Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany; Center for Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Trends Plant Sci. 2023 Jul;28(7):737-739. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.04.004. Epub 2023 Apr 17.
In plants, uridine diphosphate (UDP)-dependent glycosyltransferases (UGTs) catalyze glycosylation of secondary metabolites, but assigning physiological functions to UGTs is still a daunting task. The recent study of Wu et al. presents a useful method to resolve this problem by elegantly combining modification-specific metabolomics with isotope tracing.
在植物中，尿苷二磷酸（UDP）依赖性糖基转移酶（UGTs）催化次生代谢物的糖基化，但将 UGTs 的生理功能分配仍然是一项艰巨的任务。吴等人的最新研究通过巧妙地将修饰特异性代谢组学与同位素示踪相结合，提供了一种解决该问题的有用方法。
