Application | Comment | Organism |
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medicine | understanding of biosynthetic pathway of taxol, target: possibly biological production of taxol, taxol or paclitaxel is now well established as a potent chemotherapeutic drug | Taxus cuspidata |
medicine | understanding of biosynthetic pathway of taxol, target: possibly biological production of taxol, taxol or paclitaxel is now well established as a potent chemotherapeutic drug | Taxus canadensis |
Cloned (Comment) | Organism |
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expression in Escherichia coli | Taxus cuspidata |
expression in Escherichia coli | Taxus canadensis |
Molecular Weight [Da] | Molecular Weight Maximum [Da] | Comment | Organism |
---|---|---|---|
49080 | - |
recombinant enzyme, calculated from amino acid composition | Taxus canadensis |
Natural Substrates | Organism | Comment (Nat. Sub.) | Natural Products | Comment (Nat. Pro.) | Rev. | Reac. |
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additional information | Taxus cuspidata | catalyzes the first acylation step of taxol biosynthesis | ? | - |
? | |
additional information | Taxus canadensis | catalyzes the first acylation step of taxol biosynthesis | ? | - |
? |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Taxus canadensis | - |
- |
- |
Taxus cuspidata | - |
- |
- |
Taxus cuspidata | Q9M6F0 | - |
- |
Purification (Comment) | Organism |
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800fold purification | Taxus canadensis |
Specific Activity Minimum [µmol/min/mg] | Specific Activity Maximum [µmol/min/mg] | Comment | Organism |
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additional information | - |
- |
Taxus canadensis |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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acetyl-CoA + taxa-4(20),11(12)-dien-5alpha-ol | - |
Taxus cuspidata | CoA + taxa-4(20),11-dien-5alpha-yl acetate | - |
? | |
acetyl-CoA + taxa-4(20),11(12)-dien-5alpha-ol | - |
Taxus canadensis | CoA + taxa-4(20),11-dien-5alpha-yl acetate | - |
? | |
additional information | catalyzes the first acylation step of taxol biosynthesis | Taxus cuspidata | ? | - |
? | |
additional information | catalyzes the first acylation step of taxol biosynthesis | Taxus canadensis | ? | - |
? |