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4.2.3.107

Accepted name:

(+)-car-3-ene synthase

Reaction:

geranyl diphosphate = (+)-car-3-ene + diphosphate

For diagram of monoterpenoid biosynthesis, click here

Glossary:

(+)-car-3-ene = (1S,6R)-3,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[4.1.0]hept-3-ene

Other name(s):

3-carene cyclase; 3-carene synthase; 3CAR; (+)-3-carene synthase

Systematic name:

geranyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase [cyclizing, (+)-car-3-ene-forming]

Comments:

The enzyme reacts with (3S)-linalyl diphosphate twice as rapidly as geranyl diphosphate, but 25 times as rapidly as (3R)-linalyl diphosphate. It is assumed that (3S)-linalyl diphosphate is normally formed as an enzyme bound intermediate in the reaction. In the reaction the 5-pro-R hydrogen of geranyl diphosphate is eliminated during cyclopropane ring formation [1,2]. In Picea abies (Norway spruce) and Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce) terpinolene is also formed [4,6]. See EC 4.2.3.113 terpinolene synthase. (+)-Car-3-ene is associated with resistance of Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce) to white pine weevil [6].

Links to other databases:

BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, MetaCyc

References:

1.	Savage, T.J. and Croteau, R. Biosynthesis of monoterpenes: regio- and stereochemistry of (+)-3-carene biosynthesis. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 305 (1993) 581–587. [DOI] [PMID: 8373196]
2.	Savage, T.J., Ichii, H., Hume, S.D., Little, D.B. and Croteau, R. Monoterpene synthases from gymnosperms and angiosperms: stereospecificity and inactivation by cysteinyl- and arginyl-directed modifying reagents. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 320 (1995) 257–265. [DOI] [PMID: 7625832]
3.	Savage, T.J., Hatch, M.W. and Croteau, R. Monoterpene synthases of Pinus contorta and related conifers. A new class of terpenoid cyclase. J. Biol. Chem. 269 (1994) 4012–4020. [PMID: 8307957]
4.	Faldt, J., Martin, D., Miller, B., Rawat, S. and Bohlmann, J. Traumatic resin defense in Norway spruce (Picea abies): methyl jasmonate-induced terpene synthase gene expression, and cDNA cloning and functional characterization of (+)-3-carene synthase. Plant Mol. Biol. 51 (2003) 119–133. [PMID: 12602896]
5.	Hamberger, B., Hall, D., Yuen, M., Oddy, C., Hamberger, B., Keeling, C.I., Ritland, C., Ritland, K. and Bohlmann, J. Targeted isolation, sequence assembly and characterization of two white spruce (Picea glauca) BAC clones for terpenoid synthase and cytochrome P₄₅₀ genes involved in conifer defence reveal insights into a conifer genome. BMC Plant Biol. 9:106 (2009). [DOI] [PMID: 19656416]
6.	Hall, D.E., Robert, J.A., Keeling, C.I., Domanski, D., Quesada, A.L., Jancsik, S., Kuzyk, M.A., Hamberger, B., Borchers, C.H. and Bohlmann, J. An integrated genomic, proteomic and biochemical analysis of (+)-3-carene biosynthesis in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) genotypes that are resistant or susceptible to white pine weevil. Plant J. 65 (2011) 936–948. [DOI] [PMID: 21323772]

[EC 4.2.3.107 created 2012]