| EC |
2.4.1.63 |
| Accepted name: |
linamarin synthase |
| Reaction: |
UDP-glucose + 2-hydroxy-2-methylpropanenitrile = UDP + linamarin |
| Other name(s): |
uridine diphosphoglucose-ketone glucosyltransferase; uridine diphosphate-glucose-ketone cyanohydrin β-glucosyltransferase; UDP glucose ketone cyanohydrin glucosyltransferase; UDP-glucose:ketone cyanohydrin β-glucosyltransferase; uridine diphosphoglucose-ketone cyanohydrin glucosyltransferase |
| Systematic name: |
UDP-glucose:2-hydroxy-2-methylpropanenitrile β-D-glucosyltransferase |
| Comments: |
The enzyme glucosylates the cyanohydrins of butanone and pentan-3-one as well as that of acetone. |
| Links to other databases: |
BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, MetaCyc, CAS registry number: 37277-68-2 |
| References: |
| 1. |
Hahlbrock, K. and Conn, E.E. The biosynthesis of cyanogenic glycosides in higher plants. I. Purification and properties of a uridine diphosphate-glucose-ketone cyanohydrin β-glucosyltransferase from Linum usitatissimum L. J. Biol. Chem. 245 (1970) 917–922. [PMID: 5417265] |
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| [EC 2.4.1.63 created 1972] |
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