Compound: Crocins

MF

C44H64O24

MW

976.96

Function

anticancer, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties

Basic Organisms

Gardenia jasminoides

Precursor

crocetin

Host

Escherichia coli

Synthesis Type

simi-biosynthesis

Downstream Gene

UGT

Pathway

pathway

Reference

Pu X, He C, Yang Y, et al. In vivo production of five crocins in the engineered Escherichia coli[J]. ACS Synthetic Biology, 2020.