the pharmaceutical product of the present ion is not particularly limited as long as a food or ge, a flavoring agent and a pharmaceutical product having the described components can be obtained. In one aspect of the present invention, a method for producing a food or beverage, a flavoring agent and a pharmaceutical product of the present invention, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining the extract, the glycoside or the sweetener composition of the present ion; and adding the extract, the glycoside or the sweetener composition to a food or beverage, a ing agent, a pharmaceutical product or a raw material thereof, is provided. The step of obtaining the glycoside or the sweetener composition of the present invention and the step of obtaining the extract of the present invention are bed in "2. Sweetener composition sing novel steviol glycoside" and "4. Stevia plant comprising novel l glycoside and extract thereof", respectively. The step of adding the extract, the ide or the sweetener composition of the present invention to a food or beverage, a flavoring agent, a ceutical product or a raw material thereof can be carried out during any step of ing the food or beverage, the flavoring agent and the pharmaceutical product. For example, it may be carried out upon mixing the raw materials of the food or ge, the flavoring agent or the ceutical product, or upon the final adjustments of the taste y of the food or beverage, the flavoring agent or the pharmaceutical product. 4. Stevia plant comprising novel steviol glycoside and extract f In one aspect of the present invention, a stevia plant comprising the compound represented by Formula (1), or a derivative, a salt or a hydrate thereof and an extract thereof (herein, also referred to as "the plant of the present invention and the extract thereof") are provided. Furthermore, in another aspect of the t invention, a food or beverage, a flavoring agent and a pharmaceutical product, preferably a beverage, comprising the plant of the present invention or the extract thereof, are ed. While the amount of the glycoside of the present ion contained in the plant of the present invention is not particularly limited, it may be 0.001-1.000 wt%, 0.005-0.950 wt%, 0.008- 0.900 wt%, 0.010-0.850 wt% or 0.015-0.800 wt% in a dried leaf.
In one aspect of the present invention, the plant of the present invention has at least one of the genetic features (1) to (8) below: (1) being homozygous or heterozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 298 of SEQ ID NO:1, on 11 of SEQ ID NO:3, position 21of SEQ ID NO:5 or position 26 of SEQ ID NO:7 is T; (2) being homozygous or heterozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 328 of SEQ ID NO:1, position 11 of SEQ ID NO:9, position 21 of SEQ ID NO:11 or position 26 of SEQ ID NO:13 is C; (3) being homozygous or heterozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 360 of SEQ ID NO:1, position 11 of SEQ ID NO:15, position 21 of SEQ ID NO:17 or position 26 of SEQ ID NO:19 is T; (4) being homozygous or heterozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 386 of SEQ ID NO:1, position 11 of SEQ ID NO:21, position 21 of SEQ ID NO:23 or on 26 of SEQ ID NO:25 is T; (5) being homozygous or heterozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 393 of SEQ ID NO:1, on 11 of SEQ ID NO:27, position 18 of SEQ ID NO:29 or position 23 of SEQ ID NO:31 is T; (6) being homozygous or zygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 411 of SEQ ID NO:1, position 11 of SEQ ID NO:33, position 18 of SEQ ID NO:35 or position 23 of SEQ ID NO:37 is T; (7) being homozygous or heterozygous for the allele wherein the base at the on corresponding to position 427 of SEQ ID NO:1, position 11 of SEQ ID NO:39, position 18 of SEQ ID NO:41 or position 23 of SEQ ID NO:43 is C; and (8) being homozygous or heterozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position ponding to position 453 of SEQ ID NO:1, position 11 of SEQ ID NO:45, position 18 of SEQ ID NO:47 or position 23 of SEQ ID NO:49 is T.
In other aspect of the present invention, the plant of the present invention has at least two, at least three, at least four, at least five, at least six, at least seven or all of the eight genetic features (1) to (8).
The phrase "position (or a part) corresponding to" refers to the position or the part (for e, position 298, position 328, on 360, position 386, position 393, position 411, position 427 and position 453, etc.) of the sequence existing in the genome if said sequence existing in the genome is identical to the reference sequence (for example, SEQ ID NO:1, etc.). If none of the ces existing in the genome is identical to the reference sequence, the phrase refers to a position or a part of a sequence existing in the genome which correlates with the position or the part of the nce ce. Whether or not a sequence identical to or correlating with the reference sequence exists in the genome can be determined, for example, as follows: the genomic DNA of the intended stevia plant is amplified with primers that can y the reference sequence through PCR; the amplified product is sequenced; and an alignment analysis is med between the resulting sequence and the reference sequence. Examples of sequences corresponding to the reference sequence include, but not limited to, nucleotide sequences having sequence identity of 60% or more, 70% or more, 75% or more, 80% or more, 81% or more, 82% or more, 83% or more, 84% or more, 85% or more, 86% or more, 87% or more, 88% or more, 89% or more, 90% or more, 91% or more, 92% or more, 93% or more, 94% or more, 95% or more, 96% or more, 97% or more, 98% or more, 98.1% or more, 98.4% or more, 98.7% or more, 99% or more, 99.2% or more, 99.5% or more or 99.8% or more to the reference sequence. A position or a part of a sequence existing in the genome which correlates with the on or the part of the reference sequence can be determined by considering the nucleotide sequences preceding and following the position or the part of the reference sequence and the like. For example, the reference sequence can be aligned with a ce in the genome corresponding to the nce sequence so as to determine the position or the part of the sequence existing in the genome which correlates with the position or the part of the reference ce.
For example, in the case of "the position corresponding to position 298 of SEQ ID NO:1" as in the genetic feature (1) of the present invention, if the genome of the stevia plant has a part consisting of a tide sequence cal to SEQ ID NO:1, "the position corresponding to position 298 of SEQ ID NO:1" refers to position 298 from the ' end of said part of the genome, which ts of a nucleotide sequence identical to SEQ ID NO:1. Meanwhile, if the genome of the stevia plant has a part consisting of a nucleotide sequence that is not identical but that corresponds to SEQ ID NO:1, "the position corresponding to position 298 of SEQ ID NO:1" does not arily refers to the 298th position from the 5' end of the part corresponding to SEQ ID NO:1 since the genome does not have a part consisting of a nucleotide sequence that is identical to SEQ ID NO:1, but "the on corresponding to on 298 of SEQ ID NO:1" in said genome of the stevia plant can be specified by considering the nucleotide sequences preceding or following position 298 of SEQ ID NO:1. For example, "the position corresponding to position 298 of SEQ ID NO:1" in the genome of the stevia plant can be specified by an alignment analysis between a nucleotide sequence in the genome of the stevia plant, which corresponds to SEQ ID NO:1 and the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1.
While the aforementioned c features can be detected by PCR method, TaqMan PCR method, sequencing , microarray method, Invader assay, TILLING assay, RAD (random amplified polymorphic DNA) method, restriction nt length polymorphism (RFLP) method, PCR-SSCP method, AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism) method, SSLP (simple sequence length polymorphism) method, CAPS (cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence) method, dCAPS (derived cleaved amplified rphic sequence) method, allele-specific oligonucleotide (ASO) , ARMS method, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) method, CCM (chemical cleavage of mismatch) method, DOL method, MALDI-TOF/MS method, TDI method, padlock probe assay, molecular beacon assay, DASH ic allele specific hybridization) method, UCAN method, ECA method, PINPOINT method, PROBE (primer oligo base ion) method, VSET (very short extension) method, Survivor assay, Sniper assay, Luminex assay, GOOD method, LCx method, SNaPshot method, Mass ARRAY assay, pyrosequencing method, SNP-IT method, g curve analysis or the like, the detection method is not limited thereto.
In a specific aspect, the "part consisting of a tide sequence corresponding to SEQ ID NO:1" may include, for example, a part of the genome of the stevia plant which can be amplified by PCR using a forward primer containing the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:51 and a e primer containing the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:52.
In a specific , an "allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 298 of SEQ ID NO:1 is T" includes the nucleotide ce represented by SEQ ID NO:4, 6 or 8.
In a ic aspect, an "allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 328 of SEQ ID NO:1 is C" includes the nucleotide sequence ented by SEQ ID NO:10, 12 or 14.
In a specific aspect, an "allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 360 of SEQ ID NO:1 is T" includes the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:16, 18 or 20.
In a specific aspect, an "allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 386 of SEQ ID NO:1 is T" includes the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:22, 24 or 26.
In a specific aspect, an "allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 393 of SEQ ID NO:1 is T" includes the nucleotide sequence ented by SEQ ID NO:28, 30 or 32.
In a specific aspect, an "allele wherein the base at the position ponding to on 411 of SEQ ID NO:1 is T" includes the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:34, 36 or 38.
In a specific aspect, an "allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 427 of SEQ ID NO:1 is C" includes the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:40, 42 or 44.
In a specific aspect, an "allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 453 of SEQ ID NO:1 is T" includes the tide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:46, 48 or 50.
While a method for producing the plant of the present invention is not particularly limited, it may be created by crossbreeding, or by ucing a mutation of the present invention into the genome of the stevia plant. The introduction of the variation may be performed by a c modification approach or may be performed by a non-genetic modification approach. Examples of the "non-genetic modification approach" include a method of ng a variation in the gene of a host cell (or a host plant) without transfection with a foreign gene. es of such a method include a method of allowing a mutagen to act on a plant cell. Examples of such a mutagen include ethylmethanesulfonic acid (EMS) and sodium azide. For e, ethylmethanesulfonic acid (EMS) can be used at a concentration such as 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.5%, 0.6%, 0.7%, 0.8%, 0.9% or 1.0% to treat a plant cell. The treatment time is 1 to 48 hours, 2 to 36 hours, 3 to 30 hours, 4 to 28 hours, 5 to 26 hours, 6 to 24 hours. The procedures themselves of the treatment are known in the art and can be performed by dipping a waterabsorbed seed obtained through a water absorption process in a treatment solution containing the mutagen at the concentration described above for the treatment time described above.
