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Unveiling biosynthesis of the phytohormone abscisic acid in fungi: unprecedented mechanism of core scaffold formation catalyzed by an unusual sesquiterpene synthase

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Article Information:
Junya Takino, Takuto Kozaki, Yoshiro Sato, Chengwei Liu, Taro Ozaki, Atsushi Minami, and Hideaki Oikawa,
Unveiling biosynthesis of the phytohormone abscisic acid in fungi: unprecedented mechanism of core scaffold formation catalyzed by an unusual sesquiterpene synthase.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 39, 12392–12395.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08925