The enzyme, characterized from the plant Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (mayapple), is involved in the biosynthetic pathway of podophyllotoxin, a non-alkaloid toxin lignan whose derivatives are important anticancer drugs. It catalyses the closure of the central six-membered ring in the aryltetralin scaffold.
The expected taxonomic range for this enzyme is: Sinopodophyllum hexandrum
The enzyme, characterized from the plant Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (mayapple), is involved in the biosynthetic pathway of podophyllotoxin, a non-alkaloid toxin lignan whose derivatives are important anticancer drugs. It catalyses the closure of the central six-membered ring in the aryltetralin scaffold.
the oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase is involved in the biosynthesis of (-)-4'-demethylepipodophyllotoxin (the etoposide aglycone), a naturally occurring lignan that is the immediate precursor of etoposide and, unlike podophyllotoxin, a potent topoisomerase inhibitor. Biosynthetic pathway of (-)-podophyllotoxin, overview
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UNIPROT
LITERATURE
gene Phex30848 or 2-ODD, expression analysis by qRT-PCR analysis, transcriptome mining to identify biosynthetic genes in the podophyllotoxin pathway, Agrobacterium-mediated functional transient expression of the genes of the podophyllotoxin pathway in Nicotiana benthamiana
recombinant coexpression of the genes involved in the podophyllotoxin pathway permits to reconstitute the pathway to (-)-4'-demethylepipodophyllotoxin (the etoposide aglycone), a naturally occurring lignan that is the immediate precursor of etoposide and, unlike podophyllotoxin, a potent topoisomerase inhibitor, for production of the etoposide aglycone in tobacco and circumvent the need for cultivation of mayapple and semisynthetic epimerization and demethylation of podophyllotoxin