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Lanosterol

About: Lanosterol is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1239 publications have been published within this topic receiving 36737 citations. The topic is also known as: (3β)-lanosta-8,24-dien-3-ol & (3β,20R)-lanosta-8,24-dien-3-ol.


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TL;DR: The conversion of the two-carbon acetyl-CoA to the twenty-seven-carbon, tetracyclic cholesterol via the mevalonate pathway is a remarkable feat of anabolic engineering that expends approximately one hundred ATP equivalents and eleven oxygen molecules.

7 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a new method for the degradation of the side chain of lanosterol and bile acids is described, brought about by the action of molecular oxygen on basic solutions of the phenyl ketones ( 1, 7, and 15 ).

7 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202331
202261
202120
202023
201914
201822