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Tomizioli M, Lazar C, Brugière S, Burger T, Salvi D, Gatto L, Moyet L, Breckels LM, Hesse AM, Lilley KS, Seigneurin-Berny D, Finazzi G, Rolland N, Ferro M. Deciphering thylakoid sub-compartments using a mass spectrometry-based approach. Mol Cell Proteomics 2014; 13:2147-67. [PMID: 24872594 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m114.040923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Photosynthesis has shaped atmospheric and ocean chemistries and probably changed the climate as well, as oxygen is released from water as part of the photosynthetic process. In photosynthetic eukaryotes, this process occurs in the chloroplast, an organelle containing the most abundant biological membrane, the thylakoids. The thylakoids of plants and some green algae are structurally inhomogeneous, consisting of two main domains: the grana, which are piles of membranes gathered by stacking forces, and the stroma-lamellae, which are unstacked thylakoids connecting the grana. The major photosynthetic complexes are unevenly distributed within these compartments because of steric and electrostatic constraints. Although proteomic analysis of thylakoids has been instrumental to define its protein components, no extensive proteomic study of subthylakoid localization of proteins in the BBY (grana) and the stroma-lamellae fractions has been achieved so far. To fill this gap, we performed a complete survey of the protein composition of these thylakoid subcompartments using thylakoid membrane fractionations. We employed semiquantitative proteomics coupled with a data analysis pipeline and manual annotation to differentiate genuine BBY and stroma-lamellae proteins from possible contaminants. About 300 thylakoid (or potentially thylakoid) proteins were shown to be enriched in either the BBY or the stroma-lamellae fractions. Overall, present findings corroborate previous observations obtained for photosynthetic proteins that used nonproteomic approaches. The originality of the present proteomic relies in the identification of photosynthetic proteins whose differential distribution in the thylakoid subcompartments might explain already observed phenomenon such as LHCII docking. Besides, from the present localization results we can suggest new molecular actors for photosynthesis-linked activities. For instance, most PsbP-like subunits being differently localized in stroma-lamellae, these proteins could be linked to the PSI-NDH complex in the context of cyclic electron flow around PSI. In addition, we could identify about a hundred new likely minor thylakoid (or chloroplast) proteins, some of them being potential regulators of the chloroplast physiology.
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- Martino Tomizioli
- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; §CNRS, UMR5168, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ¶CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‖INRA, USC 1359, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; **CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Biologie à Grande Echelle, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‡‡ INSERM, U1038, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; **CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Biologie à Grande Echelle, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‡‡ INSERM, U1038, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; **CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Biologie à Grande Echelle, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‡‡ INSERM, U1038, F-38054 Grenoble, France; §§CNRS, FR3425, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; §CNRS, UMR5168, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ¶CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‖INRA, USC 1359, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- ¶¶Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, CB2 1QR, United Kingdom
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- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; §CNRS, UMR5168, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ¶CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‖INRA, USC 1359, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- ¶¶Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, CB2 1QR, United Kingdom
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- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; **CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Biologie à Grande Echelle, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‡‡ INSERM, U1038, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- ¶¶Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, CB2 1QR, United Kingdom
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- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; §CNRS, UMR5168, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ¶CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‖INRA, USC 1359, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; §CNRS, UMR5168, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ¶CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‖INRA, USC 1359, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; §CNRS, UMR5168, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ¶CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‖INRA, USC 1359, F-38054 Grenoble, France;
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- From the ‡Univ. Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; **CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire Biologie à Grande Echelle, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ‡‡ INSERM, U1038, F-38054 Grenoble, France;
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Ramundo S, Casero D, Mühlhaus T, Hemme D, Sommer F, Crèvecoeur M, Rahire M, Schroda M, Rusch J, Goodenough U, Pellegrini M, Perez-Perez ME, Crespo JL, Schaad O, Civic N, Rochaix JD. Conditional Depletion of the Chlamydomonas Chloroplast ClpP Protease Activates Nuclear Genes Involved in Autophagy and Plastid Protein Quality Control. THE PLANT CELL 2014; 26:2201-2222. [PMID: 24879428 PMCID: PMC4079378 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.124842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2014] [Revised: 04/16/2014] [Accepted: 05/09/2014] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Plastid protein homeostasis is critical during chloroplast biogenesis and responses to changes in environmental conditions. Proteases and molecular chaperones involved in plastid protein quality control are encoded by the nucleus except for the catalytic subunit of ClpP, an evolutionarily conserved serine protease. Unlike its Escherichia coli ortholog, this chloroplast protease is essential for cell viability. To study its function, we used a recently developed system of repressible chloroplast gene expression in the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Using this repressible system, we have shown that a selective gradual depletion of ClpP leads to alteration of chloroplast morphology, causes formation of vesicles, and induces extensive cytoplasmic vacuolization that is reminiscent of autophagy. Analysis of the transcriptome and proteome during ClpP depletion revealed a set of proteins that are more abundant at the protein level, but not at the RNA level. These proteins may comprise some of the ClpP substrates. Moreover, the specific increase in accumulation, both at the RNA and protein level, of small heat shock proteins, chaperones, proteases, and proteins involved in thylakoid maintenance upon perturbation of plastid protein homeostasis suggests the existence of a chloroplast-to-nucleus signaling pathway involved in organelle quality control. We suggest that this represents a chloroplast unfolded protein response that is conceptually similar to that observed in the endoplasmic reticulum and in mitochondria.
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- Silvia Ramundo
- Departments of Molecular Biology and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm Germany
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- Departments of Molecular Biology and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Departments of Molecular Biology and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm Germany
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- Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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- Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Instituto de Bioquimica Vegetal y Fotosintesis, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- Instituto de Bioquimica Vegetal y Fotosintesis, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- Genomics Platform, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Genomics Platform, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Departments of Molecular Biology and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Sjögren LLE, Tanabe N, Lymperopoulos P, Khan NZ, Rodermel SR, Aronsson H, Clarke AK. Quantitative analysis of the chloroplast molecular chaperone ClpC/Hsp93 in Arabidopsis reveals new insights into its localization, interaction with the Clp proteolytic core, and functional importance. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:11318-11330. [PMID: 24599948 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.534552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The molecular chaperone ClpC/Hsp93 is essential for chloroplast function in vascular plants. ClpC has long been held to act both independently and as the regulatory partner for the ATP-dependent Clp protease, and yet this and many other important characteristics remain unclear. In this study, we reveal that of the two near-identical ClpC paralogs (ClpC1 and ClpC2) in Arabidopsis chloroplasts, along with the closely related ClpD, it is ClpC1 that is the most abundant throughout leaf maturation. An unexpectedly large proportion of both chloroplast ClpC proteins (30% of total ClpC content) associates to envelope membranes in addition to their stromal localization. The Clp proteolytic core is also bound to envelope membranes, the amount of which is sufficient to bind to all the similarly localized ClpC. The role of such an envelope membrane Clp protease remains unclear although it appears uninvolved in preprotein processing or Tic subunit protein turnover. Within the stroma, the amount of oligomeric ClpC protein is less than that of the Clp proteolytic core, suggesting most if not all stromal ClpC functions as part of the Clp protease; a proposal supported by the near abolition of Clp degradation activity in the clpC1 knock-out mutant. Overall, ClpC appears to function primarily within the Clp protease, as the principle stromal protease responsible for maintaining homeostasis, and also on the envelope membrane where it possibly confers a novel protein quality control mechanism for chloroplast preprotein import.
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- Lars L E Sjögren
- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and
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- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and
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- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and
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- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and
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- the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
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- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and
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- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and.
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Sloan DB, Triant DA, Forrester NJ, Bergner LM, Wu M, Taylor DR. A recurring syndrome of accelerated plastid genome evolution in the angiosperm tribe Sileneae (Caryophyllaceae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2013; 72:82-9. [PMID: 24373909 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2013] [Revised: 12/05/2013] [Accepted: 12/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In flowering plants, plastid genomes are generally conserved, exhibiting slower rates of sequence evolution than the nucleus and little or no change in structural organization. However, accelerated plastid genome evolution has occurred in scattered angiosperm lineages. For example, some species within the genus Silene have experienced a suite of recent changes to their plastid genomes, including inversions, shifts in inverted repeat boundaries, large indels, intron losses, and rapid rates of amino acid sequence evolution in a subset of protein genes, with the most extreme divergence occurring in the protease gene clpP. To investigate the relationship between the rates of sequence and structural evolution, we sequenced complete plastid genomes from three species (Silene conoidea, S. paradoxa, and Lychnis chalcedonica), representing independent lineages within the tribe Sileneae that were previously shown to have accelerated rates of clpP evolution. We found a high degree of parallel evolution. Elevated rates of amino acid substitution have occurred repeatedly in the same subset of plastid genes and have been accompanied by a recurring pattern of structural change, including cases of identical inversions and intron loss. This "syndrome" of changes was not observed in the closely related outgroup Agrostemma githago or in the more slowly evolving Silene species that were sequenced previously. Although no single mechanism has yet been identified to explain the correlated suite of changes in plastid genome sequence and structure that has occurred repeatedly in angiosperm evolution, we discuss a possible mixture of adaptive and non-adaptive forces that may be responsible.
