作者
Wanping Chen, Runfa Chen, Qingpei Liu, Yi He, Kun He, Xiaoli Ding, Lijing Kang, Xiaoxiao Guo, Nana Xie, Youxiang Zhou, Yuanyuan Lu, Russell J Cox, István Molnár, Mu Li, Yanchun Shao, Fusheng Chen
发表日期
2017
期刊
Chemical Science
卷号
8
期号
7
页码范围
4917-4925
出版商
Royal Society of Chemistry
简介
Monascus azaphilone pigments (MonAzPs) are very widely used as food colorants, but their biosynthetic pathway has remained poorly characterized for more than half a century. In this study, the individual steps of MonAzPs biosynthesis in Monascus ruber M7 were elucidated by a combination of targeted gene knockouts, heterologous gene expression, and in vitro chemical and enzymatic reactions. This study describes the first rational engineering of MonAzPs biosynthesis and provides a roadmap for future pathway engineering efforts directed towards the selective production of the most valuable pigments and serves as a model for the biosynthesis of fungal azaphilones in general.
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