IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 5.4.4.4

Accepted name: geraniol isomerase

Reaction: geraniol = (3S)-linalool

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Systematic name: geraniol hydroxymutase

Comments: In absence of oxygen the bifunctional linalool dehydratase-isomerase can catalyse in vitro two reactions, the isomerization of (3S)-linalool to geraniol and the hydration of myrcene to (3S)-linalool, the latter activity being classified as EC 4.2.1.127, linalool dehydratase.

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References:

1. Brodkorb, D., Gottschall, M., Marmulla, R., Lüddeke, F. and Harder, J. Linalool dehydratase-isomerase, a bifunctional enzyme in the anaerobic degradation of monoterpenes. J. Biol. Chem. 285 (2010) 30436-30442. [PMID: 20663876]

2. LŸddeke, F. and Harder, J. Enantiospecific (S)-(+)-linalool formation from β-myrcene by linalool dehydratase-isomerase. Z. Naturforsch. C 66 (2011) 409-412. [PMID: 21950166]

[EC 5.4.4.4 created 2011, modified 2012]


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