Developmentally Regulated Glucosylation of Bitter Triterpenoid in Cucumber by the UDP-Glucosyltransferase UGT73AM3

Yang Zhong; Xiaofeng Xue; Zhiqiang Liu; Yongshuo Ma; Kewu Zeng; Lida Han; Jingjing Qi; Dae-Kyun Ro; Søren Bak; Sanwen Huang; Yuan Zhou; Yi Shang

doi:10.1016/j.molp.2017.02.005

Developmentally Regulated Glucosylation of Bitter Triterpenoid in Cucumber by the UDP-Glucosyltransferase UGT73AM3

Mol Plant. 2017 Jul 5;10(7):1000-1003. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2017.02.005. Epub 2017 Mar 2.

Authors

Yang Zhong¹, Xiaofeng Xue², Zhiqiang Liu³, Yongshuo Ma⁴, Kewu Zeng⁵, Lida Han⁶, Jingjing Qi⁷, Dae-Kyun Ro⁸, Søren Bak⁹, Sanwen Huang¹, Yuan Zhou¹⁰, Yi Shang¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sino-Dutch Joint Laboratory of Horticultural Genomics, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; Agricultural Genome Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shenzhen 518124, China.
² Institute of Apiculture Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
³ School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sino-Dutch Joint Laboratory of Horticultural Genomics, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China.
⁵ School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China.
⁶ Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China.
⁷ College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 1N4, Canada.
⁹ Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Copenhagen Plant Science Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1871, Denmark.
¹⁰ Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sino-Dutch Joint Laboratory of Horticultural Genomics, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; Tongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan 430030, China. Electronic address: zhouyuan@caas.cn.
¹¹ Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sino-Dutch Joint Laboratory of Horticultural Genomics, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; Agricultural Genome Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Shenzhen 518124, China. Electronic address: shangyi@caas.cn.

PMID: 28263794
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2017.02.005

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Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cucumis sativus / metabolism*
Glucosyltransferases / metabolism*
Glycosylation
Plant Leaves / metabolism
Substrate Specificity
Triterpenes / metabolism*

Substances

Triterpenes
cucurbitacin C
Glucosyltransferases