Isoprenoid Synthesis in Plants and Microorganisms

Chapter 1: Isoprenoid Bbiosynthesis in Pprokaryotic OrganismsManuel Rodríguez-Concepción and Albert BoronatChapter 2: 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate Synthase (DXS), A Crucial Enzyme for Isoprenoids BiosynthesisSong Xiang, Gerlinde Usunow, Gudrun Lange, Marco Busch, and Liang TongChapter 3: Biosynthetic Genes and Enzymes of Isoprenoids Produced by ActinomycetesTohru DairiChapter 4: Interactions of Isoprenoid Pathway Enzymes and Indirect Stimulation of Isoprenoid Biosynthesis by Pentose Phosphate Cycle Substrates in Synechocystis PCC 6803Kelly Poliquin, Francis X. Cunningham, Jr., R. Raymond Gantt, and Elisabeth GanttChapter 5: Metabolic Engineering of Monoterpenoids Production in YeastMarc Fischer, Sophie Meyer, Maryline Oswald, Patricia Claudel, and Francis KarstChapter 6: Metabolic Engineering of Isoprenoid Production: Reconstruction of Multistep Heterologous Pathways in Tractable HostsJérôme Maury, Mohammad A. Asadollahi, Luca R. Formenti, Michel Schalk, and Jens NielsenChapter 7: Microbially-Derived Semi-synthetic ArtemisininChristopher 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 AnnuaPamela Weathers, Melissa Towler, Yi Wang, and Kristin K. WobbeChapter 9: Fosmidomycin as an Antimalarial AgentJochen 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 EmissionIsabel Nogués and Francesco LoretoChapter 11: Involvement of Compartmentalization in Monoterpene and Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis in PlantsMichael Gutensohn, Dinesh A. Nagegowda, and Natalia DudarevaChapter 12: Strategies for the Manipulation of Carbocations by Aristolochene SynthaseDavid J. Miller and Rudolf K. AllemannChapter 13: Elucidating the Formation of Geranyllinalool, the Precursor of the Volatile C16-homoterpene TMTT Involved in Indirect Plant DefenseMarco 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 BiosynthesisChris C.N. van Schie, Michel A. Haring, and Robert C. SchuurinkChapter 16: Gibberellin Phytohormone MetabolismReuben 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 MetabolismMichael 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 EngineeringAlain Tissier, Christophe Sallaud, and Denis RonteinChapter 19: Prenylated Proteins are Required for Methyl jasmonate-induced Monoterpenoid Indole Alkaloids Biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseusVincent 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 ThalianaDring N. Crowell and David H. HuizingaChapter 21: What We Do and Do Not Know About the Cellular Functions of PolyisoprenoidsLiliana 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 brasiliensis (B.H.K.) Mull. ArgPluang Suwanmanee, Nualpun Sirinup... Mehr