Articles: PubMed: Functional characterization of a Plagiochasma appendiculatum flavone synthase I showing flavanone 2-hydroxylase activity. PubMed: Molecular cloning and characterization of an isoflavone 7-O-glucosyltransferase from Pueraria lobata. PubMed: [Cloning and bioinformation analysis of flavone synthase II gene of Erigeron breviscapus]. PubMed: Flower colour and cytochromes P450. PubMed: 'Le Rouge et le Noir': a decline in flavone formation correlates with the rare color of black dahlia (Dahlia variabilis hort.) flowers. PubMed: Comparative metabolite profiling and fingerprinting of medicinal licorice roots using a multiplex approach of GC-MS, LC-MS and 1D NMR techniques. PubMed: CYP93G2 is a flavanone 2-hydroxylase required for C-glycosylflavone biosynthesis in rice. PubMed: Flavone synthase II (CYP93B16) from soybean (Glycine max L.). PubMed: 2'-hydroxylation of genistein enhanced antioxidant and antiproliferative activities in mcf-7 human breast cancer cells. PubMed: Isoflavone daidzein possesses no antioxidant activities in cell-free assays but induces the antioxidant enzyme catalase. PubMed: 2-Hydroxyisoflavanone dehydratase is a critical determinant of isoflavone productivity in hairy root cultures of Lotus japonicus. PubMed: A UDP-glucose:isoflavone 7-O-glucosyltransferase from the roots of soybean (glycine max) seedlings. Purification, gene cloning, phylogenetics, and an implication for an alternative strategy of enzyme catalysis. PubMed: Flavone synthases from Medicago truncatula are flavanone-2-hydroxylases and are important for nodulation. PubMed: One-pot synthesis of genistein from tyrosine by coincubation of genetically engineered Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells. PubMed: Investigation of two distinct flavone synthases for plant-specific flavone biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PubMed: Flavones and flavone synthases. PubMed: Multiple mutagenesis of P450 isoflavonoid synthase reveals a key active-site residue. PubMed: Molecular and biochemical characterization of 2-hydroxyisoflavanone dehydratase. Involvement of carboxylesterase-like proteins in leguminous isoflavone biosynthesis. PubMed: Probing biosynthesis of plant polyketides with synthetic N-acetylcysteamine thioesters. PubMed: Isoflavonoid biosynthesis and accumulation in developing soybean seeds. PubMed: Regiospecific hydroxylation of isoflavones by cytochrome p450 81E enzymes from Medicago truncatula. PubMed: cDNA cloning and expression of isoflavonoid-specific glucosyltransferase from Glycyrrhiza echinata cell-suspension cultures. PubMed: Heterologous production of flavanones in Escherichia coli: potential for combinatorial biosynthesis of flavonoids in bacteria. PubMed: Production of plant-specific flavanones by Escherichia coli containing an artificial gene cluster. PubMed: cDNA cloning and biochemical characterization of S-adenosyl-L-methionine: 2,7,4'-trihydroxyisoflavanone 4'-O-methyltransferase, a critical enzyme of the legume isoflavonoid phytoalexin pathway. PubMed: Differential display analysis of gene expression in plants. PubMed: Key amino acid residues required for aryl migration catalysed by the cytochrome P450 2-hydroxyisoflavanone synthase. PubMed: [Comparative study of Glycyrrhiza glabra L. and Glycyrrhiza echinata L. of different origin. Medicinal plant polysaccharides III]. PubMed: Differential expression of two cytochrome P450s involved in the biosynthesis of flavones and anthocyanins in chemo-varietal forms of Perilla frutescens. PubMed: Chalcone isomerase isozymes with different substrate specificities towards 6'-hydroxy- and 6'-deoxychalcones in cultured cells of Glycyrrhiza echinata, a leguminous plant producing 5-deoxyflavonoids. PubMed: New scheme of the biosynthesis of formononetin involving 2,7,4'-trihydroxyisoflavanone but not daidzein as the methyl acceptor. PubMed: Cloning and characterization of eight cytochrome P450 cDNAs from chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cell suspension cultures. PubMed: Cloning and expression of flavone synthase II from Gerbera hybrids. PubMed: Molecular cloning and biochemical characterization of a novel cytochrome P450, flavone synthase II, that catalyzes direct conversion of flavanones to flavones. PubMed: Induction of isoflavonoid and retrochalcone branches of the flavonoid pathway in cultured Glycyrrhiza echinata cells treated with yeast extract. PubMed: Cloning and functional expression of a cytochrome P450 cDNA encoding 2-hydroxyisoflavanone synthase involved in biosynthesis of the isoflavonoid skeleton in licorice. PubMed: [Polysaccharides of Glycyrrhiza glabra L. and Glycyrrhiza echinata L. Medicinal plants II]. PubMed: CYP81E1, a cytochrome P450 cDNA of licorice (Glycyrrhiza echinata L.), encodes isoflavone 2'-hydroxylase. PubMed: Identification of a cytochrome P450 cDNA encoding (2S)-flavanone 2-hydroxylase of licorice (Glycyrrhiza echinata L.; Fabaceae) which represents licodione synthase and flavone synthase II. PubMed: Anthocyanin-producing dandelion callus as a chalcone synthase source in recombinant polyketide reductase assay. PubMed: Enzymic O-methylation of isoliquiritigenin and licodione in alfalfa and licorice cultures. PubMed: Licodione Synthase, a Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenase Catalyzing 2-Hydroxylation of 5-Deoxyflavanone, in Cultured Glycyrrhiza echinata L. Cells. PubMed: Enzymatic synthesis of 6'-deoxychalcone in cultured Glycyrrhiza echinata cells. PubMed: NAD(P)H-dependent 6'-deoxychalcone synthase activity in Glycyrrhiza echinata cells induced by yeast extract. PubMed: Stimulation of chalcone synthase activity by yeast extract in cultured Glycyrrhiza echinata cells and 5-deoxyflavanone formation by isolated protoplasts. PubMed: Regulation of retrochalcone biosynthesis: Activity changes of O-methyltransferases in the yeast extract-induced Glycyrrhiza echinata cells. PubMed: Induction of stress metabolites in immobilized Glycyrrhiza echinata cultured cells. PubMed: The effects of echinatin and its related compounds on the mitochondrial energy transfer reaction.