This invention relates to a
cytochrome P450 oxidase STO1, its encoding
gene, and its applications. This invention is the first to clone and identify a
cytochrome P450 oxidase
gene, STO1, from potato responsible for catalyzing the synthesis of spirogelothoraxone, and to determine the
nucleotide sequence and translated
amino acid sequence of this
gene. This invention provides expression vectors, recombinant microorganisms, or transgenic
cell lines containing this gene. This invention constructs an engineered
Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain for producing spirogelothoraxone, in which the strong
promoter ERG9 is replaced by the weak
promoter HXT1 in the strain's
genome, and the STO1, AtCPR, tHMG1, and STS genes are integrated. This invention also provides a method for constructing this engineered strain and a method for producing spirogelothoraxone using this engineered strain, which can be used for the preparation of spirogelothoraxone.