Bifunctional C-Glycoside Glycosyltransferases and Application Thereof

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a group of novel uridine diphosphate (UDP)-glycosyltransferases, which are bifunctional C-glycoside arabinosyltransferases and C-glycoside glucosyltransferases. The glycosyltransferases can specifically and efficiently catalyze C-glycoside arabinosylation and glucosylation of dihydrochalcone compounds or 2-hydroxyflavanone compounds, to generate C-glycoside dihydrochalcone or C-glycoside-2-hydroxyflavanone compounds; the C-glycoside-2-hydroxyflavanone compounds are further subjected to a dehydration reaction to form flavone-C-glycoside compounds. The present disclosure also provides an application of the novel UDP-glycosyltransferases to artificially constructed recombinant expression systems to generate C-glycoside dihydrochalcone and flavone-C-glycoside compounds by means of fermentation engineering.

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