Molecular basis for branched steviol glucoside biosynthesis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 116, Issue 26, 2019, Pages 13131-13136

  Lee, Soon Goo ^a,b   Salomon, Eitan ^a,c   Yu, Oliver ^d   Jez, Joseph M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

^d Conagen Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Lucos ltransferase; Noncaloric sweetener; Plant biochemistr; Stevia; X ray crystal structure

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSIDE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HISTIDINE; REBAUDIOSIDE A; STEVIOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; KAURANE DERIVATIVE; PLANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SWEETENING AGENT; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GLYCOSYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIOSELECTIVITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STEADY STATE; STEVIA REBAUDIANA; X RAY ANALYSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COENZYME; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; STEVIA; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; COENZYMES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DITERPENES, KAURANE; ENZYME ASSAYS; GLUCOSIDES; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STEVIA; SWEETENING AGENTS; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE;

EID: 85068192360     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1902104116     Document Type: Article

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