An alternative example of the non-genetic modification approach can be a method of irradiating a plant cell with radiation or light beam such as X ray, ? ray, or ultraviolet ray. In this case, a cell ated using an appropriate dose (ultraviolet lamp intensity, distance, and time) of ultraviolet ray is ed in a selective medium or the like, and then, a cell, a callus, or a plant having the trait of interest can be selected. In this operation, the irradiation intensity is 0.01 to 100 Gr, 0.03 to 75 Gr, 0.05 to 50 Gr, 0.07 to 25 Gr, 0.09 to Gr, 0.1 to 15 Gr, 0.1 to 10 Gr, 0.5 to 10 Gr, 1 to 10 Gr. The irradiation distance is 1 cm to 200 m, 5 cm to 100 m, 7 cm to 75 m, 9 cm to 50 m, 10 cm to 30 m, 10 cm to 20 m, 10 cm to 10 m. The irradiation time is 1 minute to 2 years, 2 minutes to 1 year, 3 minutes to 0.5 years, 4 minutes to 1 month, 5 minutes to 2 weeks, or 10 minutes to 1 week. The irradiation intensity, distance and time differ depending on the type of radiation or the state of the subject to be irradiated (cell, callus, or plant) and can be riately adjusted by those skilled in the art.
Furthermore, the phrase "0.050 wt% or more relative to the amount of the total steviol ides contained in the leaf" means that the ide of the present ion exists at a percentage of 0.050 wt% or more with respect to the amount of the total steviol glycosides existing in the liquid extract derived from the dried leaf of the stevia plant of the present invention. Here, the total steviol glycosides does not contain any unknown steviol glycoside or any l glycoside existing in an amount less than the detection limit. Preferably, the total steviol glycosides consist of rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B, rebaudioside C, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside E, rebaudioside F, rebaudioside G, rebaudioside I, ioside M, rebaudioside N, stevioside, ide A, steviol bioside, rubusoside and novel steviol glycosides (Novel steviol glycoside A and/or Novel steviol glycoside B). The content of Novel steviol ide A or B in the leaf of the stevia plant of the present invention may be 0.055 wt% or more, 0.060 wt% or more, 0.065 wt% or more, 0.070 wt% or more, 0.075 wt% or more, 0.080 wt% or more, 0.085 wt% or more, 0.090 wt% or more, 0.095 wt% or more, 0.10 wt% or more, 0.15 wt% or more, 0.20 wt% or more, 0.30 wt% or more, 0.50 wt% or more, 0.60 wt% or more, 0.80 wt% or more, 1.00 wt% or more, 2.00 wt% or more, 4.00 wt% or more, 6.00 wt% or more, 8.00 wt% or more or 10.00 wt% or more, and 10.00 wt% or less, 8.00 wt% or less, 6.00 wt% or less, 4.00 wt% or less, 2.00 wt% or less, 1.00 wt% or less, 0.80 wt% or less, 0.60 wt% or less or 0.30 wt% or less, relative to the total l glycosides.
Alternatively, the t of Novel steviol glycoside A or B in the leaf of the stevia plant of the t invention may be 0.050 wt% or more, 0.055 wt% or more, 0.060 wt% or more, 0.065 wt% or more, 0.070 wt% or more, 0.075 wt% or more, 0.080 wt% or more, 0.085 wt% or more, 0.090 wt% or more, 0.095 wt% or more, 0.10 wt% or more, 0.15 wt% or more, 0.20 wt% or more, 0.30 wt% or more, 0.50 wt% or more, 0.60 wt% or more, 0.80 wt% or more, 1.00 wt% or more, 2.00 wt% or more, 4.00 wt% or more, 6.00 wt% or more, 8.00 wt% or more or 10.00 wt% or more, and 10.00 wt% or less, 8.00 wt% or less, 6.00 wt% or less, 4.00 wt% or less, 2.00 wt% or less, 1.00 wt% or less, 0.80 wt% or less, 0.60 wt% or less or 0.30 wt% or less, relative to the total content of rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B, rebaudioside C, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside F, rebaudioside N, rebaudioside M and side contained in the leaf.
Here, the dried leaf of the plant of the present invention refer to those obtained by drying a fresh leaf of the plant of the t invention to reduce their water content to be wt% or less, 7 wt% or less, 5 wt% or less, 4 wt% or less, 3 wt% or less, 2 wt% or less, or 1 wt% or less. Preferably, the water content of the dried leaf of the plant of the present invention is 3-4 wt%.
The plant of the present invention not only comprises the whole plant but may also comprise plant organs (for example, leaf, petal, stem, root, seed, etc.), plant tissues (for e, epidermis, phloem, parenchyma, xylem, vascular bundles, palisade tissue, spongy tissue, etc.), various forms of plant cells (for example, suspension ed cells), a protoplast, a leaf piece, callus and the like.
In addition, the plant of the present invention may also comprise a tissue culture or a plant cell culture. This is because such a tissue culture or plant cell culture can be cultured to regenerate a plant. Examples of the tissue culture or the plant cell culture of the plant of the present invention e, but not limited to, an embryo, meristematic cells, pollen, a leaf, a root, a root apex, a petal, a protoplast, a leaf piece and callus.
An extract of the plant of the t invention can be obtained by allowing a fresh or dried leaf of the plant of the present invention to react with an appropriate solvent (an aqueous solvent such as water or an organic solvent such as alcohol, ether or acetone).
For the extraction conditions, see the method bed in WO2016/090460 or the method described in the example below.
Preferably, the extract of the plant of the present invention contains the glycoside of the present invention for 0.050 wt% or more relative to the total steviol glycosides. In other aspect of the t invention, the content of the glycoside of the present invention may be 0.055 wt% or more, 0.060 wt% or more, 0.065 wt% or more, 0.070 wt% or more, 0.075 wt% or more, 0.080 wt% or more, 0.085 wt% or more, 0.090 wt% or more, 0.095 wt% or more, 0.10 wt% or more, 0.15 wt% or more, 0.20 wt% or more, 0.30 wt% or more, 0.50 wt% or more, 0.60 wt% or more, 0.80 wt% or more, 1.00 wt% or more, 2.00 wt% or more, 4.00 wt% or more, 6.00 wt% or more, 8.00 wt% or more or 10.00 wt% or more, and .00 wt% or less, 8.00 wt% or less, 6.00 wt% or less, 4.00 wt% or less, 2.00 wt% or less, 1.00 wt% or less, 0.80 wt% or less, 0.60 wt% or less or 0.30 wt% or less, relative to the total steviol glycosides.
Alternatively, the content of Novel steviol glycoside A or B in the extract of the plant of the present invention may be 0.050 wt% or more, 0.055 wt% or more, 0.060 wt% or more, 0.065 wt% or more, 0.070 wt% or more, 0.075 wt% or more, 0.080 wt% or more, 0.085 wt% or more, 0.090 wt% or more, 0.095 wt% or more, 0.10 wt% or more, 0.15 wt% or more, 0.20 wt% or more, 0.30 wt% or more, 0.50 wt% or more, 0.60 wt% or more, 0.80 wt% or more, 1.00 wt% or more, 2.00 wt% or more, 4.00 wt% or more, 6.00 wt% or more, 8.00 wt% or more or 10.00 wt% or more, and 10.00 wt% or less, 8.00 wt% or less, 6.00 wt% or less, 4.00 wt% or less, 2.00 wt% or less, 1.00 wt% or less, 0.80 wt% or less, 0.60 wt% or less or 0.30 wt% or less, ve to the total content of ioside A, rebaudioside B, rebaudioside C, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside F, rebaudioside N, rebaudioside M and stevioside.
In one aspect of the present invention, a food or beverage comprising the extract of the plant of the present invention is provided. In r aspect of the present invention, the food or beverage is a beverage. Examples of the kinds of the food or ge include those recited in "3. Food or ge comprising novel steviol glycoside".
. Flavor controlling agent comprising novel steviol glycoside In one aspect of the present invention, a flavor controlling agent comprising the above-described compound represented by Formula (1), or a derivative, a salt or a hydrate thereof is provided. In one aspect of the present invention, a ition composed as described in "2. Sweetener composition comprising novel steviol glycoside" may also be used as a flavor controlling agent.
Herein, a "flavor controlling agent" refers to a substance that can be added to a food or beverage to control the flavor of the food or beverage. ably, the flavor controlling agent of the present invention can be added to a food or beverage so as to l the flavor of the food or beverage itself without the consumers recognizing the taste of the flavor controlling agent itself. For example, since the steviol glycoside of the present invention has weaker bitterness as compared to conventional steviol glycosides, it can be used as a flavor controlling agent for lling the bitterness of the food or beverage.
In addition to the above-described compound represented by Formula (1) or a derivative, a salt or a hydrate thereof, the flavor controlling agent of the t invention preferably comprises one or more types of other sweeteners. Examples of such sweetener include: one or more types of l glycosides selected from the group consisting of rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B, rebaudioside C, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside E, ioside F, rebaudioside I, rebaudioside J, rebaudioside K, rebaudioside N, rebaudioside M, rebaudioside O, rebaudioside Q, rebaudioside R, dulcoside A, dulcoside C, rubusoside, steviol, steviol monoside, steviol bioside and stevioside; natural sweeteners such as fructose, sugar, fructose-glucose syrup, glucose, maltose, sucrose, high-fructose syrup, sugar alcohol, oligosaccharide, honey, pressed sugarcane juice (brown sugar syrup), starch syrup, Lo Han Kuo (Siraitia grosvenorii) , a Lo Han Kuo (Siraitia grosvenorii) extract, ce powder, a licorice extract, Thaumatococcus daniellii seed powder and a Thaumatococcus daniellii seed extract; and artificial sweeteners such as acesulfame potassium, ose, neotame, aspartame and saccharin. 6. Method for producing novel steviol glycoside As described above, the steviol glycoside of the present invention can be produced by (A) isolation/purification from a plant, (B) a chemical synthesis, or (C) a thesis.
