Enyzmatic cyclization of 2,3-dihydrosqualene into euph-7-ene by a cell-free system from the protozoon Tetrahymena pyriformis
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 13,p. 902-903
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39910000902
Abstract
The cyclase of the protozoon Tetrahymena pyriformis, which normally converts squalene into the pentacyclic tetrahymanol, cyclized 2,3-dihydrosqualene into euph-7-ene with an unexpected tetracyclic skeleton and back-bone rearrangement.Keywords
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