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Isolation, Purification, and Identification of Taxol and Related Taxanes from Taxol-Producing Fungus Aspergillus niger subsp. taxi

  • Li, Dan (Key Laboratory of Microbiology, School of Life Science, Heilongjiang University) ;
  • Fu, Dongwei (Heilongjiang Land Reclamation Bureau General Hospital) ;
  • Zhang, Yue (Key Laboratory of Microbiology, School of Life Science, Heilongjiang University) ;
  • Ma, Xueling (Department of Neurosurgery, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University) ;
  • Gao, Liguo (Key Laboratory of Microbiology, School of Life Science, Heilongjiang University) ;
  • Wang, Xiaohua (Heilongjiang University Library) ;
  • Zhou, Dongpo (Key Laboratory of Microbiology, School of Life Science, Heilongjiang University) ;
  • Zhao, Kai (Key Laboratory of Microbiology, School of Life Science, Heilongjiang University)
  • Received : 2017.01.09
  • Accepted : 2017.06.13
  • Published : 2017.08.28
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Abstract

The content of taxol in the bark of yews is very low, and this is not affordable from the environmental point of view. Thus, it is a necessity to look for alternative sources of taxol production to solve its supply. Currently, a large portion of the taxol in the market comes from chemical semi-synthesis, but the semi-synthetic precursors such as baccatin III and 10-deacetyl-baccatin III are extracted from needles and twigs of yew trees. Taxol-producing fungi as a renewable resource is a very promising way to increase the scale of taxol production. Our group has obtained a taxol-producing endophytic fungus, Aspergillus niger subsp. taxi HD86-9, to examine if A. niger can produce the taxanes. Six compounds from the fermentation broth of strain HD86-9 were isolated and identified by $^1H$ NMR, $^{13}C$ NMR, and ESI-MS. The results showed that the six compounds included four taxane diterpenoids (taxol, cephalomannine, baccatin III, and 10-deacetyl-baccatin III) and two non-taxane compounds (${\beta}-sitosterol$ and flavonoid isovitexin). The study verified that the taxanes can be produced by the A. niger, which is very important to taxol production via chemical semi-synthesis. Additionally, the finding is potentially very significant to solve the taxol semi-synthetic precursors extracted from needles and twigs of yew trees, and the precursor production can be easily increased through the culture condition optimization, genetic breeding, and metabolic engineering of the A. niger.

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