Chemistry of extradiol aromatic ring cleavage: isolation of a stable dienol ring fission intermediate and stereochemistry of its enzymatic hydrolytic clevage
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 10,p. 1163-1164
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39940001163
Abstract
The meta-ring fission intermediate on the phenylpropionate catabolic pathway exists as a stable trans-dienol; its breakdown by hydrolase enzyme MhpC proceeds with overall replacement of the succinyl group by a proton from water with retention of stereochemistry.Keywords
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