PMID-sentid Pub_year Sent_text comp_official_name comp_offsetprotein_name organism prot_offset 20030056-1 2009 OBJECTIVE: Lycopene epsilon cyclase (LCYE) is the key enzyme in the lutein synthesis pathway and catalyses linear lycopene to form cyclic epsilon-carotene, a presucursor of lutein. Lycopene 114-122 uncharacterized protein Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 37-41 20030056-6 2009 Furthermore, the E. coli strain containing the pAC-LYC plasmid which could accumulate lycopene was used for the functional confirmation of LCYE from C. protothecoides CS-41. Lycopene 86-94 uncharacterized protein Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 139-143 33528746-2 2021 In the microalgal carotenoid biosynthetic pathway, lycopene is converted either into beta-carotene by lycopene beta-cyclase or into alpha-carotene by lycopene epsilon-cyclase (LCYE) and lycopene beta-cyclase. Lycopene 51-59 uncharacterized protein Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 150-174 33528746-2 2021 In the microalgal carotenoid biosynthetic pathway, lycopene is converted either into beta-carotene by lycopene beta-cyclase or into alpha-carotene by lycopene epsilon-cyclase (LCYE) and lycopene beta-cyclase. Lycopene 51-59 uncharacterized protein Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 176-180 33528746-3 2021 In this study, we overexpressed the LCYE gene in C. reinhardtii to estimate its effect on lycopene metabolism and lutein production. Lycopene 90-98 uncharacterized protein Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 36-40 33528746-6 2021 These results suggest that LCYE overexpression enhances the conversion of lycopene to alpha-carotene, which in turn improves lutein productivity. Lycopene 74-82 uncharacterized protein Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 27-31 33528746-8 2021 Considering that the inhibition of the lycopene cyclization steps often induces higher expression in genes upstream of metabolic branches, this result implies that the redirection from beta-carotene to alpha-carotene by LCYE overexpression might also enhance upstream gene expression, thereby leading to auxiliary beta-carotene production. Lycopene 39-47 uncharacterized protein Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 220-224