Unraveling the triterpenoid saponin biosynthesis of the African shrub Maesa lanceolata

Tessa Moses; Jacob Pollier; Ahmad Faizal; Sandra Apers; Luc Pieters; Johan M Thevelein; Danny Geelen; Alain Goossens

doi:10.1016/j.molp.2014.11.004

Unraveling the triterpenoid saponin biosynthesis of the African shrub Maesa lanceolata

Tessa Moses, Jacob Pollier, Ahmad Faizal, Sandra Apers, Luc Pieters, Johan M Thevelein, Danny Geelen, Alain Goossens

School of Biological Sciences

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Abstract

Maesasaponins produced by the African shrub Maesa lanceolata are oleanane-type saponins with diverse biological activities. Through a combination of transcript profiling of methyl jasmonate-elicited M. lanceolata shoot cultures, functional analysis in transgenic M. lanceolata plants and the heterologous hosts Medicago truncatula and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we identified three maesaponin biosynthesis genes. These include a β-amyrin synthase and two cytochrome P450s, CYP716A75 and CYP87D16, which catalyze the C-28 and C-16α oxidations of β-amyrin, respectively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	122-135
Number of pages	13
Journal	Molecular Plant
Volume	8
Issue number	1
Early online date	5 Jan 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2014.11.004
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 5 Jan 2015

Keywords

cytochrome P450
oxidosqualene cyclase
C-28 oxidase
C-16α oxidase
triterpenoid saponin
maesa lanceolata

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Unraveling the triterpenoid saponin biosynthesis of the African shrub Maesa lanceolata

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