Lycopene catabolism

Stable Identifier
R-OSA-9609352
Type
Pathway
Species
Oryza sativa
Compartment
Synonyms
Lycopene cleavage, Lycopene degradation
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Summation

CCD1 has broad substrate specificity. It cleaves numerous cyclic and linear all-trans-carotenoids at the C9?C10 and C9'?C10' double bonds. OsCCD1 has three cleavage sites at C9?C10, C7?C8 and C5?C6 double bonds of linear and monocyclic carotenoids (Ilg et al., 2009).

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Orthologous Events