Hereinafter, each of them will be described.
(A) ion/purification from plant A plant ning the novel steviol glycoside is obtained, for example, by obtaining a plant having the aforementioned genetic features by any known screening method. Thereafter, the novel steviol ide can be ed/purified from the plant.
A fresh or dried leaf of the plant of the t invention is allowed to react with an appropriate solvent (an aqueous solvent such as water or an organic solvent such as alcohol, ether or acetone) to extract the novel steviol glycoside in a liquid extract state.
For tion conditions and else, see the method described in WO2016/090460 or the method described in the example below.
Furthermore, the resulting liquid extract may be ted to a known method such as a gradient of ethyl acetate or other c solvent: water, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) or ultra (high) performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) to isolate/purify the novel steviol glycoside.
The content of the novel steviol glycoside in the plant can be determined by the method described in WO2016/090460 or the method described in the example below.
Specifically, the content can be determined by sampling a fresh leaf from the plant of the present invention and subjecting the leaf to LC-MS/MS. (2) Chemical synthesis The steviol glycoside of the present invention can be synthesized by a known chemical synthesis such as one described in WO2018/181515. More specifically, the l glycoside of the present invention can be produced by the method described in the example below. (3) Biosynthesis The steviol glycoside of the present invention can also be generated by introducing a polynucleotide coding for a ermined protein such as a ylation enzyme into a host cell derived from a bacterium, a plant, an insect, a man mammal or the like, and using steviol, a l glycoside, UDP-glucose and/or UDP-xylose as a substrate. Steviol, a l glycoside, UDP-glucose or UDP-xylose as the substrate may be either provided or biosynthesized in the cell.
Preferably, the polynucleotide coding for the predetermined protein is introduced into a host while being inserted into an appropriate expression vector. Such polynucleotides may individually be inserted into separate vectors.
An appropriate expression vector is generally made to contain: (i) a promoter that allows ription in the host cell; (ii) a polynucleotide of the present invention linked to said er; and (iii) an expression cassette that is involved in ription termination and polyadenylation of RNA molecules and that contains, as a component thereof, a signal that functions in the host cell.
Examples of a method for preparing an expression vector include, but not particularly limited to, a method that uses a plasmid, a phage, a cosmid or the like, and DNA molecules having necessary components.
The specific type of the vector is not particularly limited, and any vector that allows expression in the host cell can suitably be selected. Specifically, a promoter ce is suitably selected according to the type of the host cell to ensure the expression of the polynucleotide of the present invention, and a vector obtained by integrating this promoter ce and the polynucleotide of the present invention into a plasmid or the like is used as an expression .
The expression vector includes expression lling regions (for example, a er, a ator and/or an origin of replication and the like) depending on the type of the host into which it is uced. A er used in a ial expression vector may be a common promoter (for example, a trc promoter, a tac promoter, a lac promoter, etc.), a promoter used for a yeast may be, for example, a glyceraldehydephosphate dehydrogenase promoter, a PH05 promoter, a GAL1/10 promoter or the like, and a promoter for filamentous fungi may be, for e, amylase, trpC or the like.
Moreover, examples of a promoter for expressing the gene of interest in a plant cell e a cauliflower mosaic virus 35S RNA promoter, a rd29A gene promoter, a rbcS promoter, and a mac-1 er in which the enhancer sequence of the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S RNA promoter is provided at the 5' end of a promoter ce of Agrobacterium-derived mannopine synthase. A promoter for an animal cell host may be a viral promoter (for e, a SV40 early promoter, a SV40 late promoter, etc.). Examples of a promoter that is inducibly activated in response to external stimuli include a mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter, a tetracycline responsive promoter, a metallothionein er and a heat shock protein promoter.
Preferably, the expression vector contains at least one selectable marker. As such a marker, an auxotrophic marker (LEU2, URA3, HIS3, TRP1, ura5, niaD), a drug resistance marker (hygromycin, zeocin), a geneticin ance gene (G418r), a copper resistance gene (CUP1) (Marin et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 81, p. 337, 1984), a cerulenin resistance gene (fas2m, PDR4) (Junji Inokoshi et al., Journal of Japanese Biochemical Society, vol. 64, p. 660, 1992; and Hussain et al., Gene, vol. 101, p. 149, 1991, respectively) or the like can be used.
As a method for transforming a host cell, a generally employed known method can be employed. For example, transformation can be carried out by employing an electroporation method (Mackenxie, D. A. et al., Appl. Environ. Microbiol., vol. 66, p. 4655-4661, 2000), a particle delivery method (Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2005-287403), a spheroplast method (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 75, p. 1929, 1978), a lithium acetate method (J. Bacteriology, vol. 153, p. 163, 1983), a method described in Methods in yeast genetics, 2000 Edition: A Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course Manual, or the like, although the present invention is not limited thereto.
As to other l molecular biological processes, see "Sambrook and Russell, Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual Vol. 3, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2001", "Methods in Yeast Genetics, A laboratory manual (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY)" and the like.
The non-human transformant obtained as described above can be cultured so as to allow the non-human transformant to produce the steviol glycoside. Such a non-human transformant is preferably a yeast. Moreover, the non-human ormant is preferably cultured in a medium containing steviol. The accumulated steviol ide can be extracted/purified to obtain the steviol glycoside of the present invention.
Examples Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail, although the content of the present invention should not be limited thereto.
[Isolation of novel steviol glycoside] Two lines of novel stevia plants ((Cultivar A (EM3-4) and ar B (EM2 )) developed at Suntory Global Innovation Center (SIC) were ed. These ars were obtained as follows. First, cially available stevia seeds were sown and raised to subject the resulting seeds to genetic modification by a treatment with 0.2% (Cultivar B) or 0.3% (Cultivar A) ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS). The EMS-treated seeds were sown in the greenhouse at the y World Research Center to obtain the original EMS-treated seedling (M0 generation). No difference in the germination rate was observed between the treatment concentrations. ar A was derived from an individual of this M0 tion. Furthermore, the first ent generation (M1 generation) seeds obtained by self-fertilization of all individuals of the M0 generation were collected and sown in the greenhouse at the Suntory World Research Center to obtain M1 generation seedlings. Cultivar B was derived from an individual of this M1 generation.
Extracts ed from the leaf of Cultivars A and B were subjected to high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separation-mass spectrometry (MS) to perform the screening analysis of the steviol glycosides contained in the stevia plants based on the molecular weights of steviol glycosides formed of sugar chains including D- yranosyl (Glc) and/or xylopyranosyl (Xyl). In this regard, Cultivars A and B were plants having the genetic features 1-8.
A s for preparing a test liquid was as follows: 10.0 mg each of lyophilized dried stevia leaves was weighed into a glass vial, to which 1.0 mL of water/methanol (1/1 vol/vol) was added as an extracting solvent, and then the resultant was subjected to ultrasonic irradiation in an ultrasonic r (AS ONE, AS52GTU) at a set temperature of °C for 20 minutes, thereby obtaining liquid extracts of steviol glycosides from the stevia leaves. The resultant was r 10-fold diluted with water/methanol and filtrated through a filter with a pore size of 0.45 µm (Nacalai tesque, Cosmonice filter S (solvent)) so as to be subjected to HPLC-MS.
For the HPLC part of HPLC-MS, Nexera LC-30AD (Shimadzu Corporation) was used as a liquid delivery unit LC pump, and SM-C18 (4.6 x 250 mm) (from Imtakt) was used as a separation column. Liquid delivery of the LC mobile phase was carried out by using 0.2% acetic acid-containing Milli-Q water as mobile phase A and methanol as mobile phase B, where the binary gradient as s: the tration of the mobile phase B was constantly maintained at 10% for 0-5 minutes, allowed to shift from 10% to 70% in the next 15 minutes, then allowed to shift from 70% to 100% in the following 5 minutes, and maintained at 100% for 5 minutes at the end. The flow rate of the mobile phase was 0.4 mL/min, and 5 µL of the stevia leaf liquid extract that had been diluted and ted with a filter was ed.
For the MS part, triple quadrupole mass spectrometer LCMS-8030 (Shimadzu Corporation) equipped with an electrospray ionization (ESI) ion source was used. The mass spectrometry measurement was carried out in a selected ion monitoring (SIM) mode by selecting the negative ion measurement mode and the m/z values. The m/z values were selected by a calculation based on the lar weights of steviol glycosides formed of sugar chains ing D-glucopyranosyl (Glc) and/or xylopyranosyl (Xyl).
Accordingly, m/z = 965.3 (Glc (4)), 1097.4 (Glc (4), Xyl (1)), 1127.4 (Glc (5)), 1259.5 (Glc (5), Xyl (1)), and 1289.5 (Glc (6)) were selected. Furthermore, a high purity reagent and iosides A, D and M that were available were also measured under the same conditions so as to confirm the negative ion m/z values and the retention time in HPLC.
