Biosynthesis of natural porphyrins: enzymic experiments on isomeric bilanes
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 23,p. 1064-1066
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39780001064
Abstract
The deaminase–cosynthetase enzyme system ring closes the unrearranged bilane (2) far more efficiently than it closes any of five synthesised isomeric bilanes, thus supporting (2) as the key intermediate of type-III porphyrin biosynthesis.Keywords
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