(+)-camphene synthase (EC 4.2.3.116) is an enzyme with systematic name geranyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase [cyclizing, (+)-camphene-forming].[1][2][3][4] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

(+)-camphene synthase
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EC no.4.2.3.116
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geranyl diphosphate (+)-camphene + diphosphate

Cyclase I of Salvia officinalis (sage) gives about equal parts (+)-camphene and (+)-alpha-pinene.

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  1. ^ Gambliel H, Croteau R (January 1984). "Pinene cyclases I and II. Two enzymes from sage (Salvia officinalis) which catalyze stereospecific cyclizations of geranyl pyrophosphate to monoterpene olefins of opposite configuration". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 259 (2): 740–8. PMID 6693393.
  2. ^ Croteau R, Satterwhite DM, Cane DE, Chang CC (July 1988). "Biosynthesis of monoterpenes. Enantioselectivity in the enzymatic cyclization of (+)- and (–)-linalyl pyrophosphate to (+)- and (–)-pinene and (+)- and (–)-camphene". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 263 (21): 10063–71. PMID 3392006.
  3. ^ Wagschal KC, Pyun HJ, Coates RM, Croteau R (February 1994). "Monoterpene biosynthesis: isotope effects associated with bicyclic olefin formation catalyzed by pinene synthases from sage (Salvia officinalis)". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 308 (2): 477–87. doi:10.1006/abbi.1994.1068. PMID 8109978.
  4. ^ Pyun HJ, Wagschal KC, Jung DI, Coates RM, Croteau R (February 1994). "Stereochemistry of the proton elimination in the formation of (+)- and (–)-alpha-pinene by monoterpene cyclases from sage (Salvia officinalis)". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 308 (2): 488–96. doi:10.1006/abbi.1994.1069. PMID 8109979.
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