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Kempe, K.; Higashi, Y.; Frick, S.; Sabarna, K.; Kutchan, T. M.;RNAi suppression of the morphine biosynthetic gene salAT and evidence of association of pathway enzymesPhytochemistry70579-589(2009)DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2009.03.002
Papaver somniferum L. was transformed with an RNAi construct designed to reduce transcript levels of the gene encoding the morphine biosynthetic enzyme, salutaridinol 7-O-acetyltransferase (SalAT). RNA interference of salAT led to accumulation of the intermediate compounds, salutaridine and salutaridinol, in a ratio ranging from 2:1 to 56:1. Along the morphine biosynthetic pathway, salutaridine is stereospecifically reduced by salutaridine reductase (SalR) to salutaridinol, which is subsequently acetylated by SalAT. SalAT transcript was shown by quantitative PCR to be diminished, while salR transcript levels remained unaffected. Yeast two-hybrid and co-immunoprecipitation analyses indicated an interaction between SalR and SalAT, which suggested the occurrence of an enzyme complex and provided an explanation for the unexpected accumulation of salutaridine. Decreased concentrations of thebaine and codeine in latex were also observed, while the morphine levels remained constant compared to concentrations found in untransformed control plants.
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Gesell, A.; Rolf, M.; Ziegler, J.; Díaz Chávez, M. L.; Huang, F.-C.; Kutchan, T. M.;CYP719B1 Is Salutaridine Synthase, the C-C Phenol-coupling Enzyme of Morphine Biosynthesis in Opium PoppyJ. Biol. Chem.28424432-24442(2009)DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M109.033373
Morphine is a powerful analgesic natural product produced by the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. Although formal syntheses of this alkaloid have been reported, the morphine molecule contains five stereocenters and a C-C phenol linkage that to date render a total synthesis of morphine commercially unfeasible. The C-C phenol-coupling reaction along the biosynthetic pathway to morphine in opium poppy is catalyzed by the cytochrome P450-dependent oxygenase salutaridine synthase. We report herein on the identification of salutaridine synthase as a member of the CYP719 family of cytochromes P450 during a screen of recombinant cytochromes P450 of opium poppy functionally expressed in Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 cells. Recombinant CYP719B1 is a highly stereo- and regioselective enzyme; of forty-one compounds tested as potential substrates, only (R)-reticuline and (R)-norreticuline resulted in formation of a product (salutaridine and norsalutaridine, respectively). To date, CYP719s have been characterized catalyzing only the formation of a methylenedioxy bridge in berberine biosynthesis (canadine synthase, CYP719A1) and in benzo[c]phenanthridine biosynthesis (stylopine synthase, CYP719A14). Previously identified phenol-coupling enzymes of plant alkaloid biosynthesis belong only to the CYP80 family of cytochromes. CYP719B1 therefore is the prototype for a new family of plant cytochromes P450 that catalyze formation of a phenol-couple.