Description : (at2g34490 : 88.2) Encodes a protein with C22-sterol desaturase activity. The enzyme was shown to catalyze the conversion of both 24-<i>epi</i>-campesterol and β-sitosterol to brassicasterol and stigmasterol, respectively, in the presence of NADPH.; cytochrome P450, family 710, subfamily A, polypeptide 2 (CYP710A2); FUNCTIONS IN: C-22 sterol desaturase activity, oxygen binding; INVOLVED IN: oxidation reduction; LOCATED IN: endomembrane system; EXPRESSED IN: 24 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 12 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Cytochrome P450 (InterPro:IPR001128), Cytochrome P450, conserved site (InterPro:IPR017972), Cytochrome P450, E-class, group I (InterPro:IPR002401); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: cytochrome P450, family 710, subfamily A, polypeptide 1 (TAIR:AT2G34500.1); Has 26372 Blast hits to 26256 proteins in 1476 species: Archae - 47; Bacteria - 2960; Metazoa - 10471; Fungi - 4624; Plants - 7423; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 847 (source: NCBI BLink). & (reliability: 176.4) & (original description: no original description)
Condition specificity: 1 h after light (SPM: 0.7, entropy: 2.75, tau: 0.76)