Journal
BIOMOLECULES
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom11050705
Keywords
salicylic acid; siderophore; salicylate hydroxylase; isochorismate synthase; salicylate synthase
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- Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea [PJ015726]
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Salicylic acid is an active secondary metabolite found in bacteria, fungi, and plants, playing important roles in regulating plant growth, stress responses, and defense mechanisms. Both plants and bacteria share a common biosynthetic enzyme, isochorismate synthase, which is involved in synthesizing SA. These compounds can undergo modifications in plants and bacteria to carry out their specific functions.
Salicylic acid (SA) is an active secondary metabolite that occurs in bacteria, fungi, and plants. SA and its derivatives (collectively called salicylates) are synthesized from chorismate (derived from shikimate pathway). SA is considered an important phytohormone that regulates various aspects of plant growth, environmental stress, and defense responses against pathogens. Besides plants, a large number of bacterial species, such as Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Azospirillum, Salmonella, Achromobacter, Vibrio, Yersinia, and Mycobacteria, have been reported to synthesize salicylates through the NRPS/PKS biosynthetic gene clusters. This bacterial salicylate production is often linked to the biosynthesis of small ferric-ion-chelating molecules, salicyl-derived siderophores (known as catecholate) under iron-limited conditions. Although bacteria possess entirely different biosynthetic pathways from plants, they share one common biosynthetic enzyme, isochorismate synthase, which converts chorismate to isochorismate, a common precursor for synthesizing SA. Additionally, SA in plants and bacteria can undergo several modifications to carry out their specific functions. In this review, we will systematically focus on the plant and bacterial salicylate biosynthesis and its metabolism.
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