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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1017122
Keywords
Fallopia multiflora (Thunb; ) Harald; glycosylation; uridine-diphosphate glycosyltransferase; metabolic engineering; transgenic hairy roots
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- National Key Research and Development Program [2017YFC1700704]
- Special Fund for the Protection of Lingnan Chinese Medicinal Materials in Guangdong Province in 2017 (Yue cai she [2017]) [60]
- Guangdong Provincial Youth Innovation Talents Program [2018KQNCX133]
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In this study, two Uridine-diphosphate-dependent glycosyltransferases (UGTs) were cloned from the transcriptome data of Fallopia multiflora and shown to catalyze the glycosylation of various compounds, leading to the biosynthesis of tranquil glycosides and anthraquinones in the plant.
The traditional Chinese medicine plant Fallopia multiflora (Thunb.) Harald. contains various pharmacodynamically active glycosides, such as stilbene glycosides, anthraquinone (AQ) glycosides, and flavonoid glycosides. Glycosylation is an important reaction in plant metabolism that is generally completed by glycosyltransferase in the last step of the secondary metabolite biosynthesis pathway, and it can improve the beneficial properties of many natural products. In this study, based on the transcriptome data of F. multiflora, we cloned two Uridine-diphosphate-dependent glycosyltransferases (UGTs) from the cDNA of F. multiflora (FmUGT1 and FmUGT2). Their full-length sequences were 1602 and 1449 bp, encoding 533 and 482 amino acids, respectively. In vitro enzymatic reaction results showed that FmUGT1 and FmUGT2 were promiscuous and could catalyze the glycosylation of 12 compounds, including stilbenes, anthraquinones, flavonoids, phloretin, and curcumin, and we also obtained and structurally identified 13 glycosylated products from both of them. Further experiments on the in vivo function of FmUGT1 and FmUGT2 showed that 2, 3, 5, 4'- tetrahydroxy stilbene-2-O-beta-d-glucoside (THSG) content in hairy roots was elevated significantly when FmUGT1 and FmUGT2 were overexpressed and decreased accordingly in the RNA interference (RNAi) groups. These results indicate that FmUGT1 and FmUGT2 were able to glycosylate a total of 12 structurally diverse types of acceptors and to generate O-glycosides. In addition, FmUGT1 and FmUGT2 efficiently catalyzed the biosynthesis of THSG, and promoted the production of AQs in transgenic hairy roots.
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