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- Daniel B Sloan
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, United States.
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, United States
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Wu W, Zhu Y, Ma Z, Sun Y, Quan Q, Li P, Hu P, Shi T, Lo C, Chu IK, Huang J. Proteomic evidence for genetic epistasis: ClpR4 mutations switch leaf variegation to virescence in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 76:943-956. [PMID: 24124904 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2013] [Revised: 09/26/2013] [Accepted: 10/01/2013] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Chloroplast development in plants is regulated by a series of coordinated biological processes. In this work, a genetic suppressor screen for the leaf variegation phenotype of the thylakoid formation 1 (thf1) mutant combined with a proteomic assay was employed to elucidate this complicated network. We identified a mutation in ClpR4, named clpR4-3, which leads to leaf virescence and also rescues the var2 variegation. Proteomic analysis showed that the chloroplast proteome of clpR4-3 thf1 is dominantly controlled by clpR4-3, providing molecular mechanisms that cause genetic epistasis of clpR4-3 to thf1. Classification of the proteins significantly mis-regulated in the mutants revealed that those functioning in the expression of plastid genes are oppositely regulated while proteins functioning in antioxidative stress, protein folding, and starch metabolism are changed in the same direction between thf1 and clpR4-3. The levels of FtsHs including FtsH2/VAR2, FtsH8, and FtsH5/VAR1 are greatly reduced in thf1 compared with those in the wild type, but are higher in clpR4-3 thf1 than in thf1. Quantitative PCR analysis revealed that FtsH expression in clpR4-3 thf1 is regulated post-transcriptionally. In addition, a number of ribosomal proteins are less expressed in the clpR4-3 proteome, which is in line with the reduced levels of rRNAs in clpR4-3. Furthermore, knocking out PRPL11, one of the most downregulated proteins in the clpR4-3 thf1 proteome, rescues the leaf variegation phenotype of the thf1 and var2 mutants. These results provide insights into molecular mechanisms by which the virescent clpR4-3 mutation suppresses leaf variegation of thf1 and var2.
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- Wenjuan Wu
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
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Zhang Y, Gao P, Xing Z, Jin S, Chen Z, Liu L, Constantino N, Wang X, Shi W, Yuan JS, Dai SY. Application of an improved proteomics method for abundant protein cleanup: molecular and genomic mechanisms study in plant defense. Mol Cell Proteomics 2013; 12:3431-42. [PMID: 23943779 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m112.025213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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High abundance proteins like ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (Rubisco) impose a consistent challenge for the whole proteome characterization using shot-gun proteomics. To address this challenge, we developed and evaluated Polyethyleneimine Assisted Rubisco Cleanup (PARC) as a new method by combining both abundant protein removal and fractionation. The new approach was applied to a plant insect interaction study to validate the platform and investigate mechanisms for plant defense against herbivorous insects. Our results indicated that PARC can effectively remove Rubisco, improve the protein identification, and discover almost three times more differentially regulated proteins. The significantly enhanced shot-gun proteomics performance was translated into in-depth proteomic and molecular mechanisms for plant insect interaction, where carbon re-distribution was used to play an essential role. Moreover, the transcriptomic validation also confirmed the reliability of PARC analysis. Finally, functional studies were carried out for two differentially regulated genes as revealed by PARC analysis. Insect resistance was induced by over-expressing either jacalin-like or cupin-like genes in rice. The results further highlighted that PARC can serve as an effective strategy for proteomics analysis and gene discovery.
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- Yixiang Zhang
- Texas A&M Agrilife Synthetic and Systems Biology Innovation Hub (SSBiH), Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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Nagpal J, Tan JL, Truscott KN, Heras B, Dougan DA. Control of protein function through regulated protein degradation: biotechnological and biomedical applications. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 23:335-44. [PMID: 23920496 DOI: 10.1159/000352043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Targeted protein degradation is crucial for the correct function and maintenance of a cell. In bacteria, this process is largely performed by a handful of ATP-dependent machines, which generally consist of two components - an unfoldase and a peptidase. In some cases, however, substrate recognition by the protease may be regulated by specialized delivery factors (known as adaptor proteins). Our detailed understanding of how these machines are regulated to prevent uncontrolled degradation within a cell has permitted the identification of novel antimicrobials that dysregulate these machines, as well as the development of tunable degradation systems that have applications in biotechnology. Here, we focus on the physiological role of the ClpP peptidase in bacteria, its role as a novel antibiotic target and the use of protein degradation as a biotechnological approach to artificially control the expression levels of a protein of interest.
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- Jyotsna Nagpal
- Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science LIMS, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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Zhao L, Zhang N, Ma PF, Liu Q, Li DZ, Guo ZH. Phylogenomic analyses of nuclear genes reveal the evolutionary relationships within the BEP clade and the evidence of positive selection in Poaceae. PLoS One 2013; 8:e64642. [PMID: 23734211 PMCID: PMC3667173 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2013] [Accepted: 04/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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BEP clade of the grass family (Poaceae) is composed of three subfamilies, i.e. Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pooideae. Controversies on the phylogenetic relationships among three subfamilies still persist in spite of great efforts. However, previous evidence was mainly provided from plastid genes with only a few nuclear genes utilized. Given different evolutionary histories recorded by plastid and nuclear genes, it is indispensable to uncover their relationships based on nuclear genes. Here, eleven species with whole-sequenced genome and six species with transcriptomic data were included in this study. A total of 121 one-to-one orthologous groups (OGs) were identified and phylogenetic trees were reconstructed by different tree-building methods. Genes which might have undergone positive selection and played important roles in adaptive evolution were also investigated from 314 and 173 one-to-one OGs in two bamboo species and 14 grass species, respectively. Our results support the ((B, P) E) topology with high supporting values. Besides, our findings also indicate that 24 and nine orthologs with statistically significant evidence of positive selection are mainly involved in abiotic and biotic stress response, reproduction and development, plant metabolism and enzyme etc. from two bamboo species and 14 grass species, respectively. In summary, this study demonstrates the power of phylogenomic approach to shed lights on the evolutionary relationships within the BEP clade, and offers valuable insights into adaptive evolution of the grass family.
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- Lei Zhao
- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Institute of Genomic Medicine, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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Kim J, Olinares PD, Oh SH, Ghisaura S, Poliakov A, Ponnala L, van Wijk KJ. Modified Clp protease complex in the ClpP3 null mutant and consequences for chloroplast development and function in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2013; 162:157-79. [PMID: 23548781 PMCID: PMC3641200 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.215699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2013] [Accepted: 03/27/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The plastid ClpPRT protease consists of two heptameric rings of ClpP1/ClpR1/ClpR2/ClpR3/ClpR4 (the R-ring) and ClpP3/ClpP4/ClpP5/ClpP6 (the P-ring) and peripherally associated ClpT1/ClpT2 subunits. Here, we address the contributions of ClpP3 and ClpP4 to ClpPRT core organization and function in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). ClpP4 is strictly required for embryogenesis, similar to ClpP5. In contrast, loss of ClpP3 (clpp3-1) leads to arrest at the hypocotyl stage; this developmental arrest can be removed by supplementation with sucrose or glucose. Heterotrophically grown clpp3-1 can be transferred to soil and generate viable seed, which is surprising, since we previously showed that CLPR2 and CLPR4 null alleles are always sterile and die on soil. Based on native gels and mass spectrometry-based quantification, we show that despite the loss of ClpP3, modified ClpPR core(s) could be formed, albeit at strongly reduced levels. A large portion of ClpPR subunits accumulated in heptameric rings, with overaccumulation of ClpP1/ClpP5/ClpP6 and ClpR3. Remarkably, the association of ClpT1 to the modified Clp core was unchanged. Large-scale quantitative proteomics assays of clpp3-1 showed a 50% loss of photosynthetic capacity and the up-regulation of plastoglobules and all chloroplast stromal chaperone systems. Specific chloroplast proteases were significantly up-regulated, whereas the major thylakoid protease (FtsH1/FtsH2/FtsH5/FtsH8) was clearly unchanged, indicating a controlled protease network response. clpp3-1 showed a systematic decrease of chloroplast-encoded proteins that are part of the photosynthetic apparatus but not of chloroplast-encoded proteins with other functions. Candidate substrates and an explanation for the differential phenotypes between the CLPP3, CLPP4, and CLPP5 null mutants are discussed.
