Biosynthesis of triterpenoid hydrocarbons in the alga botryococcus braunii

✍ Scribed by Eliette Casadevall; Pierre Metzger; Marie-Pascale Puech

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 226 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)90198-4

✦ Synopsis

14 C-labelledtracers

were incorporated into botryococcenes, triterpenoid hydrocarbons produced by a variety of the unicellular alga Botrvococcus braunii. Data obtained with L-leucine might support for the biosynthesis the possibility of a non-mevalonoid pathway.