The Molecular Biology Notebook Online
Metabolic Pathway with Tyrosine as a product
This is an example of a metabolic pathway for Tyrosine. It is the one used by Neurospora crassa.
Chorismate
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(1)
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Prephenate ----(2)----> Phenylpyruvate
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(3)
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L-Phenylalanine---(4)---->L-Tyrosine
Each step of the synthesis is performed by a different enzyme.
- : Chorismate mutase.
- : Prephenate dehydratase
- : Aromatic amino acid transferase
- : Phenylalanine 4 mono-oxygenase.
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