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Wei Z, Alcauter S, Jin K, Peng ZW, Gao W. Graph theoretical analysis of sedation's effect on whole brain functional system in school-aged children. Brain Connect 2013; 3:177-89. [PMID: 23294031 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2012.0125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The neurophysiological mechanism underlying sedation, especially in school-aged children, remains largely unknown. The recently emerged resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) technique, capable of delineating brain's functional interaction pattern among distributed brain areas, proves to be a unique and powerful tool to study sedation-induced brain reorganization. Based on a relatively large school-aged children population (n=28, 10.3±2.6 years, range 7-15 years) and leveraging rsfMRI and graph theoretical analysis, this study aims to delineate sedation-induced changes in brain's information transferring property from a whole brain system perspective. Our results show a global deterioration in brain's efficiency properties (p=0.0085 and 0.0018, for global and local efficiency, respectively) with a locally graded distribution featuring significant disruptions of key consciousness-related regions. Moreover, our results also indicate a redistribution of brain's information-processing hubs characterized by a right and posterior shift as consistent with the reduced level of consciousness during sedation. Overall, our findings inform a sedation-induced functional reorganization pattern in school-aged children that greatly improve our understanding of sedation's effect in children and may potentially serve as reference for future sedation-related experimental studies and clinical applications.
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- Zhen Wei
- Shenzhen Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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Krupinska K, Melonek J, Krause K. New insights into plastid nucleoid structure and functionality. PLANTA 2013; 237:653-64. [PMID: 23212213 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-012-1817-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2012] [Accepted: 11/09/2012] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Investigations over many decades have revealed that nucleoids of higher plant plastids are highly dynamic with regard to their number, their structural organization and protein composition. Membrane attachment and environmental cues seem to determine the activity and functionality of the nucleoids and point to a highly regulated structure-function relationship. The heterogeneous composition and the many functions that are seemingly associated with the plastid nucleoids could be related to the high number of chromosomes per plastid. Recent proteomic studies have brought novel nucleoid-associated proteins into the spotlight and indicated that plastid nucleoids are an evolutionary hybrid possessing prokaryotic nucleoid features and eukaryotic (nuclear) chromatin components, several of which are dually targeted to the nucleus and chloroplasts. Future studies need to unravel if and how plastid-nucleus communication depends on nucleoid structure and plastid gene expression.
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- Karin Krupinska
- Institute of Botany, University of Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany.
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Huang M, Friso G, Nishimura K, Qu X, Olinares PDB, Majeran W, Sun Q, van Wijk KJ. Construction of Plastid Reference Proteomes for Maize and Arabidopsis and Evaluation of Their Orthologous Relationships; The Concept of Orthoproteomics. J Proteome Res 2012. [DOI: 10.1021/pr300952g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Mingshu Huang
- Department
of Plant Biology and ‡Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Plant Biology and ‡Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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of Plant Biology and ‡Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Plant Biology and ‡Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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of Plant Biology and ‡Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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of Plant Biology and ‡Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Plant Biology and ‡Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Plant Biology and ‡Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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El Bakkouri M, Rathore S, Calmettes C, Wernimont AK, Liu K, Sinha D, Asad M, Jung P, Hui R, Mohmmed A, Houry WA. Structural insights into the inactive subunit of the apicoplast-localized caseinolytic protease complex of Plasmodium falciparum. J Biol Chem 2012. [PMID: 23192353 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.416560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The ATP-dependent caseinolytic protease, ClpP, is highly conserved in bacteria and in the organelles of different organisms. In cyanobacteria, plant plastids, and the apicoplast of the genus Plasmodium, a noncatalytic paralog of ClpP, termed ClpR, has been identified. ClpRs are found to form heterocomplexes with ClpP resulting in a ClpRP tetradecameric cylinder having less than 14 catalytic triads. The exact role of ClpR in such a complex remains enigmatic. Here we describe the x-ray crystal structure of ClpR protein heptamer from Plasmodium falciparum (PfClpR). This is the first structure of a ClpR protein. The structure shows that the PfClpR monomer adopts a fold similar to that of ClpP, but has a unique motif, which we named the R-motif, forming a β turn located near the inactive catalytic triad in a three-dimensional space. The PfClpR heptamer exhibits a more open and flat ring than a ClpP heptamer. PfClpR was localized in the P. falciparum apicoplast as is the case of PfClpP. However, biochemical and structural data suggest that, contrary to what has been observed in other organisms, PfClpP and PfClpR do not form a stable heterocomplex in the apicoplast of P. falciparum.
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- Majida El Bakkouri
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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Zhang J, Ruf S, Hasse C, Childs L, Scharff LB, Bock R. Identification of cis-elements conferring high levels of gene expression in non-green plastids. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2012; 72:115-28. [PMID: 22639905 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2012.05065.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Although our knowledge about the mechanisms of gene expression in chloroplasts has increased substantially over the past decades, next to nothing is known about the signals and factors that govern expression of the plastid genome in non-green tissues. Here we report the development of a quantitative method suitable for determining the activity of cis-acting elements for gene expression in non-green plastids. The in vivo assay is based on stable transformation of the plastid genome and the discovery that root length upon seedling growth in the presence of the plastid translational inhibitor kanamycin is directly proportional to the expression strength of the resistance gene nptII in transgenic tobacco plastids. By testing various combinations of promoters and translation initiation signals, we have used this experimental system to identify cis-elements that are highly active in non-green plastids. Surprisingly, heterologous expression elements from maize plastids were significantly more efficient in conferring high expression levels in root plastids than homologous expression elements from tobacco. Our work has established a quantitative method for characterization of gene expression in non-green plastid types, and has led to identification of cis-elements for efficient plastid transgene expression in non-green tissues, which are valuable tools for future transplastomic studies in basic and applied research.
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- Jiang Zhang
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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Derrien B, Majeran W, Effantin G, Ebenezer J, Friso G, van Wijk KJ, Steven AC, Maurizi MR, Vallon O. The purification of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast ClpP complex: additional subunits and structural features. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2012; 80:189-202. [PMID: 22772861 PMCID: PMC3500782 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-012-9939-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2012] [Accepted: 06/28/2012] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The ClpP peptidase is a major constituent of the proteolytic machinery of bacteria and organelles. The chloroplast ClpP complex is unusual, in that it associates a large number of subunits, one of which (ClpP1) is encoded in the chloroplast, the others in the nucleus. The complexity of these large hetero-oligomeric complexes has been a major difficulty in their overproduction and biochemical characterization. In this paper, we describe the purification of native chloroplast ClpP complex from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, using a strain that carries the Strep-tag II at the C-terminus of the ClpP1 subunit. Similar to land plants, the algal complex comprises active and inactive subunits (3 ClpP and 5 ClpR, respectively). Evidence is presented that a sub-complex can be produced by dissociation, comprising ClpP1 and ClpR1, 2, 3 and 4, similar to the ClpR-ring described in land plants. Our Chlamydomonas ClpP preparation also contains two ClpT subunits, ClpT3 and ClpT4, which like the land plant ClpT1 and ClpT2 show 2 Clp-N domains. ClpTs are believed to function in substrate binding and/or assembly of the two heptameric rings. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that ClpT subunits have appeared independently in Chlorophycean algae, in land plants and in dispersed cyanobacterial genomes. Negative staining electron microscopy shows that the Chlamydomonas complex retains the barrel-like shape of homo-oligomeric ClpPs, with 4 additional peripheral masses that we speculate represent either the additional IS1 domain of ClpP1 (a feature unique to algae) or ClpTs or extensions of ClpR subunits.
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- Benoît Derrien
- UMR7141 CNRS/UPMC, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
- Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut des Sciences du Végétal, UPR 2355 CNRS, 1 Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif/Yvette cedex, France
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology Research, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- UMR7141 CNRS/UPMC, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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Interaction specificity between the chaperone and proteolytic components of the cyanobacterial Clp protease. Biochem J 2012; 446:311-20. [DOI: 10.1042/bj20120649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The Clp protease is conserved among eubacteria and most eukaryotes, and uses ATP to drive protein substrate unfolding and translocation into a chamber of sequestered proteolytic active sites. In plant chloroplasts and cyanobacteria, the essential constitutive Clp protease consists of the Hsp100/ClpC chaperone partnering a proteolytic core of catalytic ClpP and noncatalytic ClpR subunits. In the present study, we have examined putative determinants conferring the highly specific association between ClpC and the ClpP3/R core from the model cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus. Two conserved sequences in the N-terminus of ClpR (tyrosine and proline motifs) and one in the N-terminus of ClpP3 (MPIG motif) were identified as being crucial for the ClpC–ClpP3/R association. These N-terminal domains also influence the stability of the ClpP3/R core complex itself. A unique C-terminal sequence was also found in plant and cyanobacterial ClpC orthologues just downstream of the P-loop region previously shown in Escherichia coli to be important for Hsp100 association to ClpP. This R motif in Synechococcus ClpC confers specificity for the ClpP3/R core and prevents association with E. coli ClpP; its removal from ClpC reverses this core specificity.
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Rosano GL, Bruch EM, Colombo CV, Ceccarelli EA. Toward a unified model of the action of CLP/HSP100 chaperones in chloroplasts. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2012; 7:672-4. [PMID: 22580704 PMCID: PMC3442864 DOI: 10.4161/psb.19992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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In chloroplasts, Hsp70 and Hsp100 chaperones have been long suspected to be the motors that provide the necessary energy for the import of precursor proteins destined to the organelle. The chaperones associate with the import translocon and meet the transit peptides as they emerge through the channel. After decades of active research, recent findings demonstrated that Hsp100 chaperones recognize transit peptides both in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, Hsp70 also plays a part in precursor import. The updated model of protein translocation into chloroplasts now presents new questions about the role of the chaperones in the process.
