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Biosynthesis of a Flavonol from a Flavanone by Establishing a One-pot Bienzymatic Cascade
Published on: August 14, 2019
Discovery and Validation of a Novel Step Catalyzed by OsF3H in the Flavonoid Biosynthesis Pathway
Rahmatullah Jan1, Sajjad Asaf2, Sanjita Paudel3
1Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture & Life Science, Kyungpook National University, 80 Dahak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu 41566, Korea.
Abstract:
Kaempferol and quercetin are the essential plant secondary metabolites that confer huge biological functions in the plant defense system. In this study, biosynthetic pathways for kaempferol and quercetin were constructed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using naringenin as a substrate. OsF3H was cloned into pRS42K yeast episomal plasmid (YEp) vector and the activity of the target gene was analyzed in engineered and empty strains. We confirmed a novel step of kaempferol and quercetin biosynthesis directly from naringenin, catalyzed by the rice flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H). The results were confirmed through thin layer chromatography (TLC) followed by western blotting, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry LCMS-MS. TLC showed positive results when comparing both compounds extracted from the engineered strain with the standard reference. Western blotting confirmed the lack of OsF3H activity in empty strains and confirmed high OsF3H expression in engineered strains. NMR spectroscopy confirmed only quercetin, while LCMS-MS results revealed that F3H is responsible for the conversion of naringenin to both kaempferol and quercetin.
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