4-hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA hydratase lyase

A new model (Fig. 15.4) for hydroxy-cinnamate chain-shortening and vanillin formation in plants was revealed with the isolation of 4-hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA hydratase/lyase (HCHL) and its gene from a soil bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens strain AN103, which had been isolated by growth on ferulic acid as a sole carbon source (Gasson et al., 1998 Narbad and Gasson, 1998 Mitra et al., 1999). 

Mitra, A., Kitamura, Y., Gasson, M.J., Narbad, A., Parr, A.J., Payne, J., Rhodes, M.J.C., Sewter, C. and Walton, N.J. (1999) 4-hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA hydratase/lyase (HCHL) - an enzyme of phenylpropanoid chain cleavage from Pseudomonas. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 365, 10-16. 

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