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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2015

Jasmonate-responsive expression of paclitaxel biosynthesis genes in Taxus cuspidata cultured cells is negatively regulated by the bHLH transcription factors TcJAMYC1, TcJAMYC2, and TcJAMYC4.

Sangram K Lenka, N Ezekiel Nims, Kham Vongpaseuth, Rosemary A Boshar, Susan C Roberts, Elsbeth L Walker

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sangram K LenkaDepartment of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA.
N Ezekiel NimsDepartment of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA ; Plant Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA.
Kham VongpaseuthPlant Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA ; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA.
Rosemary A BosharDepartment of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA.
Susan C RobertsPlant Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA ; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA.
Elsbeth L WalkerDepartment of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA ; Plant Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA.
University of Massachusetts Amherst · US

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Abstract

Taxus cell suspension culture is a sustainable technology for the industrial production of paclitaxel (Taxol®), a highly modified diterpene anti-cancer agent. The methyl jasmonate (MJ)-mediated paclitaxel biosynthetic pathway is not fully characterized, making metabolic engineering efforts difficult. Here, promoters of seven genes (TASY, T5αH, DBAT, DBBT, PAM, BAPT, and DBTNBT), encoding enzymes of the paclitaxel biosynthetic pathway were isolated and used to drive MJ-inducible expression of a GUS reporter construct in transiently transformed Taxus cells, showing that elicitation of paclitaxel production by MJ is regulated at least in part at the level of transcription. The paclitaxel biosynthetic pathway promoters contained a large number of E-box sites (CANNTG), similar to the binding sites for the key MJ-inducible transcription factor AtMYC2 from Arabidopsis thaliana. Three MJ-inducible MYC transcription factors similar to AtMYC2 (TcJAMYC1, TcJAMYC2, and TcJAMYC4) were identified in Taxus. Transcriptional regulation of paclitaxel biosynthetic pathway promoters by transient over expression of TcJAMYC transcription factors indicated a negative rather than positive regulatory role of TcJAMYCs on paclitaxel biosynthetic gene expression.

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E-boxJA-MYCmethyl jasmonateMYC2paclitaxelTaxus cuspidata

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