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Abstract
The observation that upon elicitation cell suspension cultures of Eschscholtzia california showed a decrease of dihydromacarpine with a concomittant increase of macarpine led to the discovery of a novel enzyme which catalyzes the oxidation of dihydrobenzophenanthridines in the presence of oxygen. The enzyme was enriched approx. 70-fold. It has a pH-optimum of 7.0, an isoelectric point at pH 8.8, molecular weight of 56 kD and shows a high degree of substrate specificity. The enzyme obviously catalyzes the terminal step in the formation of benzophenanthridine alkaloids containing methylene dioxy substitutions in rings A and D.Entities:
Year: 1988 PMID: 24241413 DOI: 10.1007/BF00272975
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Plant Cell Rep ISSN: 0721-7714 Impact factor: 4.570