Department of Biochemistry St. Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri 63104, USA
Abstract:
Radioactive 5-desmethylubiquinone-9 has been isolated from mitochondria synthesizing ubiquinone-9-14C from p-hydroxybenzoate-U-14C. By mass spectrometry, the natural 5-desmethylubiquinone-9 has been shown to be identical with that chemically synthesized from fumigatol and solanesol. Synthetic 5-desmethylubiquinone-9-3H can be methylated to ubiquinone-9-3H by S-adenosyl-L-methionine in submitochondrial particles.