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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): maXis
ORGANISM(S): Novosphingobium Sp. Chol11
SUBMITTER: Lars Wöhlbrand
LAB HEAD: Lars Wöhlbrand
PROVIDER: PXD022404 | Pride | 2021-04-21
REPOSITORIES: Pride
Frontiers in microbiology 20210323
In contrast to many steroid hormones and cholesterol, mammalian bile salts are 5β-steroids, which leads to a bent structure of the steroid core. Bile salts are surface-active steroids excreted into the environment in large amounts, where they are subject to bacterial degradation. Bacterial steroid degradation is initiated by the oxidation of the A-ring leading to canonical Δ<sup>4</sup>-3-keto steroids with a double bond in the A-ring. For 5β-bile salts, this Δ<sup>4</sup>-double bond is introdu ...[more]