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ArticleScientific reports2019

Identification of key genes involved in the biosynthesis of triterpenic acids in the mint family.

Zahra Aminfar, Babak Rabiei, Masoud Tohidfar, Mohammad Hossein Mirjalili

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zahra AminfarDepartment of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agricultural science, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.
Babak RabieiDepartment of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agricultural science, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran. rabiei@guilan.ac.ir.
Masoud TohidfarDepartment of Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences & Biotechnology, Shahid Beheshti University G.C., Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad Hossein MirjaliliDepartment of Agriculture, Medicinal Plants and Drugs Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., Tehran, Iran. m-mirjalili@sbu.ac.ir.
Shahid Beheshti University · IRUniversity of Guilan · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Triterpenic acids (TAs), a large group of natural compounds with diverse biological activity, are produced by several plant taxa. Betulinic, oleanolic, and ursolic acids are the most medicinally important TAs and are mainly found in plants of the mint family. Metabolic engineering is strongly dependent on identifying the key genes in biosynthetic pathways toward the products of interest. In this study, gene expression tracking was performed by transcriptome mining, co-expression network analysis, and tissue-specific metabolite-expression analysis in order to identify possible key genes involved in TAs biosynthetic pathways. To this end, taxa-specific degenerate primers of six important genes were designed using an effective method based on the MEME algorithm in a phylogenetically related group of sequences and successfully applied in three members of the Lamiaceae (Rosmarinus officinalis, Salvia officinalis, and Thymus persicus). Based on the results of in-depth data analysis, genes encoding squalene epoxidase and oxido squalene cyclases are proposed as targets for boosting triterpene production. The results emphasize the importance of identifying key genes in triterpene biosynthesis, which may facilitate genetic manipulation or overexpression of target genes.

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Genes, PlantLamiaceaePhylogenyTranscriptomeTriterpenesTriterpenes

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