Novel carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase catalyzes the first dedicated step in saffron crocin biosynthesis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 33, 2014, Pages 12246-12251

  Frusciante, Sarah ^a,b   Diretto, Gianfranco ^a   Bruno, Mark ^c   Ferrante, Paola ^a   Pietrella, Marco ^a   Prado Cabrero, Alfonso ^d   Rubio Moraga, Angela ^e   Beyer, Peter ^c   Gomez Gomez, Lourdes ^e   Al Babili, Salim ^c,d   Giuliano, Giovanni ^a  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Symmetric carotenoid cleavage; citraurin

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; BETA CRYPTOXANTHIN; BETA IONONE; CAROTENOID CLEAVAGE DIOXYGENASE 1; CAROTENOID CLEAVAGE DIOXYGENASE 2; CROCETIN; CROCETIN DIALDEHYDE; CROCIN; DIOXYGENASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEAXANTHIN; ZEAXANTHIN CLEAVAGE DIOXYGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL BOND; CHROMOPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCUS SATIVUS; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSPERM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; MAIZE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PISTIL STIGMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

SYMMETRIC CAROTENOID CLEAVAGE; Β-CITRAURIN;

BIOCATALYSIS; CAROTENOIDS; CROCUS; DIOXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84906319224     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404629111     Document Type: Article

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