Description : (at5g52570 : 113.0) Converts β-carotene to zeaxanthin via cryptoxanthin.; beta-carotene hydroxylase 2 (BETA-OHASE 2); FUNCTIONS IN: carotene beta-ring hydroxylase activity; INVOLVED IN: xanthophyll biosynthetic process, carotene metabolic process; LOCATED IN: chloroplast; EXPRESSED IN: 20 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 11 growth stages; BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: beta-hydroxylase 1 (TAIR:AT4G25700.1); Has 30201 Blast hits to 17322 proteins in 780 species: Archae - 12; Bacteria - 1396; Metazoa - 17338; Fungi - 3422; Plants - 5037; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 2996 (source: NCBI BLink). & (reliability: 226.0) & (original description: no original description)
Condition specificity: 1 h after light (SPM: 0.71, entropy: 2.52, tau: 0.75)