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Clarke AK. The chloroplast ATP-dependent Clp protease in vascular plants - new dimensions and future challenges. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2012; 145:235-44. [PMID: 22085372 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2011.01541.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The ATP-dependent Clp protease is by far the most intricate protease in chloroplasts of vascular plants. Structurally, it is particularly complex with a proteolytic core complex containing 11 distinct subunits along with three potential chaperone partners. The Clp protease is also essential for chloroplast development and overall plant viability. Over the past decade, many of the important characteristics of this crucial protease have been revealed in the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana. Despite this, challenges still remain in fully resolving certain key features, in particular, how the assembly of this multisubunit protease is regulated, the full range of native protein substrates and how they are targeted for degradation and how this complicated enzyme might have developed from simpler bacterial forms. This article focuses upon the recent advances in revealing the details underlying these important features. It also take the opportunity to speculate upon many of these findings in the hope of stimulating further investigation.
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- Adrian K Clarke
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Kwasniak M, Pogorzelec L, Migdal I, Smakowska E, Janska H. Proteolytic system of plant mitochondria. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2012; 145:187-95. [PMID: 22085399 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2011.01542.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The existence of a proteolytic system which can specifically recognize and cleave proteins in mitochondria is now well established. The components of this system comprise processing peptidases, ATP-dependent peptidases and oligopeptidases. A short overview of experimentally confirmed proteases mainly from Arabidopsis thaliana is provided. The role of the mitochondrial peptidases in plant growth and development is emphasized. We also discuss the possibility of existence of as yet unidentified plant homologs of yeast mitochondrial ATP-independent proteases.
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Flores-Pérez Ú, Jarvis P. Molecular chaperone involvement in chloroplast protein import. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2012; 1833:332-40. [PMID: 22521451 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2012.03.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2012] [Revised: 03/16/2012] [Accepted: 03/31/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Chloroplasts are organelles of endosymbiotic origin that perform essential functions in plants. They contain about 3000 different proteins, the vast majority of which are nucleus-encoded, synthesized in precursor form in the cytosol, and transported into the chloroplasts post-translationally. These preproteins are generally imported via envelope complexes termed TOC and TIC (Translocon at the Outer/Inner envelope membrane of Chloroplasts). They must navigate different cellular and organellar compartments (e.g., the cytosol, the outer and inner envelope membranes, the intermembrane space, and the stroma) before arriving at their final destination. It is generally considered that preproteins are imported in a largely unfolded state, and the whole process is energy-dependent. Several chaperones and cochaperones have been found to mediate different stages of chloroplast import, in similar fashion to chaperone involvement in mitochondrial import. Cytosolic factors such as Hsp90, Hsp70 and 14-3-3 may assist preproteins to reach the TOC complex at the chloroplast surface, preventing their aggregation or degradation. Chaperone involvement in the intermembrane space has also been proposed, but remains uncertain. Preprotein translocation is completed at the trans side of the inner membrane by ATP-driven motor complexes. A stromal Hsp100-type chaperone, Hsp93, cooperates with Tic110 and Tic40 in one such motor complex, while stromal Hsp70 is proposed to act in a second, parallel complex. Upon arrival in the stroma, chaperones (e.g., Hsp70, Cpn60, cpSRP43) also contribute to the folding, assembly or onward intraorganellar guidance of the proteins. In this review, we focus on chaperone involvement during preprotein translocation at the chloroplast envelope. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Protein Import and Quality Control in Mitochondria and Plastids.
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Chu CC, Li HM. The amino-terminal domain of chloroplast Hsp93 is important for its membrane association and functions in vivo. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 158:1656-65. [PMID: 22353577 PMCID: PMC3320176 DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.193300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2012] [Accepted: 02/16/2012] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Chloroplast 93-kD heat shock protein (Hsp93/ClpC), an Hsp100 family member, is suggested to have various functions in chloroplasts, including serving as the regulatory chaperone for the ClpP protease in the stroma and acting as a motor component of the protein translocon at the envelope. Indeed, although Hsp93 is a soluble stromal protein, a portion of it is associated with the inner envelope membrane. The mechanism and functional significance of this Hsp93 membrane association have not been determined. Here, we mapped the region important for Hsp93 membrane association by creating various deletion constructs and found that only the construct with the amino-terminal domain deleted, Hsp93-ΔN, had reduced membrane association. When transformed into Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), most atHsp93V-ΔN proteins did not associate with membranes and atHsp93V-ΔΝ failed to complement the pale-green and protein import-defective phenotypes of an hsp93V knockout mutant. The residual atHsp93V-ΔN at the membranes had further reduced association with the central protein translocon component Tic110. However, the degradation of chloroplast glutamine synthetase, a potential substrate for the ClpP protease, was not affected in the hsp93V mutant or in the atHSP93V-ΔN transgenic plants. Hsp93-ΔN also had the same ATPase activity as that of full-length Hsp93. These data suggest that the association of Hsp93 with the inner envelope membrane through its amino-terminal domain is important for the functions of Hsp93 in vivo.
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- Chiung-Chih Chu
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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Akopian T, Kandror O, Raju RM, Unnikrishnan M, Rubin EJ, Goldberg AL. The active ClpP protease from M. tuberculosis is a complex composed of a heptameric ClpP1 and a ClpP2 ring. EMBO J 2012; 31:1529-41. [PMID: 22286948 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2011] [Accepted: 12/22/2011] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) contains two clpP genes, both of which are essential for viability. We expressed and purified Mtb ClpP1 and ClpP2 separately. Although each formed a tetradecameric structure and was processed, they lacked proteolytic activity. We could, however, reconstitute an active, mixed ClpP1P2 complex after identifying N-blocked dipeptides that stimulate dramatically (>1000-fold) ClpP1P2 activity against certain peptides and proteins. These activators function cooperatively to induce the dissociation of ClpP1 and ClpP2 tetradecamers into heptameric rings, which then re-associate to form the active ClpP1P2 2-ring mixed complex. No analogous small molecule-induced enzyme activation mechanism involving dissociation and re-association of multimeric rings has been described. ClpP1P2 possesses chymotrypsin and caspase-like activities, and ClpP1 and ClpP2 differ in cleavage preferences. The regulatory ATPase ClpC1 was purified and shown to increase hydrolysis of proteins by ClpP1P2, but not peptides. ClpC1 did not activate ClpP1 or ClpP2 homotetradecamers and stimulated ClpP1P2 only when both ATP and a dipeptide activator were present. ClpP1P2 activity, its unusual activation mechanism and ClpC1 ATPase represent attractive drug targets to combat tuberculosis.
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- Tatos Akopian
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Sloan DB, Alverson AJ, Wu M, Palmer JD, Taylor DR. Recent acceleration of plastid sequence and structural evolution coincides with extreme mitochondrial divergence in the angiosperm genus Silene. Genome Biol Evol 2012; 4:294-306. [PMID: 22247429 PMCID: PMC3318436 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evs006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The angiosperm genus Silene exhibits some of the most extreme and rapid divergence ever identified in mitochondrial genome architecture and nucleotide substitution rates. These patterns have been considered mitochondrial specific based on the absence of correlated changes in the small number of available nuclear and plastid gene sequences. To better assess the relationship between mitochondrial and plastid evolution, we sequenced the plastid genomes from four Silene species with fully sequenced mitochondrial genomes. We found that two species with fast-evolving mitochondrial genomes, S. noctiflora and S. conica, also exhibit accelerated rates of sequence and structural evolution in their plastid genomes. The nature of these changes, however, is markedly different from those in the mitochondrial genome. For example, in contrast to the mitochondrial pattern, which appears to be genome wide and mutationally driven, the plastid substitution rate accelerations are restricted to a subset of genes and preferentially affect nonsynonymous sites, indicating that altered selection pressures are acting on specific plastid-encoded functions in these species. Indeed, some plastid genes in S. noctiflora and S. conica show strong evidence of positive selection. In contrast, two species with more slowly evolving mitochondrial genomes, S. latifolia and S. vulgaris, have correspondingly low rates of nucleotide substitution in plastid genes as well as a plastid genome structure that has remained essentially unchanged since the origin of angiosperms. These results raise the possibility that common evolutionary forces could be shaping the extreme but distinct patterns of divergence in both organelle genomes within this genus.
