Description
Requires Mg2+ for activity. The displacement of the diphosphate group of farnesyl diphosphate occurs with retention of configuration. In the soil-dwelling bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2), the product of this reaction is used by EC 1.14.13.106, epi-isozizaene 5-monooxygenase, to produce the sesquiterpene antibiotic albaflavenone