Evident and latent plasticity across the rice diterpene synthase family with potential implications for the evolution of diterpenoid metabolism in the cereals.
The enzyme from rice (Oryza sativa), expressed in Escherichia coli, also produces ent-sandaracopimara-8(14),15-diene from ent-copalyl diphosphate, another naturally occuring copalyl isomer in rice (cf. ent-sandaracopimaradiene synthase, EC 4.2.3.29).
Evident and latent plasticity across the rice diterpene synthase family with potential implications for the evolution of diterpenoid metabolism in the cereals.