The peak areas (arbitrary unit) of the mainly detected steviol glycosides are shown in Table Table 1: Peak areas observed by SIM measurement in HPLC-MS m/z value 965.3 1097.4 1127.4 1259.5 1289.5 Number of sugar Glc (4) Glc (5) Glc (4) Glc (5) Glc (6) moieties Xyl (1) Xyl (1) Retention time 29.82 29.05 28.26 29.30 28.90 Compound Novel steviol Novel steviol name Reb A Reb D Reb M glycoside 1E glycoside 2E Sample name Cultivar A 1,572 101,224 2,683,364 77,724 1,935,022 Cultivar B 41,706,992 82,333 990 42,787 2,966,927 Figure 2 shows a selected ion chromatogram of ar A at m/z of 1097.4. A peak of a molecular weight that had never been reported was observed in the selected ion chromatogram of a steviol glycoside (m/z 1097.4) in which the modified sugar chain contained four e es (Glc) and one xylose moiety (Xyl). Specifically, the peak at Rt 29.05 s shown in Figure 2 was an n substance. This substance was tentatively called "Novel steviol glycoside 1E". A r peak was also ed for Cultivar B.
Figure 3 shows a selected ion chromatogram of Cultivar A at m/z of 1259.5. A peak of a molecular weight that had never been reported was observed in the selected ion chromatogram of a steviol glycoside (m/z 1259.5) in which the modified sugar chain contained five glucose moieties (Glc) and one xylose moiety (Xyl). Specifically, the peak at Rt 29.30 minutes shown in Figure 3 was an unknown substance. This substance was tentatively called "Novel steviol glycoside 2E". A r peak was also detected for ar B.
[Structural analysis of novel steviol glycosides] According to the t invention, structural analyses of Novel steviol glycosides 1E and 2E detected from the cultivars were performed in the following procedure. (i) Structural deduction by a fragmentation analysis through high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-high tion mass spectrometry (MS), MS/MS, and three-stage ion fragmentation (MS3-fragmentation). (ii) Chemical synthesis of the deduced steviol glycoside standard products via chemical reaction. (iii) Structural determination by matching with the retention time and the fragmented pattern of the chemically synthesized rd product in HPLC-high resolution MS and agmentation.
Hereinafter, each of Steps (i)-(iii) above will be described in detail. (i) Structural deduction by a fragmentation analysis through high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-high resolution mass spectrometry (MS), MS/MS, and three-stage ion fragmentation (MS3-fragmentation) Test liquids were prepared as s: 10.0 mg each of lyophilized dried stevia leaves was weighed into a glass vial, to which 1.0 mL of water/methanol (1/1 vol/vol) was added as an extracting solvent, and then the resultant was subjected to ultrasonic irradiation in an ultrasonic cleaner (AS ONE, AS52GTU) at a set temperature of 25°C for 20 minutes, thereby obtaining liquid extracts of steviol glycosides from the stevia leaves. The ant was further 10-fold diluted with water/methanol and filtrated through a filter with a pore size of 0.45 µm (Nacalai , Cosmonice filter S (solvent system)) so as to be subjected to HPLC-MS.
In an equipment configuration for high performance liquid chromatographyelectrospray tion-high resolution mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-HRMS), the equipment for HPLC was configured by using Prominence LC-20AD (Shimadzu Corporation) as a liquid delivery unit LC pump and SM-C18 (4.6 x 250 mm) (from Imtakt) as a tion column. The LC mobile phase was delivered using 0.2% acetic acidcontaining Q water as mobile phase A and methanol as mobile phase B, where the binary gradient was as s: the concentration of the mobile phase B was constantly maintained at 10% for 0-5 minutes, then allowed to shift from 10% to 70% in the next 15 minutes, and r allowed to shift from 70% to 100% in the following 5 minutes. At the end, the concentration of the mobile phase B was maintained at 100% for 5 minutes.
The flow rate of the mobile phase was 0.4 , and 20 µL of the stevia leaf liquid extract that had been diluted and subsequently filtrated with a filter was injected. For the mass spectrometry part, ap Elite MS (from Thermo Fisher Scientific) ed with an ESI ion source was used. The mass spectrometry measurement was carried out in a ve ion measurement mode at m/z in a range of 150-2000 with resolution set to 60,000. The MS/MS measurement was carried out by selecting the targeted m/z of 1095.4 or 1257.5 and in a CID mode where fragmentation was induced by collision with an inert gas. T he ion with the highest intensity in the MS/MS spectrum was targeted for MS3. Irradiation of energy required for fragmentation was performed at the standard collision energy unique to the apparatus, i.e., 35.
In order to study the fragmented patterns of Novel steviol glycosides 1E and 2E, standard samples, i.e., rebaudiosides A, D and M, having known structures were subjected to MS/MS and MS3-fragmentation pattern analyses. As a , MS/MS of the novel steviol glycosides gave data showing that the highest ion intensity appeared at the peak where all sugar chains attached to C-19 via an ester bond were released. This result represents the total molecular weight of the sugar chains attached to the carbon of C-19 via an ester bond.
The MS/MS and MS3-fragmented mass spectra of Novel steviol glycoside 1E (corresponding to m/z 1097.4, Rt: 29.05) are shown in Figure 4. In the MS/MS spectrum of the novel steviol glycoside, the main peak was detected at m/z of 803.37 corresponding to the release of one Glc moiety and one Xyl moiety. From this result, the number of sugar chains attached to the carbon of C-19 via an ester bond was found to be one Glc moiety and one Xyl moiety. In order to acquire further structural information, a MS3 spectrum was acquired by fragmenting the main peak at m/z of 803.4 obtained by MS/MS.
As a result, a spectrum having the same peak pattern as the MS3 spectrum of rebaudioside A (965.4?803.4?) was acquired. ingly, the sugar chains attached to C-13 were presumed to be the same as ioside A. The deduced structure is shown in Figure 4.
The MS/MS and MS3-fragmented mass spectra of Novel steviol glycoside 2E sponding to m/z 1259.5, Rt: 29.30) are shown in Figure 5. In the MS/MS spectrum of the novel steviol glycoside, the main peak was detected at m/z of 773.36 corresponding to the release of three Glc es. From this result, the number of sugar chains attached to the carbon of C-19 via an ester bond was found to be three Glc moieties. In order to acquire further structural information, a MS3 spectrum was acquired by fragmenting the main peak at m/z of 773.4 obtained by MS/MS. As a result, a spectrum having the same peak pattern as the MS3 spectrum of rebaudioside F ?773.4?) was acquired.
Accordingly, the sugar chains attached to C-13 were presumed to be the same as rebaudioside F. The deduced structure is shown in Figure 5. (ii) Chemical synthesis of the deduced steviol glycoside standard products (Novel steviol glycosides 1S and 2S) via chemical reaction [Synthesis of Novel steviol glycoside 1S] (1) e of synthetic pathways Scheme 1: Strategy for synthesizing Novel steviol glycoside 1S OH OH HO O HO O HO O O OH OH HO O O HO O O HO O HO O O Target compound (15) OAc OAc OAc AcO O AcO O AcO O O AcO O AcO OH OAc OAc AcO O O AcO O O + AcO Disaccharide hemiacetal form (8) O Intermediate (3) OH OH HO O HO O HO O O AcO O OAc OH OH AcO O CCl3 + AcO O O AcO OAllyl HO O NH HO OH OH Xylose donor (5) Glucose or (4) HO O O OH Natural substance [Rebaudioside A (1)] As can be appreciated from Scheme 1, for the synthesis of Novel steviol glycoside 1S (Target compound 15), the intermediate (3) and the haride hemiacetal form (8) were condensed via a Mitsunobu reaction to obtain the backbone of Novel steviol glycoside 1S (Target compound 15). For the synthesis of the intermediate (3), the ester bond at C-19 of steviol of the known natural substance, i.e., ioside A (1), was subjected to alkaline hydrolysis and then the hydroxy groups of the sugar chain were protected with acetyl (Ac) groups to obtain the intermediate (3). For the synthesis of the disaccharide etal form (8), a disaccharide backbone was produced through condensation reaction between an appropriately protected glucose or (4) and a xylose donor (5), and the protecting group at the anomeric carbon of the reducing end was ected to give the disaccharide hemiacetal form (8). The resulting intermediate (3) and disaccharide hemiacetal form (8) were subjected to condensation via a Mitsunobu reaction, where the reaction proceeded in yield as high as 79% (only ß) with complete ß- selectivity. The protecting groups of the resulting compound were deprotected, thereby obtaining Novel steviol glycoside 1S (Target compound 15).
Next, each of the sis steps will be described. (2) Synthesis of intermediate (3) The intermediate (3) was synthesized according to the method as described in WO2018/181515. (3) Synthesis of disaccharide etal form Scheme 2: Synthesis of haride hemiacetal form (8) AcO O AcO O CCl3 Xylose donor (5) 1.1 eq.
PdCl2 OAc OAc OAc BF3Et2O AcO O NaOAc AcO O AcO O AcO OAllyl AcO OH AcO OAllyl AcO O O AcO O O OH AcO AcO CH2Cl2 OAc 2O OAc Glucose acceptor (4) MS4A RT -20 oC 75% Disaccharide hemiacetal form (8) As can be appreciated from Scheme 2, for the sis of the disaccharide hemiacetal form (8), a glucose acceptor (4) (40.0 g, 115 mmol), a xylose donor (5) (53.4 g, 127 mmol) and 4Å molecular sieves (60 g) were dissolved in dichloromethane (1.2 L), to which a boron trifluoride-diethyl ether x (1.46 mL, 11.5 mmol) was added at -20ºC, and the resultant was agitated at -20ºC for an hour. After confirming the tion of the on by TLC (ethyl acetate/hexane = 1/1, Rf value = 0.2), the resultant was neutralized with triethylamine (2.0 mL) (pH 8), and the 4Å molecular sieves were removed by filtration. The resultant was concentrated under a reduced pressure to obtain syrup, which was subjected to silica gel column chromatography to give Compound 7 (61.2 g, 88%) in the eluate (ethyl acetate/hexane = 1/1).