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Peng L, Fukao Y, Fujiwara M, Shikanai T. Multistep assembly of chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like subcomplex A requires several nucleus-encoded proteins, including CRR41 and CRR42, in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2012; 24:202-14. [PMID: 22274627 PMCID: PMC3289569 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.090597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex (NDH) mediates photosystem I cyclic electron transport and chlororespiration in thylakoids. Recently, substantial progress has been made in understanding the structure of NDH, but our knowledge of its assembly has been limited. In this study, a series of interactive proteomic analyses identified several stroma-localized factors required for the assembly of a stroma-protruding arm of NDH (subcomplex A). In addition to further characterization of the previously identified CHLORORESPIRATORY REDUCTION1 (CRR1), CRR6, and CRR7, two novel stromal proteins, CRR41 and CRR42, were discovered. Arabidopsis thaliana mutants lacking these proteins are specifically defective in the accumulation of subcomplex A. A total of 10 mutants lacking subcomplex A, including crr27/cpn60β4, which is specifically defective in the folding of NdhH, and four mutants lacking NdhL-NdhO subunits, were extensively characterized. We propose a model for subcomplex A assembly: CRR41, NdhO, and native NdhH, as well as unknown factors, are first assembled to form an NDH subcomplex A assembly intermediate (NAI500). Subsequently, NdhJ, NdhM, NdhK, and NdhI are incorporated into NAI500 to form NAI400. CRR1, CRR6, and CRR42 are involved in this process. CRR7 is likely to be involved in the final step, in which the fully assembled NAI, including NdhN, is inserted into thylakoids.
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- Lianwei Peng
- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Plant Global Educational Project, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan
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- Plant Global Educational Project, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan
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- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Address correspondence to
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Zeng Y, Pan Z, Ding Y, Zhu A, Cao H, Xu Q, Deng X. A proteomic analysis of the chromoplasts isolated from sweet orange fruits [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck]. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2011; 62:5297-309. [PMID: 21841170 PMCID: PMC3223033 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2010] [Revised: 03/28/2011] [Accepted: 03/29/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Here, a comprehensive proteomic analysis of the chromoplasts purified from sweet orange using Nycodenz density gradient centrifugation is reported. A GeLC-MS/MS shotgun approach was used to identify the proteins of pooled chromoplast samples. A total of 493 proteins were identified from purified chromoplasts, of which 418 are putative plastid proteins based on in silico sequence homology and functional analyses. Based on the predicted functions of these identified plastid proteins, a large proportion (∼60%) of the chromoplast proteome of sweet orange is constituted by proteins involved in carbohydrate metabolism, amino acid/protein synthesis, and secondary metabolism. Of note, HDS (hydroxymethylbutenyl 4-diphosphate synthase), PAP (plastid-lipid-associated protein), and psHSPs (plastid small heat shock proteins) involved in the synthesis or storage of carotenoid and stress response are among the most abundant proteins identified. A comparison of chromoplast proteomes between sweet orange and tomato suggested a high level of conservation in a broad range of metabolic pathways. However, the citrus chromoplast was characterized by more extensive carotenoid synthesis, extensive amino acid synthesis without nitrogen assimilation, and evidence for lipid metabolism concerning jasmonic acid synthesis. In conclusion, this study provides an insight into the major metabolic pathways as well as some unique characteristics of the sweet orange chromoplasts at the whole proteome level.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Sriram SM, Kim BY, Kwon YT. The N-end rule pathway: emerging functions and molecular principles of substrate recognition. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2011; 12:735-47. [PMID: 22016057 DOI: 10.1038/nrm3217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The N-end rule defines the protein-destabilizing activity of a given amino-terminal residue and its post-translational modification. Since its discovery 25 years ago, the pathway involved in the N-end rule has been thought to target only a limited set of specific substrates of the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Recent studies have provided insights into the components, substrates, functions and structural basis of substrate recognition. The N-end rule pathway is now emerging as a major cellular proteolytic system, in which the majority of proteins are born with or acquire specific N-terminal degradation determinants through protein-specific or global post-translational modifications.
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- Shashikanth M Sriram
- Center for Pharmacogenetics and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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Klodmann J, Senkler M, Rode C, Braun HP. Defining the protein complex proteome of plant mitochondria. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 157:587-98. [PMID: 21841088 PMCID: PMC3192552 DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.182352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2011] [Accepted: 08/10/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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A classical approach, protein separation by two-dimensional blue native/sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was combined with tandem mass spectrometry and up-to-date computer technology to characterize the mitochondrial "protein complex proteome" of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) in so far unrivaled depth. We further developed the novel GelMap software package to annotate and evaluate two-dimensional blue native/sodium dodecyl sulfate gels. The software allows (1) annotation of proteins according to functional and structural correlations (e.g. subunits of a distinct protein complex), (2) assignment of comprehensive protein identification lists to individual gel spots, and thereby (3) selective display of protein complexes of low abundance. In total, 471 distinct proteins were identified by mass spectrometry, several of which form part of at least 35 different mitochondrial protein complexes. To our knowledge, numerous protein complexes were described for the first time (e.g. complexes including pentatricopeptide repeat proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism). Discovery of further protein complexes within our data set is open to everybody via the public GelMap portal at www.gelmap.de/arabidopsis_mito.
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Gholizadeh A. Over-expression, purification and functional characterization of Celosia ClpS as a fused protein in Escherichia coli. APPL BIOCHEM MICRO+ 2011. [DOI: 10.1134/s000368381104003x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Wicke S, Schneeweiss GM, dePamphilis CW, Müller KF, Quandt D. The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 76:273-97. [PMID: 21424877 PMCID: PMC3104136 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-011-9762-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 825] [Impact Index Per Article: 63.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2010] [Accepted: 02/19/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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This review bridges functional and evolutionary aspects of plastid chromosome architecture in land plants and their putative ancestors. We provide an overview on the structure and composition of the plastid genome of land plants as well as the functions of its genes in an explicit phylogenetic and evolutionary context. We will discuss the architecture of land plant plastid chromosomes, including gene content and synteny across land plants. Moreover, we will explore the functions and roles of plastid encoded genes in metabolism and their evolutionary importance regarding gene retention and conservation. We suggest that the slow mode at which the plastome typically evolves is likely to be influenced by a combination of different molecular mechanisms. These include the organization of plastid genes in operons, the usually uniparental mode of plastid inheritance, the activity of highly effective repair mechanisms as well as the rarity of plastid fusion. Nevertheless, structurally rearranged plastomes can be found in several unrelated lineages (e.g. ferns, Pinaceae, multiple angiosperm families). Rearrangements and gene losses seem to correlate with an unusual mode of plastid transmission, abundance of repeats, or a heterotrophic lifestyle (parasites or myco-heterotrophs). While only a few functional gene gains and more frequent gene losses have been inferred for land plants, the plastid Ndh complex is one example of multiple independent gene losses and will be discussed in detail. Patterns of ndh-gene loss and functional analyses indicate that these losses are usually found in plant groups with a certain degree of heterotrophy, might rendering plastid encoded Ndh1 subunits dispensable.
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- Susann Wicke
- Department of Biogeography and Botanical Garden, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
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Olinares PDB, Kim J, Davis JI, van Wijk KJ. Subunit stoichiometry, evolution, and functional implications of an asymmetric plant plastid ClpP/R protease complex in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2011; 23:2348-61. [PMID: 21712416 PMCID: PMC3160023 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.086454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2011] [Revised: 04/16/2011] [Accepted: 06/15/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The caseinolytic protease (Clp) protease system has been expanded in plant plastids compared with its prokaryotic progenitors. The plastid Clp core protease consists of five different proteolytic ClpP proteins and four different noncatalytic ClpR proteins, with each present in one or more copies and organized in two heptameric rings. We determined the exact subunit composition and stoichiometry for the intact core and each ring. The chloroplast ClpP/R protease was affinity purified from clpr4 and clpp3 Arabidopsis thaliana null mutants complemented with C-terminal StrepII-tagged versions of CLPR4 and CLPP3, respectively. The subunit stoichiometry was determined by mass spectrometry-based absolute quantification using stable isotope-labeled proteotypic peptides generated from a synthetic gene. One heptameric ring contained ClpP3,4,5,6 in a 1:2:3:1 ratio. The other ring contained ClpP1 and ClpR1,2,3,4 in a 3:1:1:1:1 ratio, resulting in only three catalytic sites. These ClpP1/R1-4 proteins are most closely related to the two subunits of the cyanobacterial P3/R complex and the identical P:R ratio suggests conserved adaptation. Furthermore, the plant-specific C-terminal extensions of the ClpP/R subunits were not proteolytically removed upon assembly, suggesting a regulatory role in Clp chaperone interaction. These results will now allow testing ClpP/R structure-function relationships using rationale design. The quantification workflow we have designed is applicable to other protein complexes.
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- Paul Dominic B. Olinares
- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
- Graduate Program, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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A new principle of oligomerization of plant DEG7 protease based on interactions of degenerated protease domains. Biochem J 2011; 435:167-74. [PMID: 21247409 PMCID: PMC3194040 DOI: 10.1042/bj20101613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Deg/HtrA proteases are a large group of ATP-independent serine endoproteases found in almost every organism. Their usual domain arrangement comprises a trypsin-type protease domain and one or more PDZ domains. All Deg/HtrA proteases form homo-oligomers with trimers as the basic unit, where the active protease domain mediates the interaction between individual monomers. Among the members of the Deg/HtrA protease family, the plant protease DEG7 is unique since it contains two protease domains (one active and one degenerated) and four PDZ domains. In the present study, we investigated the oligomerization behaviour of this unusual protease using yeast two-hybrid analysis in vivo and with recombinant protein in vitro. We show that DEG7 forms trimeric complexes, but in contrast with other known Deg/HtrA proteases, it shows a new principle of oligomerization, where trimerization is based on the interactions between degenerated protease domains. We propose that, during evolution, a duplicated active protease domain degenerated and specialized in protein-protein interaction and complex formation.
