bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.23.004358; this version posted March 25, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Organ-specificity of sterol and triterpene accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana 2 3 4 B. Markus Lange1,*, Brenton C. Poirier1,3, Iris Lange1, Richard Schumaker1,4, 5 and Rigoberto Rios-Estepa2 6 7 8 1 Institute of Biological Chemistry and M.J. Murdock Metabolomics Laboratory, Washington State 9 University, PO Box 646340, Pullman, WA 99164-6340, USA 10 11 2 Grupo de Bioprocesos, Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 12 70 No. 52-21, Medellín, Colombia 13 14 3 Current address: Elo Life Sciences, 5 Laboratory Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA 15 16 4 Current address: Alma Rosa Winery, 180-C Industrial Way, Buellton, CA 93427, USA 17 18 19 20 * Corresponding author: 21 B. M. Lange, Institute of Biological Chemistry and M.J. Murdock Metabolomics Laboratory, 22 Washington State University, PO Box 646340, Pullman, WA 99164-6340, USA; Tel.: 509-335-3794; 23 Fax: 509-335-7643; e-Mail:
[email protected] 24 25 26 Running title: 27 Arabidopsis sterols and triterpenes 28 29 Keywords: 30 Arabidopsis; kinetic mathematical model; metabolic engineering; sterol; triterpene 31 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.23.004358; this version posted March 25, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder.