Protein Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Oxidosqualene-Lanosterol Cyclase into Parkeol Synthase
2012
Liu, Yuan-Ting | Hu, Tain-Chang | Zhang, Zhengxiang | Shie, Wen-Shiang | Wu, Tung-Kung
A Saccharomyces cerevisiae oxidosqualene-lanosterol cyclase mutant, ERG7ᵀ³⁸⁴Y/Q⁴⁵⁰ᴴ/ⱽ⁴⁵⁴ᴵ, produced parkeol but not lanosterol as the sole end product. Parkeol undergoes downstream metabolism to generate compounds 9 and 10. In vitro incubation of parkeol produced a product profile similar to that of the in vivo experiment. In summary, parkeol undergoes a metabolic pathway similar to that of cycloartenol in yeast but distinct from that of lanosterol in yeast, suggesting that two different metabolic pathways of postoxidosqualene cyclization may exist in S. cerevisiae.
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