The Journal of Antibiotics
Online ISSN : 1881-1469
Print ISSN : 0021-8820
ISSN-L : 0021-8820
BIOSYNTHESIS OF THE FORMYCIN FAMILY
TAKEHIKO KUNIMOTO, TSUTOMU SAWA, TAKASHI WAKASHIRO, MAKOTO HORI, HAMAO UMEZAWA
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1971 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 253-258

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It is strongly suggested that none of adenine, adenosine, pool-adenylic acid and RNA-adenine is a direct precursor of formycin while that ribose is exclusively incorporated into the ribosyl moiety. Biosynthesis of formycin does not seem to be closely related to purine metabolism.

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