Abstract
Seeing things as they really are: The enzyme catalyzing the central cleavage of β-carotene (1) to retinal (2) is not, as previously thought, a dioxygenase. Incubation of the substrate analogue α-carotene in the presence of highly enriched 17 O2 and H218 O revealed a monooxygenase mechanism.
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