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- unsaturated version of phytane. Phytene is also found as the functional group phytyl in many organic molecules of biological importance such as chlorophyll,...
- Appended to the chlorin ring are various side chains, usually including a long phytyl chain (C20H39O). The most widely distributed form in terrestrial plants...
- tocopherols and tocotrienols by position of methyl groups, the tocopherols have a phytyl tail with three chiral points or centers that can have a right or left orientation...
- 3-hydroxy-2-methyl-3-phytyl-2,3-dihydronaphthoquinone + oxidized dithiothreitol ⇌{\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } 2,3-epoxy-2,3-dihydro-2-methyl-3-phytyl-1,4-naphthoquinone...
- presence of a phytyl sidechain. Vitamin K1 has an (E) trans double bond responsible for its biological activity, and two chiral centers on the phytyl sidechain...
- 2-methyl-3-phytyl-1,4-naphthoquinone + oxidized dithiothreitol ⇌{\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } 2,3-epoxy-2,3-dihydro-2-methyl-3-phytyl-1,4-naphthoquinone...
- animal tissues (arterial walls, pancreas, and testes) by replacement of the phytyl tail with an unsaturated geranylgeranyl tail containing four isoprene units...
- chlorophyll a by catalysing the reaction EC 2.5.1.62 chlorophyllide a + phytyl diphosphate ⇌{\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } chlorophyll a + diphosphate...
- reductase. This compound is used for the biosynthesis of tocopherols and the phytyl functional group is used in the formation of chlorophyll a, ubiquinones...
- phytyl diphosphate ⇌{\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } chlorophyll a + diphosphate The two substrates of this enzyme are chlorophyllide a and phytyl...