The enzyme, characterized from the plant Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle), participates in a biosynthetic pathway that leads to production of the bisindole alkaloid compounds vinblastine and vincristine, which are used as anticancer drugs. Both the substrate and the product of the enzyme are unstable.
Qu Y, Easson MEAM, Simionescu R, Hajicek J, Thamm AMK, Salim V, De Luca V
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Solution of the multistep pathway for assembly of corynanthean, strychnos, iboga, and aspidosperma monoterpenoid indole alkaloids from 19E-geissoschizine.
