George W. J. Matcham

Biosynthesis of the pigments of life: formation of the macrocycle

Alan R. Battersby, Christopher J. R. Fookes, George W. J. Matcham et al. · Nature · 1980 · 230 citations · Full text

Biology, Biosynthesis, Natural Pigments +9

Proof by synthesis that unrearranged hydroxymethylbilane is the product from deaminase and the substrate for cosynthetase in the biosynthesis of uro'gen-III

Alan R. Battersby, Christopher J. R. Fookes, Kerstin E. Gustafson-Potter et al. · Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1979 · 61 citations

Biosynthesis, Bioorganic Chemistry, Engineering +11

Order of assembly of the four pyrrole rings during biosynthesis of the natural porphyrins

Alan R. Battersby, Christopher J. R. Fookes, George W. J. Matcham et al. · Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1979 · 54 citations

Biosynthesis, Bioorganic Chemistry, Engineering +14

Biosynthesis of porphyries and related macrocycles. Part 18. Proof by spectroscopy and synthesis that unrearranged hydroxymethylbilane is the product from deaminase and the substrate for cosynthetase in the biosynthesis of uroporphyrinogen-III

Alan R. Battersby, Christopher J. R. Fookes, Kerstin E. Gustafson-Potter et al. · Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1 · 1982 · 51 citations

Transient Intermediate, Biosynthesis, Engineering +13

A novel mechanism of enzymic ester hydrolysis. Inversion of configuration and carbon-oxygen bond cleavage by secondary alkylsulphohydrolases from detergent-degrading micro-organisms

Barbara Bartholomew, K. S. Dodgson, George W. J. Matcham et al. · Biochemical Journal · 1977 · 49 citations · Full text

Novel Mechanism, Biosynthesis, Engineering +15