Description : (at2g07050 : 662.0) Involved in the biosynthesis of brassinosteroids. Catalyzes the reaction from epoxysqualene to cycloartenol.; cycloartenol synthase 1 (CAS1); FUNCTIONS IN: cycloartenol synthase activity; INVOLVED IN: pentacyclic triterpenoid biosynthetic process, thylakoid membrane organization, pollen development; LOCATED IN: vacuole; EXPRESSED IN: 24 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Terpene synthase, conserved site (InterPro:IPR002365), Terpenoid cylases/protein prenyltransferase alpha-alpha toroid (InterPro:IPR008930), Squalene cyclase (InterPro:IPR018333), Prenyltransferase/squalene oxidase (InterPro:IPR001330); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: lanosterol synthase 1 (TAIR:AT3G45130.1); Has 2063 Blast hits to 1929 proteins in 563 species: Archae - 2; Bacteria - 902; Metazoa - 86; Fungi - 243; Plants - 616; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 214 (source: NCBI BLink). & (reliability: 1324.0) & (original description: no original description)
Condition specificity: 3 h after light (SPM: 0.43, entropy: 0.92, tau: 0.07)