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Organism name
Neurospora crassa                                Find images with Google
NCBI taxonomy ID
Lineage
Description Fungi: red bread mold  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese
Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Neurospora crassa carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]

 CA00042  3,4-Dehydrolycopene 
 

 CA00129  1-Hydroxy-1,2-dihydroneurosporene  (Ref.113)
 

 CA01122  Apo-4'-lycopenal  (Ref.533)
 

 CA00190  Torulene  (Ref.556)
 

 CA00287  Neurosporaxanthin  (Ref.276)
 

 CA01062  β-Apo-4'-carotenal  (Ref.556)
 

References
  • Ref.113 : Hausmann, Alexander; Sandmann, Gerhard, Fungal Genetics and Biology (2000), 30(2), 147-153., "A Single Five-​Step Desaturase Is Involved in the Carotenoid Biosynthesis Pathway to β-​Carotene and Torulene in Neurospora crassa"
  • Ref.533 : Violeta Díaz-Sáncheza, Alejandro F. Estradaa, M. Carmen Limóna, Salim Al-Babilib and Javier Avalosa, Eukaryotic Cell 2013, 12(9):1305. DOI: 10.1128/EC.00084-13., "The Oxygenase CAO-1 of Neurospora crassa Is a Resveratrol Cleavage Enzyme"
  • Ref.556 : Saelices L, Youssar L, Holdermann I, Al-Babili S, Avalos J., Mol Genet Genomics. 2007 Nov;278(5):527-37. Epub 2007 Jul 4., PMID: 17610084 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-007-0269-2, "Identification of the gene responsible for torulene cleavage in the Neurospora carotenoid pathway."
  • Ref.276 : A. J. Aasen, and S. Liaaen-Jensen, Acta Chemica Scandinavica (1965), pp.1843-1853, "Fungal Carotenoids - The Structure of the Carotenoid Acid Neurosporaxanthin"

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