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THE recent discovery of 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid (AEP) and its isolation from certain ciliates and from the sea-anemone is of interest, for these reports1–3 represent the only occasions on which a compound containing a C–P bond has been discovered in biological material. Nothing is as yet known of the biosynthetic pathway by which such a bond is formed. The present communication deals with the initial work on this problem, and is concerned with the distribution of AEP among the cellular components of Tetrahymena and the rate of incorporation of 32P-orthophosphate into the molecule.
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ROSENBERG, H. Distribution and Fate of 2-Aminoethylphosphonic Acid in Tetrahymena. Nature 203, 299–300 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203299b0
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