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Microbial degradation of 2 alpha, 3 alpha-dihydroxy-5 alpha-cholestan-6-one by Mycobacterium vaccae
H M Vorbrodt1, G Adam, A Porzel
1Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Weinbergweg, Germany.
Steroids
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
2 alpha,3 alpha-Dihydroxy-5 alpha-cholestan-6-one (3), which had the substitution pattern of brassinosteroids in the A/B-ring moiety, was transformed by Mycobacterium vaccae to give 2 alpha,3 alpha,6 alpha-trihydroxy-5 alpha-androstan-17-one (4) and 2 alpha-hydroxyandrost-4-ene-3,17-dione (5). The structures of these compounds were determined by spectroscopic methods, especially 1H nuclear magnetic resonance studies.