A novel glucuronosyltransferase has an unprecedented ability to catalyse continuous two-step glucuronosylation of glycyrrhetinic acid to yield glycyrrhizin

Biotechnological advances in UDP-sugar based glycosylation of small molecules

(2015) Frederik De Bruyn et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Glycosyltransferases: mechanisms and applications in natural product development

(2015) Dong-Mei Liang et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Bioassay-guided isolation and identification of cytotoxic compounds from Bolbostemma paniculatum

(2015) Yun Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

A cascade of arabinosyltransferases controls shoot meristem size in tomato

(2015) Cao Xu et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Cytochrome P450 promiscuity leads to a bifurcating biosynthetic pathway for tanshinones

(2015) Juan Guo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

P450s and UGTs: Key Players in the Structural Diversity of Triterpenoid Saponins

(2015) Hikaru Seki et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Morphinan biosynthesis in opium poppy requires a P450-oxidoreductase fusion protein

(2015) T. Winzer et al.   SCIENCE

Complete biosynthesis of opioids in yeast

(2015) S. Galanie et al.   SCIENCE

Triterpene Biosynthesis in Plants

(2014) Ramesha Thimmappa et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Integrating Biological Redesign: Where Synthetic Biology Came From and Where It Needs to Go

(2014) Jeffrey C. Way et al.   CELL

Production of bioactive ginsenoside compound K in metabolically engineered yeast

(2014) Xing Yan et al.   CELL RESEARCH

CYP83A1 is required for metabolic compatibility of Arabidopsis with the adapted powdery mildew fungusErysiphe cruciferarum

(2014) Corina Weis et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The effect of drought stress on the expression of key genes involved in the biosynthesis of triterpenoid saponins in liquorice ( Glycyrrhiza glabra )

(2014) Vida Nasrollahi et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Two Ginseng UDP-Glycosyltransferases Synthesize Ginsenoside Rg3 and Rd

(2014) Suk-Chae Jung et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Plant glyco-biotechnology on the way to synthetic biology

(2014) Andreas Loos et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A comprehensive genetic study reveals a crucial role ofCYP90D2/D2in regulating plant architecture in rice (Oryza sativa)

(2013) Hui Li et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZy) in 2013

(2013) Vincent Lombard et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Dissecting Glycosylation Steps in Lobophorin Biosynthesis Implies an Iterative Glycosyltransferase

(2013) Sumei Li et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Glycyrrhiza uralensis Transcriptome Landscape and Study of Phytochemicals

(2013) Jordan A. Ramilowski et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

UDP-Glycosyltransferases from the UGT73C Subfamily in Barbarea vulgaris Catalyze Sapogenin 3-O-Glucosylation in Saponin-Mediated Insect Resistance

(2012) J. M. Augustin et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Flow Cytometer-Based High-Throughput Screening System for Accelerated Directed Evolution of P450 Monooxygenases

(2012) Anna Joëlle Ruff et al.   ACS Catalysis

RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

(2011) Bo Li et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Economic importance of licorice

(2011) Hiroaki Hayashi et al.   Plant Biotechnology

In vitro proliferation and triterpenoid characteristics of licorice (Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fischer, Leguminosae) stolons

(2011) Mareshige Kojoma et al.   Plant Biotechnology

Triterpene Functional Genomics in Licorice for Identification of CYP72A154 Involved in the Biosynthesis of Glycyrrhizin

(2011) Hikaru Seki et al.   PLANT CELL

An evolutionary view of functional diversity in family 1 glycosyltransferases

(2011) Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

CAZymes Analysis Toolkit (CAT): Web service for searching and analyzing carbohydrate-active enzymes in a newly sequenced organism using CAZy database

(2010) Byung H Park et al.   GLYCOBIOLOGY

Genomic and Coexpression Analyses Predict Multiple Genes Involved in Triterpene Saponin Biosynthesis in Medicago truncatula

(2010) M. A. Naoumkina et al.   PLANT CELL

Glycyrrhizin inhibits influenza A virus uptake into the cell

(2009) Andrea Wolkerstorfer et al.   ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH

Short communication: Assessment of the potential of cinnamaldehyde, condensed tannins, and saponins to modify milk fatty acid composition of dairy cows

(2009) C. Benchaar et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Comprehensive Flavonol Profiling and Transcriptome Coexpression Analysis Leading to Decoding Gene-Metabolite Correlations in Arabidopsis

(2008) K. Yonekura-Sakakibara et al.   PLANT CELL

Licorice  -amyrin 11-oxidase, a cytochrome P450 with a key role in the biosynthesis of the triterpene sweetener glycyrrhizin

(2008) H. Seki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Antiviral effects ofGlycyrrhiza species

(2007) Cristina Fiore et al.   PHYTOTHERAPY RESEARCH