Thujopsene synthase (EC 4.2.3.79) is an enzyme with systematic name (2E,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate lyase (cyclizing, (+)-thujopsene-forming).[1][2] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
| Thujopsene synthase | |||||||||
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| EC no. | 4.2.3.79 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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- (2E,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate (+)-thujopsene + diphosphate
The recombinant enzyme from the plant Arabidopsis thaliana produces (+)-α-barbatene, (+)-thujopsene and (+)-β-chamigrene.
References edit
- ^ Wu S, Schoenbeck MA, Greenhagen BT, Takahashi S, Lee S, Coates RM, Chappell J (July 2005). "Surrogate splicing for functional analysis of sesquiterpene synthase genes". Plant Physiology. 138 (3): 1322–33. doi:10.1104/pp.105.059386. PMC 1176406. PMID 15965019.
- ^ Tholl D, Chen F, Petri J, Gershenzon J, Pichersky E (June 2005). "Two sesquiterpene synthases are responsible for the complex mixture of sesquiterpenes emitted from Arabidopsis flowers" (PDF). The Plant Journal. 42 (5): 757–71. doi:10.1111/j.1365-313x.2005.02417.x. PMID 15918888.
External links edit
- Thujopsene+synthase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
