Mining methods and typical structural mechanisms of terpene cyclases

Abstract

Terpenoids, formed by cyclization and/or permutation of isoprenes, are the most diverse and abundant class of natural products with a broad range of significant functions. One family of the critical enzymes involved in terpenoid biosynthesis is terpene cyclases (TCs), also known as terpene synthases (TSs), which are responsible for forming the ring structure as a backbone of functionally diverse terpenoids. With the recent advances in biotechnology, the researches on terpene cyclases have gradually shifted from the genomic mining of novel enzyme resources to the analysis of their structures and mechanisms. In this review, we summarize both the new methods for genomic mining and the structural mechanisms of some typical terpene cyclases, which are helpful for the discovery, engineering and application of more and new TCs.

Keywords

Terpene cyclases / Biochemical properties / Review / Genomic mining / Structural analysis / Catalytic mechanisms

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Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019YFA09005000)

the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21536004)

the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(22221818014)