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Science 24 June 1966:
Vol. 152. no. 3730, pp. 1750 - 1752
DOI: 10.1126/science.152.3730.1750
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Homolanthionine Excretion in Homocystinuria

Thomas L. Perry 1, Shirley Hansen 1, and Lynne MacDougall 1

1 Department of Pharmacology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 8, Canada

Patients with homocystinuria excrete in their urine small amounts of an amino acid indistinguishable from authentic L-homolanthionine. This compound could be formed from homocysteine and homoserine by a condensation analogous to that normally leading to cystathionine. The only other known occurrence of homolanthionine in nature is in a methionine-requiring mutant strain of Escherichia coli.


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