Biosynthesis of protoporphyrin-IX from coproporphyrinogen-III

1 January 1976

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

No. 6,p. 187-188
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39760000187

Abstract

By use of tritium labelled substrates, and h.p.l.c., it is shown that protoporphyrin-IX (1d) is formed from coproporphyrinogen-III (2a)via a specific pathway involving harderoporphyrinogen (2b) rather than its isomer (2c).

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