Cyclization of 2,3-oxidosqualene to cycloartenol in a cell-free system from higher plants

✍ Scribed by H.H. Rees; L.J. Goad; T.W. Goodwin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 157 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)75620-6

✦ Synopsis

It has recently been demonstrated that the conversion of squalene into lanosterol in animal systems proceeds in two distinct steps, involving initisl oxidation of the squalene to 2,3-oxidosqualene (I), which subsequently cyclizes to