1971 Volume 35 Issue 6 Pages 885-889
It has been demonstrated regarding the formation of ketosphingosine base that the en-zymatic condensation of palmitoyl-CoA with serine in the particulate preparation from rat liver produces only ketodihydrosphingosine in the absence of flavin nucleotide but produces ketosphingosine as well as ketodihydrosphingosine in the presence of flavin nucleotide. The findings suggest that ketodihydrosphingosine is formed first from the enzymatic reaction of palmitoyl-CoA with serine and then converted to ketosphingosine by dehydrogenation with the flavin enzyme.
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