Dear Editor,Plant UDP-dependent glycosyltransferases(UGTs),belonging to the carbohydrate-active enzyme glycosyltransferase 1 family(Louveau and Osbourn,2019),not only play important roles in adaptation to various envi...Dear Editor,Plant UDP-dependent glycosyltransferases(UGTs),belonging to the carbohydrate-active enzyme glycosyltransferase 1 family(Louveau and Osbourn,2019),not only play important roles in adaptation to various environments(Cai et al.,2020;Pastorczyk-Szlenkier and Bednarek,2021)but also endow plant natural products with great pharmaceutical and ecological significance(Margolin et al.,2020).In recent years,an increasing number of plant UGTs have been characterized to function in the biosynthesis of many bioactive compounds such as ginsenosides(Wei et al.,2015),breviscapine(Liu et al.,2018),and rubusoside(Xu et al.,2022).展开更多
Plant natural products(PNPs)are the main sources of drugs,food additives,and new biofuels and have become a hotspot in synthetic biology.In the past two decades,the engineered biosynthesis of many PNPs has been achiev...Plant natural products(PNPs)are the main sources of drugs,food additives,and new biofuels and have become a hotspot in synthetic biology.In the past two decades,the engineered biosynthesis of many PNPs has been achieved through the construction of microbial cell factories.Alongside the rapid development of plant physiology,genetics,and plant genetic modification techniques,hosts have now expanded from single-celled microbes to complex plant systems.Plant synthetic biology is an emerging field that combines engineering principles with plant biology.In this review,we introduce recent advances in the biosynthetic pathway elucidation of PNPs and summarize the progress of engineered PNP biosynthesis in plant cells.Furthermore,a future vision of plant synthetic biology is proposed.Although we are still a long way from overcoming all the bottlenecks in plant synthetic biology,the ascent of this field is expected to provide a huge opportunity for future agriculture and industry.展开更多
基金supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(no.2019YFA0905700)Tianjin Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Capacity Improvement Project(TSBICIP-CXRC-015)+1 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2019M661032)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31901026).
文摘Dear Editor,Plant UDP-dependent glycosyltransferases(UGTs),belonging to the carbohydrate-active enzyme glycosyltransferase 1 family(Louveau and Osbourn,2019),not only play important roles in adaptation to various environments(Cai et al.,2020;Pastorczyk-Szlenkier and Bednarek,2021)but also endow plant natural products with great pharmaceutical and ecological significance(Margolin et al.,2020).In recent years,an increasing number of plant UGTs have been characterized to function in the biosynthesis of many bioactive compounds such as ginsenosides(Wei et al.,2015),breviscapine(Liu et al.,2018),and rubusoside(Xu et al.,2022).
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.31901026)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(grant no.2019M661032)Tianjin Science and technology plan project(grant no.19PTZWHZ00060).
文摘Plant natural products(PNPs)are the main sources of drugs,food additives,and new biofuels and have become a hotspot in synthetic biology.In the past two decades,the engineered biosynthesis of many PNPs has been achieved through the construction of microbial cell factories.Alongside the rapid development of plant physiology,genetics,and plant genetic modification techniques,hosts have now expanded from single-celled microbes to complex plant systems.Plant synthetic biology is an emerging field that combines engineering principles with plant biology.In this review,we introduce recent advances in the biosynthetic pathway elucidation of PNPs and summarize the progress of engineered PNP biosynthesis in plant cells.Furthermore,a future vision of plant synthetic biology is proposed.Although we are still a long way from overcoming all the bottlenecks in plant synthetic biology,the ascent of this field is expected to provide a huge opportunity for future agriculture and industry.
