Combinatorial biosynthesis in yeast leads to over 200 diterpenoids

Frey, Maximilian; Bathe, Ulschan; Meink, Luca; Balcke, Gerd U.; Schmidt, Jürgen; Frolov, Andrej; Soboleva, Alena; Hassanin, Ahmed; Davari, Mehdi D.; Frank, Oliver; Schlagbauer, Verena; Dawid, Corinna; Tissier, Alain

doi:10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.006

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Plants against cancer: towards green Taxol production through pathway discovery and metabolic engineering

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2024

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The diversity of plant natural products presents a rich resource for accelerating drug discovery and addressing pressing human health issues. However, the challenges in accessing and cultivating source species, as well as metabolite structural complexity, and general low abundance present considerable hurdles in developing plant-derived therapeutics. Advances in high-throughput sequencing, genome assembly, gene synthesis, analytical technologies, and synthetic biology approaches, now enable us to efficiently identify and engineer enzymes and metabolic pathways for producing natural and new-to-nature therapeutics and drug candidates. This review highlights challenges and progress in plant natural product discovery and engineering by example of recent breakthroughs in identifying the missing enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of the anti-cancer agent Taxol®. These enzyme resources offer new avenues for the bio-manufacture and semi-synthesis of an old blockbuster drug.

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