A Twenty Year Association with Pteridines - Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Abstract

The author has summarised the science in his published works which contained chemistry. biochemistry and molecular biology related to pteridines as a dedication to Professor Wolfgang Pfleiderer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. These publications spanned the period 1977-1997.

Keywords

• reduced pterins
• methylation
• conformations
• absolute configurations of pterin cofactors
• reactivity
• dihydropteridine reductase (dhpr) and substrates
• glyceryl-ether monooxygenase and substrates
• active sites
• cloning
• mutant human dhprs
• mouse dhpr
• cdna sequence