involved in stylopine biosynthesis were isolated using degenerate primers designed for C. japonica CYP719 from cultured Eschscholzia californica cells. Heterologous expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae showed that both CYP719A2 and CYP719A3 had stylopine synthase activity to catalyze methylenedioxy bridge-formation from cheilanthifoline to stylopine, but not cheilanthifoline synthase activity to convert
(S)-斯蒂洛平是苯并
菲啶生物碱如血红碱的
生物合成中的重要中间体。stylopine的
生物合成涉及两个亚甲基二氧基桥的顺序形成。尽管已从黄连中克隆了与小ber碱
生物合成有关的形成亚甲二氧基桥的P450(CYP719)[Ikezawa N,Tanaka M,Nagayoshi M,Shinkyo R,Sakaki T,Inouye K&Sato F(2003)J Biol Chem278,38557- 38565],尚无有关
苯乙烯类
生物合成中亚甲二氧基桥形成酶
基因的信息。使用从日本埃森氏菌(Eschscholzia californica)培养的日本粳稻CYP719设计的简并引物,分离出两个与
苯乙烯类
生物合成有关的细胞色素P450 cDNA。酿酒酵母中的异源表达表明CYP719A2和CYP719A3均具有
苯乙烯平合酶活性来催化从Cheilanthifoline到stylopine的亚甲二氧基