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Glycine data from LIS
Type | Family |
Description | This entry represents phytoene desaturase (PDS) from plants and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). It is an essential carotenoid biosynthetic enzyme. It converts phytoene into zeta-carotene via the intermediary of phytofluene by the symmetrical introduction of two double bonds at the C-11 and C-11' positions of phytoene with a concomitant isomerization of two neighbouring double bonds at the C9 and C9' positions from trans to cis [ , ].This entry does not include plant chloroplast transit peptides and the entry does not contain zeta-carotene desaturase, which is a closely related family in the same pathway. |
Short Name | Phytoene_desaturase |