α-seco-amyrin synthase (EC 5.4.99.52) is an enzyme with systematic name (3S)-2,3-epoxy-2,3-dihydrosqualene mutase (cyclizing, alpha-seco-amyrin-forming).[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
| α-seco-amyrin synthase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 5.4.99.52 | ||||||||
| 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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- (3S)-2,3-epoxy-2,3-dihydrosqualene alpha-seco-amyrin
The enzyme from Arabidopsis thaliana is multifunctional.
References
edit- ^ Shibuya M, Xiang T, Katsube Y, Otsuka M, Zhang H, Ebizuka Y (February 2007). "Origin of structural diversity in natural triterpenes: direct synthesis of seco-triterpene skeletons by oxidosqualene cyclase". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129 (5): 1450–5. doi:10.1021/ja066873w. PMID 17263431.
External links
edit- Alpha-seco-amyrin+synthase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
