β-elemene is an effective anti-cancer component which has been widely used in clinic.However,it still relies on the extraction from the Chinese medicine plant Curcuma wenyujin,which seriously limits its application.S...β-elemene is an effective anti-cancer component which has been widely used in clinic.However,it still relies on the extraction from the Chinese medicine plant Curcuma wenyujin,which seriously limits its application.Synthetic biology offers a promising approach to satisfy its supply.β-elemene is derived from germacrene A(GA),which is synthesized by germacrene A synthase(GAS),through Cope rearrangement under heat condition instead of enzymatic reaction.In this study,an effective germacrene A synthase(ScGAS)was identified from Solidago canadensis which could produce GA when expressed in E.coli.By introducing the heterogeneous MVA pathway to enrich the FPP pool,the strain yielded 147 mg/L of GA in shake flasks which represented 2.98-fold improvement over the initial one.Moreover,combining molecular docking with phylogeny analysis of ScGAS largely narrowed down the category of its key residues’mutagenesis.The Y376L mutant showed the highest yield of 487 mg/L which was almost 10-fold higher than the initial yield.These results indicate that diverting the metabolism of the host and enzyme mutagenesis based on the combination of molecular docking and phylogeny analysis are of great value to constructing terpenoids chassis.展开更多
Dear Editor,Precise editing of specific genomic sites holds great promise in basic research and modern crop breeding,and some cytosine base editors(CBEs)have been developed for this purpose(Komor et al.,2016;Zong et a...Dear Editor,Precise editing of specific genomic sites holds great promise in basic research and modern crop breeding,and some cytosine base editors(CBEs)have been developed for this purpose(Komor et al.,2016;Zong et al.,2018).展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32360111)Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Jiangxi Province(No.20224ACB215004)+2 种基金Key Research and Development Program of Jiangxi Province(No.20243BBI91010)Open Project Program of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Resources(No.PFGR202303)B.M.Feng acknowledges the Key Research and Development Program of Dalian(No.2021YF18SN024)。
文摘β-elemene is an effective anti-cancer component which has been widely used in clinic.However,it still relies on the extraction from the Chinese medicine plant Curcuma wenyujin,which seriously limits its application.Synthetic biology offers a promising approach to satisfy its supply.β-elemene is derived from germacrene A(GA),which is synthesized by germacrene A synthase(GAS),through Cope rearrangement under heat condition instead of enzymatic reaction.In this study,an effective germacrene A synthase(ScGAS)was identified from Solidago canadensis which could produce GA when expressed in E.coli.By introducing the heterogeneous MVA pathway to enrich the FPP pool,the strain yielded 147 mg/L of GA in shake flasks which represented 2.98-fold improvement over the initial one.Moreover,combining molecular docking with phylogeny analysis of ScGAS largely narrowed down the category of its key residues’mutagenesis.The Y376L mutant showed the highest yield of 487 mg/L which was almost 10-fold higher than the initial yield.These results indicate that diverting the metabolism of the host and enzyme mutagenesis based on the combination of molecular docking and phylogeny analysis are of great value to constructing terpenoids chassis.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31960138)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province(20171ACB20001)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YRD0102003)。
文摘Dear Editor,Precise editing of specific genomic sites holds great promise in basic research and modern crop breeding,and some cytosine base editors(CBEs)have been developed for this purpose(Komor et al.,2016;Zong et al.,2018).
