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
A P-450 (heme-thiolate) cytochrome. The enzyme from Papaver rhoeas (field poppy) is specific for (S)-reticuline and does not act on the (R)-form. The enzyme from Papaver somniferum (opium poppy), which is involved in the biosynthesis of morphine and related alkaloids, forms a fusion protein with EC 1.5.1.27, 1,2-dehydroreticulinium reductase (NADPH), which catalyses the reduction of 1,2-dehydroreticuline to (R)-reticuline, thus forming an epimerase system that converts (S)-reticuline to (R)-reticuline.
Winzer T, Kern M, King AJ, Larson TR, Teodor RI, Donninger SL, Li Y, Dowle AA, Cartwright J, Bates R, Ashford D, Thomas J, Walker C, Bowser TA, Graham IA
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Plant science. Morphinan biosynthesis in opium poppy requires a P450-oxidoreductase fusion protein.