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Phlomisflavosides A and B, new flavonol bisglycosides from Phlomis spinidens
Takeda, Yoshio,Isai, Natsuko,Masuda, Toshiya,Honda, Gisho,Takaishi, Yoshihisa,Ito, Michiho,Otsuka, Hideaki,Ashurmetov, Ozodbek A.,Khodzhimatov, Olimjon K.
, p. 1039 - 1041 (2001)
From the aerial parts of Phlomis spinidens, two new flavonol bisglycosides, phlomisflavosides A (1) and B (2), were isolated together with the known compounds, astragalin, isoquercitrin, lamiridoside, phlomoside A, shanzhiside methyl ester, 8-O-acetylshanzhiside methyl ester, phlorigidoside C, rodioloside (=salidroside), forsythoside B, citroside A and lariciresinol-4′-O-β-D-glucoside. The structures of the new compounds were elucidated based on spectral and chemical evidence.
STRUCTURES AND ACCUMULATION PATTERNS OF SOLUBLE AND INSOLUBLE PHENOLICS FROM NORWAY SPRUCE NEEDLES
Strack, Dieter,Heilemann, Juergen,Wray, Victor,Dirks, Herbert
, p. 2071 - 2078 (1989)
Key Word Index - Picea abies; Pinaceae; Norway spruce; phenolics; identification; seasonal accumulation pattern; turnover; translocation; cell wall localization; flavonol glucosyltransferase. - Abstract - Twenty-two soluble phenolics have been isolated from Norway spruce needles and their structures elucidated on the basis of chromatographic (TLC, HPLC), chemical (hydrolysis), enzymic and spectroscopic (UV, NMR, MS) techniques.These phenolics have been quantified by HPLC during the first year of needle development from a forest near Bad Muenstereifel (F.R.G.) and showed a differential accumulation pattern.Kaempferol 3-O-glucoside showed an interesting metabolism, indicating rapid turnover and/or translocation from a soluble to an insoluble (cell wall bound) pool.The enzyme involved in the formation of this flavonoid, UDP-glucose:flavonol glucosyltransferase, showed a marked transient increase in activity that correlated with the possible kaempferol 3-O-glucoside translocation.
An Ambidextrous Polyphenol Glycosyltransferase PaGT2 from Phytolacca americana
Fukuda, Yohta,Hamada, Hiroki,Inoue, Tsuyoshi,Kawakami, Koki,Maharjan, Rakesh,Nakayama, Taisuke,Nakayama, Toru,Okimoto, Yuta,Ozaki, Shin-Ichi,Shimomura, Naomichi
, p. 2551 - 2561 (2020)
The glycosylation of small hydrophobic compounds is catalyzed by uridine diphosphate glycosyltransferases (UGTs). Because glycosylation is an invaluable tool for improving the stability and water solubility of hydrophobic compounds, UGTs have attracted attention for their application in the food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. However, the ability of UGTs to accept and glycosylate a wide range of substrates is not clearly understood due to the existence of a large number of UGTs. PaGT2, a UGT from Phytolacca americana, can regioselectively glycosylate piceatannol but has low activity toward other stilbenoids. To elucidate the substrate specificity and catalytic mechanism, we determined the crystal structures of PaGT2 with and without substrates and performed molecular docking studies. The structures have revealed key residues involved in substrate recognition and suggest the presence of a nonconserved catalytic residue (His81) in addition to the highly conserved catalytic histidine in UGTs (His18). The role of the identified residues in substrate recognition and catalysis is elucidated with the mutational assay. Additionally, the structure-guided mutation of Cys142 to other residues, Ala, Phe, and Gln, allows PaGT2 to glycosylate resveratrol with high regioselectivity, which is negligibly glycosylated by the wild-type enzyme. These results provide a basis for tailoring an efficient glycosyltransferase.
