Analysis of nicotine-induced metabolic changes in Blakeslea trispora by GC-MS.

Analysis of nicotine-induced metabolic changes in Blakeslea trispora by GC-MS. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2020 Feb.;21(2):172-177 Authors: Liu Y, Shao YR, Li XY, Wang ZM, Yang LR, Zhang YZ, Wu MB, Yao JM Abstract Blakeslea trispora is a natural source of carotenoids, including β-carotene and lycopene, which have industrial applications. Therefore, classical selective breeding techniques have been applied to generate strains with increased productivity, and microencapsulated β-carotene preparation has been used in food industry (Li et al., 2019). In B. trispora, lycopene is synthesized via the mevalonate pathway (Venkateshwaran et al., 2015). Lycopene cyclase, which is one of the key enzymes in this pathway, is a bifunctional enzyme that can catalyze the cyclization of lycopene to produce β-carotene and exhibit phytoene synthase activity (He et al., 2017). PMID: 32115914 [PubMed - in process]
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