Production of bioactive ginsenosides Rh2 and Rg3 by metabolically engineered yeasts

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue , 2015, Pages 97-105

  Wang, Pingping ^a   Wei, Yongjun ^a   Fan, Yun ^a,c   Liu, Qunfang ^b   Wei, Wei ^a   Yang, Chengshuai ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Zhao, Guoping ^a,c   Yue, Jianmin ^b   Yan, Xing ^a   Zhou, Zhihua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ginsenoside Rg3; Ginsenoside Rh2; Panax plants; Protopanaxadiol producing chassis; UDP glycosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHASSIS; CLONING; GLUCOSE; PLANTS (BOTANY); YEAST;

CANCER PREVENTION; GINSENOSIDES; GLYCOSYL TRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL FERMENTATION; PANAX PLANTS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRITERPENE SAPONINS;

PHARMACODYNAMICS;

GINSENOSIDE RG 3; GINSENOSIDE RH 2; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROXYL GROUP; PROTOPANAXADIOL; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; GINSENOSIDE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; FERMENTATION; GINSENG; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST; YEAST CELL; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PANAX; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

PANAX; PANAX GINSENG;

GINSENOSIDES; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PANAX; PLANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84925363742     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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