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Saini G, Meskauskiene R, Pijacka W, Roszak P, Sjögren LLE, Clarke AK, Straus M, Apel K. 'happy on norflurazon' (hon) mutations implicate perturbance of plastid homeostasis with activating stress acclimatization and changing nuclear gene expression in norflurazon-treated seedlings. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 65:690-702. [PMID: 21208309 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2010.04454.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Various mutant screens have been undertaken to identify constituents involved in the transmission of signals from the plastid to the nucleus. Many of these screens have been performed using carotenoid-deficient plants grown in the presence of norflurazon (NF), an inhibitor of phytoene desaturase. NF-treated plants are bleached and suppress the expression of nuclear genes encoding chloroplast proteins. Several genomes uncoupled (gun) mutants have been isolated that de-repress the expression of these nuclear genes. In the present study, a genetic screen has been established that circumvents severe photo-oxidative stress in NF-treated plants. Under these modified screening conditions, happy on norflurazon (hon) mutants have been identified that, like gun mutants, de-repress expression of the Lhcb gene, encoding a light-harvesting chlorophyll protein, but, in contrast to wild-type and gun mutants, are green in the presence of NF. hon mutations disturb plastid protein homeostasis, thereby activating plastid signaling and inducing stress acclimatization. Rather than defining constituents of a retrograde signaling pathway specifically associated with the NF-induced suppression of nuclear gene expression, as proposed for gun, hon mutations affect Lhcb expression more indirectly prior to initiation of plastid signaling in NF-treated seedlings. They pre-condition seedlings by inducing stress acclimatization, thereby attenuating the impact of a subsequent NF treatment.
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- Geetanjali Saini
- Institute of Plant Sciences, Plant Genetics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
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Retrograde signaling pathway from plastid to nucleus. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 290:167-204. [PMID: 21875565 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-386037-8.00002-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Plastids are a diverse group of organelles found in plants and some parasites. Because genes encoding plastid proteins are divided between the nuclear and plastid genomes, coordinated expression of genes in two separate genomes is indispensable for plastid function. To coordinate nuclear gene expression with the functional or metabolic state of plastids, plant cells have acquired a retrograde signaling pathway from plastid to nucleus, also known as the plastid signaling pathway. To date, several metabolic processes within plastids have been shown to affect the expression of nuclear genes. Recent progress in this field has also revealed that the plastid signaling pathway interacts and shares common components with other intracellular signaling pathways. This review summarizes our current knowledge on retrograde signaling from plastid to nucleus in plant cells and its role in plant growth and development.
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Proteolysis is a key process for maintaining homeostasis in all living cells. The ability to degrade specific metabolic enzymes and regulatory proteins is essential for both cellular integrity and function. Equally important is the efficient removal of damaged or otherwise inactive polypeptides, especially during periods of developmental change or stress adaptation. Being one of the most metabolically active plant organelles, chloroplasts require various proteases to control overall protein quality. Much has been revealed about these chloroplast proteases over the last decade, and yet the identity of their native protein substrates remains elusive. In this chapter, we describe a variation upon a classic genetic approach to identify protease substrates based on the comparative protein degradation rates in wild-type and transgenic lines with impaired proteolytic activity. We have successfully used this approach with an in organello assay to identify numerous substrates for the stromal Clp protease from Arabidopsis thaliana, using both gene knockout mutants and antisense repression lines. In principle, the technique can be readily adapted for the study of other chloroplast proteases, and in other plant and algal species as the necessary genetic resources become available.
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- Lars L E Sjögren
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Sjögren LL, Clarke AK. Assembly of the chloroplast ATP-dependent Clp protease in Arabidopsis is regulated by the ClpT accessory proteins. THE PLANT CELL 2011; 23:322-32. [PMID: 21266658 PMCID: PMC3051245 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.082321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2010] [Revised: 12/15/2010] [Accepted: 01/09/2011] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The ATP-dependent caseinolytic protease (Clp) is an essential housekeeping enzyme in plant chloroplasts. It is by far the most complex of all known Clp proteases, with a proteolytic core consisting of multiple catalytic ClpP and noncatalytic ClpR subunits. It also includes a unique form of Clp protein of unknown function designated ClpT, two of which exist in the model species Arabidopsis thaliana. Inactivation of ClpT1 or ClpT2 significantly reduces the amount of Clp proteolytic core, whereas loss of both proves seedling lethal under autotrophic conditions. During assembly of the Clp proteolytic core, ClpT1 first binds to the P-ring (consisting of ClpP3-6 subunits) followed by ClpT2, and only then does the P-ring combine with the R-ring (ClpP1, ClpR1-4 subunits). Most of the ClpT proteins in chloroplasts exist in vivo as homodimers, which then apparently monomerize prior to association with the P-ring. Despite their relative abundance, however, the availability of both ClpT proteins is rate limiting for the core assembly, with the addition of recombinant ClpT1 and ClpT2 increasing core content up to fourfold. Overall, ClpT appears to regulate the assembly of the chloroplast Clp protease, revealing a new and sophisticated control mechanism on the activity of this vital protease in plants.
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Olinares PDB, Kim J, van Wijk KJ. The Clp protease system; a central component of the chloroplast protease network. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2010; 1807:999-1011. [PMID: 21167127 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Revised: 11/30/2010] [Accepted: 12/03/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Intra-plastid proteases play crucial and diverse roles in the development and maintenance of non-photosynthetic plastids and chloroplasts. Formation and maintenance of a functional thylakoid electron transport chain requires various protease activities, operating in parallel, as well as in series. This review first provides a short, referenced overview of all experimentally identified plastid proteases in Arabidopsis thaliana. We then focus on the Clp protease system which constitutes the most abundant and complex soluble protease system in the plastid, consisting of 15 nuclear-encoded members and one plastid-encoded member in Arabidopsis. Comparisons to the simpler Clp system in photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic bacteria will be made and the role of Clp proteases in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii will be briefly reviewed. Extensive molecular genetics has shown that the Clp system plays an essential role in Arabidopsis chloroplast development in the embryo as well as in leaves. Molecular characterization of the various Clp mutants has elucidated many of the consequences of loss of Clp activities. We summarize and discuss the structural and functional aspects of the Clp machinery, including progress on substrate identification and recognition. Finally, the Clp system will be evaluated in the context of the chloroplast protease network. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Regulation of Electron Transport in Chloroplasts.
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Majeran W, Friso G, Ponnala L, Connolly B, Huang M, Reidel E, Zhang C, Asakura Y, Bhuiyan NH, Sun Q, Turgeon R, van Wijk KJ. Structural and metabolic transitions of C4 leaf development and differentiation defined by microscopy and quantitative proteomics in maize. THE PLANT CELL 2010; 22:3509-42. [PMID: 21081695 PMCID: PMC3015116 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.079764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2010] [Revised: 10/22/2010] [Accepted: 10/29/2010] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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C(4) grasses, such as maize (Zea mays), have high photosynthetic efficiency through combined biochemical and structural adaptations. C(4) photosynthesis is established along the developmental axis of the leaf blade, leading from an undifferentiated leaf base just above the ligule into highly specialized mesophyll cells (MCs) and bundle sheath cells (BSCs) at the tip. To resolve the kinetics of maize leaf development and C(4) differentiation and to obtain a systems-level understanding of maize leaf formation, the accumulation profiles of proteomes of the leaf and the isolated BSCs with their vascular bundle along the developmental gradient were determined using large-scale mass spectrometry. This was complemented by extensive qualitative and quantitative microscopy analysis of structural features (e.g., Kranz anatomy, plasmodesmata, cell wall, and organelles). More than 4300 proteins were identified and functionally annotated. Developmental protein accumulation profiles and hierarchical cluster analysis then determined the kinetics of organelle biogenesis, formation of cellular structures, metabolism, and coexpression patterns. Two main expression clusters were observed, each divided in subclusters, suggesting that a limited number of developmental regulatory networks organize concerted protein accumulation along the leaf gradient. The coexpression with BSC and MC markers provided strong candidates for further analysis of C(4) specialization, in particular transporters and biogenesis factors. Based on the integrated information, we describe five developmental transitions that provide a conceptual and practical template for further analysis. An online protein expression viewer is provided through the Plant Proteome Database.
