Natural rubber biosynthesis in plants, the rubber transferase complex, and metabolic engineering progress and prospects

S Cherian, SB Ryu, K Cornish - Plant biotechnology journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Natural rubber (NR) is a nonfungible and valuable biopolymer, used to manufacture~ 50
000 rubber products, including tires and medical gloves. Current production of NR is derived …

[HTML][HTML] Biosynthesis of natural rubber: current state and perspectives

X Men, F Wang, GQ Chen, HB Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Natural rubber is a kind of indispensable biopolymers with great use and strategic
importance in human society. However, its production relies almost exclusively on rubber …

Natural rubber-producing sources, systems, and perspectives for breeding and biotechnology studies of Taraxacum kok-saghyz

M Salehi, K Cornish, M Bahmankar… - Industrial crops and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Natural rubber (NR, cis-1, 4-polyisoprene) is applied in over 50,000 products. It has
unique properties, which cannot be matched by synthetic rubber. The pará rubber tree …

Molecular mechanisms of natural rubber biosynthesis

S Yamashita, S Takahashi - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Natural rubber (NR), principally comprising cis-1, 4-polyisoprene, is an industrially important
natural hydrocarbon polymer because of its unique physical properties, which render it …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and reconstitution of the rubber biosynthetic machinery on rubber particles from Hevea brasiliensis

S Yamashita, H Yamaguchi, T Waki, Y Aoki, M Mizuno… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Natural rubber (NR) is stored in latex as rubber particles (RPs), rubber molecules
surrounded by a lipid monolayer. Rubber transferase (RTase), the enzyme responsible for …

Biochemical composition of Hevea brasiliensis latex: A focus on the protein, lipid, carbohydrate and mineral contents

C Bottier - Advances in Botanical Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The latex collected from the Hevea brasiliensis tree is today the only commercial source of
natural rubber (NR), the cis-1, 4-polyisoprene polymer, a strategic raw material. The Hevea …

Hevea brasiliensis REF (Hev b 1) and SRPP (Hev b 3): An overview on rubber particle proteins

K Berthelot, S Lecomte, Y Estevez, F Peruch - Biochimie, 2014 - Elsevier
This review article aims to gather all the knowledge on two important proteins associated
with Hevea brasiliensis rubber particles: namely the rubber elongation factor (REF) and the …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid droplets are versatile organelles involved in plant development and plant response to environmental changes

I Bouchnak, D Coulon, V Salis, S D'Andréa… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Since decades plant lipid droplets (LDs) are described as storage organelles accumulated
in seeds to provide energy for seedling growth after germination. Indeed, LDs are the site of …

Plant molecular engine out of the chassis: Natural rubber synthesis in cell-free systems

AW Umar, JC Park, T Ling, SB Ryu - Industrial Crops and Products, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural rubber (NR) is one of the most important polymers and is used in more than 40,000
products. The demand for NR is estimated to reach $68.5 billion in 2026. The key …

[HTML][HTML] Rubber particle proteins, HbREF and HbSRPP, show different interactions with model membranes

K Berthelot, S Lecomte, Y Estevez, V Zhendre… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2014 - Elsevier
The biomembrane surrounding rubber particles from the hevea latex is well known for its
content of numerous allergen proteins. HbREF (Hevb1) and HbSRPP (Hevb3) are major …