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Nicotiana benthamiana as a Transient Expression Host to Produce Auxin Analogs
Plant secondary metabolites have applications for the food, biofuel, and pharmaceutical industries. Recent advances in pathway elucidation and host expression systems now allow metabolic engineering of plant metabolic pathways to produce “new-to-nature” derivatives with novel biological activities,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7714751/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33329644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.581675 |
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author | Davis, Katharine Gkotsi, Danai S. Smith, Duncan R. M. Goss, Rebecca J. M. Caputi, Lorenzo O’Connor, Sarah E. |
author_facet | Davis, Katharine Gkotsi, Danai S. Smith, Duncan R. M. Goss, Rebecca J. M. Caputi, Lorenzo O’Connor, Sarah E. |
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description | Plant secondary metabolites have applications for the food, biofuel, and pharmaceutical industries. Recent advances in pathway elucidation and host expression systems now allow metabolic engineering of plant metabolic pathways to produce “new-to-nature” derivatives with novel biological activities, thereby amplifying the range of industrial uses for plant metabolites. Here we use a transient expression system in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana to reconstitute the two-step plant-derived biosynthetic pathway for auxin (indole acetic acid) to achieve accumulation up to 500 ng/g fresh mass (FM). By expressing these plant-derived enzymes in combination with either bacterial halogenases and alternative substrates, we can produce both natural and new-to-nature halogenated auxin derivatives up to 990 ng/g FM. Proteins from the auxin synthesis pathway, tryptophan aminotransferases (TARs) and flavin-dependent monooxygenases (YUCs), could be transiently expressed in combination with four separate bacterial halogenases to generate halogenated auxin derivatives. Brominated auxin derivatives could also be observed after infiltration of the transfected N. benthamiana with potassium bromide and the halogenases. Finally, the production of additional auxin derivatives could also be achieved by co-infiltration of TAR and YUC genes with various tryptophan analogs. Given the emerging importance of transient expression in N. benthamiana for industrial scale protein and product expression, this work provides insight into the capacity of N. benthamiana to interface bacterial genes and synthetic substrates to produce novel halogenated metabolites. |
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spelling | pubmed-77147512020-12-15 Nicotiana benthamiana as a Transient Expression Host to Produce Auxin Analogs Davis, Katharine Gkotsi, Danai S. Smith, Duncan R. M. Goss, Rebecca J. M. Caputi, Lorenzo O’Connor, Sarah E. Front Plant Sci Plant Science Plant secondary metabolites have applications for the food, biofuel, and pharmaceutical industries. Recent advances in pathway elucidation and host expression systems now allow metabolic engineering of plant metabolic pathways to produce “new-to-nature” derivatives with novel biological activities, thereby amplifying the range of industrial uses for plant metabolites. Here we use a transient expression system in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana to reconstitute the two-step plant-derived biosynthetic pathway for auxin (indole acetic acid) to achieve accumulation up to 500 ng/g fresh mass (FM). By expressing these plant-derived enzymes in combination with either bacterial halogenases and alternative substrates, we can produce both natural and new-to-nature halogenated auxin derivatives up to 990 ng/g FM. Proteins from the auxin synthesis pathway, tryptophan aminotransferases (TARs) and flavin-dependent monooxygenases (YUCs), could be transiently expressed in combination with four separate bacterial halogenases to generate halogenated auxin derivatives. Brominated auxin derivatives could also be observed after infiltration of the transfected N. benthamiana with potassium bromide and the halogenases. Finally, the production of additional auxin derivatives could also be achieved by co-infiltration of TAR and YUC genes with various tryptophan analogs. Given the emerging importance of transient expression in N. benthamiana for industrial scale protein and product expression, this work provides insight into the capacity of N. benthamiana to interface bacterial genes and synthetic substrates to produce novel halogenated metabolites. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7714751/ /pubmed/33329644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.581675 Text en Copyright © 2020 Davis, Gkotsi, Smith, Goss, Caputi and O’Connor. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Plant Science Davis, Katharine Gkotsi, Danai S. Smith, Duncan R. M. Goss, Rebecca J. M. Caputi, Lorenzo O’Connor, Sarah E. Nicotiana benthamiana as a Transient Expression Host to Produce Auxin Analogs |
title | Nicotiana benthamiana as a Transient Expression Host to Produce Auxin Analogs |
title_full | Nicotiana benthamiana as a Transient Expression Host to Produce Auxin Analogs |
title_fullStr | Nicotiana benthamiana as a Transient Expression Host to Produce Auxin Analogs |
title_full_unstemmed | Nicotiana benthamiana as a Transient Expression Host to Produce Auxin Analogs |
title_short | Nicotiana benthamiana as a Transient Expression Host to Produce Auxin Analogs |
title_sort | nicotiana benthamiana as a transient expression host to produce auxin analogs |
topic | Plant Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7714751/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33329644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.581675 |
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