Journal
TREE GENETICS & GENOMES
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-016-1054-3
Keywords
Physic nut; Terpene synthase; Catalytic assay; Diterpene; Sesquiterpene
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31270705]
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Plant terpenes constitute a large class of compounds and have numerous biological roles as either primary or secondary metabolites. Terpene synthases (TPSs) play key roles on catalyzing the formation of different terpenes; they are divided into seven subfamilies based on sequence relatedness (TPSa-h). TPS-a proteins catalyze the formation of sesquiterpenes and diterpenes in plants. Physic nut (Jatropha curcas L.) is an attractive biofuel tree, but its seeds contain diterpene derivatives, which make them inedible for animals. In this study, 59 putative TPS genes (JcTPS01 to JcTPS59) were identified in the physic nut genome, and 26 belong to the TPS-a subfamily. Eight among the 26 TPS-a genes showed expression in developing seeds of physic nut in the present study. After heterologous expression of these eight genes in Escherichia coli and in vitro enzyme assays, six were shown to have TPS activities. Two (JcTPS09 and JcTPS11) catalyzed the production of diterpene casbene, which was consistent with earlier findings. The other four (JcTPS02, 23, 55, and 56) catalyzed the production of sesquiterpenes. These results may facilitate the efforts for identifying TPS genes involving the physic nut terpene synthesize.
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