Structural diversity of the triterpenic hydrocarbons from the bacterium Zymomonas mobilis: The signature of defective squalene cyclization by the squalene/hopene cyclase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 247-251

  Douka, Eugenia ^a,b   Koukkou, Anna Irini ^a,b   Drainas, Constantin ^a   Grosdemange Billiard, Catherine ^b   Rohmer, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Dammarane; Diploptene; Euphane; Fernane; Hopane; Isodammarane; Neohopane; Polypodane; Squalene; Triterpenes; Zymomonas mobilis

Indexed keywords

17 ISODAMMARA 12,24 DIENE; 17 ISODAMMARA 20 (21) 24 DIENE; ALPHA POLYPODATETRAENE; DAMMARA 20 (21) 24 DIENE; DIPLOPTENE; EUPHA 7,24 DIENE; FERN 8 ENE; GAMMA POLYPODATETRAENE; HOP 17 (21)ENE; HOP 21 ENE; HOPANOID; HOPENE CYCLASE; NEOHOP 12 ENE; NEOHOP 13 (18)ENE; SQUALENE; SQUALENE CYCLASE; TRITERPENE DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

CYCLIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LYASES; SQUALENE; TRITERPENES; ZYMOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILICOPHYTA; HUMULUS; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 0035972917     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00190-2     Document Type: Article

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