Abstract
Flavonoids glycosylated with UDP-glucuronic acid and UDP-xylose are spatially distributed in nature. To produce these glycosides, E. coli was engineered to overexpress biosynthetic gene clusters of UDP-sugars (galU from E. coli K12, UDP-glucose dehydrogenase (calS8), and UDP-glucuronic acid decarboxylase (calS9) from Micromonospora echinospora spp. calichensis). Flavonoids were glycosylated by overexpression of the glycosyltransferase gene (atGt-5) from Arabidopsis thaliana. Finally, metabolically engineered host E. coli (US89Gt-5) was generated. Production of flavonoid glycosides was observed in a biotransformation system consisting of flavonoids (naringenin and quercetin) exogenously fed to host cells. The glycosylated derivatives 7-O-glucuronyl naringenin (m/z+ 449), 7-O-xylosyl naringenin (m/z+ 405), and 7-O-glucuronyl quercetin (m/z+ 479) were detected and confirmed by ESI-MS/MS, ESI-MS/MS and LC/MS-MS analysis, respectively.
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Simkhada, D., Kurumbang, N.P., Lee, H.C. et al. Exploration of glycosylated flavonoids from metabolically engineered E. coli . Biotechnol Bioproc E 15, 754–760 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12257-010-0012-4
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