a biological precursor used in cancer research and self-assembled monolayers
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Protoporphyrin IX is an important precursor to biologically essential prosthetic groups such as heme, cytochrome c, and chlorophylls. As a result, a number of organisms are able to synthesize this tetrapyrrole from basic precursors such as glycine and succinyl CoA, or glutamate. Despite the wide range of organisms that synthesize protoporphyrin IX the process is largely conserved from bacteria to mammals with a few distinct exceptions in higher plants. Protoporphyrin IX has been used to build self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) attached to gold electrodes. It also has implications in research for photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT).