NMR spectra were determined for 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR using "AVANCE III HD 400 spectrometer" manufactured by Bruker. The solvent and the frequencies used for the determinations were as follows. The same apparatus was used for determining the NMR spectra for other compounds described below.
[Compound 7] 1H-NMR (CDCl 3, 400 MHz) d 2.01-2.10 (complex, 18H, OAc), 3.35 (dd, 1H), 3.68 (m, 1H), 3.73 (t, 1H), 4.13-4.27 (complex, 4H), 4.38 (m, 1H), 4.48 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H), 4.74 (d, J = 6.4 Hz, 1H), 4.86 (t, 1H), 4.90-4.99 (complex, 2H), 5.09 (t, 1H), 5.35 (d, 1H), 5.91 (m, 1H); 13C-NMR (CDCl 3, 100 MHz) d 20.6×2, 20.7×2, 20.8×2, 61.9, 62.0, 68.7, 68.9, 70.5, 70.7, 71.2, 71.5, 74.5, 98.9, 100.3, 117.8, 133.4, 169.4, 169.7, 170.0, 170.7.
Compound 7 (2.3 g, 3.8 mmol) was dissolved in acetic acid (100 mL) and water (10 mL), to which palladium chloride (1.2 g, 6.8 mmol) was added at room temperature, and the resultant was agitated in an argon atmosphere at room temperature for 18 hours.
After confirming the completion of the reaction by TLC oform/ethyl acetate = 2/1, Rf value = 0.2), palladium de was removed by filtration. The resultant was concentrated under a reduced pressure to obtain syrup, which was subjected to silica gel column chromatography to give the disaccharide hemiacetal form (8) (1.6 g, 75%) in the eluate (chloroform/ethyl acetate = 2/1).
[Disaccharide hemiacetal form (8)] 1H-NMR (CDCl 3, 400 MHz) d 2.00-2.15 (complex, 27H, OAc), 3.31-3.39 (complex, 2H), 3.53-3.79 (complex, 3H), 3.86 (d, J = 2.8 Hz, 1H), 4.06-4.33 (complex, 6H), 4.58 (d, J = 7.2 Hz, 1H), 4.83-5.06 (complex, 5H), 5.09-5.22 (complex, 2H), 5.35 (m, 1H), 5.45 (t, 1H); 13C-NMR (CDCl 3, 100 MHz) d 20.4, 20.5, , 20.7×2, 61.9, 62.2, 67.2, 68.3×2, 68.5, 68.7, 70.7, 71.4, 71.5, 76.7, 92.0, 101.6, 169.5, 169.7, 169.8×2, 170.1, 170.7. (4) Synthesis of Compound 15 Scheme 3: sis of Novel steviol glycoside 1S OAc OAc AcO O AcO O OAc OAc AcO O O AcO O AcO O OAc OAc AcO O O PBu3 AcO O O OAc OAc AcO OAc AcO O O AcO O AcO TMAD AcO OH + OAc AcO O O AcO H OAc 1,4-dioxane H oC OAc 60 AcO O O AcO O HO 79% AcO O O 1.1 eq. 1.0 eq. (ß only) OAc Disaccharide etal form (8) Intermediate (3) 14 OH OH HO O HO O HO O O OH OH NaOMe OH MeOH/THF H 4 oC to RT OH HO O O 69% HO O HO O O Target compound (15) As can be appreciated from Scheme 3, for the synthesis of Compound 14, the disaccharide hemiacetal form (8) (9.4 g, 16.7 mmol) and the intermediate (3) (18.6 g, 15.1 mmol) were dissolved in 1,4-dioxane (150 mL), to which tributylphosphine (14.9 mL, 60.6 mmol) and 1,1'-azobis(N,N'-dimethylformamide) (TMAD) (10.4 g, 60.6 mmol) were added at room temperature and the resultant was ed at 60ºC for an hour. After confirming the completion of the reaction by TLC (toluene/ethyl acetate = 3/2, Rf value = 0.2), the resultant was diluted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was washed with water, a saturated aqueous solution of sodium hydrogen carbonate and saturated saline, and dried with magnesium sulfate. Magnesium sulfate was removed by filtration. T he resultant was trated under a reduced pressure to obtain syrup, which was ted to silica gel column chromatography to give Compound 14 (21.1 g, 79%) in the eluate ne/ethyl acetate = 3/2).
[Compound 14] 1H-NMR (CDCl 3, 400 MHz) d 0.75-1.32 (complex, 13H), 1.37-2.32 (complex, 77H), 3.36 (t, 1H), 3.50-3.72 (complex, 4H), 3.75-4.29 (complex, 14H), 4.41 (m, 1H), 4.52-4.65 (complex, 2H), 4.77-5.27 (complex, 20H), 5.62 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 1H); 13C-NMR (CDCl3, 100 MHz) d 16.3, 19.3, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5×2, 20.6×3, 20.7×3, 20.9, 21.2, 21.3, 28.9, 36.5, 36.8, 39.3, 40.3, 41.1, 42.6, 43.3, 43.8, 45.1, 47.2, 53.5, 57.3, 60.3, 61.1, 61.7, 62.0, 62.6, 67.9, 68.0, 68.1, 68.3, 68.7, 70.6, 71.4, 71.6, 71.7, 71.8, 72.1, 72.9, 73.0, 74.7, 80.1, 85.8, 85.9, 91.2, 96.2, 98.9, 99.2, 100.9, 104.5, 125.2, 128.1, 128.7, 152.7, 168.9, 169.2, 169.3×2, 169.6, 169.7, 169.9, 170.0×2, 170.3×2, 170.5, 170.7, 174.5.
Compound (14) (20.0 g, 11.3 mmol) was dissolved in ol (100 mL) and THF (100 mL), to which sodium ide (0.5M in methanol) (25 mL) was added at 4ºC and the resultant was agitated at room temperature for an hour. After confirming the completion of the reaction by TLC (chloroform/methanol/water = 5/4/0.1, Rf value = 0.1), the resultant was neutralized by adding Amberlite 120B (H). T he resultant was concentrated under a reduced pressure to obtain syrup, which was subjected to gel filtration column (GE Healthcare, Sephadex LH-20, ethanol) to give Compound 15 (10.2 g, 69%).
[Compound 15] 1H-NMR (pyridine-d5, 400 MHz) d 0.70 (m, 1H), 0.88 (m, 1H), 0.91-1.40 (complex, 10H), .21 (complex, 14H), 2.43-2.55 (complex, 2H), 3.59-3.70 (complex, 2H), .51 ex, 36H), 4.91 (s, 1H), 5.03 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H), 5.20 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 1H), 5.35 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 1H), 5.52 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H), 5.61 (m, 1H), 6.16 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 1H); R (pyridine-d5, 100 MHz) d 17.1, 20.4, 21.0, 22.9, 29.4, 38.1, 38.6, 40.2, 41.1, 42.3, 42.6, 44.4, 44.8, 45.9, 48.2, 54.5, 57.9, 62.6, 62.8×2, 63.8, 67.9, 70.4, 71.3, 71.6, 72.1, 72.8, 75.9, 76.3, 76.9, 77.9, 78.5, 78.7, 78.8, 79.0, 79.1, 79.5, 81.5, 82.3, 87.3, 88.6, 94.1, 98.2, 105.0, 105.1, 105.3, 107.1, 154.4, 176.4. esis of Novel steviol glycoside 2S] (1) Outline of synthetic pathways Scheme 4: Strategy for sizing Novel steviol glycoside 2S OH OH HO O HO O HO O O OH HO HO O OH OH HO O HO O O HO O O OH OH HO O HO O OH Target compound (17) OAc OAc AcO O AcO O AcO O O OAc OAc OAc OAc AcO O AcO O AcO O AcO O OH AcO O OAc + AcO O AcO O Trisaccharide hemiacetal form (13) O HO Intermediate (9) OH OH HO O HO O HO O O OH HO HO O O O HO O OH l substance dioside F (2)] As can be appreciated from Scheme 4, for the synthesis of Novel steviol glycoside 2S (17), the intermediate (9) and the trisaccharide hemiacetal form (13) were condensed via a Mitsunobu reaction to obtain the ne of Novel steviol glycoside 2S (17). For the synthesis of the intermediate (9), the ester bond at C-19 of steviol of the known natural substance, i.e., rebaudioside F (2), was subjected to alkaline hydrolysis and then the hydroxy groups of the sugar chain were protected with acetyl (Ac) groups to obtain the intermediate (9). The resulting intermediate (9) and the trisaccharide hemiacetal form (13) were subjected to condensation via a Mitsunobu reaction, where the reaction proceeded in yield as high as 53% (only ß) with complete ß-selectivity. The protecting groups of the resulting compound were deprotected, thereby obtaining Novel steviol ide 2S (17).
