Chapter title |
Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Prokaryotes.
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Chapter number | 285 |
Book title |
Biotechnology of Isoprenoids
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Published in |
Advances in biochemical engineering biotechnology, December 2014
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DOI | 10.1007/10_2014_285 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-920106-1, 978-3-31-920107-8
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Authors |
Albert Boronat, Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción, Boronat, Albert, Rodríguez-Concepción, Manuel |
Abstract |
: Prokaryotic organisms (archaea and eubacteria) are found in all habitats where life exists on our planet. This would not be possible without the astounding biochemical plasticity developed by such organisms. Part of the metabolic diversity of prokaryotes was transferred to eukaryotic cells when endosymbiotic prokaryotes became mitochondria and plastids but also in a large number of horizontal gene transfer episodes. A group of metabolites produced by all free-living organisms is terpenoids (also known as isoprenoids). In prokaryotes, terpenoids play an indispensable role in cell-wall and membrane biosynthesis (bactoprenol, hopanoids), electron transport (ubiquinone, menaquinone), or conversion of light into chemical energy (chlorophylls, bacteriochlorophylls, rhodopsins, carotenoids), among other processes. But despite their remarkable structural and functional diversity, they all derive from the same metabolic precursors. Here we describe the metabolic pathways producing these universal terpenoid units and provide a complete picture of the main terpenoid compounds found in prokaryotic organisms. |
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