Abstract
Glucose is an aliphatic substance, and so the synthesis of phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan from it presents the biochemist with the problem of the biosynthesis of the aromatic nucleus.
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Cohen, G.N. (2014). Biosynthesis of Aromatic Amino Acids and Its Regulation. In: Microbial Biochemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8908-0_31
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