Substrate stereospecificity in the metabolism of fucosterol and isofucosterol 24,28-epoxides in Tenebrio molitor
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 2,p. 480-483
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19810000480
Abstract
It is shown that the insect Tenebrio molitor is able to convert the (24R,28S)-isofucosterol epoxide into cholesterol much better than the (24S,28R)-isomer; on the other hand, the (24R,28R)- and the (24S,28S)-fucosterol epoxides are transformed into cholesterol at about the same extent.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: