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Physcomitrella PpORS, basal to plant type III polyketide synthases in phylogenetic trees, is a very long chain 2'-oxoalkylresorcinol synthase.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 25 Jan 2013
Kim Sun Young, Colpitts Che C, Wiedemann Gertrud, Jepson Christina, Rahimi Mehrieh, Rothwell Jordan R, McInnes Adam D, Hasebe Mitsuyasu, Reski Ralf, Sterenberg Brian T, Suh Dae-Yeon
Abstract excerpt
The plant type III polyketide synthases (PKSs), which produce diverse secondary metabolites with different biological activities, have successfully co-evolved with land plants. To gain insight into the roles that ancestral type III PKSs played during the early evolution of land plants, we cloned and characterized PpORS from the moss Physcomitrella. PpORS has been proposed to closely resemble the most recent...
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