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- Wojciech Majeran
- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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El Bakkouri M, Pow A, Mulichak A, Cheung KLY, Artz JD, Amani M, Fell S, de Koning-Ward TF, Goodman CD, McFadden GI, Ortega J, Hui R, Houry WA. The Clp chaperones and proteases of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. J Mol Biol 2010; 404:456-77. [PMID: 20887733 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.09.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2010] [Revised: 09/08/2010] [Accepted: 09/22/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The Clp chaperones and proteases play an important role in protein homeostasis in the cell. They are highly conserved across prokaryotes and found also in the mitochondria of eukaryotes and the chloroplasts of plants. They function mainly in the disaggregation, unfolding and degradation of native as well as misfolded proteins. Here, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the Clp chaperones and proteases in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The parasite contains four Clp ATPases, which we term PfClpB1, PfClpB2, PfClpC and PfClpM. One PfClpP, the proteolytic subunit, and one PfClpR, which is an inactive version of the protease, were also identified. Expression of all Clp chaperones and proteases was confirmed in blood-stage parasites. The proteins were localized to the apicoplast, a non-photosynthetic organelle that accommodates several important metabolic pathways in P. falciparum, with the exception of PfClpB2 (also known as Hsp101), which was found in the parasitophorous vacuole. Both PfClpP and PfClpR form mostly homoheptameric rings as observed by size-exclusion chromatography, analytical ultracentrifugation and electron microscopy. The X-ray structure of PfClpP showed the protein as a compacted tetradecamer similar to that observed for Streptococcus pneumoniae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis ClpPs. Our data suggest the presence of a ClpCRP complex in the apicoplast of P. falciparum.
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- Majida El Bakkouri
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8
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Graciet E, Wellmer F. The plant N-end rule pathway: structure and functions. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2010; 15:447-453. [PMID: 20627801 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2010.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2010] [Revised: 04/25/2010] [Accepted: 04/29/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The N-end rule pathway is a protein degradation pathway that relates the stability of a protein to the nature of its N-terminal amino acid residue. This pathway is part of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in eukaryotes and has been shown to be involved in a multitude of cellular and developmental processes in animals and fungi. However, in plants, its structure and functions have long been enigmatic. In this review, we discuss recent advances in the identification of the enzymatic components that mediate protein degradation through the N-end rule pathway in plants. We further describe the known functions of this pathway in the control of plant growth and development and outline open questions that will likely be the focus of future research.
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- Emmanuelle Graciet
- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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Apel W, Schulze WX, Bock R. Identification of protein stability determinants in chloroplasts. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2010; 63:636-50. [PMID: 20545891 PMCID: PMC2988409 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2010.04268.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2010] [Revised: 05/05/2010] [Accepted: 05/27/2010] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Although chloroplast protein stability has long been recognised as a major level of post-translational regulation in photosynthesis and gene expression, the factors determining protein stability in plastids are largely unknown. Here, we have identified stability determinants in vivo by producing plants with transgenic chloroplasts that express a reporter protein whose N- and C-termini were systematically modified. We found that major stability determinants are located in the N-terminus. Moreover, testing of all 20 amino acids in the position after the initiator methionine revealed strong differences in protein stability and indicated an important role of the penultimate N-terminal amino acid residue in determining the protein half life. We propose that the stability of plastid proteins is largely determined by three factors: (i) the action of methionine aminopeptidase (the enzyme that removes the initiator methionine and exposes the penultimate N-terminal amino acid residue), (ii) an N-end rule-like protein degradation pathway, and (iii) additional sequence determinants in the N-terminal region.
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- Wiebke Apel
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare PflanzenphysiologieAm Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare PflanzenphysiologieAm Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare PflanzenphysiologieAm Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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Peng L, Cai W, Shikanai T. Chloroplast stromal proteins, CRR6 and CRR7, are required for assembly of the NAD(P)H dehydrogenase subcomplex A in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2010; 63:203-211. [PMID: 20444231 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2010.04240.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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In higher plants, the chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (NDH) complex mediates chlororespiration and photosystem I (PSI) cyclic electron transport in thylakoid membranes. Because of its low abundance and fragility, our knowledge on the assembly of chloroplast NDH is very limited, and some nuclear-encoded factors may be involved in this process. We show here that two Arabidopsis proteins, CHLORORESPIRATORY REDUCTION 6 (CRR6) and CRR7, which were previously identified in mutants specifically defective in NDH accumulation, are present in the stroma, and their stability is independent of the NDH complex, suggesting that they are unlikely to be NDH subunits. Blue native PAGE analysis showed that the accumulation of NDH subcomplex A, which is a core part of NDH that is conserved in divergent species, was specifically impaired in the crr6 and crr7-1 mutants. However, the expression of plastid-encoded genes encoding the subcomplex A subunits was not affected, suggesting that CRR6 and CRR7 are involved in post-translational steps during the biogenesis of subcomplex A. We also discovered that a substantial quantity of NdhH is present in several protein complexes in the chloroplast stroma, possibly as early assembly intermediates of subcomplex A. Although the accumulation of these stromal complexes was not affected in crr6 or crr7-1, CRR6 was co-purified with NdhH, implying that CRR6 functions in the later step of subcomplex-A biogenesis. Accumulation of CRR7 was independent of that of CRR6; we propose that CRR7 functions in a different step in subcomplex-A biogenesis from CRR6.
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- Lianwei Peng
- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Møller IM, Sweetlove LJ. ROS signalling--specificity is required. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2010; 15:370-4. [PMID: 20605736 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2010.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 237] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2009] [Revised: 04/26/2010] [Accepted: 04/29/2010] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) production increases in plants under stress. ROS can damage cellular components, but they can also act in signal transduction to help the cell counteract the oxidative damage in the stressed compartment. H(2)O(2) might induce a general stress response, but it does not have the required specificity to selectively regulate nuclear genes required for dealing with localized stress, e.g. in chloroplasts or mitochondria. Here we argue that peptides deriving from proteolytic breakdown of oxidatively damaged proteins have the requisite specificity to act as secondary ROS messengers and regulate source-specific genes and in this way contribute to retrograde ROS signalling during oxidative stress. Likewise, unmodified peptides deriving from the breakdown of redundant proteins could help coordinate organellar and nuclear gene expression.
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- Ian M Møller
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200 Slagelse, Denmark.
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Janska H, Piechota J, Kwasniak M. ATP-dependent proteases in biogenesis and maintenance of plant mitochondria. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2010; 1797:1071-5. [PMID: 20193658 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.02.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2009] [Revised: 02/22/2010] [Accepted: 02/22/2010] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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ATP-dependent proteases from three families have been identified experimentally in Arabidopsis mitochondria: four FtsH proteases (AtFtsH3, AtFtsH4, AtFtsH10, and AtFtsH11), two Lon proteases (AtLon1 and AtLon4), and one Clp protease (AtClpP2 with regulatory subunit AtClpX). In this review we discuss their submitochondrial localization, expression profiles and proposed functions, with special emphasis on their impact on plant growth and development. The best characterized plant mitochondrial ATP-dependent proteases are AtLon1 and AtFtsH4. It has been proposed that AtLon1 is necessary for proper mitochondrial biogenesis during seedling establishment, whereas AtFtsH4 is involved in maintaining mitochondrial homeostasis late in rosette development under short-day photoperiod.
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- Hanna Janska
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, 51-148 Wroclaw, Poland.
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Friso G, Majeran W, Huang M, Sun Q, van Wijk KJ. Reconstruction of metabolic pathways, protein expression, and homeostasis machineries across maize bundle sheath and mesophyll chloroplasts: large-scale quantitative proteomics using the first maize genome assembly. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2010; 152:1219-50. [PMID: 20089766 PMCID: PMC2832236 DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.152694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2009] [Accepted: 01/17/2010] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Chloroplasts in differentiated bundle sheath (BS) and mesophyll (M) cells of maize (Zea mays) leaves are specialized to accommodate C(4) photosynthesis. This study provides a reconstruction of how metabolic pathways, protein expression, and homeostasis functions are quantitatively distributed across BS and M chloroplasts. This yielded new insights into cellular specialization. The experimental analysis was based on high-accuracy mass spectrometry, protein quantification by spectral counting, and the first maize genome assembly. A bioinformatics workflow was developed to deal with gene models, protein families, and gene duplications related to the polyploidy of maize; this avoided overidentification of proteins and resulted in more accurate protein quantification. A total of 1,105 proteins were assigned as potential chloroplast proteins, annotated for function, and quantified. Nearly complete coverage of primary carbon, starch, and tetrapyrole metabolism, as well as excellent coverage for fatty acid synthesis, isoprenoid, sulfur, nitrogen, and amino acid metabolism, was obtained. This showed, for example, quantitative and qualitative cell type-specific specialization in starch biosynthesis, arginine synthesis, nitrogen assimilation, and initial steps in sulfur assimilation. An extensive overview of BS and M chloroplast protein expression and homeostasis machineries (more than 200 proteins) demonstrated qualitative and quantitative differences between M and BS chloroplasts and BS-enhanced levels of the specialized chaperones ClpB3 and HSP90 that suggest active remodeling of the BS proteome. The reconstructed pathways are presented as detailed flow diagrams including annotation, relative protein abundance, and cell-specific expression pattern. Protein annotation and identification data, and projection of matched peptides on the protein models, are available online through the Plant Proteome Database.
