EC 1.14.19.32 Enzyme |
palmitoyl-CoA 14-(E/Z)-desaturase
Oxidoreductases;
Acting on paired donors, with incorporation or reduction of molecular oxygen;
With oxidation of a pair of donors resulting in the reduction of O2 to two molecules of water
palmitoyl-CoA,ferrocytochrome b5:oxygen oxidoreductase (14,15 cis/trans-dehydrogenating)
The enzyme, found in the moth Ostrinia furnacalis (Asian corn borer), produces a mixture of (E)- and (Z)- isomers. The products are subsequently truncated by partial beta-oxidation to a blend of 12(E/Z)-tetradec-12-enoyl-CoA, which are converted to the species-specific sex pheromones (E)- and (Z)-tetradec-12-enoyl acetates.
EC 1.14.19.32 created 2015
Roelofs WL, Liu W, Hao G, Jiao H, Rooney AP, Linn CE Jr
Evolution of moth sex pheromones via ancestral genes.
Xue B, Rooney AP, Kajikawa M, Okada N, Roelofs WL
Novel sex pheromone desaturases in the genomes of corn borers generated through gene duplication and retroposon fusion.
Sakai R, Fukuzawa M, Nakano R, Tatsuki S, Ishikawa Y
Alternative suppression of transcription from two desaturase genes is the key for species-specific sex pheromone biosynthesis in two Ostrinia moths.
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