Browsing by Subject "Peroxisomes"

Secondary metabolites are bioactive compounds that help the plant to adapt in different adverse environmental conditions but are not an essential part of plant developmental processes and also secondary metabolites have pharmaceutical value because of their antioxidant, anticancer, antibacterial and antifungal properties. Type-III polyketide synthases (PKSs) are a group of polyketide synthases that produce secondary metabolites with diverse biological activities in plants. The main objective was to localize the PKSs G2PS1, G2PS2, FvCHS2-1, HlVPS into the peroxisomes for synthesizing secondary metabolites in plants. The experiment was performed by amplifying the genes with specific Px-targeting signal. Then the genes cloned into destination vector pEAQ-HT-DEST1. The plasmid constructs were transformed to Agrobacterium tumefaciens and agro-infiltrated to Nicotiana benthamiana and Petunia hybrida leaf tissue. Western blotting results revealed that all proteins were expressed in infiltrated leaves of both tobacco and petunia but HPLC chromatograms showed that only the protein FvCHS2-1 produced novel peaks for metabolites in tobacco.