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Geiger A, Hirtz C, Bécue T, Bellard E, Centeno D, Gargani D, Rossignol M, Cuny G, Peltier JB. Exocytosis and protein secretion in Trypanosoma. BMC Microbiol 2010; 10:20. [PMID: 20102621 PMCID: PMC3224696 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2009] [Accepted: 01/26/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Background Human African trypanosomiasis is a lethal disease caused by the extracellular parasite Trypanosoma brucei. The proteins secreted by T. brucei inhibit the maturation of dendritic cells and their ability to induce lymphocytic allogenic responses. To better understand the pathogenic process, we combined different approaches to characterize these secreted proteins. Results Overall, 444 proteins were identified using mass spectrometry, the largest parasite secretome described to date. Functional analysis of these proteins revealed a strong bias toward folding and degradation processes and to a lesser extent toward nucleotide metabolism. These features were shared by different strains of T. brucei, but distinguished the secretome from published T. brucei whole proteome or glycosome. In addition, several proteins had not been previously described in Trypanosoma and some constitute novel potential therapeutic targets or diagnostic markers. Interestingly, a high proportion of these secreted proteins are known to have alternative roles once secreted. Furthermore, bioinformatic analysis showed that a significant proportion of proteins in the secretome lack transit peptide and are probably not secreted through the classical sorting pathway. Membrane vesicles from secretion buffer and infested rat serum were purified on sucrose gradient and electron microscopy pictures have shown 50- to 100-nm vesicles budding from the coated plasma membrane. Mass spectrometry confirmed the presence of Trypanosoma proteins in these microvesicles, showing that an active exocytosis might occur beyond the flagellar pocket. Conclusions This study brings out several unexpected features of the secreted proteins and opens novel perspectives concerning the survival strategy of Trypanosoma as well as possible ways to control the disease. In addition, concordant lines of evidence support the original hypothesis of the involvement of microvesicle-like bodies in the survival strategy allowing Trypanosoma to exchange proteins at least between parasites and/or to manipulate the host immune system.
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- Anne Geiger
- UMR 177, IRD-CIRAD, CIRAD TA A-17/G, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
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Protein import into chloroplasts: the Tic complex and its regulation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2010; 1803:740-7. [PMID: 20100520 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2010.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2009] [Revised: 01/11/2010] [Accepted: 01/13/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Chloroplasts like mitochondria were derived from an endosymbiontic event. Due to the massive gene transfer to the nucleus during endosymbiosis, only a limited number of chloroplastic proteins are still encoded for in the plastid genome. Most of the nuclear-encoded plastidic proteins are post-translationally translocated back to the chloroplast via the general import pathway through distinct outer and inner envelope membrane protein complexes, the Toc and Tic translocons (Translocon at the outer/inner envelope membrane of chloroplasts). Eight Tic subunits have been described so far, including two potential channel proteins (Tic110 and Tic20), the "motor complex" (Tic40 associated with the stromal chaperone Hsp93) and the "redox regulon" (Tic62, Tic55, and Tic32) involved in regulation of protein import via the metabolic redox status of the chloroplast. Regulation can additionally occur via thioredoxins (Tic110 and Tic55) or via the calcium/calmodulin network (Tic110 and Tic32). In this review we present the current knowledge about the Tic complex focusing on its regulation and addressing some still open questions.
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Zybailov B, Friso G, Kim J, Rudella A, Rodríguez VR, Asakura Y, Sun Q, van Wijk KJ. Large scale comparative proteomics of a chloroplast Clp protease mutant reveals folding stress, altered protein homeostasis, and feedback regulation of metabolism. Mol Cell Proteomics 2010; 8:1789-1810. [PMID: 19423572 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m900104-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The clpr2-1 mutant is delayed in development due to reduction of the chloroplast ClpPR protease complex. To understand the role of Clp proteases in plastid biogenesis and homeostasis, leaf proteomes of young seedlings of clpr2-1 and wild type were compared using large scale mass spectrometry-based quantification using an LTQ-Orbitrap and spectral counting with significance determined by G-tests. Virtually only chloroplast-localized proteins were significantly affected, indicating that the molecular phenotype was confined to the chloroplast. A comparative chloroplast stromal proteome analysis of fully developed plants was used to complement the data set. Chloroplast unfoldase ClpB3 was strongly up-regulated in both young and mature leaves, suggesting widespread and persistent protein folding stress. The importance of ClpB3 in the clp2-1 mutant was demonstrated by the observation that a CLPR2 and CLPB3 double mutant was seedling-lethal. The observed up-regulation of chloroplast chaperones and protein sorting components further illustrated destabilization of protein homeostasis. Delayed rRNA processing and up-regulation of a chloroplast DEAD box RNA helicase and polynucleotide phosphorylase, but no significant change in accumulation of ribosomal subunits, suggested a bottleneck in ribosome assembly or RNA metabolism. Strong up-regulation of a chloroplast translational regulator TypA/BipA GTPase suggested a specific response in plastid gene expression to the distorted homeostasis. The stromal proteases PreP1,2 were up-regulated, likely constituting compensation for reduced Clp protease activity and possibly shared substrates between the ClpP and PreP protease systems. The thylakoid photosynthetic apparatus was decreased in the seedlings, whereas several structural thylakoid-associated plastoglobular proteins were strongly up-regulated. Two thylakoid-associated reductases involved in isoprenoid and chlorophyll synthesis were up-regulated reflecting feedback from rate-limiting photosynthetic electron transport. We discuss the quantitative proteomics data and the role of Clp proteolysis using a "systems view" of chloroplast homeostasis and metabolism and provide testable hypotheses and putative substrates to further determine the significance of Clp-driven proteolysis.
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- Boris Zybailov
- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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New Insights into the Types and Function of Proteases in Plastids. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2010; 280:185-218. [DOI: 10.1016/s1937-6448(10)80004-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Rodríguez-Villalón A, Gas E, Rodríguez-Concepción M. Phytoene synthase activity controls the biosynthesis of carotenoids and the supply of their metabolic precursors in dark-grown Arabidopsis seedlings. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 60:424-35. [PMID: 19594711 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2009.03966.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Carotenoids are plastidial isoprenoids essential for plant life. In Arabidopsis thaliana carotenoid biosynthesis is strongly upregulated when seedlings that germinate in the dark (etiolated) emerge from the soil and light derepresses photomorphogenesis, causing etioplasts to become chloroplasts. We found that carotenoid biosynthesis is also induced when deetiolation is derepressed in the absence of actual light, eventually resulting in improved greening (chlorophyll accumulation) upon illumination. The increased production of carotenoids in the dark correlates with an upregulated activity of phytoene synthase (PSY; the first committed enzyme of carotenogenesis) and the induction of PSY gene expression in cotyledons (where carotenoids accumulate in dark-grown seedlings). The metabolic precursors for carotenoid synthesis under these conditions are mostly supplied by the plastidial methylerythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway. Accumulation of flux-controlling MEP pathway enzymes, such as deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXS), is post-transcriptionally increased when deetiolation is derepressed in the dark. Unlike the situation observed in light-grown plants, however, the sole overexpression of DXS in dark-grown seedlings does not increase carotenoid accumulation. By contrast, induced expression of a PSY-encoding transgene results in increased carotenoid levels and a concomitant post-transcriptional accumulation of DXS. These data provide evidence for a feedback mechanism by which PSY controls metabolic flux to the carotenoid pathway in plants.
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- Antía Rodríguez-Villalón
- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) CSIC-IRTA-UAB, Jordi Girona 18, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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Kovalchuk N, Smith J, Pallotta M, Singh R, Ismagul A, Eliby S, Bazanova N, Milligan AS, Hrmova M, Langridge P, Lopato S. Characterization of the wheat endosperm transfer cell-specific protein TaPR60. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 71:81-98. [PMID: 19513805 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-009-9510-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2009] [Accepted: 05/25/2009] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The TaPR60 gene from bread wheat encodes a small cysteine-rich protein with a hydrophobic signal peptide, predicted to direct the TaPR60 protein to a secretory pathway. It was demonstrated by heterologous expression of recombinant TaPR60 protein that the signal peptide is recognized and cleaved in yeast cells. The full-length gene including promoter sequence of a TaPR60 orthologue was cloned from a BAC library of Triticum durum. A transcriptional promoter-GUS fusion was stably transformed into wheat, barley and rice. The strongest GUS expression in wheat and barley was found in the endosperm transfer cells, while in rice the promoter was active inside the starchy endosperm during the early stages of grain filling. The TaPR60 gene was also used as bait in a yeast two-hybrid screen. Five proteins were identified in the screen, and for some of these prey proteins, the interaction was confirmed by co-immunoprecipitation. The signal peptide binding proteins, TaUbiL1 and TaUbiL2, are homologues of animal proteins, which belong to proteolytic complexes, and therefore may be responsible for TaPR60 processing or degradation of the signal peptide. Other proteins that interact with TaPR60 may have a function in TaPR60 secretion or regulation of this process. Examination of a three dimensional model of TaPR60 suggested that this protein could be involved in binding of lipidic molecules.
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- Nataliya Kovalchuk
- Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia
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