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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhao B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3122146 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Recently, cytochrome P450 170A1 (CYP170A1) has been found to be a bifunctional protein, which catalyzes both monooxygenase activity and terpene synthase activity by two distinct active sites in the well-established P450 protein structure. Therefore, CYP170A1 is identified clearly as a moonlighting protein. The known activities of a small number of the 13,000 members of the P450 superfamily fall into two general classes: promiscuous enzymes that are not considered as moonlighting and forms that p ...[more]