Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1 · 1976 · 53 citations · 0 references
Life SciencesBiochemistryMicrobiologyMetabolismMycologyNatural Product BiosynthesisFungal BiochemistryFungal MetabolismFungal Natural Product BiosynthesisFungal PhysiologyFungal Secondary MetabolitesSecondary Metabolite BiosynthesisBiosynthetic Pathway ElucidationChemical LabellingEnrichmentFungal Bioactive CompoundsFungal Carbon MetabolismFungal Metabolite BiosynthesisFungal Natural Product Pathway ElucidationFungal Terpenoid Biosynthesis
Carbon-13 and carbon-14 labelling experiments have shown that the fungal xanthone ravenelin (1) is acetatederived. Enrichment studies with [1,2–13C]acetate have demonstrated that an oxygenated benzophenone derivative is an intermediate in the biosynthetic pathway.