Completion of the seven-step pathway from tabersonine to the anticancer drug precursor vindoline and its assembly in yeast.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: National Academy of Sciences Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7505876 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1091-6490 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00278424 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Washington, DC : National Academy of Sciences
    • Subject Terms:
      Metabolic Engineering*; Antineoplastic Agents/*chemistry ; Catharanthus/*genetics ; Indole Alkaloids/*chemistry ; Quinolines/*chemistry ; Vinblastine/*analogs & derivatives; Alkaloids/chemistry ; Catharanthus/metabolism ; Computational Biology ; Drug Design ; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; Gene Silencing ; Genes, Plant ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oxygenases/chemistry ; Plant Extracts/metabolism ; Plant Leaves/metabolism ; Seeds/metabolism ; Vinblastine/chemistry
    • Abstract:
      Antitumor substances related to vinblastine and vincristine are exclusively found in the Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle), a member of the Apocynaceae plant family, and continue to be extensively used in cancer chemotherapy. Although in high demand, these valuable compounds only accumulate in trace amounts in C. roseus leaves. Vinblastine and vincristine are condensed from the monoterpenoid indole alkaloid (MIA) precursors catharanthine and vindoline. Although catharanthine biosynthesis remains poorly characterized, the biosynthesis of vindoline from the MIA precursor tabersonine is well understood at the molecular and biochemical levels. This study uses virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) to identify a cytochrome P450 [CYP71D1V2; tabersonine 3-oxygenase (T3O)] and an alcohol dehydrogenase [ADHL1; tabersonine 3-reductase (T3R)] as candidate genes involved in the conversion of tabersonine or 16-methoxytabersonine to 3-hydroxy-2,3-dihydrotabersonine or 3-hydroxy-16-methoxy-2,3-dihydrotabersonine, which are intermediates in the vindorosine and vindoline pathways, respectively. Biochemical assays with recombinant enzymes confirm that product formation is only possible by the coupled action of T3O and T3R, as the reaction product of T3O is an epoxide that is not used as a substrate by T3R. The T3O and T3R transcripts were identified in a C. roseus database representing genes preferentially expressed in leaf epidermis and suggest that the subsequent reaction products are transported from the leaf epidermis to specialized leaf mesophyll idioblast and laticifer cells to complete the biosynthesis of these MIAs. With these two genes, the complete seven-gene pathway was engineered in yeast to produce vindoline from tabersonine.
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    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: monoterpenoid indole alkaloid; tabersonine 3-oxygenase; tabersonine 3-reductase; tabersonine-to-vindoline metabolic engineering; virus-induced gene silencing
    • Molecular Sequence:
      GENBANK KP122966; KP122967
    • Accession Number:
      0 (Alkaloids)
      0 (Antineoplastic Agents)
      0 (Indole Alkaloids)
      0 (Plant Extracts)
      0 (Quinolines)
      4429-63-4 (tabersonine)
      571PJ1LW03 (vindoline)
      5V9KLZ54CY (Vinblastine)
      EC 1.13.- (Oxygenases)
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20150429 Date Completed: 20150804 Latest Revision: 20231111
    • Publication Date:
      20240829
    • Accession Number:
      PMC4434687
    • Accession Number:
      10.1073/pnas.1501821112
    • Accession Number:
      25918424