期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2002
卷号：99
期号：3
页码：1158-1163
DOI：10.1073/pnas.032658999
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Isopentenyl diphosphate and dimethylallyl diphosphate serve as the universal precursors for the biosynthesis of terpenes. Although their biosynthesis by means of mevalonate has been studied in detail, a second biosynthetic pathway for their formation by means of 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate has been discovered only recently in plants and certain eubacteria. Earlier in vivo experiments with recombinant Escherichia coli strains showed that exogenous 1-deoxy-D-xylulose can be converted into 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-(E)-butenyl 4-diphosphate by the consecutive action of enzymes specified by the xylB and ispCDEFG genes. This article describes the transformation of exogenous [U-13C5]1-deoxy-D-xylulose into a 5:1 mixture of [U-13C5]isopentenyl diphosphate and [U-13C5]dimethylallyl diphosphate by an E. coli strain engineered for the expression of the ispH (lytB) gene in addition to recombinant xylB and ispCDEFG genes.
关键词：biosynthesis of isoprenoids‖1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-( E )-butenyl 4-diphosphate‖isopentenyl diphosphate‖dimethylallyl diphosphate
