Studies in the biosynthesis of fungal metabolites. The biosynthesis of palitantin
- 1 October 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 77 (1) , 91-96
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0770091
Abstract
The biosynthesis of palitantin, C14H22O4, an alicyclic metabolite of Penicillium palitans and also of P. cyclopium, has been studied. Degradations of labelled palitantin derived from [1-14c]acetate strongly support a biosynthetic mechanism involving the head-to-tail condensation of acetate units. The biosynthetic pathway does not appear to involve mevalonic acid.Keywords
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