Functional Characterization and Protein Engineering of a Triterpene 3-/6-/2′-O-Glycosyltransferase Reveal a Conserved Residue Critical for the Regiospecificity
Bao, Yang-Oujie,Gao, Bai-Han,Li, Fu-Dong,Qiao, Xue,Shi, Xiao-Meng,Su, Hui-Fei,Wang, Hai-Dong,Ye, Min,Yi, Yang,Zhang, Meng
supporting information, (2022/01/06)
Engineering the function of triterpene glucosyltransferases (GTs) is challenging due to the large size of the sugar acceptors. In this work, we identified a multifunctional glycosyltransferase AmGT8 catalyzing triterpene 3-/6-/2′-O-glycosylation from the medicinal plant Astragalus membranaceus. To engineer its regiospecificity, a small mutant library was built based on semi-rational design. Variants A394F, A394D, and T131V were found to catalyze specific 6-O, 3-O, and 2′-O glycosylation, respectively. The origin of regioselectivity of AmGT8 and its A394F variant was studied by molecular dynamics and hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. Residue 394 is highly conserved as A/G and is critical for the regiospecificity of the C- and O-GTs TcCGT1 and GuGT10/14. Finally, astragalosides III and IV were synthesized by mutants A394F, T131V and P192E. This work reports biocatalysts for saponin synthesis and gives new insights into protein engineering of regioselectivity in plant GTs.
Highly Promiscuous Flavonoid 3- O-Glycosyltransferase from Scutellaria baicalensis
Wang, Zilong,Wang, Shuang,Xu, Zheng,Li, Mingwei,Chen, Kuan,Zhang, Yaqun,Hu, Zhimin,Zhang, Meng,Zhang, Zhiyong,Qiao, Xue,Ye, Min
supporting information, p. 2241 - 2245 (2019/03/19)
A highly regio-specific and donor-promiscuous 3-O-glycosyltransferase, Sb3GT1 (UGT78B4), was discovered from Scutellaria baicalensis. Sb3GT1 could accept five sugar donors (UDP-Glc/-Gal/-GlcNAc/-Xyl/-Ara) to catalyze 3-O-glycosylation of 17 flavonols, and the conversion rates could be >98%. Five new glycosides were obtained by scaled-up enzymatic catalysis. Molecular modeling and site-directed mutagenesis revealed that G15 and P187 were critical catalytic residues for the donor promiscuity. Sb3GT1 could be a promising catalyst to increase structural diversity of flavonoid 3-O-glycosides.
Ep7GT, a glycosyltransferase with sugar donor flexibility from: Epimedium pseudowushanense, catalyzes the 7- O -glycosylation of baohuoside
Feng, Keping,Chen, Ridao,Xie, Kebo,Chen, Dawei,Liu, Jimei,Du, Wenyu,Yang, Lin,Dai, Jungui
, p. 8106 - 8114 (2019/09/19)
Icariin (1a), a 7-O-glycosylated flavonoid glycoside, is recognized as the major pharmacologically active ingredient of Epimedium plants, which have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. However, no glycosyltransferase (GT) responsible for the 7-O-glycosylation of flavonoids has been identified from Epimedium plants to date. Herein, a GT, Ep7GT, was identified from E. pseudowushanense B. L. Guo, which can regiospecifically transfer a glucose moiety to baohuoside (1) at 7-OH to form icariin (1a). Ep7GT showed a rare broad donor substrate spectrum, including UDP-glucose, UDP-xylose, UDP-N-acetylglucosamine, UDP-rhamnose, UDP-galactose, UDP-glucuronic acid and TDP-glucose. Moreover, two new derivatives of icariin (1a), 7-O-β-d-[2-(acetylamino)-2-deoxy-glucopyranosyl]-baohuoside (1b) and 7-O-β-d-xylosyl-baohuoside (1c), were biosynthesized by using Ep7GT in vitro. Engineered Escherichia coli harbouring Ep7GT was constructed, and 10.1 μg mL-1 icariin (1a) was yielded by whole-cell biotransformation with baohuoside (1) as the substrate. The present work not only characterizes the GT responsible for the 7-O-glycosylation in the biosynthesis of icariin in Epimedium plants, but also indicates the significant potential of an enzymatic approach for the production of glycosylated baohuoside derivatives with different sugar moieties. What's more, these findings also provide a promising alternative for producing natural/unnatural bioactive flavonoid glycosides by metabolic engineering.
