Cloned (Comment) | Organism |
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expression as GST fusion protein | Neurospora crassa |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Neurospora crassa | - |
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Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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additional information | no substrate: beta-carotene | Neurospora crassa | ? | - |
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torulene + O2 | - |
Neurospora crassa | beta-apo-4'-carotenal + 3-methylbut-2-enal | reaction is almost quantitative | ? |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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Cao-2 | - |
Neurospora crassa |
Organism | Comment | Expression |
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Neurospora crassa | Cao-2 exhibits the same transcriptional pattern as Al-2, which encodes the phytoene synthase/beta-cyclase. The mRNA levels for both genes are very low in vegetative mycelia grown in the dark, and increase markedly upon illumination. Illumination does not lead to any detectable increase of the Cao-2 and Al-2 mRNA amounts in wc-1 or wc-2 mutants, confirming that Cao-2 photoinduction is mediated by the WC-1/WC-2 photoreceptor system | additional information |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | disruption of cao-2 leads to changes in the carotenoid content, as indicated by the reddish color of several transformants. Mutants accumulate a high proportion of neutral carotenoids including a high content of torulene | Neurospora crassa |