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ArticlePlanta2017

Potato plants with genetically engineered tropane alkaloid precursors.

Nadine Küster, Sabine Rosahl, Birgit Dräger

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Article in Planta, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nadine KüsterDepartment of Pharmaceutical Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Hoher Weg 8, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Sabine RosahlDepartment of Stress and Developmental Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg 3, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Birgit DrägerDepartment of Pharmaceutical Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Hoher Weg 8, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany. birgit.draeger@zv.uni-leipzig.de.
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg · DELeibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry · DE

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conclusionSolanum tuberosum tropinone reductase I reduced tropinone in vivo. Suppression of tropinone reductase II strongly reduced calystegines in sprouts. Overexpression of putrescine N -methyltransferase did not alter calystegine accumulation. Calystegines are hydroxylated alkaloids formed by the tropane alkaloid pathway. They accumulate in potato (Solanum tuberosum L., Solanaceae) roots and sprouting tubers. Calystegines inhibit various glycosidases in vitro due to their sugar-mimic structure, but functions of calystegines in plants are not understood. Enzymes participating in or competing with calystegine biosynthesis, including putrescine N-methyltransferase (PMT) and tropinone reductases (TRI and TRII), were altered in their activity in potato plants by RNA interference (RNAi) and by overexpression. The genetically altered potato plants were investigated for the accumulation of calystegines and for intermediates of their biosynthesis. An increase in N-methylputrescine provided by DsPMT expression was not sufficient to increase calystegine accumulation. Overexpression and gene knockdown of StTRI proved that S. tuberosum TRI is a functional tropinone reductase in vivo, but no influence on calystegine accumulation was observed. When StTRII expression was suppressed by RNAi, calystegine formation was severely compromised in the transformed plants. Under phytochamber and green house conditions, the StTRII RNAi plants did not show phenotypic alterations. Further investigation of calystegines function in potato plants under natural conditions is enabled by the calystegine deprived StTRII RNAi plants.

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Alcohol OxidoreductasesGene Expression Regulation, PlantGene Knockdown TechniquesMethyltransferasesPhenotypePlant ProteinsPlants, Genetically ModifiedRNA InterferenceSolanum tuberosumTropanes3-tropinoneAlcohol OxidoreductasescalysteginMethyltransferasesPlant Proteinsputrescine N-methyltransferaseTropanestropine dehydrogenasetropinone reductaseCalystegineGenetic modificationPutrescine N-methyltransferaseSolanum tuberosumTropinone reductases

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PMID27783159
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