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Plant natural product biosynthesis through metabolon engineering

Caibin Zhang, Jingcheng Shi, Rui Deng, Moxian Chen, Alisdair R. Fernie, Youjun Zhang

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology · 2026

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Summary

Plant metabolism is increasingly being demonstrated to be partially controlled by dynamically assembled metabolons-multienzyme complexes that enable substrate channeling, insulate reactive intermediates, and permit rapid, low-energy flux control. Rigorous criteria are defined to distinguish true metabolons from generic assemblies, and evidence is synthesized across cyanogenic glucoside, phenylpropanoid/flavonoid, alkaloid, terpenoid, polyamine, sporopollenin, and auxin pathways. A practical workflow is presented in which AP-MS (Affinity purification mass spectrometry)/Co-IP (Co-immunoprecipitation), proximity labeling, BiFC (Bimolecular fluorescence complementation)/FRET (Förster resonance energy transfer)/Split-luciferase, and isotope-dilution metabolomics are integrated to resolve compos

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1111/jipb.70146
Catalogue ID
SNmoi1qal6-cfx56q
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