Metabolic reprogramming of periwinkle plant culture

Runguphan, Weerawat; O'Connor, Sarah E.

doi:10.1038/nchembio.141

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Metabolic reprogramming of periwinkle plant culture

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Runguphan, W., & O'Connor, S. E. (2009). Metabolic reprogramming of periwinkle plant culture. Nature Chemical Biology, 5(3), 151-153. doi:10.1038/nchembio.141.

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Abstract

We transformed an alkaloid biosynthetic gene with reengineered substrate specificity into Catharanthus roseus. The resulting transgenic plant cell culture produced a variety of unnatural alkaloid compounds when cocultured with simple, achiral, commercially available precursors that the reengineered enzyme was designed to accept. This work demonstrates the power of genetic engineering to retailor the structures of complex alkaloid natural products in plant culture.