Plants make thousands of #phenolic compounds—like morphine, auxin, anthocyanins, lignin—from the #ShikimatePathway. In our #TIBS review, Jorge El-Azaz discussed how multiple enzyme isoforms fine tune the production of diverse aromatic natural products in plants.
#Metabolism #SyntheticBiology

Organized chaos in tight confinement – unexpected insights into the functioning of an ancient metabolic machine in eukaryotic microbes @HartmannLab: https://bit.ly/2ZKltBN
#science #biology #structuralbiology #discovery #shikimatepathway