Glucose as a Starting Material Toward Key Building Blocks of the Secondary Metabolism

3 Glucose as a Starting Material Toward Key Building Blocks of the Secondary Metabolism 

Glucose-6-phosphate arises from the phosphorylation of glucose. It is the starting material of glycolysis, an important process of the primary metabolism, which consists in eight enzymatic reactions leading to pyruvic acid (PA) 

From Biosynthesis to Total Synthesis Strategies and Tactics for Natural Products, First Edition. Edited by Alexandres L. Zografos. 2016 John Wiley Sons, Inc. Published 2016 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

Essential to the producer organisms under particular conditions 

SCHEME 1.2 The building block chart, involving glycolysis, and the Krebs cycle. 

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