Disparate pathways of prostaglandin biosynthesis in coral and mammalian systems

1 January 1975

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

No. 8,p. 277-278
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39750000277

Abstract

The biosynthetic pathway to prostaglandin A₂(PGA₂) in the coral P. homomalla does not involve PGE₂, PGH₂, PGG₂, or 11-epi-PGE₂ as intermediates and hence differs from that of mammalian systems.

Keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS
DISPARATE
PROSTAGLANDIN
HOMOMALLA
PGG2
PGA2
BIOSYNTHETIC
EPI
PGH2

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