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The Reaction Mechanism of the Enzyme-Catalyzed Central Cleavage of β-Carotene to Retinal

✍ Scribed by Michele G. Leuenberger; Caroline Engeloch-Jarret; Wolf-D. Woggon

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
167 KB
Volume
113
Category
Article
ISSN
0044-8249

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## Dedicated to Professor Albert Eschenmoser on the occasion of his 75th birthday The enzymes (carotene dioxygenases, CDOs) that cleave b,b-carotene 1 to provide retinal 2 as a precursor for retinol (vitamin A) are of significance to animal and human nutrition. To date two modes of cleavage of 1