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Fruit carotenoid-deficient mutants in tomato reveal a function of the plastidial isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase (IDI1) in carotenoid biosynthesis.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Oct 2016
Pankratov Ilya, McQuinn Ryan, Schwartz Jochanan, Bar Einat, Fei Zhangjun, Lewinsohn Efraim, Zamir Dani, Giovannoni James J, Hirschberg Joseph
Abstract excerpt
Isoprenoids consist of a large class of compounds that are present in all living organisms. They are derived from the 5C building blocks isopentenyl diphosphate (IDP) and its isomer dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMADP). In plants, IDP is synthesized in the cytoplasm from mevalonic acid via the MVA pathway, and in plastids from 2-C-methyl-d-erythritol-4-phosphate through the MEP pathway. The enzyme IDP isomerase...
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