Synthesis of substrate analogs of methyltransferases in the vitamin B12 biosynthetic pathway and characterization of their enzymatic products
摘要:
The specificity toward substrate analogs of the first two methyltransferases in the vitamin B-12 biosynthetic pathway was probed with 15 synthetic porphyrinogens. Several novel methylated chlorins and isobacteriochlorins were isolated and characterized, suggesting the same methylation sequence C-2 > C-7 > C-20 as for the natural substrate, uro'gen III. The results allow us to narrow down possible structural requirements concerning substrate recognition by the methyltransferase enzymes. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Synthetic and biosynthetic studies of porphyrins. Part 8. Syntheses of hepta-, hexa-, and penta-carboxylic porphyrins related to uroporphyrin-I
作者:Anthony H. Jackson、Damrus Supphayen
DOI:10.1039/p19870000277
日期:——
The title porphyrins, of interest as abnormal metabolites in porphyrin biosynthesis, have been synthesized by the Fischer, and b-oxobilane routes, and compared with the naturally derived materials. Enzymic experiments have shown that the conversion of uroporphyrinogen-I into coproporphyrinogen-I both in vivo and in vitro is non-specific and occurs by both possible pathways via the two intermediate