The separate roles of plant cis and trans prenyl transferases in cis‐1,4‐polyisoprene biosynthesis

K Cornish - European Journal of Biochemistry, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
… In this paper, it is demonstrated that soluble trans-prenyl transferase from latex of Hevea
bru… (cis-1 ,4-polyisoprene). In this species, the rubber is produced in the form of cytoplasmic …

Construction and analysis of EST libraries of the trans-polyisoprene producing plant, Eucommia ulmoides Oliver

N Suzuki, H Uefuji, T Nishikawa, Y Mukai, A Yamashita… - Planta, 2012 - Springer
… few woody plants capable of producing abundant quantities of trans-polyisoprene rubber in
… indicating their abundant expression during trans-polyisoprene rubber biosynthesis. The six …

Overexpression of an isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase gene to enhance trans-polyisoprene production in Eucommia ulmoides Oliver

R Chen, Y Harada, T Bamba, Y Nakazawa… - BMC …, 2012 - Springer
Plant polyisoprenes can be classified into two types; cis-polyisoprene and trans-polyisoprene, …
More than 2000 species of higher plants produce latex consisting of cis-polyisoprene. …

In-situ chemical analyses of trans-polyisoprene by histochemical staining and Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy in a rubber-producing plant, Eucommia …

T Bamba, E Fukusaki, Y Nakazawa, A Kobayashi - Planta, 2002 - Springer
… that trans-polyisoprene accu… of trans-polyisoprene in plant tissues, and our histological
investigation allowed us to presume the main sites of biosynthesis and accumulation of trans-…

… of trans-polyisoprene accumulation by spectral confocal laser scanning microscopy and a specific dye showing fluorescence solvatochromism in the rubber-producing …

Y Nakazawa, T Takeda, N Suzuki, T Hayashi, Y Harada… - Planta, 2013 - Springer
… In this study, a new microscopic technique to observe trans-polyisoprene biosynthesis in
plant tissues was developed and used to analyze the biosynthesis of trans-polyisoprene in E. …

The occurrence of geometric polyprenol isomers in the rubber-producing plant, Eucommia ulmoides oliver

T Bamba, E Fukusaki, S Kajivama, K Ute, T Kitayama… - Lipids, 2001 - Springer
… intermediates of trans-polyisoprene, occurred in all of the EU-Rubber-producing tissues …
also in the polyprenol fraction (low molecular weight polyisoprene fraction). This result strongly …

Histochemical studies on the distribution and accumulation of trans-polyisoprene in the rubber-producing plant Eucommia ulmoides

XF Ma, XF Yao, ZZ Chi, MQ Zhu - International Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Eucommia ulmoides rubber (EUR) is a high-quality natural rubber resource, which can be
extracted from different organs of the Eucommia ulmoides tree. In this study, EUR was isolated …

Foliar spray of growth regulators significantly increases trans-1, 4-polyisoprene production from Eucommia ulmoides Oliver short-rotation coppice

H Liu, J Zhu, H Ding, L Wang, Z Sun, P Liu, T Li… - Industrial Crops and …, 2018 - Elsevier
… In this study, we measured the annual leaf and bark production and evaluated the efficacy
of four different plant growth regulators on Eucommia leaf and bark biomass and TPI content …

Polyisoprene

E Schoenberg, HA Marsh… - Rubber Chemistry …, 1979 - meridian.allenpress.com
… commercial plant for the production of cis-polyisoprene with a … other commercial polyisoprenes
were being produced in the … -Ti polyisoprene and gutta percha both gave cis-trans dyads …

Quantification of trans-1, 4-polyisoprene in Eucommia ulmoides by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

S Takeno, T Bamba, Y Nakazawa, E Fukusaki… - Journal of bioscience …, 2008 - Elsevier
… in more than 2000 dicotyledonous plants. It is an industrially significant polymer used … ,
trans-1,4-polyisoprene is produced in much fewer plants (2). For example, trans-1,4-polyisoprene