Although this enzyme is predicted to encode a strictosidine synthase (SS), it lacks a conserved catalytic glutamate residue found in active SS enzymes and it is not expected to have SS activity.
Computational Description
strictosidine synthase-like 3 (SSL3); FUNCTIONS IN: strictosidine synthase activity; INVOLVED IN: alkaloid biosynthetic process, biosynthetic process; LOCATED IN: endoplasmic reticulum, plasma membrane; EXPRESSED IN: 25 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Strictosidine synthase, conserved region (InterPro:IPR018119), Strictosidine synthase (InterPro:IPR004141), Six-bladed beta-propeller, TolB-like (InterPro:IPR011042); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: Calcium-dependent phosphotriesterase superfamily protein (TAIR:AT5G22020.1); Has 1252 Blast hits to 1238 proteins in 269 species: Archae - 3; Bacteria - 366; Metazoa - 225; Fungi - 17; Plants - 480; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 161 (source: NCBI BLink).