Taxadiene synthase is the first known, and the most important, enzyme involved in taxol anabolism, which catalyzes the first committed, and a slow but not rate-limiting, step of taxol biosynthesis.
紫杉二烯合成酶是第一个被详细研究和目前所发现的最重要的紫杉醇合成代谢酶,它催化紫杉醇生物合成途径中的第一个定向的、慢速的步骤,然而该步骤并非限速步骤。