Methylated resveratrol analogs show similar biological activities that are comparable with those of the resveratrol. However, the methylated resveratrol analogs exhibit better bioavailability as they are more easily transported into the cell and more resistant to degradation.
Although these compounds are widely used in human health care and in industrial materials, at present they are mainly obtained by extraction from row plant sources. Accordingly their production can suffer from a variety of economic problems, including low levels of productivity and/or heterogeneous quality.
On this backdrop, large-scale production of plant metabolites via microbial approaches is a promising alternative to chemical synthesis and extraction from plant sources.
Results:
An Escherichia coli system containing an artificial biosynthetic pathway that produces methylated resveratrol analogues, such as pinostilbene (3,4?-dihydroxy-5-methoxystilbene), 3,5-dihydroxy-4?-methoxystilbene, 3,4?-dimethoxy-5-hydroxystilbene, and 3,5,4?-trimethoxystilbene, from simple carbon sources is developed. These artificial biosynthetic pathways contain a series of codon-optimized O-methyltransferase genes from sorghum in addition to the resveratrol biosynthetic genes.
The E. coli cells that harbor pET-opTLO1S or pET-opTLO3S produce the one-methyl resveratrol analogues of 3,5-dihydroxy-4?-methoxystilbene and pinostilbene, respectively.
Furthermore, the E. coli cells that harbor pET-opTLO13S produce 3,5-dihydroxy-4?-methoxystilbene, bis-methyl resveratrol (3,4?-dimethoxy-5-hydroxystilbene), and tri-methyl resveratrol (3,5,4?-trimethoxystilbene).
Conclusions:
Our strategy demonstrates the first harness microorganisms for de novo synthesis of methylated resveratrol analogs used a single vector system joined with resveratrol biosynthetic genes and sorghum two resveratrol O-methyltransferase genes.
Thus, this is also the first report on the production of the methylated resveratrol compounds bis-methyl and tri-methyl resveratrol (3,4?-dimethoxy-5-hydroxystilbene and 3,5,4?-trimethoxystilbene) in the E. coli culture.
Thus, the production of the methylated resveratrol compounds was performed on the simple E. coli medium without precursor feeding in the culture.
Author: Sun-Young KangJae Kyoung LeeOksik ChoiCha Young KimJae-Hyuk JangBang Yeon HwangYoung-Soo Hong
Credits/Source: BMC Biotechnology 2014, 14:67
Published on: 2014-07-17
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