Geranylgeranyl diphosphate diphosphatase (ES 3.1.7.5, geranylgeranyl diphosphate phosphatase) is an enzyme with systematic name geranyl-diphosphate diphosphohydrolase. It catalyses the following chemical reaction
The enzyme characterised from Croton stellatopilosus hydrolyses geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate to geranylgeraniol and pyrophosphate (PPi). The reaction is part of the biosynthesis of plaunotol.
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