植物天然产物合成生物学研究

Synthetic Biology for Production of Plant-derived Natural Products

植物天然产物在医药健康领域有着广泛的应用。从植物中直接提取是目前生产植物源天然产物的主要方法,但此法在环境、安全和效率等方面存在诸多问题。基于合成生物学的理念,创建人工细胞工厂发酵生产植物源天然产物是一种新的资源获取模式。文章将从研究路线出发,在萜类、苯丙素类和生物碱等化合物的生产应用案例中,介绍人工合成细胞生产植物源天然产物的研究现状。

Plant-derived natural products（PNPs） have been widely used in pharmaceutical and neutracuetical fields. Currently, extracting PNPs from their original plants is the main method to produce them. However, this extracting method is environmentally unfriendly, unsafe, and inefficient. Based on synthetic biology, construction of artificial cell factories for production of PNPs provides an alternative way. In this review, we focus on research progress for microbial production of terpenoids, alkaloids, and phenylpropanoids to give a brief introduction of construction of artificial cell factories for production of PNPs.