"Cation-Stitching Cascade": Exquisite control of terpene cyclization in cyclooctatin biosynthesis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sato, Hajime ^a,b   Teramoto, Kazuya ^a   Masumoto, Yui ^a,b   Tezuka, Noriyuki ^a,b   Sakai, Kenta ^c   Ueda, Shota ^c   Totsuka, Yusuke ^c   Shinada, Tetsuro ^c   Nishiyama, Makoto ^a   Wang, Chao ^a,b   Kuzuyama, Tomohisa ^a   Uchiyama, Masanobu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Elements Chemistry Laboratory   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION; CYCLOOCTATIN; DITERPENE; TERPENE;

CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

CATIONS; CYCLIZATION; DITERPENES; ISOTOPE LABELING; STEREOISOMERISM; TERPENES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84950295707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18471     Document Type: Article

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