A Novel Soluble Squalene-Hopene Cyclase and Its Application in Efficient Synthesis of Hopene

Hopene is an important precursor for synthesizing bioactive hopanoids with great commercial value. However, the chemical methods for synthesizing hopene are not efficient to date. Hopene is commonly obtained by extracting from plants or bacteria like other terpenoids, but the complicated extraction...

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Main Authors: Zhen Liu, Yinan Zhang, Jianan Sun, Wen-Can Huang, Changhu Xue, Xiangzhao Mao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00426/full