Enhancement of camptothecin production in Camptotheca acuminata hairy roots by overexpressing ORCA3 gene

X Ni, S Wen, W Wang, X Wang, H Xu… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - japsonline.com
Being a good anti-tumor drug, camptothecin (CPT) is a kind of modified monoterpene indole
alkaloid firstly isolated from the deciduous Chinese happy tree with rapidly increasing …

Targeted metabolic engineering of committed steps improves anti-cancer drug camptothecin production in Ophiorrhiza pumila hairy roots

M Shi, H Gong, L Cui, Q Wang, C Wang, Y Wang… - Industrial crops and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Camptothecin (CPT) is a natural compound with remarkable antitumor activities due to its
special mechanism of inhibiting DNA topoisomerase I. Ophiorrhiza pumila was found to …

Effect of three plant hormone elicitors on the camptothecin accumulation and gene transcript profiling in Camptotheca acuminata seedlings

G Kai, X Teng, L Cui, S Li, X Hao, M Shi… - International Journal of …, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
Camptothecin (CPT) is an antitumor alkaloid first isolated from Chinese tree Camptotheca
acuminata Decaisne (Nyssaceae). Several attempts have been made to improve CPT …

Genome-wide identification and analysis of AP2/ERF transcription factors related to camptothecin biosynthesis in Camptotheca acuminata

HU Ya-Ting, XU Zhi-Chao, T Ya, GAO Ran-Ran… - Chinese journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Camptotheca acuminata produces camptothecin (CPT), a monoterpene indole alkaloid
(MIA) that is widely used in the treatment of lung, colorectal, cervical, and ovarian cancers …

[HTML][HTML] Co-overexpression of geraniol-10-hydroxylase and strictosidine synthase improves anti-cancer drug camptothecin accumulation in Ophiorrhiza pumila

L Cui, X Ni, Q Ji, X Teng, Y Yang, C Wu, D Zekria… - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
Camptothecin (CPT) belongs to a group of monoterpenoidindole alkaloids (TIAs) and its
derivatives such as irinothecan and topothecan have been widely used worldwide for the …

Establishment of recombinant Catharanthus roseus stem cells stably overexpressing ORCA4 for terpenoid indole alkaloids biosynthesis

Y Yang, L Ding, Y Zhou, Z Guo, R Yu, J Zhu - Plant Physiology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Catharanthus roseus is a perennial herb of the Apocynaceae family, from which about 200
kinds of alkaloids have been characterized. Most alkaloids from C. roseus are terpenoid …

A bZIP transcription factor, CaLMF, mediated light-regulated camptothecin biosynthesis in Camptotheca acuminata

C Chang, Z Liu, Y Wang, Z Tang, F Yu - Tree Physiology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Camptothecin (CPT) has powerful biological activities and its analogs, irinothecan and
topothecan, are effective anti-cancer drugs for clinical therapy. Camptothecin was first …

Suppression of camptothecin biosynthetic genes results in metabolic modification of secondary products in hairy roots of Ophiorrhiza pumila

T Asano, K Kobayashi, E Kashihara, H Sudo, R Sasaki… - Phytochemistry, 2013 - Elsevier
Camptothecin is a monoterpenoid indole alkaloid that exhibits anti-tumor activity. In
Ophiorrhiza pumila, production of camptothecin and its related alkaloids was high in the …

The transcription factor OpWRKY2 positively regulates the biosynthesis of the anticancer drug camptothecin in Ophiorrhiza pumila

X Hao, C Xie, Q Ruan, X Zhang, C Wu… - Horticulture …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The limited bioavailability of plant-derived natural products with anticancer activity poses
major challenges to the pharmaceutical industry. An example of this is camptothecin, a …

OpNAC1 transcription factor regulates the biosynthesis of the anticancer drug camptothecin by targeting loganic acid O‐methyltransferase in Ophiorrhiza pumila

X Hao, C Wang, W Zhou, Q Ruan, C Xie… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Camptothecin (CPT) is an anticancer pentacyclic quinoline alkaloid widely used to treat
cancer patients worldwide. However, the biosynthetic pathway and transcriptional regulation …