:Germacrene C synthase

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| Name = Germacrene C synthase

| EC_number = 4.2.3.60

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Germacrene C synthase (EC 4.2.3.60) is an enzyme with systematic name (2E,6E)-farnesyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase (germacrene-C-forming).{{cite journal | vauthors = Colby SM, Crock J, Dowdle-Rizzo B, Lemaux PG, Croteau R | title = Germacrene C synthase from Lycopersicon esculentum cv. VFNT cherry tomato: cDNA isolation, characterization, and bacterial expression of the multiple product sesquiterpene cyclase | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 95 | issue = 5 | pages = 2216–21 | date = March 1998 | pmid = 9482865 | pmc = 19298 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.95.5.2216 | bibcode = 1998PNAS...95.2216C | doi-access = free }} This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

: (2E,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate $\backslash rightleftharpoons$ germacrene C + diphosphate