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. 2019 Jan 14;179(3):844–861. doi: 10.1104/pp.18.01291

Table 1. Selection of de novo plant secondary pathway reconstructions in microbial systems.

ND, no data available; NR, titer not reported.

Metabolite class Metabolite Titer (mg/L) Reference(s)
S. cerevisiae E. coli
PRECURSORS     Tyr 1,930a 55,000 (Patnaik et al., 2008)
    p-coumaric acid 1,930 2,510 (Rodriguez et al., 2015; Jones et al., 2017)
    dopamine 24 2,150 (Nakagawa et al., 2014; DeLoache et al., 2015)
TERPENOIDS Monoterpenoids
    geraniol 1,680 2,000 (Liu et al., 2016; Jiang et al., 2017)
    pinene ND 970 (Yang et al., 2013)
    limonene 0.49 2,700 (Willrodt et al., 2014; Jongedijk et al., 2015)
    eucalyptol 400 653 (Ignea et al., 2011; Mendez-Perez et al., 2017)
    linalool 0.75 505 (Mendez-Perez et al., 2017; Camesasca et al., 2018)
Sesquiterpenoids
    β-farnesene 130,000 8,700 (Meadows et al., 2016; You et al., 2017)
    bisabolene 5,200 912 (Peralta-Yahya et al., 2011; Özaydin et al., 2013)
    α-humulene 1,300 ND (Zhang et al., 2018b)
    β-caryophyllene ND 1,520 (Yang et al., 2016)
    amorphadiene 37,000 27,400 (Tsuruta et al., 2009; Westfall et al., 2012)
    artemisinic acid 25,000 ND (Paddon et al., 2013)
    santalene 163 ND (Tippmann et al., 2016)
    patchoulol 40.9 ND (Albertsen et al., 2011)
Diterpenoids
    jolkinol C 800 ND (Wong et al., 2018)
    taxadiene 72.8 1,020 (Ajikumar et al., 2010; Ding et al., 2014)
Triterpenoids
    β-amyrin 108.1 NR (Takemura et al., 2017; Zhu et al., 2018)
Tetraterpenoids
    β-carotene 162.1 3,200 (Yang and Guo, 2014; Wang et al., 2016)
    lycopene 1,650 3,520 (Sun et al., 2014; Chen et al., 2016)
ALKALOIDS Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids
    (S)-reticuline 0.082 160 (DeLoache et al., 2015; Matsumura et al., 2018)
    thebaine 0.0064 2.1 (Galanie et al., 2015; Nakagawa et al., 2016)
    hydrocodone 0.0003 0.36 (Galanie et al., 2015; Nakagawa et al., 2016)
    noscapine 2.2 ND (Li et al., 2018)
Monoterpene indole alkaloids
    strictosidine 0.5 ND (Brown et al., 2015)
PHENYLPROPANOIDS Stilbenoids
    resveratrol >5,000 51.8 (Katz et al., 2013; Yang et al., 2018)
    pinostilbene 5.52 ∼2.5 (Kang et al., 2014; Li et al., 2016b)
    pterostilbene 34.93 33.6 (Li et al., 2016b; Heo et al., 2017)
    pinosylvin 130.02 281 (Katz et al., 2008; Wu et al., 2017)
Flavonoids
    naringenin >200 103.8 (Lehka et al., 2017; Yang et al., 2018)
    scutellarin 108 ND (Liu et al., 2018)
    genistein 7.7 ND (Trantas et al., 2009)
    pinocembrin 2.6 525.8 (Wu et al., 2016b; Eichenberger et al., 2017)
    quercetin 20.38 ND (Rodriguez et al., 2017)
    kaempferol 66.29 57b (Yang et al., 2014; Duan et al., 2017)
    dihydrokaempferol 44 ND (Levisson et al., 2018)
    pelargonidin-3-O-glucoside 0.02 9.5 (Jones et al., 2017; Levisson et al., 2018)
    phloretin 42.7 ND (Eichenberger et al., 2017)
Coumarins
    umbelliferone ND 66.1 (Yang et al., 2015a)
    esculetin ND 61.4 (Yang et al., 2015a)
    4-hydroxycoumarin ND 483.1 (Lin et al., 2013)
a

Titer reported for the downstream metabolite p-coumaric acid.

b

Titer reported for kaempferol 3-O-rhamnoside.