Unraveling the serial glycosylation in the biosynthesis of steroidal saponins in the medicinal plant Paris polyphylla and their antifungal action

• Main Authors: Yuegui Chen (Author), Qin Yan (Author), Yunheng Ji (Author), Xue Bai (Author), Desen Li (Author), Rongfang Mu (Author), Kai Guo (Author), Minjie Yang (Author), Yang Tao (Author), Jonathan Gershenzon (Author), Yan Liu (Author), Shenghong Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Sugar-sugar glycosyltransferases play important roles in constructing complex and bioactive saponins. Here, we characterized a series of UDP-glycosyltransferases responsible for biosynthesizing the branched sugar chain of bioactive steroidal saponins from a widely known medicinal plant Paris polyphy...