Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

A conserved strategy of chalcone isomerase-like protein to rectify promiscuous chalcone synthase specificity

  • Toshiyuki Waki,
  • Ryo Mameda,
  • Takuya Nakano,
  • Sayumi Yamada,
  • Miho Terashita,
  • Keisuke Ito,
  • Natsuki Tenma,
  • Yanbing Li,
  • Naoto Fujino,
  • Kaichi Uno,
  • Satoshi Yamashita,
  • Yuichi Aoki,
  • Konstantin Denessiouk,
  • Yosuke Kawai,
  • Satoko Sugawara,
  • Kazuki Saito,
  • Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara,
  • Yasumasa Morita,
  • Atsushi Hoshino,
  • Seiji Takahashi,
  • Toru Nakayama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14558-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Chalcone synthase is the first committed enzyme in the plant flavonoid biosynthesis pathway, yet shows low product specificity in vitro. Here Waki et al. show that chalcone isomerase-like proteins bind to and reduce the catalytic promiscuity of chalcone synthase, ensuring efficient flavonoid production in planta.