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- Name help_outline (S)-2,3-epoxysqualene Identifier CHEBI:15441 Charge 0 Formula C30H50O InChIKeyhelp_outline QYIMSPSDBYKPPY-RSKUXYSASA-N SMILEShelp_outline CC(C)=CCC\C(C)=C\CC\C(C)=C\CC\C=C(/C)CC\C=C(/C)CC[C@@H]1OC1(C)C 2D coordinates Mol file for the small molecule Search links Involved in 29 reaction(s) Find molecules that contain or resemble this structure Find proteins in UniProtKB for this molecule
- Name help_outline thalianol Identifier CHEBI:52317 (Beilstein: 9672077) help_outline Charge 0 Formula C30H50O InChIKeyhelp_outline DGAGPZOBTQYNRE-VMSIWEJCSA-N SMILEShelp_outline [H][C@@]12CCC3=C(CC[C@]3(C)[C@H](C)CC\C=C(/C)CCC=C(C)C)[C@@]1(C)CC[C@H](O)C2(C)C 2D coordinates Mol file for the small molecule Search links Involved in 1 reaction(s) Find molecules that contain or resemble this structure Find proteins in UniProtKB for this molecule
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Publications
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Genome mining to identify new plant triterpenoids.
Fazio G.C., Xu R., Matsuda S.P.T.
Arabidopsis thaliana is a well-established model organism for plant genetics, and its recently sequenced genome reveals a wealth of enzymes similar to known examples that biosynthesize secondary metabolites. We describe experiments that exploit this genomic information to identify novel terpenoids ... >> More
Arabidopsis thaliana is a well-established model organism for plant genetics, and its recently sequenced genome reveals a wealth of enzymes similar to known examples that biosynthesize secondary metabolites. We describe experiments that exploit this genomic information to identify novel terpenoids. A predicted open reading frame with high similarity to known oxidosqualene cyclases was shown to convert 3(S)-oxidosqualene to the previously unknown triterpene alcohol (3S,13S,14R)-malabarica-8,17,21-trien-3-ol, which we named thalianol. Genome mining offers a systematic approach to exhaustively characterize the biosynthetic potential of an organism, and is considerably more sensitive than classical approaches. Because even rare transcripts can be heterologously expressed at high levels, genome mining coupled to heterologous expression may be more sensitive than classical extraction approaches for isolating and characterizing trace metabolites. << Less
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Metabolic diversification -- independent assembly of operon-like gene clusters in different plants.
Field B., Osbourn A.E.
Operons are clusters of unrelated genes with related functions that are a feature of prokaryotic genomes. Here, we report on an operon-like gene cluster in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana that is required for triterpene synthesis (the thalianol pathway). The clustered genes are coexpressed, as in b ... >> More
Operons are clusters of unrelated genes with related functions that are a feature of prokaryotic genomes. Here, we report on an operon-like gene cluster in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana that is required for triterpene synthesis (the thalianol pathway). The clustered genes are coexpressed, as in bacterial operons. However, despite the resemblance to a bacterial operon, this gene cluster has been assembled from plant genes by gene duplication, neofunctionalization, and genome reorganization, rather than by horizontal gene transfer from bacteria. Furthermore, recent assembly of operon-like gene clusters for triterpene synthesis has occurred independently in divergent plant lineages (Arabidopsis and oat). Thus, selection pressure may act during the formation of certain plant metabolic pathways to drive gene clustering. << Less