Assimilation of the antipodal forms of squalene 2,3-oxide by mammalian, yeast, and plant systems

1 January 1974

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 21,p. 861-862
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39740000861

Abstract

(S)-Squalene 2,3-epoxide was found to be the exclusive precursor of lanosterol in pig liver, lanosterol, and ergosterol in yeast (Saccharamyces cerevisiae), and β-amyrin, lupeol and cycloartenol in pea seedlings.

Keywords

ASSIMILATION
ANTIPODAL FORMS
SQUALENE
PEA
PIG
AMYRIN
SEEDLINGS
CYCLOARTENOL