Formation of an Unusual Secondary Sedoheptulose Phosphate by Hexokinase-Mediated Phosphorylation

Ulja Schmidt; Regine Stiller; Helmut Brade; Joachim Thiem

doi:10.1055/s-1998-1586

Synlett 1998; 1998(2): 125-126
DOI: 10.1055/s-1998-1586

letter

© Georg Thieme Verlag, Rüdigerstr. 14, 70469 Stuttgart, Germany. All rights reserved. This journal, including all individual contributions and illustrations published therein, is legally protected by copyright for the duration of the copyright period. Any use, exploitation or commercialization outside the narrow limits set by copyright legislation, without the publisher's consent, is illegal and liable to criminal prosecution. This applies in particular to photostat reproduction, copying, cyclostyling, mimeographing or duplication of any kind, translating, preparation of microfilms, and electronic data processing and storage.

Formation of an Unusual Secondary Sedoheptulose Phosphate by Hexokinase-Mediated Phosphorylation

Ulja Schmidt^* , Regine Stiller, Helmut Brade, Joachim Thiem

^*Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany; E-mail: thiem@chemie.uni-hamburg.de

Abstract

PDF Download All articles of this category

With the intention of finding facile access to sedoheptulose-7-phosphate (1), the behaviour of sedoheptulose as a substrate of yeast hexokinase was studied. Surprisingly, for the first time the formation of a secondary phosphate, sedoheptulose-6-phosphate (4), was observed

phosphorylation - hexokinase - sedoheptulose - secondary 6-phosphate

PDF (25 kb)