Jeon, Mi Jin Roy, Neha Samir Choi, Beom-Soon Oh, Ji Yeon Kim, Yong-In Park, Hye Yoon Um, Taeyoung Kim, Nam-Soo Kim, Soonok Choi, Ik-Young
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Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
The annual herb Euphorbia maculata L. produces anti-inflammatory and biologically active substances such as triterpenoids, tannins, and polyphenols, and it is used in traditional Chinese medicine. Of these bioactive compounds, terpenoids, also called isoprenoids, are major secondary metabolites in E. maculata. Full-length cDNA sequencing was carrie...
Mittal, Ruchika Srivastava, Gauri Ganjewala, Deepak
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Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C
Monoterpenes, a class of isoprenoid compounds, are extensively used in flavor, fragrance, perfumery, and cosmetics. They display many astonishing bioactive properties of biological and pharmacological significance. All monoterpenes are derived from universal precursor geranyl diphosphate. The demand for new monoterpenoids has been increasing in fla...
Zhu, Peihuang Chen, Yu Wu, Fan Meng, Miaojing Ji, Kongshu
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PeerJ
The methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway provides the universal basic blocks for the biosynthesis of terpenoids and plays a critical role in the growth and development of higher plants. Pinus massoniana is the most valuable oleoresin producer tree with an extensive terrestrial range. It has the potential to produce more oleoresin with commercia...
szymczyk;, piotr
The present study characterizes the 5′ regulatory region of the SmMEC gene. The isolated fragment is 1559 bp long and consists of a promoter, 5′UTR and 31 nucleotide 5′ fragments of the CDS region. In silico bioinformatic analysis found that the promoter region contains repetitions of many potential cis-active elements. Cis-active elements associat...
Liu, Chun-Li Xue, Kai Yang, Yankun Liu, Xiuxia Li, Ye Lee, Taek Soon Bai, Zhonghu Tan, Tianwei
Sesquiterpenes are a large variety of terpene natural products, widely existing in plants, fungi, marine organisms, insects, and microbes. Value-added sesquiterpenes are extensively used in industries such as: food, drugs, fragrances, and fuels. With an increase in market demands and the price of sesquiterpenes, the biosynthesis of sesquiterpenes b...
lu;, zhifang
Bacterial cryptic prophage (defective prophage) genes are known to drastically influence host physiology, such as causing cell growth arrest or lysis, upon expression. Many phages encode lytic proteins to destroy the cell envelope. As natural antibiotics, only a few lysis target proteins were identified. ydfD is a lytic gene from the Qin cryptic pr...
bianchino;, jobelius;
The non-mevalonate or also called MEP pathway is an essential route for the biosynthesis of isoprenoid precursors in most bacteria and in microorganisms belonging to the Apicomplexa phylum, such as the parasite responsible for malaria. The absence of this pathway in mammalians makes it an interesting target for the discovery of novel anti-infective...
Gupta, Prateek Hirschberg, Joseph
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Carotenoids comprise the most widely distributed natural pigments. In plants, they play indispensable roles in photosynthesis, furnish colors to flowers and fruit and serve as precursor molecules for the synthesis of apocarotenoids, including aroma and scent, phytohormones and other signaling molecules. Dietary carotenoids are vital to human health...
Martien, Julia I. Trujillo, Edna A. Jacobson, Tyler B. Tatli, Mehmet Hebert, Alexander S. Stevenson, David M. Coon, Joshua J. Amador-Noguez, Daniel
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mSystems
Zymomonas mobilis is an ethanologenic bacterium currently being developed for production of advanced biofuels. Recent studies have shown that Z. mobilis can fix dinitrogen gas (N2) as a sole nitrogen source. During N2 fixation, Z. mobilis exhibits increased biomass-specific rates of ethanol production. In order to better understand the physiology o...
van nguyen;, truong
Korean ginseng is one of the most valuable medicinal plants worldwide. However, our understanding of ginseng proteomics is largely limited due to difficulties in the extraction and resolution of ginseng proteins because of the presence of natural contaminants such as polysaccharides, phenols, and glycosides. Here, we compared four different protein...