Next, each of the synthesis steps will be described. (2) Synthesis of intermediate (9) Scheme 5: Synthesis of intermediate (9) OH OH OH OH OAc OAc HO O HO O HO O HO O AcO O AcO O HO O O HO O O AcO O O OH HO OH HO OAc OAc HO HO O O AcO O HO O HO NaOH O Ac2O AcO O H MeOH H Pyr. H OH / H2O RT O O reflux O O HO O HO 90% HO (2 steps) Natural nce [Rebaudioside F (2)] 6 Intermediate (9) As can be appreciated from Scheme 5, for the synthesis of the intermediate (9), rebaudioside F (2) (1.8 g, 1.9 mmol) was dissolved in methanol (20 mL) and water (10 mL), to which 2 mol/L sodium hydroxide (10 mL) was added at room temperature, and the resultant was refluxed at 100ºC for 3 hours. After confirming the completion of the on by TLC (chloroform/methanol = 4/1, Rf value = 0.2), the reaction solution was neutralized with Amberlite 120B (H) (pH 7). After the resin was removed by filtration, the resultant was concentrated under a reduced pressure to give Compound 6 (2.1 g) nd 6 (2.1 g) was dissolved in pyridine (20 mL), to which acetic anhydride (3.6 mL) was added at room temperature, and the ant was agitated at room temperature for 24 hours. After confirming the completion of the reaction by TLC (chloroform/methanol = 50/1, Rf value = 0.2), a saturated aqueous solution of sodium hydrogen carbonate (40 mL) was added at 0ºC and extraction was repeated for three times with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was concentrated under a reduced pressure to obtain syrup, which was subjected to silica gel column chromatography to give the intermediate 9 (2.0 g, 90% (2 steps)) in the eluate oform/methanol = 50/1).
[Intermediate 9] 1H-NMR (CDCl 3, 400 MHz) d 0.81 (m, 1H), 0.89-1.12 (complex, 8H), 1.22 (s, 3H), 1.41-2.22 (complex, 50H), 3.49 (dd, 1H), 3.58 (m, 1H), 3.65 (m, 1H), 3.85 (t, 1H), .15 ex, 4H), 4.42 (m, 2H), 4.56 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 1H), 4.81-4.94 (complex, 6H), .00 (t, 1H), 5.04-5.14 (complex, 3H), 5.25 (t, 1H); 13C-NMR (CDCl 3, 100 MHz) d 16.0, 17.3, 19.1, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7, 20.8×2, 20.9, 21.8, 29.1, 29.8, 37.9, 38.0, 39.5, 40.7, 41.5, 42.2, 43.8, 44.0, 48.4, 53.8, 56.8, 61.7, 63.1, 66.8, 68.0, 68.7, 68.8, 69.7, 71.0, 71.6, 71.9, 72.4, 72.8, 81.3, 87.3, 96.6, 96.8, 99.2, 105.6, 151.9, 169.0, 169.5, 169.6, 170.1×2, 170.3, 170.6, 170.9, 171.0, 182.5. (3) Synthesis of trisaccharide etal form The trisaccharide hemiacetal form was synthesized according to the method as bed in WO2018/181515. (4) Synthesis of Compound 17 Scheme 6: Synthesis of Novel steviol glycoside 2S (Compound 17) OAc OAc AcO O AcO O AcO O O OAc OAc AcO O AcO O AcO AcO O O PBu3 AcO AcO O OAc OAc OAc O AcO O AcO O AcO O AcO O AcO O TMAD OAc + OAc H AcO O AcO O H 1,4-dioxane OAc OAc OAc oC AcO O AcO O O 60 O O O OAc AcO HO 53% AcO O AcO O 1.5 eq. 1.0 eq. (ß only) OAc Trisaccharide hemiacetal form (13) Intermediate (9) 16 OH OH HO O HO O HO O O OH HO HO O NaOMe MeOH/THF OH OH RT HO O HO O O HO O O 70% OH OH HO O HO O Target compound (17) As can be iated from Scheme 6, for the synthesis of Compound 16, the trisaccharide etal form (13) (2.4 g, 2.6 mmol) and the intermediate (9) (2.0 g, 1.7 mmol) were dissolved in 1,4-dioxane (20 mL), to which tributylphosphine (4.3 mL, 17.3 mmol) and 1,1'-azobis(N,N'-dimethylformamide) (TMAD) (3.0 g, 17.3 mmol) were added at room ature and the resultant was agitated at 60ºC for 2 hours. After confirming the completion of the reaction by TLC (ethyl acetate/heptane = 2/1, Rf value = 0.1), the resultant was d with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was washed with water, a saturated aqueous solution of sodium hydrogen carbonate and saturated saline, and dried with magnesium sulfate. Magnesium sulfate was removed by filtration. The resultant was concentrated under a reduced pressure to obtain syrup, which was subjected to silica gel column chromatography to give Compound 16 (1.9 g, 53%, only ß) in the eluate (ethyl e/heptane = 2/1).
[Compound 16] 1H-NMR (CDCl 3, 400 MHz) d 0.78-1.05 (complex, 9H), 1.25 (t, 4H), 1.36-2.31 (complex, 86H), 3.51 (dd, 1H), 3.59 (m, 1H), 3.61-3.78 (complex, 4H), 3.81 (t, 1H), 3.91- 4.21 (complex, 11H), 4.31 (dd, 1H), 4.40-4.59 (complex, 4H), 4.73-5.29 (complex, 21H), .60 (d, J = 7.2 Hz, 1H); 13C-NMR (CDCl 3, 100 MHz) d 16.8, 17.5, 19.5, 20.5, 20.7×3, .8×3, 20.9×3, 21.0, 21.1×2, 21.5, 29.2, 37.4, 37.5, 39.6, 40.5, 41.6, 42.5, 43.8, 44.2, 48.1, 53.8, 57.4, 61.7, 62.0, 62.1, 62.3, 63.1, 66.7, 67.4, 68.0, 68.3, 68.4, 68.6, 68.8, 69.7, 71.1, 71.5, 71.8, 71.9, 72.0, 72.2, 72.3, 72.4, 72.9, 73.1, 75.0, 80.1, 81.5, 86.8, 91.3, 96.4, 97.0, 99.2, 99.3, 99.6, 104.9, 152.8, 169.0, 169.1, 169.3, 169.5×2, 169.6, 170.1×2, 170.2×3, 170.5, 170.6, 170.9, 174.8.
Compound (16) (2.2 g, 1.1 mmol) was dissolved in methanol (10 mL) and THF (10 mL), to which sodium methoxide (0.5M in MeOH) (2.5 mL) was added at room temperature, and the resultant was agitated at room ature for 3 hours. After confirming the completion of the reaction by TLC (chloroform/methanol/water = 5/4/1, Rf value = 0.4), the resultant was neutralized with Amberlite 120B (H) (pH 7). After the resin was d by filtration, the resultant was concentrated under a reduced pressure, which was ved in MeCN/H2O = 1/2 and lyophilized to give Compound 17 (1.0 g, 70%). und 17] 1H-NMR (pyridine-d5, 400 MHz) d 0.78 (m, 1H), 0.91 (m, 1H), 1.08 (m, 1H), .48 (complex, 9H), 1.62-1.80 ex, 3H), .89 (complex, 3H), 2.00-2.06 (complex, 2H), 2.29 (m, 3H), 2.47 (m, 1H), 2.69 (m, 1H), 2.80 (m, 1H), 3.41 (t, 1H), 3.81 (m, 1H), 3.90-4.41 (complex, 33H), 4.53-4.61 (complex, 2H), 4.70 (m, 1H), 4.88-5.22 (complex, 14H), 5.30 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H), 5.37 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 1H), 5.51-5.57 (complex, 2H), 5.61 (s, 1H), 5.77 (s, 2H), 5.84 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 1H), 6.46 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H); 13C-NMR (pyridine-d5, 100 MHz) d 18.3, 21.2, 21.7, 25.1, 29.8, 39.9, 41.3, 41.7, 42.5, 44.2, 44.7, 45.8, 47.9, 55.9, 58.9, 63.3, 63.5, 63.6, 64.2, 65.6, 68.5, 71.7, 72.2, 72.6, 72.9, 75.2, 76.9, 77.0, 77.2, 78.4, 79.2, 79.3, 79.4, 79.5, 79.6, 79.9, 80.0, 80.6, 83.7, 89.2, 89.5, 90.2, 96.5, 97.7, 105.4, 105.7, 105.9, 106.4, 107.3, 154.9, 178.5. (iii) Structural determination by matching with the retention time and the fragmented pattern of the chemically synthesized standard product in HPLC-high resolution MS and MS3-fragmentation The chemically synthesized product of Novel steviol glycoside 1 m of Compound 15) and the stevia leaf liquid extract were compared by HPLC-high resolution MS/MS and MS3-fragmentation by using Orbitrap Elite MS (from Thermo Fisher Scientific) equipped with a HPLC-ESI ion source under the conditions described in (i).
As a result, the peaks of the chemically synthesized product and the stevia leaf liquid extract were detected at the retention time of 29.34 and 29.37 s, respectively (Figure ). Here, the peaks at the retention time of 29.34 and 29.37 minutes in Figure 10 corresponded to the peak at the retention time of 29.05 minutes in Figure 2, which was confirmed by determining the retention time of the chemically synthesized product with the apparatus used in Figure 2 (LCMS-8030). er, they also matched in the respective MS/MS and MS3-fragmented mass spectra e 11). From this result, Novel steviol glycoside 1E obtained from the liquid t of the plant was confirmed to have the same structure as the ß-form of Compound 15. rmore, the ally synthesized product of Novel steviol glycoside 2 (ßform of Compound 17) and the stevia leaf liquid extract were compared by HPLC-high resolution MS/MS and agmentation by using Orbitrap Elite MS (from Thermo Fisher Scientific) equipped with a HPLC-ESI ion source under the conditions described in (i). As a result, the peaks of the chemically synthesized product and the stevia leaf liquid extract were detected at the retention time of 29.67 and 29.68 minutes, respectively (Figure 12). Here, the peaks at the retention time of 29.67 and 29.68 minutes in Figure 12 corresponded to the peak at the retention time of 29.30 minutes in Figure 3, which was confirmed by ining the ion time of the chemically synthesized product with the apparatus used in Figure 3 (LCMS-8030). Moreover, they also matched in the respective MS/MS and MS3-fragmented mass spectra (Figure 13). From this result, Novel steviol glycoside 2E obtained from the liquid extract of the plant was confirmed to have the same structure as the ß-form of Compound 17.
