Biotechnology of flavonoids and other phenylpropanoid-derived natural products. Part II: Reconstruction of multienzyme pathways in plants and microbes

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1235-1249

  Ververidis, Filippos ^a   Trantas, Emmanouil ^a,b   Douglas, Carl ^c   Vollmer, Guenter ^d   Kretzschmar, Georg ^d   Panopoulos, Nickolas ^b,e  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Flavonoids; Metabolic engineering; Phenylpropanoid metabolism; Stillbenoids

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; APIGENIN; BIOCHANIN A; BUTEIN; CHALCONE DERIVATIVE; DAIDZEIN; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; GENISTEIN; ISOLIQUIRITIGENIN; KAEMPFEROL; LIGNAN; LIGNAN DERIVATIVE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; NARINGENIN; NATURAL PRODUCT; NEOHESPERIDIN; PARA COUMARIC ACID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHENYLPROPANOID DERIVATIVE; PICEATANNOL; PINOCEMBRINE; PLANT EXTRACT; PROANTHOCYANIDIN; PROTEIN MYB; QUERCETIN; RESVERATROL; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONIFER; DRUG DETERMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOOD QUALITY; FORESTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; HUMAN; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FLAVONOIDS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS; PROPANOLS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 35748986165     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.200700184     Document Type: Review

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