Successful expression of a novel bacterial gene for pinoresinol reductase and its effect on lignan biosynthesis in transgenic arabidopsis thaliana

• Main Authors: Tamura, Masayuki, Tsuji, Yukiko, Kusunose, Tatsuya, Kamimura, Naofumi, Okazawa, Atsushi, Mori, Tetsuya, Nakabayashi, Ryo, Hishiyama, Shojiro, Fukuhara, Yuki, Hara, Hirofumi, Sato-Izawa, Kanna, Muranaka, Toshiya, Saito, Kazuki, Katayama, Yoshihiro, Fukuda, Masao, Masai, Eiji, Kajita, Shinya
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer 2014
• Subjects: T Technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/62723/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00253-014-5934-x

Pinoresinol reductase and pinoresinol/lariciresinol reductase play important roles in an early step of lignan biosynthesis in plants. The activities of both enzymes have also been detected in bacteria. In this study, pinZ, which was first isolated as a gene for bacterial pinoresinol reductase, was c...