All-trans-decaprenyl-diphosphate synthase explained

All-trans-decaprenyl-diphosphate synthase
Ec Number:	2.5.1.91

All-trans-decaprenyl-diphosphate synthase (decaprenyl-diphosphate synthase, decaprenyl pyrophosphate synthetase, polyprenylpyrophosphate synthetase, terpenoidallyltransferase, terpenyl pyrophosphate synthetase, trans-prenyltransferase) is an enzyme with systematic name (2E,6E)-farnesyl-diphosphate:isopentenyl-diphosphate farnesyltranstransferase (adding 7 isopentenyl units).^[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

\rightleftharpoons 7 diphosphate + all-trans-decaprenyl diphosphate

This enzyme catalyses the condensation reactions resulting in the formation of all-trans-decaprenyl diphosphate.

Notes and References

1. Saiki R, Nagata A, Kainou T, Matsuda H, Kawamukai M . Characterization of solanesyl and decaprenyl diphosphate synthases in mice and humans . The FEBS Journal . 272 . 21 . 5606–22 . November 2005 . 16262699 . 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04956.x . free .