RES transformation for biosynthesis and detoxification

The reactive electrophilic species (RES), typically the molecules bearing α,β-unsaturated carbonyl group, are widespread in living organisms and notoriously known for their damaging effects. Many of the mycotoxins released from phytopathogenic fungi are RES and their contamination to cereals threate...

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Veröffentlicht in:Science China. Life sciences 2020-09, Vol.63 (9), p.1297-1302
Hauptverfasser: Huang, Jin-Quan, Lin, Jia-Ling, Guo, Xiao-Xiang, Tian, Xiu, Tian, Ye, Shangguan, Xiao-Xia, Wang, Ling-Jian, Fang, Xin, Chen, Xiao-Ya
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Zusammenfassung:The reactive electrophilic species (RES), typically the molecules bearing α,β-unsaturated carbonyl group, are widespread in living organisms and notoriously known for their damaging effects. Many of the mycotoxins released from phytopathogenic fungi are RES and their contamination to cereals threatens food safety worldwide. However, due to their high reactivity, RES are also used by host organisms to synthesize specific metabolites. The evolutionary conserved glyoxalase (GLX) system scavenges the cytotoxic α-oxoaldehydes that bear RES groups, which cause host disorders and diseases. In cotton, a specialized enzyme derived from glyoxalase I (GLXI) through gene duplications and named as specialized GLXI (SPG), acts as a distinct type of aromatase in the gossypol pathway to transform the RES intermediates into the phenolic products. In this review, we briefly introduce the research progress in understanding the RES, especially the RES-type mycotoxins, the GLX system and SPG, and discuss their application potential in detoxification and synthetic biology.
ISSN:1674-7305
1869-1889
DOI:10.1007/s11427-020-1729-5