geranylgeranyl diphosphate biosynthesis

Rodríguez-Concepción M, Boronat A. Elucidation of the methylerythritol phosphate pathway for isoprenoid biosynthesis in bacteria and plastids. A metabolic milestone achieved through genomics. Plant Physiol. 2002 Nov;130(3):1079–89. PMID: 12427975; PMCID: PMC1540259.; Okada K, Saito T, Nakagawa T, Kawamukai M, Kamiya Y. Five geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases expressed in different organs are localized into three subcellular compartments in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 2000 Apr;122(4):1045–56. PMID: 10759500; PMCID: PMC58939.

Metabolites



Enzyme

EC Number name full name note
2.5.1.-
2.5.1.1 dimethylallyltranstransferase prenyl-diphosphate:3-methylbut-3-en-1-yl-diphosphate prenyltranstransferase
2.5.1.10 (2E,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate synthase geranyl-diphosphate:isopentenyl-diphosphate geranyltranstransferase
2.5.1.29 geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase (2E,6E)-farnesyl-diphosphate:isopentenyl-diphosphate farnesyltranstransferase
2.5.1.85 all-trans-nonaprenyl diphosphate synthase [geranylgeranyl-diphosphate specific] geranylgeranyl-diphosphate:isopentenyl-diphosphate transtransferase (adding 5 isopentenyl units)


Proteins

Protein ID name full name