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Abstract
Salidroside, a tyrosine-derived bioactive product, originates from the Rhodiola genus and has various medicinal properties. However, the surge in global demand requires exploration of more efficient and sustainable approaches to produce salidroside. This study reconstructed three functional enzymes in tobacco cells to produce salidroside using endogenous l-tyrosine. Under the optimized two-stage protocol (1% sucrose in the production medium; 11 days of culture), salidroside accumulation reached a maximum of 377.53 μg per gram of HHU cells in fresh weight. Neither precursor feeding (100 mg/L shikimate) nor various elicitors (e.g., MeJA, SA, and ABA) provided any further enhancement. Comparative transcriptomic analysis revealed that two DAHPS transcripts (107797958 and 107817203) were upregulated more than 2-fold, indicating that the reconstructed pathway boosts endogenous l-tyrosine flux, and elicitation and precursor feeding strategies could not enhance salidroside accumulation. Meanwhile, comparative transcriptomic analysis revealed that the reconstructed pathway could upregulate crucial gene expression in endogenous l-tyrosine biosynthesis. This study evaluates tobacco cells as biofactories to produce salidroside and lays the foundation for the biosynthesis engineering of other heterologous metabolites.
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Design and optimization of genetic systems
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Experimental methods to quantify genetic parts, circuits, and metabolic fluxes
Genetic parts libraries: their creation, analysis, and ontological representation
Protein engineering including computational design
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Natural product access, engineering, and production
Creative and innovative applications of cellular programming
Medical applications, tissue engineering, and the programming of therapeutic cells
Minimal cell design and construction
Genomics and genome replacement strategies
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Automated and robotic assembly platforms for synthetic biology
DNA synthesis methodologies
Metagenomics and synthetic metagenomic analysis
Bioinformatics applied to gene discovery, chemoinformatics, and pathway construction
Gene optimization
Methods for genome-scale measurements of transcription and metabolomics
Systems biology and methods to integrate multiple data sources
in vitro and cell-free synthetic biology and molecular programming
Nucleic acid engineering.