IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 4.2.3.201

Accepted name: hydropyrene synthase

Reaction: geranylgeranyl diphosphate = hydropyrene + diphosphate

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Glossary: hydropyrene = (1R,3aR,3a1S,5aR,5a1S,8aS,10aS)-1,5a,8a-trimethyl-4-methylidenehexadecahydropyrene

Other name(s): HpS

Systematic name: geranylgeranyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase (cyclizing, hydropyrene-forming)

Comments: Isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces clavuligerus. The 1-proR hydrogen atom of geranylgeranyl diphosphate is lost in the reaction. The enzyme also produces hydropyrenol, isoelisabethatriene and traces of other diterpenoids. cf. EC 4.2.3.202, hydropyrenol synthase, and EC 4.2.3.203, isoelisabethatriene synthase.

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References:

1. Rinkel, J., Rabe, P., Chen, X., Kollner, T.G., Chen, F. and Dickschat, J.S. Mechanisms of the diterpene cyclases β-pinacene synthase from Dictyostelium discoideum and hydropyrene synthase from Streptomyces clavuligerus. Chem. Eur. J. 23 (2017) 10501-10505. [PMID: 28696553]

[EC 4.2.3.201 created 2019]


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