A yeast platform for high-level synthesis of tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids

Plants synthesize more than 3000 tetrahydroisoquinoline (THIQ) alkaloids, but only a few of them have been produced by engineered microbes and titers are very low. Here, the authors increase (S)-reticuline titer to 4.6 g/L and repurpose the yeast Ehrlich pathway to synthesize a diverse array of THIQ...

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Main Authors: Michael E. Pyne, Kaspar Kevvai, Parbir S. Grewal, Lauren Narcross, Brian Choi, Leanne Bourgeois, John E. Dueber, Vincent J. J. Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17172-x