Isopentenyl pyrophosphate isomerases from Melaleuca alternifolia (Cheel) and their role in isoprenoid biosynthesis

Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 289-292

  Shelton, Dale A ^a,b   Leach, David N ^a   Henry, Robert J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MELALEUCA; MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA;

EID: 1642290922     PISSN: 14620316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14620316.2004.11511762     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. ARIGONI, D., EISENREICH, W., LATZEL, C., SAGNER, S., RADYKEWICZ, T., ZENK, M. and BACHER, A. (1999). Dimethylallyl pyrophosphate is not the committed precursor of isopentenyl pyrophosphate during terpenoid biosynthesis from 1-deoxyxylulose in higher plants. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 96, 1309-14.
2. CUNNINGHAM, F. X. and GANTT, E. (2000). Identification of multigene families encoding isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase in plants by heterologous complementation in Escherichia coli. Plant & Cell Physiology, 41, 119-123.
3. EMANUELSSON, O., NEILSEN, H. and VON HEIJNE, G. (1999). ChloroP, a neural-network based method for detecting chlorplast transit peptides and their cleavage sites. Protein Science, 8, 978-84.
4. KAJIWARA, S., FRASER, P., KONDO, K. and MISAWA, N. (1997). Expression of an exogenous isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase gene enhances isoprenoid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. Biochemistry Journal, 324, 421-6.
5. LANGE, B. M., RUJAN, T., MARTIN, W. and CROTEAU, R. (2000). Isoprenoid biosynthesis: The evolution of two ancient and distinct pathways across genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 97, 13172-7.
6. LEACH, D. N., WYLLIE, S. G., HALL, J. G. and KYRATZIS, I. (1993). Enantiomeric composition of the principal components of the oil of Melaleuca alternifolia. Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry, 41, 1627-32.
7. MATTHEWS, P. D. and WURTZEL, E. T. (2000). Metabolic engineering of carotenoid accumulation in Escherichia coli by modulation of the isoprenoid precursor pool with expression of deoxyxylulose phosphate synthase. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 53, 396-400.
8. MCCASKILL, D. and CROTEAU, R., (1999). Isopentenyl diphosphate is the terminal product of the deoxyxylulose-5-phosphate pathway for terpenoid biosynthesis in plants. Tetrahedron Letters, 40, 653-6.
9. MISAWA, N., SATOMI, Y., KONDO, K., YOKOYAMA, A., KAJIWARA, S., SAITO, T., OHTANI, T. and MIKI, W. (1995). Structure and functional analysis of a marine bacterial carotenoid biosynthesis gene cluster and astaxanthin biosynthetic pathway proposed at the gene level. Journal of Bacteriology, 177, 6575-84.
10. NAKAMURA, A., SHIMADA, H., MASUDA, T., OHTA, H. and TAKAMIYA, K. (2001). Two distinct isopentenyl diphosphate isomerases in cytosol and plastid are differentially induced by environmental stresses in tobacco. FEBS Letters, 506, 61-4.
11. RAMOS-VALDIVIA, A. C., VANDERHEIJDEN, R. and VERPOORTE, R. (1997). Isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase - a core enzyme in isoprenoid biosynthesis - a review of its biochemistry and function. Natural Product Reports, 14, 591-603.
12. RIEDER, C., JAUN, B. and ARIGONI, D., (2000). On the early steps ofcineol biosynthesis in Eucalyptus globulus. Helvetica Chimica Acta, 83, 2504-13.
13. RODRIGUEZ-CONCEPCION, M., CAMPOS, N., LOIS, L. M., MALDONADO, C., HOEFFLER, J. P., GROSDEMANGE-BILLIARD, C., ROHMER, M. and BORONAT, A. (2000). Genetic evidence of branching in the isoprenoid pathway for the production of isopentenyl diphosphate and dimethylallyl diphosphate in Escherichia coli. FEBS Letters, 473, 328-32.
14. ROHMER, M., KNANI, M., SIMONIN, P., SUTTER, B. and SAHM, H., (1993). Isoprenoid biosynthesis in bacteria - a novel pathway for the early steps leading to isopentenyl diphosphate. Biochemical Journal, 298, 517-24.
15. SHELTON, D., LEACH, D., BAVERSTOCK, P. and HENRY, R. (2002). Isolation of genes involved in secondary metabolism from Melaleuca alternifolia (Cheel) using expressed sequence tags (ESTs). PlantScience, 162, 9-15.
16. SMALL, I., WINTZ, H., AKASHI, K. and MIREAU, H. (1998). Two birds with one stone - genes that encode products targeted to two or more compartments. Plant Molecular Biology, 39, 265-77.
17. SOUTHWELL, I. A. and STIFF, I. (1989). Ontogenetical changes in monoterpenoids of Melaleuca alternifolia leaf. Phytochemistry, 28, 1047-1051.
18. VERDOES, J. C. and VAN OOYEN, A. J. J. (1999). Isolation of the isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase encoding gene of Phaffia rhodozyma; improved carotenoid production in Escherichia coli. Acta Botanica Gallica, 146, 43-53.