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Squalene

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The five carbons of isoprene could be derived metabolically from three molecules of acetate, and the prediction that cholesterol was a product of the cyclization of the linear hydrocarbon squalene.

Squalene contains six isoprene units (delineated by red marks on the structures below), and its configuration makes it a plausible steroid precursor.
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