Methylglucosylation of Phenolic Compounds by Fungal Glycosyltransferase-Methyltransferase Functional Modules
Xie, Linan,Zhang, Liwen,Bai, Jing,Yue, Qun,Zhang, Min,Li, Jiancheng,Wang, Chen,Xu, Yuquan
, p. 8573 - 8580 (2019/08/16)
Glycosylation endows both natural and synthetic small molecules with modulated physicochemical and biological properties. Plant and bacterial glycosyltransferases capable of decorating various privileged scaffolds have been extensively studied, but those from kingdom Fungi still remain underexploited. Here, we use a combination of genome mining and heterologous expression techniques to identify four novel glycosyltransferase-methyltransferase (GT-MT) functional modules from Hypocreales fungi. These GT-MT modules display decent substrate promiscuity and regiospecificity, methylglucosylating a panel of natural products such as flavonoids, stilbenoids, anthraquinones, and benzenediol lactones. Native GT-MT modules can be split up and regrouped into hybrid modules with similar or even improved efficacy as compared with native pairs. Methylglucosylation of kaempferol considerably improves its insecticidal activity against the larvae of oriental armyworm Mythimna separata (Walker). Our work provides a set of efficient biocatalysts for the combinatorial biosynthesis of small molecule glycosides that may have significant importance to the pharmaceutical, agricultural, and food industries.
Differentially evolved glucosyltransferases determine natural variation of rice flavone accumulation and UV-tolerance
Peng, Meng,Shahzad, Raheel,Gul, Ambreen,Subthain, Hizar,Shen, Shuangqian,Lei, Long,Zheng, Zhigang,Zhou, Junjie,Lu, Dandan,Wang, Shouchuang,Nishawy, Elsayed,Liu, Xianqing,Tohge, Takayuki,Fernie, Alisdair R.,Luo, Jie
, (2017/12/26)
Decoration of phytochemicals contributes to the majority of metabolic diversity in nature, whereas how this process alters the biological functions of their precursor molecules remains to be investigated. Flavones, an important yet overlooked subclass of flavonoids, are most commonly conjugated with sugar moieties by UDP-dependent glycosyltransferases (UGTs). Here, we report that the natural variation of rice flavones is mainly determined by OsUGT706D1 (flavone 7-O-glucosyltransferase) and OsUGT707A2 (flavone 5-O-glucosyltransferase). UV-B exposure and transgenic evaluation demonstrate that their allelic variation contributes to UV-B tolerance in nature. Biochemical characterization of over 40 flavonoid UGTs reveals their differential evolution in angiosperms. These combined data provide biochemical insight and genetic regulation into flavone biosynthesis and additionally suggest that adoption of the positive alleles of these genes into breeding programs will likely represent a potential strategy aimed at producing stress-tolerant plants.
Kaempferol and its glycosides from Equisetum silvaticum L. from the khanty-mansi autonomous area
Bonacheva,Botirov, E. Kh.
, p. 777 - 780 (2015/01/30)
Three flavonoids were isolated from the aerial part of the wood horsetail (Equisetum silvaticum L.); two of them were found for the first time. The compounds were identified as kaempferol, kaempferol 3-O-β-D-galactopyranosyl-7-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside and kaempferol 3-O-rutinosyl-7-O-L-rhamnopyranoside on the basis of the chemical transformations and IR, UV, 1H-NMR and mass spectra.
Synthesis of flavonol 3-O-glycoside by UGT78D1
Ren, Guangxiang,Hou, Jingli,Fang, Qinghong,Sun, Hong,Liu, Xiaoyan,Zhang, Lianwen,Wang, Peng George
, p. 425 - 432 (2012/11/13)
Glycosylation is an important method for the structural modification of various flavonols, resulting in the glycosides with increased solubility, stability and bioavailability compared with the corresponding aglycone. From the physiological point of view, glycosylation of plant flavonoids is of importance and interest. However, it is notoriously complicated that flavonols such as quercetin, kaempferol and myricetin, are glucosylated regioselectively at the specific position by chemical method. Compared to the chemical method, enzymatic synthesis present several advantages, such as mild reaction condition, high stereo or region selectivity, no protection/deprotection and high yield. UGT78D1 is a flavonol-specific glycosyltransferase, responsible for transferring rhamnose or glucose to the 3-OH position in vitro. In this study, the activity of UGT78D1 was tested against 28 flavonoids acceptors using UDP-glucose as donor nucleoside in vitro, and 5 acceptors, quercetin, myricetin, kaempferol, fisetin and isorhamnetin, were discovered to be glucosylated at 3-OH position. Herein, the small-scale 3-O-glucosylated quercetin, kaempferol and myricetin were synthesized by UGT78D1 and their chemical structures were confirmed by 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.
