Compound: Taxadiene

MF

C20H32

MW

272.49

Function

anticancer drug

Basic Organisms

Taxus chinensis

Precursor

GGPP

Host

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Synthesis Type

simi-biosynthesis

Downstream Gene

TS, T5αH, CPR

Pathway

pathway

Reference

Li J, Mutanda I, Wang K, et al. Chloroplastic metabolic engineering coupled with isoprenoid pool enhancement for committed taxanes biosynthesis in Nicotiana benthamiana[J]. Nature communications, 2019, 10(1): 1-12.