Tracing the Path from 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate to the Benzoquinone Ring of Q6 and the p-aminobenzoate pathway in Yeast
María José Valera, Mauricio Mastrogiovanni, Lucía Fernández-del-Río, Eduardo Boido, Juan Carlos Ramos, Eduardo Manta, Eduardo S. Dellacassa, Rafael Radí, Catherine Freitag Clarke, Francisco Carrau
The paper identifies the 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate pathway in yeast for synthesizing the benzoquinone ring of coenzyme Q6 and shows metabolic flexibility through the p-aminobenzoate pathway.
bioRxiv · Jun 25, 2026 · PreprintBiochemistry