Lycopene epsilon-cyclase
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Lycopene ε-cyclase | |||||||||
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EC no. | 5.5.1.18 | ||||||||
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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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Lycopene ε-cyclase (EC 5.5.1.18, CrtL-e, LCYe) is an enzyme with systematic name carotenoid psi-end group lyase (decyclizing).[1][2] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Lycopene_%CE%B5-cyclase.svg/320px-Lycopene_%CE%B5-cyclase.svg.png)
carotenoid psi-end group carotenoid epsilon-end group
The carotenoid lycopene has the psi-end group at both ends.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Lycopene_%CE%B5-cyclase2.svg/600px-Lycopene_%CE%B5-cyclase2.svg.png)
References
[edit]- ^ Cunningham FX, Gantt E (February 2001). "One ring or two? Determination of ring number in carotenoids by lycopene epsilon-cyclases". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 98 (5): 2905–10. doi:10.1073/pnas.051618398. PMC 30238. PMID 11226339.
- ^ Stickforth P, Steiger S, Hess WR, Sandmann G (June 2003). "A novel type of lycopene epsilon-cyclase in the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus MED4". Archives of Microbiology. 179 (6): 409–15. doi:10.1007/s00203-003-0545-4. PMID 12712234. S2CID 35630901.
External links
[edit]- Lycopene+epsilon-cyclase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)