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A novel type of lycopene epsilon-cyclase in the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus MED4.

Archives of microbiology - 1 Jun 2003

Stickforth Per, Steiger Sabine, Hess Wolfgang R, Sandmann Gerhard

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Chlorophyll- b-possessing cyanobacteria of the genus Prochlorococcus share the presence of high amounts of alpha- and beta-carotenoids with green algae and higher plants. The branch point in carotenoid biosynthesis is the cyclization of lycopene, for which in higher plants two distinct enzymes are required, epsilon- and beta-lycopene cyclase. All cyanobacteria studied so far possess a single beta-cyclase. Here,...

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PMID: 12712234
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-003-0545-4

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