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The cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP96A15 is the midchain alkane hydroxylase responsible for formation of secondary alcohols and ketones in stem cuticular wax of Arabidopsis.
Plant physiology - 1 Nov 2007
Greer Stephen, Wen Miao, Bird David, Wu Xuemin, Samuels Lacey, Kunst Ljerka, Jetter Reinhard
Abstract excerpt
Most aerial surfaces of plants are covered by cuticular wax that is synthesized in epidermal cells. The wax mixture on the inflorescence stems of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) is dominated by alkanes, secondary alcohols, and ketones, all thought to be formed sequentially in the decarbonylation pathway of wax biosynthesis. Here, we used a reverse-genetic approach to identify a cytochrome P450 enzyme...
Topics
- Alcohols
- Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP4A
- Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
- Flowers
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Ketones
- Molecular Sequence Data