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Studies with radioactive leucine, isoleucine, valine and acetate showed that in Flavobacterium spec. strain C1/2 leucine can function as the precursor of the terminally branched alkyl substituents in flexirubin-type pigments.
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Part 25 in the series “Investigations on Metabolites of Microorganisms”. For Part 24 see H. Achenbach, A. Böttger-Vetter, D. Hunkler, E. Fautz and H. Reichenbach, Tetrahedron, in the press
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Achenbach, H., Böttger-Vetter, A., Fautz, E. et al. On the origin of the branched alkyl substituents on ring B of flexirubin-type pigments. Arch. Microbiol. 132, 241–244 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00407958
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