Rational Conversion of Substrate and Product Specificity in a Salvia Monoterpene Synthase: Structural Insights Into the Evolution of Terpene Synthase Function.
Kampranis, S.C., Ioannidis, D., Purvis, A., Mahrez, W., Ninga, E., Katerelos, N.A., Anssour, S., Dunwell, J.M., Degenhardt, J., Makris, A.M., Goodenough, P.W., Johnson, C.B.(2007) Plant Cell 19: 1994
- PubMed: 17557809 
- DOI: 10.1105/tpc.106.047779
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2J5C - PubMed Abstract: 
Terpene synthases are responsible for the biosynthesis of the complex chemical defense arsenal of plants and microorganisms. How do these enzymes, which all appear to share a common terpene synthase fold, specify the many different products made almost entirely from one of only three substrates? Elucidation of the structure of 1,8-cineole synthase from Salvia fruticosa (Sf-CinS1) combined with analysis of functional and phylogenetic relationships of enzymes within Salvia species identified active-site residues responsible for product specificity ...