- In
molecular biology,
biosynthesis is a multi-step, enzyme-catalyzed
process where substrates are
converted into more
complex products in
living organisms...
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Streptoalloteichus tenebrarius is a
bacterium that
biosynthesizes the
aminoglycoside antibiotics tobramycin and apramycin. "Streptoalloteichus tenebrarius"...
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brain and
spinal cord, and in
animal fats and oils.
Cholesterol is
biosynthesized by all
animal cells and is an
essential structural component of animal...
- but, in general,
found in
higher concentrations in the liver. It is
biosynthesized from
palmitic acid by the
action of the
enzyme Stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1...
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sensitive methods are available. Most
microorganisms and
plants can
biosynthesize all 20
standard amino acids,
while animals (including humans) must obtain...
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cinnamic acid by the
enzyme phenylalanine ammonia-lyase.
Phenylalanine is
biosynthesized via the
shikimate pathway. The
genetic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU)...
-
effects in
humans have been
conducted since the
early 1970s.
Mescaline is
biosynthesized from
tyrosine which, in turn, is
derived from
phenylalanine by the enzyme...
- four
isoprene units,
often with the
molecular formula C20H32. They are
biosynthesized by plants,
animals and
fungi via the HMG-CoA
reductase pathway, with...
- from the 1940s. However, it is
unclear whether these compounds are
biosynthesized by
microbes or by
plants and
animals themselves. A
microbial biosynthetic...
- carboxylate-center reactions.
Glycine is not
essential to the
human diet, as it is
biosynthesized in the body from the
amino acid serine,
which is in turn
derived from...
