(''E'')-β-Ocimene synthase (EC 4.2.3.106, ''β-ocimene synthase'', ''AtTPS03'', ''ama0a23'', ''LjEbetaOS'', ''MtEBOS'') is an
enzyme
Enzymes () are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions. The molecules upon which enzymes may act are called substrates, and the enzyme converts the substrates into different molecules known as products. A ...
with
systematic name geranyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase ((''E'')-β-ocimene-forming).
This enzyme
catalyses the following
chemical reaction
A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the IUPAC nomenclature for organic transformations, chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another. Classically, chemical reactions encompass changes that only involve the pos ...
:
geranyl diphosphate (''E'')-β-ocimene +
diphosphate
This enzyme is widely distributed in
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
s, which release β-ocimene when attacked by herbivorous
insect
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs ...
s.
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