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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Comprehensive mutant chemotyping reveals embedding of a lineage-specific biosynthetic gene cluster in wider plant metabolism.

Xue Qiao, Alan Houghton, James Reed, Burkhard Steuernagel, Jiahe Zhang, Charlotte Owen, Aymeric Leveau, Anastasia Orme, Thomas Louveau, Rachel Melton and 2 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. 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.

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  2. Chromosome-level genome ofFrontiers in plant science · 2026
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  4. The ins and outs of plant specialized metabolite gene organization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors.

Xue QiaoDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Alan HoughtonDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
James ReedDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Burkhard SteuernagelDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-8284-7728
Jiahe ZhangState Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Charlotte OwenDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9023-2179
Aymeric LeveauDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Anastasia OrmeDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Thomas LouveauDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Rachel MeltonDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Brande B H WulffDepartment of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Anne OsbournDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-2195-5810

Funding

John Innes Centre Innovation Award IF2015BW22John Innes Foundation (JIF) n/aNational Natural Science Foundation of China 82425059 82122073UKRI | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/K005952/1UKRI | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/X01097X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants produce diverse specialized metabolites with important ecological functions. It has recently become apparent that the genes for many of these pathways are not dispersed in plant genomes, but rather are arranged like beads on a string in biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). Pathways encoded by BGCs are as a rule dedicated linear pathways that do not form parts of wider metabolic networks. In contrast, the genes for the biosynthesis of widely distributed more ancestral metabolites such as carotenoids and anthocyanins are not clustered. Little is known about how these more recently evolved clustered pathways interact with general plant metabolism. We recently characterized a 12-gene BGC for the biosynthesis of the antimicrobial defense compound avenacin A-1, a triterpene glycoside produced by oats. Avenacin A-1 is acylated with the fluorophore

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AvenaGenes, PlantMultigene FamilyMutationBiosynthetic Pathwaysacyl sugarsbiosynthesismetabolismnoncanonical enzymesprecursor supply genes

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PMID40106352
PMCPMC11962460

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