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Shikimic Acid Pathway

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Of the identified biosynthetic paths, shikimic acid pathway plays a very important role in providing precursors of a large number of aromatic compounds of diverse skeletal patterns and substitutions. Chorismic acid, an important branching point product in the shikimic acid pathway also serves as an important precursor. Natural products with C 6 –C 1 or C 6 –C 3 or C 6 –C 3 –C 3 –C 6 unit as their complete skeletal carbon content or partial skeletal carbon content like C 3 –C 6 of C6–C 3 –C 6 system utilize these precursors.

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Talapatra, S.K., Talapatra, B. (2015). Shikimic Acid Pathway. In: Chemistry of Plant Natural Products. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45410-3_13

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