Mechanism of reduction of double bonds in biological systems: conversion of desmosterol into cholesterol

1 January 1969

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications

No. 21,p. 1287b-1288
https://doi.org/10.1039/c2969001287b

Abstract

The reduction of the 24,25-double bond in chloesterol biosynthesis occurs with the addition of a hydrogen atom from the medium at C-24 and another from the 4-position of NADPH at C-25.

Keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

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