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    Geranyl pyrophosphate (GPP), also known as geranyl diphosphate (GDP), is the pyrophosphate ester of the terpenoid geraniol. Its salts are colorless. It...
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    inorganic pyrophosphate has a reference range of 0.58–3.78 μM (95% prediction interval). Isopentenyl pyrophosphate converts to geranyl pyrophosphate, the precursor...
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    isopentenyl pyrophosphate isomerase. IPP and DMAPP condense to give geranyl pyrophosphate, the precursor to monoterpenes and monoterpenoids. Geranyl pyrophosphate...
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    the ketone-containing carvone. In nature, limonene is formed from geranyl pyrophosphate, via cyclization of a neryl carbocation or its equivalent as shown...
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    linalool are referred to as linalyl, e.g. linalyl pyrophosphate, an isomer of geranyl pyrophosphate. The word linalool is based on linaloe (a type of...
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    Isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP, isopentenyl diphosphate, or IDP) is an isoprenoid precursor. IPP is an intermediate in the classical, HMG-CoA reductase...
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  • isopentenyl pyrophosphate isomerase. Geranyl pyrophosphate is the precursor to monoterpenes (and hence monoterpenoids). Elimination of the pyrophosphate group...
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    Geraniol (redirect from Geranyl)
    resulting from fermentation of sorbic acid by lactic acid bacteria. Geranyl pyrophosphate is important in biosynthesis of other terpenes such as myrcene and...
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  • a selective agonist of TRPV3. Farnesene Farnesol Geranyl pyrophosphate Geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate Sell, Charles S. (2006). "Terpenoids". Kirk-Othmer...
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  • Geranyl-pyrophosphate—olivetolic acid geranyltransferase (EC 2.5.1.102, GOT) is an enzyme with systematic name geranyl-diphosphate:olivetolate geranyltransferase...
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  • (1989). "Monoterpene biosynthesis: mechanistic evaluation of the geranyl pyrophosphate:(−)-endo-fenchol cyclase from fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)". Arch...
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    myrcene via geranyl pyrophosphate (GPP), which isomerizes into linalyl pyrophosphate. An elimination reaction, releasing the pyrophosphate (OPP) and a...
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  • carbocationic intermediates produced from geranyl pyrophosphate. Analogously hydrolysis of intermediates from farnesyl pyrophosphate gives sesquiterpenoids, and hydrolysis...
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    Dimethylallyl pyrophosphate (DMAPP; or alternatively, dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMADP); also isoprenyl pyrophosphate) is an isoprenoid precursor. It...
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    biosynthesis, camphor is produced from geranyl pyrophosphate, via cyclisation of linaloyl pyrophosphate to bornyl pyrophosphate, followed by hydrolysis to borneol...
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    biosynthesized through the head-to-head condensation of two farnesyl pyrophosphate units. This coupling converts a pair of C15 components into a C30 product...
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  • differentiate into eggs and spermatozoa (sperm). Farnesyl pyrophosphate Geranylgeraniol Geranyl pyrophosphate Davis, Edward M.; Croteau, Rodney (2000). "Cyclization...
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    identified. The reaction of geranyl pyrophosphate with isopentenyl pyrophosphate results in the 15-carbon farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP), which is an intermediate...
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    farnesol and dolichol. These isoprene polymers (e.g. geranyl pyrophosphate and farnesyl pyrophosphate) are involved in the condensations via enzymes such...
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    dimethylallyl pyrophosphate. This is then condensed with three molecules of isopentenyl pyrophosphate (an isomer of dimethylallyl pyrophosphate), to give...
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  • units in biological systems is dimethylallyl pyrophosphate (DMAPP) and its isomer isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP). The plural 'isoprenes' is sometimes used...
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    converts three monomers of isopentenyl pyrophosphate into farnesyl pyrophosphate. The farnesyl pyrophosphate can bind to rubber transferase to elongate...
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    terpenoid pathway in the genus Nepeta using its starting compound, geranyl pyrophosphate (GPP). There are three isomers of nepetalactone and it is suggested...
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    α-Pinene and β-pinene are both produced from geranyl pyrophosphate, via cyclisation of linaloyl pyrophosphate followed by loss of a proton from the carbocation...
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    Acyclic Citronellal Citral Citronellol Geraniol Geranyl pyrophosphate Halomon Linalool Monocyclic Grapefruit mercaptan Menthol p-Cymene Thujaplicins (Hinokitiol)...
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  • Acyclic Citronellal Citral Citronellol Geraniol Geranyl pyrophosphate Halomon Linalool Monocyclic Grapefruit mercaptan Menthol p-Cymene Thujaplicins (Hinokitiol)...
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  • base in an elimination reaction to form geranyl pyrophosphate. A second consecutive round of geranyl pyrophosphate ionization, condensation with IPP, and...
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    units donated from the reactive precursors isopentenyl pyrophosphate and dimethylallyl pyrophosphate. These precursors can be made in different ways. In...
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    fungi. Farnesyl pyrophosphate is produced from the reaction of geranyl pyrophosphate and isopentenyl pyrophosphate. Farnesyl pyrophosphate is the precursor...
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    ten carbon isoprenoid precursor, geranyl pyrophosphate, using an aromatic prenyltransferase enzyme, geranyl-pyrophosphate—olivetolic acid geranyltransferase...
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