Evaluation of sweetness level of novel steviol glycosides In order to evaluate the sweetness levels of Novel steviol glycosides A and B, samples were prepared by adding sugar to pure water to give Brix of 3.0 to 5.0 in 0.5 increments. Compounds 15 and 17 obtained by the chemical syntheses were used as Novel steviol glycosides A and B, tively, where 48 mg of each sample was dissolved in 400 mL of pure water to be . In addition, samples were also prepared for comparison by dissolving 48 mg of each of Reb.A, Reb.D and Reb.M in 400 mL of pure water. (1) Evaluation of sweetness level of Novel steviol ide A Evaluation was conducted by ng a sugar-added sample that had an equivalent sweetness intensity to that of the sample added with the novel steviol glycoside, where sensory tion was conducted by panelists who had been trained about sensory attributes of sweeteners (7 members). As a result, Novel steviol glycoside A of the present invention was found to have a sweetness level that was about 354 times higher in average than that of sugar.
Table 2: Evaluation of sweetness level of Novel l glycoside A Sweetness level Novel steviol glycoside A Reb A Reb D Reb M Lowest 319.0 243.0 253.5 286.0 Highest 415.8 398.9 398.0 352.2 Average 354.1 312.0 317.9 341.1 (2) Evaluation of sweetness level of Novel steviol glycoside B Sweetness level was evaluated in the same manner as Novel steviol glycoside A.
As a , Novel steviol ide B of the present invention was found to have a ess level that was about 250 times higher in average than that of sugar. The results are shown in the table below.
Table 3: tion of sweetness level of Novel steviol glycoside B Sweetness level Novel steviol glycoside B Reb A Reb D Reb M Lowest 223.6 239.5 241.1 236.5 Highest 299.2 329.2 393.6 373.4 Average 249.6 288.3 310.3 323.6 Sensory evaluation of Novel steviol glycoside A (Compound 15) In order to te the taste y of various steviol glycosides, Reb.A, Reb.D, Reb.M, sugar and Novel steviol glycoside A (Compound 15) were each added to pure water to prepare beverage samples. All of the beverage samples were adjusted to have final sweetness level (Brix) of 5 in terms of sugar (sucrose), and thus the sweetness levels of Reb.A, Reb.D, Reb.M and Novel steviol glycoside A und 15) were 312, 317, 341 and 354, respectively.
The resulting beverage samples were subjected to sensory evaluation for rating the attributes, which were sweetness on-set, lingering sweet aftertaste, bitterness and lingering bitter aftertaste. Panelists who had been trained about sensory attributes of sweeteners (7 s) evaluated based on the following evaluation criteria. For each evaluation item, the steviol glycosides were scored in 0.5 increments provided that the score of sugar was 3.
A higher score ents faster sweetness on-set, shorter lingering sweet aftertaste, less bitterness and shorter lingering bitter aftertaste. The results are shown in Figure 14.
The evaluation scores shown in the m are the average scores of the scores from the 8 panelists. As a result of the sensory evaluations, Novel steviol glycoside A was found to have less sweetness and shorter lingering bitter aftertaste as compared to other glycosides and less bitterness as compared to other components including sugar.
Sensory evaluation of Novel steviol glycoside B (Compound 17) In order to evaluate the taste quality of various steviol glycosides, Reb.A, Reb.D, Reb.M, sugar and Novel steviol glycoside B (Compound 17) were each added to pure water to prepare beverage samples. All of the beverage samples were adjusted to have final sweetness level (Brix) of 5 in terms of sugar (sucrose), and thus the sweetness levels of Reb.A, Reb.D, Reb.M and Novel l glycoside B (Compound 17) were 288, 310, 324 and 250, respectively.
The ing beverage samples were ted to sensory evaluation for rating the attributes, which were sweetness on-set, lingering sweet aftertaste, bitterness and lingering bitter aftertaste. Panelists who had been trained about sensory attributes of sweeteners (7 members) evaluated based on the following evaluation criteria. For each evaluation item, the steviol glycosides were scored in 0.5 increments provided that the score of sugar was 3.
A higher score ents faster ess on-set, shorter lingering sweet aftertaste, less ness and shorter lingering aftertaste. The results are shown in Figure 15. The evaluation scores shown in the diagram are the average scores of the scores from the 6 sts. As a result of the sensory evaluations, Novel l glycoside B was found to have less bitterness as compared to other glycosides.
Identification of genetic features of plant ning Novel steviol glycosides A and B Lines rich in Novel steviol glycosides A and B (Mutants: ar lines A and B) and lines with small Novel glycosides A and B contents (Wild-types: Cultivar lines X and Y) were used to identify the genetic features specific to the lines rich in Novel steviol glycosides A and B. When the genomes of the respective lines were sequenced, the lines rich in Novel steviol glycosides A and B were found to have substitutions at the 298th, 328th, 360th, 386th, 393rd, 411th, 427th and 453rd bases of SEQ ID NO:1, insertion of 15 bases between the 90th and 91st bases of SEQ ID NO:57, and tutions at the 98th, 102nd, 111th, 113th, 116th, 119th and 122nd bases of SEQ ID NO:59 with respect to the wild-types (nucleotide sequences of the mutant lines corresponding to SEQ ID NOS:1, 57 and 59 are shown as SEQ ID NOS:2, 58 and 60, respectively). In addition, the substitutions in SEQ ID NO:1, the ion in SEQ ID NO:57 and the substitutions in SEQ ID NO:59 were found to exist in the introns of the genes coding for the protein including the amino acid sequences represented by SEQ ID NOS:53, 61 and 63, respectively (herein, sometimes referred to as P1, P2 and P3). Subsequently, whether or not these mutations affect the expression level of each gene was examined. After 100 mg of the expanded leaves of Cultivars A, B, X (SR001) and Y (SS075-49) were cryogenically ground with liquid en, total RNA was extracted using RNAeasy Plant mini kit from QIAGEN according to the manufacturer's protocol. 500 ng of the ted total RNA was used for reverse transcription. For the reverse transcription, cDNA was synthesized using SuperScript IV VILO manufactured by Thermo Fisher Scientific according to the manufacturer's protocol. Semi-quantitative PCR was conducted using 1 µL of a 10-fold dilution of the reverse transcription reaction solution. Semi-quantitative PCR was carried out with Ampdirect manufactured by Shimadzu Corporation according to the manufacturer's protocol. PCR reaction was performed by heat ration at 95ºC for 10 minutes, followed by 32, 33 and 28 cycles of ons at 94ºC for 30 seconds, 55ºC for 30 seconds and 72ºC for 25 seconds, for "P3", "P1 and P2" and "actin and ubiquitin as controls", respectively. PCR on was followed by ophoresis using LabChip GX Touch manufactured by Elmer according to the manufacturer's protocol.
The following primers were used for semi-quantitative PCR.
Forward: CCTGTTCATTACAAATTCAACCCG (SEQ ID NO:55) e: AACCCTAACATGTTCAATGTCCCTA (SEQ ID NO:56) Forward: ATCAGATTTATCATCTTGCATGCCC (SEQ ID NO:65) Reverse: TGCCAATTACATTCGTCTTAATCGT (SEQ ID NO:66) Forward: AAAAGTTGCTGGTTGAAGTTGATCA (SEQ ID NO:67) Reverse: CACACTAAATATGCTTGGTCTTGC (SEQ ID NO:68) Actin Forward: CGCCATCCTCCGTCTTGATCTTGC (SEQ ID NO:69) Reverse: CCGTTCGGCGGTGGTGGTAA (SEQ ID NO:70) Ubiquitin Forward: TTGAAGTGGAGAGTTCCGA (SEQ ID NO:71) Reverse: GCCTCTGTTGGTCCGGTGGG (SEQ ID NO:72) The results of the expression analysis are shown in Figure 16 and Table 4. The numerical values shown in Table 4 are the relative band intensities of the P1-P3 genes to the band intensity of the ubiquitin gene, i.e., 100, in the electrophoresis image shown in Figure 16.
Table 4: Expression levels of P1-P3 genes in each cultivar Sample name P1 P2 P3 Cultivar A 146.27 126.23 99.01 ar B 124.57 107.76 93.79 Cultivar X 0.20 72.14 40.23 ar Y 0.13 94.66 77.95 From these results, the P1 gene was confirmed to be highly expressed in the two lines including Novel Glycosides A and B. The mutations found in the P1 gene exist in the introns and the existence of one or more of these mutations seemed to enhance the expression level of P1, by which the syntheses of Novel ides A and B were promoted in the plant.
Identification of t of Novel Glycoside A in plant having genetic features 1-8 Suitable amounts of fresh leaves were sampled from individuals of Cultivars A, B, X and Y that were used in the above-described ification of genetic features of plant containing Novel steviol glycosides A and B" to quantify the concentrations of the sweetness components by LC/MS-MS (Shimadzu LCMS8050). Specifically, a prescribed amount of fresh leaves was freeze-dried, and the crushed dry pieces were fed into pure water. The resultant was subjected to an ultrasonic treatment for 20 minutes for extraction, centrifuged and filtrated to give 5 mL of a liquid extract. This liquid extract was subjected to LC/MS-MS analysis with LCMS8050 in ion mode (Shimadzu LCMS8050) to quantify the concentrations of Reb.A, Reb.B, Reb.C, Reb.D, Reb.E, Reb.F, Reb.G, Reb.I, Reb.M, Reb.N, stevioside, dulcoside A, steviol bioside, side and Novel steviol glycoside A. The total thereof was considered to be the concentration of the sweetness components t of total steviol ides (TSG) of this example). All of the water content of the dried leaves was less than about 3%. The results are shown in Tables 5-9. The values of the following results are the average values of two measurements.
