One of the best-kept secrets by fungi especially yeast is the function of the different shapes and surface structures of their vegetative and sexual cells. They definitely do not produce these shapes (e.g. round, elongated, kidney, needle, hat, saturnoid, etc.) and surfaces (e.g. smooth, rough, hairy, warty, etc.) for our curiosity or to be classified, but surely produce these for their own benefit. This mini-review will show that a large variety of 3-hydroxy oxylipins are widely distributed in the fungal domain and closely associated with these surface ornamentations. In concert with nano-scale surface structures, they probably play a role in cell aggregation as well as spore release from sexual structures such as asci.
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Biomed Res Int
October 2022
College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou Zhejiang 31018, China.
The saponins of had many pharmacological activities such as antitumor, antioxidation, and blood sugar lowering, which were synthesized by two pathways: mevalonate (MVA) and methylerythritol phosphate (MEP). 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A synthase (HMGS) was the key enzyme in the MVA synthesis pathway, and its expression level may affect the accumulation of saponins which were the main active ingredients of . In this study, we successfully cloned and from and their sequence similarity was 93.
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April 2022
Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, NO-1433 Ås, Norway.
Monohydroxylated polyunsaturated fatty acids belonging to the oxylipin class of natural products are present in marine and terrestrial sources as well as in the human body. Due to their biological activities and role in diverse biosynthetic pathways, oxylipins biosynthesized from eicosapentaenoic acid and arachidonic acid have attracted great interest from the scientific community. One example is 3-hydroxyeicosapentaenoic acid where the absolute configuration at C-3 has only been tentatively assigned.
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August 2021
School of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Protostane triterpenes in Alisma orientale (Sam.) Juz. have unique structural features with distinct pharmacological activities.
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February 2021
Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Jasmonates (JA) are oxylipin-derived phytohormones that trigger the production of specialized metabolites that often serve in defense against biotic stresses. In , a JA-induced endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD)-type machinery manages the production of bioactive triterpenes and thereby secures correct plant metabolism, growth, and development. This machinery involves the conserved RING membrane-anchor (RMA)-type E3 ubiquitin ligase MAKIBISHI1 (MKB1).
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May 2021
Department of Food and Nutrition, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. Electronic address:
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