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Photo-induced Benzyl Substitution of Flavins by Phenylacetate: a Possible Model for Flavoprotein Catalysis

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PHOTOREDUCTION of flavins is known to occur with aminoacids1,2 or, intramolecularly, with the ribityl side chain of the flavin3,4 as hydrogen donors. We wish to report here a new photochemical reaction of flavins which could also explain the mechanism of flavin and flavoenzyme catalysis as a whole.

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  1. Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Basel, Switzerland

    P. HEMMERICH

  2. Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    V. MASSEY

  3. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

    G. WEBER

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HEMMERICH, P., MASSEY, V. & WEBER, G. Photo-induced Benzyl Substitution of Flavins by Phenylacetate: a Possible Model for Flavoprotein Catalysis. Nature 213, 728–730 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213728a0

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