Sesquithujene synthase (EC 4.2.3.102, TPS5-Del1) is an enzyme with systematic name (2E,6E)-farnesyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase (sesquithujene-forming).[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
| Sesquithujene synthase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 4.2.3.102 | ||||||||
| 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 sesquithujene + diphosphate
The enzyme from Zea mays, variety Delprim, gives mainly sesquithujene.
References
edit- ^ Köllner TG, Schnee C, Gershenzon J, Degenhardt J (May 2004). "The variability of sesquiterpenes emitted from two Zea mays cultivars is controlled by allelic variation of two terpene synthase genes encoding stereoselective multiple product enzymes". The Plant Cell. 16 (5): 1115–31. doi:10.1105/tpc.019877. PMC 423204. PMID 15075399.
External links
edit- Sesquithujene+synthase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
