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ArticleBioscience reports2021

Glucosinolate biosynthesis: role of MAM synthase and its perspectives.

Bidyadhar Das

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Article in Bioscience reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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Bidyadhar DasBiological Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793022, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6563-8860
North Eastern Hill University · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glucosinolates, synthesized by the glucosinolate biosynthesis pathway, are the secondary metabolites used as a defence mechanism in the Brassicaceae plants, including Arabidopsis thaliana. The first committed step in the pathway, catalysed by methylthioalkylmalate (MAM) synthase (EC: 2.3.3.17), is to produce different variants of glucosinolates. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that possibly MAM synthases have been evolved from isopropylmalate synthase (IPMS) by the substitutions of five amino acid residues (L143I, H167L, S216G, N250G and P252G) in the active site of IPMS due to point mutations. Considering the importance of MAM synthase in Brassicaceae plants, Petersen et al. (2019) made an effort to characterise the MAM synthase (15 MAM1 variants) in vitro by single substitution or double substitutions. In their study, the authors have expressed the variants in Escherichia coli and analysed the amino acids in the cultures of E. coli in vivo. Since modifying the MAM synthases by transgenic approaches could increase the resistance of Brassicaceae plants for enhancing the defence effect of glucosinolates and their degraded products; hence, MAM synthases should be characterized in detail in vivo in A. thaliana along with the structural analysis of the enzyme for meaningful impact and for its imminent use in vivo.

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GlucosinolatesOxo-Acid-LyasesEscherichia coliGene Expression Regulation, PlantPhylogenyGlucosinolatesOxo-Acid-LyasesArabidopsis thalianaBrassicaceae plantsGlucosinolatesIPMSMAM synthase

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PMID34545928
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