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Naturally impaired side-chain shortening of aromatic 3-ketoacyl-CoAs reveals the biosynthetic pathway of plant acetophenones

文献类型: 外文期刊

作者: Zhai, Rui 1 ; Zhang, Hongjuan 1 ; Xie, Yinpeng 1 ; Zhang, Shichao 1 ; Zhou, Fengli 1 ; Du, Xuan 3 ; Chen, Weifeng 4 ; Yan, Yanfang 1 ; Zhang, Jing 1 ; Li, Pengmin 1 ; Atkinson, Ross 5 ; Wang, Zhigang 1 ; Yang, Chengquan 1 ; Guan, Qingmei 1 ; Ma, Fengwang 1 ; Xu, Lingfei 1 ;

作者机构: 1.Northwest A&F Univ, Coll Hort, Yangling, Shaanxi, Peoples R China

2.Northwest A&F Univ, State Key Lab Crop Stress Resistance & High Effici, Shaanxi Key Lab Apple, Yangling, Shaanxi, Peoples R China

3.Shenzhen Univ, Coll Life Sci & Oceanog, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Plant Epigenet, Shenzhen, Peoples R China

4.Hunan Acad Agr Sci, Hunan Hort Res Inst, Changsha, Peoples R China

5.New Zealand Inst Plant & Food Res Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand

期刊名称:NATURE PLANTS ( 影响因子:13.6; 五年影响因子:17.0 )

ISSN: 2055-026X

年卷期: 2025 年

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收录情况: SCI

摘要: Acetophenones, which show scattered distribution across phylogenetically distant plants and fungi, play diverse roles in plant-plant, plant-insect, plant-microbiome and even animal-insect interactions. However, the enzymatic basis of acetophenone biosynthesis in plants remains unknown. Here we elucidate the complete biosynthetic pathway of picein (4-hydroxyacetophenone glucoside) from 4-coumaroyl-CoA using pear (Pyrus) as a study system. We demonstrate that in certain pear cultivars, the acetophenone moiety originates from an impaired side-chain shortening reaction of an aromatic 3-ketoacyl-CoA intermediate, a key step in the beta-oxidative biosynthesis of benzoic acid. This impairment results from a loss-of-function mutation in a peroxisomal 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase. The accumulated aromatic 3-ketoacyl-CoA is subsequently hydrolysed by a thioesterase and undergoes spontaneous decarboxylation to yield the acetophenone moiety. This rare metabolic phenomenon highlights that not only neofunctionalization but also loss-of-function mutations can drive diversification in plant secondary metabolism. Forward genetic approaches are powerful to shed light on such 'hidden' or recessive pathways in plants.

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