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41719

(3S)-2,3-Oxidosqualene

≥97.5% (HPLC)

Synonym(s):

(S)-2,3-Epoxy-2,3-dihydrosqualene, (S)-22,23-Epoxy-2,6,10,15,19,23-hexamethyl-2,6,10,14,18-tetracosapentaene, (S)-Squalene 2,3-epoxide, (S)-Squalene 2,3-oxide

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About This Item

Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C30H50O
CAS Number:
54910-48-4
Molecular Weight:
426.72
MDL number:
MFCD28100799
UNSPSC Code:
12352204
PubChem Substance ID:
329756144
NACRES:
NA.28

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Assay

≥97.5% (HPLC)

form

liquid

optical purity

enantiomeric excess: ≥90.0%

suitability

conforms to structure for Proton NMR spectrum

storage temp.

−20°C

SMILES string

CC1(C)O[C@H]1CC/C(C)=C/CC/C(C)=C/CC/C=C(C)/CC/C=C(C)/CCC=C(C)C

InChI

1S/C30H50O/c1-24(2)14-11-17-27(5)20-12-18-25(3)15-9-10-16-26(4)19-13-21-28(6)22-23-29-30(7,8)31-29/h14-16,20-21,29H,9-13,17-19,22-23H2,1-8H3/b25-15+,26-16+,27-20+,28-21+/t29-/m0/s1

InChI key

QYIMSPSDBYKPPY-RSKUXYSASA-N

Application


  • Schizophrenic behavior of 2,3-Oxidosqualene Sterol Cyclase from pig liver towards 2,3-oxidosqualene analogues. Alain Krief and colleagues discuss the variable catalytic behaviors of oxidosqualene cyclase when interacting with different oxidosqualene analogues, suggesting implications for sterol production efficiency and specificity (Krief et al., 2021).


Biochem/physiol Actions

(S)-2,3-Epoxysqualene is an intermediate of many metabolic pathways such as the steroid biosynthesis, sesquiterpenoid and triterpenoid biosynthesis, biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites, biosynthesis of terpenoids and steroids, biosynthesis of plant hormones, biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, and biosynthesis of antibiotics.

Storage Class Code

10 - Combustible liquids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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BCCJ1981
STBH2005
STBD8939V

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Enzymatic cyclization of squalene and oxidosqualene to sterols and triterpenes.
Abe, I., et al.
Chemical Reviews, 93, 2189-2206 (1993)
Dorianne A Castillo et al.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(15), 5885-5894 (2013-04-11)
Plants allocate an estimated 15-25% of their proteome to specialized metabolic pathways that remain largely uncharacterized. Here, we describe a genome mining strategy for exploring such unknown pathways and demonstrate this approach for triterpenoids by functionally characterizing three cytochrome P450s
Deletion of the Gly600 residue of Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius squalene cyclase alters the substrate specificity into that of the eukaryotic-type cyclase specific to (3S)-2,3-oxidosqualene.
Tsutomu Hoshino et al.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 43(48), 6700-6703 (2004-12-14)
Katherine A Mattos et al.
Cellular microbiology, 16(6), 797-815 (2014-02-21)
We recently showed that Mycobacterium leprae (ML) is able to induce lipid droplet formation in infected macrophages. We herein confirm that cholesterol (Cho) is one of the host lipid molecules that accumulate in ML-infected macrophages and investigate the effects of
Z Shi et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 91(15), 7370-7374 (1994-07-19)
The ERG7 gene encoding oxidosqualene-lanosterol cyclase [(S)-2,3-epoxysqualene mutase (cyclizing, lanosterol forming), EC 5.4.99.7] from Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been cloned by genetic complementation of a cyclase-deficient erg7 strain. The DNA sequence of this gene has been determined and found to contain
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