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NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 9, Pages 591-593Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCHEMBIO.617
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [22248012, 21710239, 18380073]
- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) [080028]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22248012, 18380073, 21710239] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The heterothallic species of the agricultural pest Phytophthora use mating hormones alpha 1 and alpha 2 to regulate their sexual reproduction. Here we describe the absolute stereostructure of the second mating hormone alpha 2 as defined by spectroscopic analysis and total synthesis. We have uncovered not only the interspecies universality of alpha hormones but also the pathway by which alpha 2 is biosynthesized from phytol by A2-mating type strains and metabolized to alpha 1 by A1 strains.
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