Ryosuke Munakata, Alexandre Olry, Tomoya Takemura, Kanade Tatsumi, Takuji Ichino, Cloé Villard, Joji Kageyama, Tetsuya Kurata, Masaru Nakayasu, Florence Jacob, Takao Koeduka, Hirobumi Yamamoto, Eiko Moriyoshi, Tetsuya Matsukawa, Jérémy Grosjean, Célia Krieger, Akifumi Sugiyama, Masaharu Mizutani, Frédéric Bourgaud, Alain Hehn, Kazufumi Yazaki
Plants produce ∼300 aromatic compounds enzymatically linked to prenyl side chains via C-O bonds. These O -prenylated aromatic compounds have been found in taxonomically distant plant taxa, with some of them being beneficial or detrimental to human health. Although their O -prenyl moieties often play crucial roles in the biological activities of these compounds, no plant gene encoding an aromatic O -prenyltransferase ( O -PT) has been isolated to date. This study describes the isolation of an aromatic O -PT gene, CpPT1 , belonging to the UbiA superfamily, from grapefruit ( Citrus × paradisi, Rutaceae)...
April 27, 2021: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America