Table 5: Amount of TSG in dried leaves of each cultivar Sample Weight of stevia Concentration of Amount of Rate of TSG name leaves (g) TSG (mg/L) TSG (mg) (%) Cultivar A 0.0565 1617.35 8.087 14.3% Cultivar B 0.0501 905.42 4.527 9.0% Cultivar X 0.0445 1142.40 5.712 12.9% Cultivar Y 0.0576 1267.14 6.336 11.1% Table 6: Rate of each steviol ide in TSG contained in dried leaves of each cultivar Rate of each steviol glycoside in TSG Novel Sample Reb A Reb B Reb C Reb D Stevioside Reb F Reb M Reb N steviol Total* name glycoside A Cultivar A 40.4% 0.2% 36.6% 0.7% 11.0% 7.9% 0.2% 0.2% 0.061% 100% Cultivar B 64.6% 0.6% 11.8% 7.7% 5.5% 4.0% 2.3% 1.3% 0.205% 100% Cultivar X 24.1% 0.1% 6.1% 0.5% 62.4% 1.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.017% 100% Cultivar Y 38.9% 0.2% 6.5% 1.9% 47.9% 1.7% 0.1% 0.4% 0.045% 100% *: Total content includes Reb A, Reb B, Reb C, Reb D, Reb E, Reb F, Reb G, Reb I, Reb M, Reb N, stevioside, dulcoside A, steviol bioside, rubusoside and Novel steviol glycoside Table 7: Rate of Novel glycoside A relative to eight types of major steviol glycosides*1 Sample name Rate of steviol glycoside A Cultivar A 0.063% Cultivar B 0.210% Cultivar X 0.018% ar Y 0.046% *1: Reb A, Reb B, Reb C, Reb D, Reb F, Reb M, Reb N and stevioside recited in Table 6 Table 8: Rate of each steviol glycoside contained in dried leaves of each cultivars Content of each steviol glycoside in dried leaves Novel steviol Sample Reb A Reb B Reb C Reb D Stevioside Reb F Reb M Reb N TSG glycoside A ar A 5.8% 0.0% 5.2% 0.1% 1.6% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.009% 14.3% Cultivar B 5.8% 0.1% 1.1% 0.7% 0.5% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.019% 9.0% ar X 3.1% 0.0% 0.8% 0.1% 8.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.002% 12.9% Cultivar Y 4.3% 0.0% 0.7% 0.2% 5.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.005% 11.1% Table 9: Rate of Novel l glycoside A relative to each steviol glycoside contained in dried leaves of each cultivar Rate of Novel steviol glycoside A ve to each steviol glycoside contained in dried leaves Sample Reb A+ Reb A Reb B Reb C Reb D Stevioside Reb F Reb M Reb N name Stevioside ar A 0.15% 30.00% 0.16% 8.57% 0.55% 0.76% 30.00% 30.00% 0.12% Cultivar B 0.33% 35.00% 1.78% 2.73% 3.82% 5.25% 9.13% 16.15% 0.30% Cultivar X 0.08% 20.00% 0.33% 4.00% 0.03% 1.67% - 20.00% 0.02% Cultivar Y 0.13% 25.00% 0.77% 2.63% 0.10% 2.94% 50.00% 12.50% 0.06% Identification of content of Novel Glycoside B in plant having genetic features 1-8 Suitable amounts of fresh leaves were d from individuals of Cultivars B and X that were used in the above-described "Identification of genetic features of plant containing Novel steviol glycosides A and B" to quantify the concentrations of the sweetness components by LC/MS-MS (Shimadzu LCMS8050). ically, a prescribed amount of fresh leaves was freeze-dried, and the crushed dry pieces were fed into pure water. The resultant was subjected to an ultrasonic treatment for 20 minutes for extraction, centrifuged and filtrated to give 5 mL of a liquid extract. This liquid extract was subjected to LC/MS-MS analysis with LCMS8050 in ion mode (Shimadzu LCMS8050) to quantify the concentrations of Reb.A, Reb.B, Reb.C, Reb.D, Reb.E, Reb.F, Reb.G, Reb.I, Reb.M, Reb.N, stevioside, dulcoside A, steviol bioside, rubusoside and Novel steviol glycoside B. The total thereof was ered to be the tration of the sweetness components (amount of total steviol glycosides (TSG) of this example). All of the water content of the dried leaves was less than about 3%. The results are shown in Tables 10-14.
Table 10: Amount of TSG in dried leaves of each cultivar Weight of stevia Concentration of Amount of Rate of TSG Sample name leaves (g) TSG (mg/L) TSG (mg) (%) ar B 0.0524 777.42 3.887 7.4% Cultivar X 0.0553 1672.45 8.362 15.1% Table 11: Rate of each steviol glycoside in TSG ned in dried leaves of each cultivar Rate of each steviol glycoside in TSG Novel Sample Reb A Reb B Reb C Reb D Stevioside Reb F Reb M Reb N steviol Total* name glycoside B Cultivar B 66.6% 0.7% 7.2% 10.0% 4.1% 2.2% 4.9% 1.9% 1.328% 100% Cultivar X 30.8% 0.1% 6.0% 0.8% 58.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.000% 100% *: Total content includes Reb A, Reb B, Reb C, Reb D, Reb E, Reb F, Reb G, Reb I, Reb M, Reb N, stevioside, dulcoside A, steviol bioside, rubusoside and Novel steviol glycoside Table 12: Rate of Novel glycoside B relative to eight types of major steviol glycosides*1 Sample name Rate of steviol glycoside B Cultivar B 1.360% Cultivar X 0.000% *1: Reb A, Reb B, Reb C, Reb D, Reb F, Reb M, Reb N and stevioside recited in Table 11 Table 13: Rate of each steviol glycoside contained in dried leaves of each cultivars Content of each steviol glycoside in dried leaves Novel steviol Sample Reb A Reb B Reb C Reb D Stevioside Reb F Reb M Reb N TSG glycoside B Cultivar B 4.9% 0.1% 0.5% 0.7% 0.3% 0.2% 0.4% 0.1% 0.099% 7.4% ar X 4.7% 0.0% 0.9% 0.1% 8.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.000% 15.1% Table 14: Rate of Novel steviol ide B relative to each steviol glycoside contained in dried leaves of each cultivar Rate of Novel steviol glycoside B relative to each steviol glycoside contained in dried leaves Sample Reb A+ Reb A Reb B Reb C Reb D Stevioside Reb F Reb M Reb N name Stevioside Cultivar B 1.99% 178.85% 18.32% 13.29% 32.22% 59.12% 27.25% 71.02% 1.88%

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1. A compound represented by Formula (1), or a salt or a hydrate thereof: wherein, (i) R1 represents Xyl(1-2)Glc1- while R2 represents Glc(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-; or (ii) R1 represents Glc(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1- while R2 ents Xyl(1-2)[Glc(1-3)]Glc1-, where Glc represents glucose and Xyl represents .
2. The compound according to Claim 1, or a salt or a hydrate thereof, wherein the compound is represented by Formula (2) or (3) below:
3. The compound according to Claim 1 or 2, or a salt or a hydrate thereof, wherein the compound is ented by Formula (4) or (5) below: 19495372_1 (GHMatters) P117771.NZ
4. The compound according to any one of Claims 1 to 3, wherein the compound is a plant-derived product, a ally synthesized product or a biosynthetic product.
5. A food or beverage comprising the compound according to any one of Claims 1 to 4 in an amount of 1-600 mass ppm.
6. A sweetener composition comprising the compound according to any one of Claims 1 to 4 in an amount of 1-99 wt%.
7. The sweetener composition according to Claim 6, r comprising one or more types of steviol glycosides selected from the group consisting of rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B, ioside C, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside E, rebaudioside F, rebaudioside I, rebaudioside J, rebaudioside K, rebaudioside N, ioside M, ioside O, rebaudioside Q, rebaudioside R, dulcoside A, dulcoside C, rubusoside, steviol, steviol monoside, steviol bioside and stevioside.
8. Use of the compound according to any one of Claims 1 to 3 as a sweetener.
9. The compound according to Claim 1, or a salt or a hydrate thereof, substantially as herein described with nce to any one of the Examples or Figures.
10. The food or beverage according to Claim 5, substantially as herein described with reference to any one of the Examples or Figures. 19495372_1 (GHMatters) P117771.NZ
11. The ner composition according to Claim 6, substantially as herein described with reference to any one of the Examples or Figures.
12. The use according to Claim 8, substantially as herein described with reference to any one of the Examples or Figures. 19495372_1 (GHMatters) P117771.NZ 2/102/10 803.37 90 MS/MS 1097.5 —> €50 : 0H ?ne 110,30: H E H0 :2 641.32 . HEW 641.32 2: M83 :3 0 5° 1097.5 —> 803.4 ngo 30 Deduced structure of Novel stewol glycosrde 1E 211 623.31 :17 714132347927 10 ‘ ‘ "" 0 1"1 I‘I'I 1‘ 1""! 11"‘1'1II'I'"1‘|"T"‘"I""1‘1|“Im'FI"T'1?“|W"FF|m1V"IP1m|“II"'|"""'|""‘T‘ WIi 300 400 500 EDD 700 900 900 1000 110.1 1200 1300
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