Production of bicyclic and tricyclic triterpenes by mutated squalene-hopene cyclase
摘要:
Mutagenesis of Tyr420 to Ala in the catalytic cavity of squalene-hopene cyclase of Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius resulted in an altered product spectrum. Besides hopene and diplopterol, this mutant produced significant amounts of the bicyclic alpha- and gamma-polypodatetraenes and minor amounts of the tricyclic 13 alpha(H)-malabaricatriene. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.