STRUCTURES OF LIGNAN AND ISOFLAVONOID REDUCTASES, SEARCHING FOR THEIR MOLECULAR

木脂素和异黄酮还原酶的结构，寻找它们的分子

• 批准号: 7597896
• 负责人: CHULHEE KANG
• 金额: $ 0.42万
• 依托单位: STANFORD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-03-01 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7597896
• 关键词: Accounting; Anabolism; Antifungal Agents; Antioxidants; Antiviral Agents; Biological; Carbon; Clinical Treatment; Communication; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Cultured Cells; Diet; Enzymes; Funding; Goals; Grant; Incidence; Institution; Lignans; Lignin; Malignant Neoplasms; Molecular; Oxidoreductase; Pathway interactions; Physiological; Plants; Play; Preventive; Property; Regulation; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resolution; Resources; Role; Source; Structure; Structure-Activity Relationship; Tissues; United States National Institutes of Health; Vascular Plant; antimicrobial; base; interest; pathogen; success

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Lignins, lignans and isoflavonoids are major constituents of vascular plants and account for nearly 30% of the organic carbon circulating in the biosphere. This research project focuses on three enzymes that have critical roles in lignan and isoflavonoid biosynthesis. Lignans and isoflavonoids play important roles in plant defense and communication, helping hosts discriminate between biological pathogens and symbiotic non-pathogens. In addition to their physiological roles in plants, these compounds have pronounced antimicrobial, antifungal, antiviral, antioxidant and anticancer properties. Therefore, isoflavonoid and lignan are used as pharmacologicals, especially for the clinical treatment of various cancers. It is generally accepted that low cancer incidence in people with plant-based diets is due to the preventive effect of these lignans and isoflavonoids. For these reasons, there is considerable interest in making these compounds more generally available by defining and exploiting the lignan and isoflavonoid biosynthetic pathways. These approaches are seriously hampered by a lack of detailed information on the involving enzymes and by limited success in obtaining these compounds using tissue (or cell) culture. The goal of this project is to define the structure-function relationships of the critical enzymes in lignan and isoflavonoid biosynthesis through high-resolution x-ray structures. The information gained from these studies will be very useful for exploring the regulation of lignans and isoflavonoids for ecological plant protection, and industrial-scale regiospecific and stereospecific synthesis

该子项目是利用该技术的众多研究子项目之一 资源由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目及 研究者 (PI) 可能已从 NIH 的另一个来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他 CRISP 条目中表示。列出的机构是 对于中心来说，它不一定是研究者的机构。 木质素、木脂素和异黄酮类化合物是维管植物的主要成分，占生物圈循环有机碳的近30%。该研究项目重点关注在木脂素和异黄酮生物合成中起关键作用的三种酶。木脂素和异黄酮类化合物在植物防御和通讯中发挥着重要作用，帮助宿主区分生物病原体和共生非病原体。 除了在植物中的生理作用外，这些化合物还具有显着的抗菌、抗真菌、抗病毒、抗氧化和抗癌特性。因此，异黄酮和木脂素作为药理，尤其用于临床治疗各种癌症。人们普遍认为，植物性饮食人群的癌症发病率较低是由于这些木酚素和异黄酮类化合物的预防作用。由于这些原因，人们对通过定义和开发木酚素和异黄酮类生物合成途径来使这些化合物更普遍地利用产生了很大的兴趣。由于缺乏有关酶的详细信息以及使用组织（或细胞）培养获得这些化合物的成功有限，这些方法受到严重阻碍。该项目的目标是通过高分辨率 X 射线结构来定义木脂素和异黄酮生物合成中关键酶的结构-功能关系。从这些研究中获得的信息对于探索木酚素和异黄酮类化合物的生态植物保护调节以及工业规模的区域特异性和立体特异性合成非常有用