Cucurbitadienol synthase, the first committed enzyme for cucurbitacin biosynthesis, is a distinct enzyme from cycloartenol synthase for phytosterol biosynthesis

By M. Shibuya, S. Adachi, Y. Ebizuka. 2004

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Subfields: Biochemistry, Immunology, Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. (2009, background): “) is the first committed enzyme in the cucurbitacin biosynthesis pathwa”
• A linkage map of cultivated cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) with 248 microsatellite marker loci and seven genes for horticulturally important traits (2011, background): “Cucurbitacins, a group of highly oxygenated tetracyclic triterpenes, occur widely in Cucurbitaceae species (Shibuya et al. 2004).”
• Triterpene biosynthesis in plants. (2014, background): “Some plant OSCs synthesize molecules other than cholesterol and lanosterol via the CBC fold; examples include cucurbitadienol synthase (CPX) from Cucurbita pepo (130) and parkeol synthase (OsPS) from rice (Oryza sativa) (56) (Table 1).”