9WE3 | pdb_00009we3

Drimenol synthase from Persicaria hydropiper

• PDB DOI: https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb9WE3/pdb

• Classification: BIOSYNTHETIC PROTEIN
• Organism(s): Persicaria hydropiper
• Expression System: Escherichia coli
• Mutation(s): No 


• Deposited: 2025-08-19 Released: 2026-08-26 
• Deposition Author(s): Dong, L.B., Pan, X.M., Liu, C.H.
• Funding Organization(s): National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 1.58 Å
• R-Value Free: 
  0.195 (Depositor), 0.194 (DCC) 
• R-Value Work: 
  0.169 (Depositor), 0.168 (DCC) 
• R-Value Observed: 
  0.170 (Depositor) 

Starting Model: in silico

Literature

Reprogramming a Drimenol Synthase into a Non-canonical Prenyltransferase for Diterpene Synthesis from an Alcohol Acceptor

Pan, X.M., Liu, C.H., Dong, L.B.

To be published.

Biological Assembly 1  

Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Monomer - A1 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.

Biological Assembly Evidence: gel filtration

Macromolecule Content 

• Total Structure Weight: 66.92 kDa 
• Atom Count: 5,362 
• Modeled Residue Count: 542 
• Deposited Residue Count: 578 
• Unique protein chains: 1

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
(-)-drimenol synthase	A	578	Persicaria hydropiper	Mutation(s): 0  EC: 4.2.3.194
UniProt
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Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 1.58 Å
• R-Value Free:  0.195 (Depositor), 0.194 (DCC) 
• R-Value Work:  0.169 (Depositor), 0.168 (DCC) 
• R-Value Observed: 0.170 (Depositor) 

Space Group: P 1

Unit Cell:

Length ( Å )	Angle ( ˚ )
a = 47.298	α = 93.51
b = 50.714	β = 108.89
c = 68.079	γ = 115.55

Software Package:

Software Name	Purpose
PHENIX	refinement
Aimless	data scaling
PDB_EXTRACT	data extraction
XDS	data reduction
PHASER	phasing

Structure Validation

Entry History 

& Funding Information

Deposition Data

• Released Date: 2026-08-26 
Deposition Author(s): Dong, L.B., Pan, X.M., Liu, C.H.

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Funding Organization	Location	Grant Number
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	China	82073746

Revision History  

• Version 1.0: 2026-08-26
  Type: Initial release