Title : Carotene oxygenases: a new family of double bond cleavage enzymes.

Pub. Date : 2004 Jan

PMID : 14704328






2 Functional Relationships(s)
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1 Beta,beta-carotene 15,15"-monooxygensae (betaCMOOX) is the key enzyme involved in the metabolism of provitamin A carotenoids to retinal. beta Carotene beta-carotene oxygenase 1 Mus musculus
2 BetaCMOOX cleaves beta,beta-carotene to retinal in an in vitro activity assay; no apo-carotenals were identified. beta Carotene beta-carotene oxygenase 1 Mus musculus