Engineering yeast for the production of breviscapine by genomic analysis and synthetic biology approaches

Breviscapine is the flavonoid extract from medical plant Erigeron breviscapus for the treatment of cardio- and cerebrovascular disease. Here, the authors identify the key enzymes of the biosynthetic pathway from the plant genome and engineer yeast to produce breviscapine from glucose.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaonan Liu, Jian Cheng, Guanghui Zhang, Wentao Ding, Lijin Duan, Jing Yang, Ling Kui, Xiaozhi Cheng, Jiangxing Ruan, Wei Fan, Junwen Chen, Guangqiang Long, Yan Zhao, Jing Cai, Wen Wang, Yanhe Ma, Yang Dong, Shengchao Yang, Huifeng Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02883-z