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Jiang Qing (sh) and 2-hydroxy-6-oxo-2,4-heptadienoate hydrolase (medicine)


Jiang Qing (sh)




or Chiang Ch'ing orig. Li Jinhai

born 1914?, Zhucheng, Shandong, China
died May 14, 1991, Beijing

Third wife of Mao Zedong and member of the radical Gang of Four.

Jiang married Mao in the 1930s but entered Politics only in the 1960s. As first deputy head of the Cultural Revolution, Jiang acquired far-reaching powers over China's cultural life and oversaw the total suppression of a wide variety of traditional cultural activities. Arrested after Mao's death and accused of fomenting the widespread civil unrest that characterized the Cultural Revolution, she refused to confess guilt and received a suspended death sentence that was commuted to life imprisonment. Her death was reported as a suicide.


2-hydroxy-6-oxo-2,4-heptadienoate hydrolase (medicine)


2-hydroxy-6-oxo-2,4-heptadienoate hydrolase
<enzyme> Above cpd hydrolyzed to 2-oxopent-4-enoate (2-hydroxypenta-2,4-dienoate); enzyme e of p-cumate catabolic pathway in pseudomonas putida

Registry number: EC 3.7.-

Synonym: hodh hydrolase, 2-hydroxy-6-oxohepta-2,4-dienoate hydrolase, cmte gene product