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Studies in Terpenoid Biosynthesis. Part 35. Biosynthetic Sequences leading to the Diterpenoid Aphidicolin in Cephalosporium aphidicola
Ackland, Mark J.,Gordon, John F.,Hanson, James R.,Yeoh, Boon Leng,Ratcliffe, Arnold H.
, p. 1477 - 1480 (2007/10/02)
-Labelled samples of 18-hydroxyaphidicol-16-ene, 3α,18-dihydroxyaphidicol-16-ene, 16β,17- and 16β,18-dihydroxyaphidicolane, and 3α,16β,18- and 16β,17,18-triyhdroxyaphidicolane have been prepared from aphidicolin and shown to be incorporated into aphidicolin by Cephalosporium aphidicola to the extent of 0.86, 16.4, 3.5, 20.5, 52.6, and 16,9 percent , respectively.These results suggest that although the major pathway of aphidicolin biosynthesis involves the 16β-alcohols , the 16-enes may also utilized whilst a metabolic grid relationship may exist between the variously hydroxylated 16β-alcohols.
