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A new P450 involved in the furanocoumarin pathway underlies a recent case of convergent evolution

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NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 231, Issue 5, Pages 1923-1939

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17458

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convergent evolution; cytochrome P450; Ficus carica (fig tree); furanocoumarins; marmesin synthase

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  1. French research ministry
  2. GrandEst region
  3. JSPS Overseas Research Fellowships
  4. Impact Biomolecules Project (Lorraine Universite d'Excellence) [ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE]
  5. PRESTO, the Japan Science and Technology Agency [JPMJPR20D7]

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Furanocoumarins are phytoalexins used as an example of the arms race between plants and herbivorous insects, synthesized through a similar pathway in different plant lineages. In the fig tree, a new cytochrome P450, CYP76F112, was identified as catalyzing a unique reaction, suggesting recent emergence within the Moraceae family through lineage-specific expansion and diversification. This discovery opens new possibilities for utilizing the furanocoumarin pathway and highlights the potential of cytochromes P450 to evolve new functions for plant adaptation.
Furanocoumarins are phytoalexins often cited as an example to illustrate the arms race between plants and herbivorous insects. They are distributed in a limited number of phylogenetically distant plant lineages, but synthesized through a similar pathway, which raised the question of a unique or multiple emergence in higher plants. The furanocoumarin pathway was investigated in the fig tree (Ficus carica, Moraceae). Transcriptomic and metabolomic approaches led to the identification of CYP76F112, a cytochrome P450 catalyzing an original reaction. CYP76F112 emergence was inquired using phylogenetics combined with in silico modeling and site-directed mutagenesis. CYP76F112 was found to convert demethylsuberosin into marmesin with a very high affinity. This atypical cyclization reaction represents a key step within the polyphenol biosynthesis pathway. CYP76F112 evolutionary patterns suggests that the marmesin synthase activity appeared recently in the Moraceae family, through a lineage-specific expansion and diversification. The characterization of CYP76F112 as the first known marmesin synthase opens new prospects for the use of the furanocoumarin pathway. It also supports the multiple acquisition of furanocoumarin in angiosperms by convergent evolution, and opens new perspectives regarding the ability of cytochromes P450 to evolve new functions related to plant adaptation to their environment.

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