InterPro domain: IPR038938

Beta-carotene isomerase D27 (also known as Protein DWARF-27) from plants is involved in strigolactones biosynthesis. It is a beta-carotene isomerase that converts all-trans-beta-carotene into 9-cis-beta-carotene, which is cleaved by CCD7 into a 9-cis-configured aldehyde [ 1 , 2 ]. This is an iron-containing protein that localises in chloroplasts and is expressed mainly in vascular cells of shoots and roots [ 3 ]. This entry also includes some uncharacterised proteins from bacteria.

1. The path from β-carotene to carlactone, a strigolactone-like plant hormone. Science 335, 1348-51
2. The Arabidopsis ortholog of rice DWARF27 acts upstream of MAX1 in the control of plant development by strigolactones. Plant Physiol 159, 1073-85
3. DWARF27, an iron-containing protein required for the biosynthesis of strigolactones, regulates rice tiller bud outgrowth. Plant Cell 21, 1512-25