Arabidopsis ent-kaurene oxidase catalyzes three steps of gibberellin biosynthesis.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Plant Industry, G.P.O. Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. chrish@pican.pi.csiro.au
The Arabidopsis GA3 cDNA was expressed in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and the ability of the transformed yeast cells to metabolize ent-kaurene was tested. We show by full-scan gas chromatography-mass spectrometry that the transformed cells produce ent-kaurenoic acid, and demonstrate that the single enzyme GA3 (ent-kaurene oxidase) catalyzes the three steps of gibberellin biosynthesis from ent-kaurene to ent-kaurenoic acid.
PMID: 9952446 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
PMCID: PMC32127