http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/14/isopentenyl-pyrophosphate-looking-familiar/ Molecules: You'd Better Learn to Live With Them Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:24:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/14/isopentenyl-pyrophosphate-looking-familiar/#comment-332 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:05:18 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/14/isopentenyl-pyrophosphate-looking-familiar/#comment-332 [...] As you can see, the structures of canthaxanthin and beta-carotene are very close. All the carotenes are closely related, actually. If you’ve been reading regularly, you’ll probably make the connection that this is a terpene derivative and biosynthetically derived from a previous MoTD, isopentenyl pyrophosphate. [...] […] As you can see, the structures of canthaxanthin and beta-carotene are very close. All the carotenes are closely related, actually. If you’ve been reading regularly, you’ll probably make the connection that this is a terpene derivative and biosynthetically derived from a previous MoTD, isopentenyl pyrophosphate. […]

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