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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 22, 期 16, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22168815
关键词
apocarotenoids; carotenoids; Crocus; glucosyltransferases; saffron; stigma
资金
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [BIO2016-77000-R]
Research has shown that crocetin is formed by carotenoid cleavage enzymes and specific CCD4 enzymes, accumulating in the stigma of saffron in the form of glucosides and crocins. UGT91P3 is believed to be the last missing gene in the biosynthesis of highly glucosylated crocins in saffron.
Crocetin is an apocarotenoid formed from the oxidative cleavage of zeaxanthin, by the carotenoid cleavage enzymes CCD2 (in Crocus species) and specific CCD4 enzymes in Buddleja davidii and Gardenia jasminoides. Crocetin accumulates in the stigma of saffron in the form of glucosides and crocins, which contain one to five glucose molecules. Crocetin glycosylation was hypothesized to involve at least two enzymes from superfamily 1 UDP-sugar dependent glycosyltransferases. One of them, UGT74AD1, produces crocins with one and two glucose molecules, which are substrates for a second UGT, which could belong to the UGT79, 91, or 94 families. An in silico search of Crocus transcriptomes revealed six candidate UGT genes from family 91. The transcript profiles of one of them, UGT91P3, matched the metabolite profile of crocin accumulation, and were co-expressed with UGT74AD1. In addition, both UGTs interact in a two-hybrid assay. Recombinant UGT91P3 produced mostly crocins with four and five glucose molecules in vitro, and in a combined transient expression assay with CCD2 and UGT74AD1 enzymes in Nicotiana benthamiana. These results suggest a role of UGT91P3 in the biosynthesis of highly glucosylated crocins in saffron, and that it represents the last missing gene in crocins biosynthesis.
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