Profound insights into squalene cyclization
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2004.01.008
Profound insights into squalene cyclization
Abstract
In this issue of Chemistry & Biology, our understanding of the formation of pentacyclic hopene from the linear squalene is enhanced by an X-ray structure of a complex between squalene-hopene cyclase and the substrate analog 2-azasqualene.
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Conversion of squalene to the pentacarbocyclic hopene.Chem Biol. 2004 Jan;11(1):121-6. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2003.12.013. Chem Biol. 2004. PMID: 15113001
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