Discovery of Arabidopsis UGT73C1 as a steviol-catalyzing UDP-glycosyltransferase with chemical probes.

Chemoselective and affinity-based probes of steviol were applied to the discovery of glycosyltransferase activity and corresponding UDP-glycosyltransferase in Arabidopsis thaliana, which illustrates a simple strategy for rapidly harnessing minable novel biological parts from plants for synthetic biology.