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Carotenoid oxygenase

Retinal pigment epithelial membrane protein
Identifiers
Symbol	RPE65
Pfam	PF03055
InterPro	IPR004294
SCOP	2biw
OPM family	111
OPM protein	2biw
Available PDB structures: 2biwD:7-490 2bixB:7-490

Carotenoid oxygenases are a family of enzymes involved in the cleavage of carotenoids to produce, for example, retinol, commonly known as vitamin A. This family includes a receptor which is abundantly expressed in retinal pigment epithelium, and binds plasma retinal binding protein.

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Carotenoids such as beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein and beta-cryptoxanthine are produced in plants and certain bacteria, algae and fungi, where they function as accessory photosynthetic pigments and as scavengers of oxygen radicals for photoprotection. They are also essential dietary nutrients in animals. Carotenoid oxygenases cleave a variety of carotenoids into a range of biologically important products, including apocarotenoids in plants that function as hormones, pigments, flavours, floral scents and defence compounds, and retinoids in animals that function as vitamins, visual pigments and signalling molecules^[1]. Examples of carotenoid oxygenases include:

Beta-carotene-15,15'-monooxygenase (BCDO1; EC 1.14.99.36) from animals, which cleaves beta-carotene symmetrically at the central double bond to yield two molecules of retinal^[1].
Beta-carotene-9',10'-dioxygenase (BCDO2) from animals, which cleaves beta-carotene asymmetrically to apo-10'-beta-carotenal and beta-ionone, the latter being converted to retinoic acid. Lycopene is also oxidatively cleaved^[1].
9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase from plants, which cleaves 9-cis xanthophylls to xanthoxin, a precursor of the hormone abscisic acid^[2].
Apocarotenoid-15,15'-oxygenase from bacteria and cyanobacteria, which converts beta-apocarotenals rather than beta-carotene into retinal. This protein has a seven-bladed beta-propeller structure with four hisitidines that hold the iron active centre^[3].
Retinal pigment RPE65 from animals, which in its soluble form binds all-trans retinol, and in its membrane-bound form binds all-trans retinyl esters. RPE65 is important for the production of 11-cis retinal during visual pigment regeneration^[4].

Human proteins containing this domain

BCDO2; BCMO1; RPE65;

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Wyss A (2004). "Carotene oxygenases: a new family of double bond cleavage enzymes". J. Nutr. 134 (1): -. PMID 14704328.
^ Cline K, Liu L, Li QB, Tan BC, Joseph LM, Deng WT, Mccarty DR (2003). "Molecular characterization of the Arabidopsis 9-cis epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase gene family". Plant J. 35 (1): 44-56. PMID 12834401.
^ Schulz GE, Kloer DP, Ruch S, Al-Babili S, Beyer P (2005). "The structure of a retinal-forming carotenoid oxygenase". Science 308 (5719): 267-269. PMID 15821095.
^ Lee JS, Horwitz J, Travis GH, Mata NL, Moghrabi WN, Bui TV, Radu RA (2004). "Rpe65 is a retinyl ester binding protein that presents insoluble substrate to the isomerase in retinal pigment epithelial cells". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (1): 635-643. PMID 14532273.

[1]. Molecular characterization of the human gene encoding an abundant 61 kDa protein specific to the retinal pigment epithelium. Nicoletti A, Wong DJ, Kawase K, Gibson LH, Yang-Feng TL, Richards JE, Thompson DA; Hum Mol Genet 1995;4:641-649. PubMed

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