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  • A distinct feature of pollen gains is their resistant outer wall, called the exine, which is mainly composed of sporopollenin, the toughest biopolymer known to date despite an unknown detailed structure. Now, a structural model of pine sporopollenin is revealed by the application of new degradation chemistry and solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

    • Fu-Shuang Li
    • Pyae Phyo
    • Jing-Ke Weng
    Research
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 5, P: 41-46

  • Diosgenin is a spiroketal natural product that is used as a precursor in the industrial synthesis of steroids. Here, the authors identified key cytochrome P450 enzymes responsible for the conversion of cholesterol to diosgenin from two phylogenetical distinct diosgenin-producing plant species.

    • Bastien Christ
    • Chengchao Xu
    • Jing-Ke Weng
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-11

  • Halogenated plant natural products are rare and plant halogenation enzymes are thus far unknown. Here Kim et al. identify a dechloroacutumine halogenase from Common Moonseed that catalyzes the final chlorination step in the biosynthesis of acutumine, a chloroalkaloid with selective cytotoxicity to cultured T cells.

    • Colin Y. Kim
    • Andrew J. Mitchell
    • Jing-Ke Weng
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-7

  • Plants have long been recognized for their therapeutic properties. Now, modern science is unravelling the mechanisms of action of ancient herbal medicines and finding new ways to exploit them.

    • Fu-Shuang Li
    • Jing-Ke Weng
    Reviews
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 3, P: 1-7

  • Pine sporopollenin harbors unique monomeric units and inter-unit linkages forming mechanically robust and chemically inert biopolymers. Here, the authors design and synthesize several sporopollenin analogues, and characterize their chemical, thermal and mechanical properties as robust polymers.

    • Christopher M. Glinkerman
    • Shaoting Lin
    • Jing-Ke Weng
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Chemistry
    Volume: 5, P: 1-9