Triterpenes are C30 organic compounds abundantly found in all living organisms. Although previously believed to be exclusively produced from squalene or oxidosqualene, a recent report by Tao and colleagues describes a new triterpene biosynthetic route involving the cyclization of the precursor hexaprenyl diphosphate (HexPP) by unprecedented bifunctional terpene synthase (TS) enzymes.
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