New Concepts and Experimental Approaches
InhaltsangabeChapter 1: Isoprenoid Bbiosynthesis in Pprokaryotic Organisms Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción and Albert BoronatChapter 2: 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate Synthase (DXS), A Crucial Enzyme for Isoprenoids Biosynthesis Song Xiang, Gerlinde Usunow, Gudrun Lange, Marco Busch, and Liang TongChapter 3: Biosynthetic Genes and Enzymes of Isoprenoids Produced by Actinomycetes Tohru DairiChapter 4: Interactions of Isoprenoid Pathway Enzymes and Indirect Stimulation of Isoprenoid Biosynthesis by Pentose Phosphate Cycle Substrates in Synechocystis PCC 6803 Kelly Poliquin, Francis X. Cunningham, Jr., R. Raymond Gantt, and Elisabeth GanttChapter 5: Metabolic Engineering of Monoterpenoids Production in Yeast Marc Fischer, Sophie Meyer, Maryline Oswald, Patricia Claudel, and Francis KarstChapter 6: Metabolic Engineering of Isoprenoid Production: Reconstruction of Multistep Heterologous Pathways in Tractable Hosts Jérôme Maury, Mohammad A. Asadollahi, Luca R. Formenti, Michel Schalk, and Jens NielsenChapter 7: Microbially-Derived Semi-synthetic Artemisinin Christopher J. Paddon, Derek McPhee, Patrick J. Westfall, Kirsten R. Benjamin, Douglas J. Pitera, Karl Fisher, Scott Fickes, Michael D. Leavell, and Jack D. NewmanChapter 8: Artemisinin: Controlling its Production in Artemisia Annua Pamela Weathers, Melissa Towler, Yi Wang, and Kristin K. WobbeChapter 9: Fosmidomycin as an Antimalarial Agent Jochen Wiesner, Armin Reichenberg, Martin Hintz, Regina Ortmann, Martin Schlitzer, Serge Van Calenbergh, Steffen Borrmann, Bertrand Lell, Peter G. Kremsner, David Hutchinson, and Hassan JomaaChapter 10: Regulation of Isoprene and Monoterpene Emission Isabel Nogués and Francesco LoretoChapter 11: Involvement of Compartmentalization in Monoterpene and Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis in Plants Michael Gutensohn, Dinesh A. Nagegowda, and Natalia DudarevaChapter 12: Strategies for the Manipulation of Carbocations by Aristolochene Synthase David J. Miller and Rudolf K. AllemannChapter 13: Elucidating the Formation of Geranyllinalool, the Precursor of the Volatile C16-homoterpene TMTT Involved in Indirect Plant Defense Marco Herdea, Katrin Gärtnera, Tobias Köllnerb, Benjamin Fodea, Wilhelm Bolandc, Jonathan Gershenzonb, Christiane Gatza, and Dorothea ThollChapter 14: Strigolactones: A Cry for Help Results in Fatal Attraction. Is Escape Possible? Carolien Ruyter-Spira, Juan Antonio Lopez-Raez, Catarina Cardoso, Tatsiana Charnikhova, Radoslava Matusova, Wouter Kohlen, Muhammad Jamil, Ralph Bours, Francel Verstappen, and Harro BouwmeesterChapter 15: Prenyldiphosphate Synthases and Gibberellin Biosynthesis Chris C.N. van Schie, Michel A. Haring, and Robert C. SchuurinkChapter 16: Gibberellin Phytohormone Metabolism Reuben J. PetersChapter 17: Control of Plastidial Isoprenoid Precursor Supply: Divergent 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate Synthase (DXS) Isogenes Regulate the Allocation to Primary or Secondary Metabolism Michael H. Walter, Daniela S. Floss, Heike Paetzold, Kerstin Manke, Jessica Vollrath, Wolfgang Brandt, and Dieter StrackChapter 18: Tobacco Trichomes as a Platform for Terpenoid Biosynthesis Engineering Alain Tissier, Christophe Sallaud, and Denis RonteinChapter 19: Prenylated Proteins are Required for Methyl jasmonate-induced Monoterpenoid Indole Alkaloids Biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus Vincent Courdavault, Marc Clastre, Andrew John Simkin, and Nathalie Giglioli-Guivarc’hChapter 20: The Role of Prenylcysteine Methylation and Metabolism in Abscisic Acid Signaling in Arabidopsis Thaliana Dring N. Crowell and David H. HuizingaChapter 21: What We Do and Do Not Know About the Cellular Functions of Polyisoprenoids Liliana Surmacz and Ewa SwiezewskaChapter 22: Regulation of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA Synthase and 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA Reductase and Rubber Biosynthesis of Hevea brasilie
