Metabolic engineering for the production of prenylated polyphenols in transgenic legume plants using bacterial and plant prenyltransferases

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 629-637

  Sugiyama, Akifumi ^a   Linley, Philip J ^a   Sasaki, Kanako ^a   Kumano, Takuto ^b   Yamamoto, Hideaki ^b   Shitan, Nobukazu ^a   Ohara, Kazuaki ^a   Takanashi, Kojiro ^a   Harada, Emiko ^a   Hasegawa, Hisakazu ^c   Terakawa, Teruhiko ^c   Kuzuyama, Tomohisa ^b   Yazaki, Kazufumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Hokko Chemical Industry Co Ltd ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Lotus japonicus; Metabolic engineering; Prenylated polyphenol; Prenyltransferase

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES; CODON USAGE; CYTOSOLS; ENZYMATIC PROPERTIES; GENE PRODUCTS; HUMAN HEALTH; LEGUME PLANT; LOTUS JAPONICUS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANT GENES; POLYPHENOLS; PRENYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SECONDARY METABOLITES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMANTS; TRANSGENIC PLANTS; TRANSGENICS;

BACTERIA; GENES; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; MITOCHONDRIA; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SUBSTRATES;

PHENOLS;

6 DIMETHYLALLYLGENISTEIN; 6 DIMETHYLALLYLNARINGENIN; 7 O GERANYLGENISTEIN; 8 DIMETHYLALLYNARINGENIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSFERASE; FLAVONOID; GENE PRODUCT; GENISTEIN; NARINGENIN; POLYPHENOL; PRENYLATED POLYPHENOL; PROTEIN G6DT; PROTEIN N8DT; PROTEIN NOVQ; PROTEIN NPHB; PROTEIN SCO7190; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOST; LEGUME; LOTUS JAPONICUS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLASTID; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOPHORA; SOPHORA FLAVESCENS; SOYBEAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; FLAVANONES; LOTUS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYPHENOLS; PRENYLATION; SOPHORA; SOYBEANS; STREPTOMYCES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLYCINE MAX; LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; SOPHORA FLAVESCENS; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 80555123022     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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