| Literature DB >> 18413994 |
Jeong Ho Kim1, Yoon Jung Lee, Bong Gyu Kim, Yoongho Lim, Joong-Hoon Ahn.
Abstract
Flavanone 3beta-hydroxylases (F3H) are key enzymes in the synthesis of flavonol and anthocyanin. In this study, three F3H cDNAs from Oryza sativa (OsF3H-1 approximately 3) were cloned by RT-PCR and expressed in E. coli as gluthatione S-transferase (GST) fusion proteins. The purified recombinant OsF3Hs used flavanone, naringenin and eriodictyol as substrates. The reaction products with naringen and eriodictyol were determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to be dihydrokaempferol and taxifolin, respectively. OsF3H-1 had the highest enzymatic activity whereas the overall expression of OsF3H-2 was highest in all tissues except seeds. Flavanone 3beta-hydroxylase could be a useful target for flavonoid metabolic engineering in rice.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18413994
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Cells ISSN: 1016-8478 Impact factor: 5.034