Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Analysis of the Coptis chinensis genome reveals the diversification of protoberberine-type alkaloids

  • Yifei Liu,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Shaohua Shu,
  • Zheng Li,
  • Chi Song,
  • Di Liu,
  • Yan Niu,
  • Jinxin Liu,
  • Jingjing Zhang,
  • Heping Liu,
  • Zhigang Hu,
  • Bisheng Huang,
  • Xiuyu Liu,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Liping Jiang,
  • Mohammad Murtaza Alami,
  • Yuxin Zhou,
  • Yutao Ma,
  • Xiangxiang He,
  • Yicheng Yang,
  • Tianyuan Zhang,
  • Hui Hu,
  • Michael S. Barker,
  • Shilin Chen,
  • Xuekui Wang,
  • Jing Nie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23611-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Coptis chinensis represents an early-diverging eudicot lineage with diverse medicinal applications. Here, the authors report its chromosome-scale genome assembly, infer a single ancient whole-genome duplication, and characterize the function of CYP719 in diversification of protoberberine-type alkaloids.