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Gasson, M.J. et al.

Metabolism of ferulic acid to vanillin. A bacterial gene of the enoyl-SCoA hydratase/isomerase superfamily encodes an enzyme for the hydration and cleavage of a hydroxycinnamic acid SCoA thioester.

A gene encoding a novel enoyl-SCoA hydratase/lyase enzyme for the hydration and nonoxidative cleavage of feruloyl-SCoA to vanillin and acetyl-SCoA was isolated and characterized from a strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens. Feruloyl-SCoA is the CoASH thioester of ferulic acid (4-hydroxy-3-methoxy-trans-cinnamic acid), an abundant constituent of plant cell walls and a degradation product of lignin. The gene was isolated by a combination of mutant complementation and biochemical approaches, and its function was demonstrated by heterologous expression in Escherichia coli under the control of a T7 RNA polymerase promoter. The gene product is a member of the enoyl-SCoA hydratase/isomerase superfamily.[1]

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Metabolism of ferulic acid to vanillin. A bacterial gene of the enoyl-SCoA hydratase/isomerase superfamily encodes an enzyme for the hydration and cleavage of a hydroxycinnamic acid SCoA thioester. Gasson, M.J., Kitamura, Y., McLauchlan, W.R., Narbad, A., Parr, A.J., Parsons, E.L., Payne, J., Rhodes, M.J., Walton, N.J. J. Biol. Chem. (1998) [Pubmed]

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