Longiborneol synthase CLM1

UniProtKB accession:  I1S104

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UniProtKB description:  Terpene cyclase involved in the biosynthesis of culmorin, a tricyclic sesquiterpene diol reported to have antifungal activity and some phytotoxicity to wheat coleoptile tissue, contributing to Fusarium head blight disease (Probable) (PubMed:19880637). The terpene cyclase CLM1 is responsible for the cyclization of farnesyl diphosphate into the intermediate longiborneol (PubMed:19880637). Longiborneol is then hydroxylated in a regio- and endo-stereoselective manner at position C-11 by the cytochrome P450 monooxygenase CLM2 to produce culmorin (PubMed:26673640). Additional non-specific oxygenases are also able to hydroxylate longiborneol at other sites than C-11 leading to 3-hydroxylongiborneol, 5-hydroxylongiborneol, 12-hydroxylongiborneol and 15-hydroxylongiborneol (PubMed:26673640). Moreover, another oxygenase capable of installing a C-11 exo-hydroxy group in longiborneol can also yield 11-epi-acetylculmorin (PubMed:26673640). The production of these longiborneol derivatives is dwarfed by the high abundance of culmorin, suggesting that CLM2 displays superior enzymatic activity to the unidentified, possibly promiscuous, additional oxygenases (PubMed:26673640).