1962 Volume 52 Issue 6 Pages 423-427
1. The formation of phosphorylated derivatives of mevalonic acid in the presence of adenosine triphosphate and Mn++ by enzymes extracted from Staphylococcus is described.
2. One of the products was purified by various chromatographic procedures and shown to be identical with 5-phosphomeva-lonic acid.
3. 5-Phosphomevalonic acid was shown to be converted to phytoene with twice the efficiency of the DL-mevalonic acid.