BIOSYNTHESIS OF EPIDITHIODIOXOPIPERAZINES

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KIRBY, GW
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[1] Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
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10.1351/pac197951040705
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O6 [化学];
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0703 ;
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Studies on the biosynthesis of gliotoxin (3), the first known member of the epidithiodioxopiperazine group of fungal metabolites, are reviewed. Phenylalanine is incorporated into gliotoxin, without loss or migration of aryl-hydrogen, by a pathway which may involve an arene oxide. cyclo-(L-Phenylalanyl-L-seryl) is identified as an intermediate and is efficiently (ca. 50%) converted into gliotoxin in Trichoderma viride. Structural analogues of cyclo-(L-Phe-L-Ser) are also efficiently metabolised and their products provide insight into the nature, and possibly sequence, of transformations occurring in the organism. © IUPAC
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