Biology:(+)-beta-pinene synthase

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Short description: Enzyme
(+)-β-pinene synthase
Identifiers
EC number4.2.3.122
Databases
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(+)-β-Pinene synthase (EC 4.2.3.122, (+)-pinene cyclase, cyclase III) is an enzyme with systematic name geranyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase [(+)-β-pinene-forming].[1][2] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

geranyl diphosphate [math]\displaystyle{ \rightleftharpoons }[/math] (+)-β-pinene + diphosphate

Cyclase III from Salvia officinalis (sage) gives roughly equal parts of (+)-β-pinene and (+)-α-pinene.

References

  1. "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. February 1994. doi:10.1006/abbi.1994.1068. PMID 8109978. 
  2. "Stereochemistry of the proton elimination in the formation of (+)- and (-)-α-pinene by monoterpene cyclases from sage (Salvia officinalis)". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 308 (2): 488–96. February 1994. doi:10.1006/abbi.1994.1069. PMID 8109979. 

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