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Orr DJ, Robijns AKJ, Baker CR, Niyogi KK, Carmo-Silva E. Dynamics of Rubisco regulation by sugar phosphate derivatives and their phosphatases. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2023; 74:581-590. [PMID: 36173669 PMCID: PMC9833046 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Regulating the central CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco is as complex as its ancient reaction mechanism and involves interaction with a series of cofactors and auxiliary proteins that activate catalytic sites and maintain activity. A key component among the regulatory mechanisms is the binding of sugar phosphate derivatives that inhibit activity. Removal of inhibitors via the action of Rubisco activase is required to restore catalytic competency. In addition, specific phosphatases dephosphorylate newly released inhibitors, rendering them incapable of binding to Rubisco catalytic sites. The best studied inhibitor is 2-carboxy-d-arabinitol 1-phosphate (CA1P), a naturally occurring nocturnal inhibitor that accumulates in most species during darkness and low light, progressively binding to Rubisco. As light increases, Rubisco activase removes CA1P from Rubisco, and the specific phosphatase CA1Pase dephosphorylates CA1P to CA, which cannot bind Rubisco. Misfire products of Rubisco's complex reaction chemistry can also act as inhibitors. One example is xylulose-1,5-bisphosphate (XuBP), which is dephosphorylated by XuBPase. Here we revisit key findings related to sugar phosphate derivatives and their specific phosphatases, highlighting outstanding questions and how further consideration of these inhibitors and their role is important for better understanding the regulation of carbon assimilation.
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- Present address: Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Andralojc PJ, Madgwick PJ, Tao Y, Keys A, Ward JL, Beale MH, Loveland JE, Jackson PJ, Willis AC, Gutteridge S, Parry MAJ. 2-Carboxy-D-arabinitol 1-phosphate (CA1P) phosphatase: evidence for a wider role in plant Rubisco regulation. Biochem J 2012; 442:733-42. [PMID: 22132794 DOI: 10.1042/bj20111443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The genes for CA1Pase (2-carboxy-D-arabinitol-1-bisphosphate phosphatase) from French bean, wheat, Arabidopsis and tobacco were identified and cloned. The deduced protein sequence included an N-terminal motif identical with the PGM (phosphoglycerate mutase) active site sequence [LIVM]-x-R-H-G-[EQ]-x-x-[WN]. The corresponding gene from wheat coded for an enzyme with the properties published for CA1Pase. The expressed protein lacked PGM activity but rapidly dephosphorylated 2,3-DPG (2,3-diphosphoglycerate) to 2-phosphoglycerate. DTT (dithiothreitol) activation and GSSG inactivation of this enzyme was pH-sensitive, the greatest difference being apparent at pH 8. The presence of the expressed protein during in vitro measurement of Rubisco (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase) activity prevented a progressive decline in Rubisco turnover. This was due to the removal of an inhibitory bisphosphate that was present in the RuBP (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate) preparation, and was found to be PDBP (D-glycero-2,3-pentodiulose-1,5-bisphosphate). The substrate specificity of the expressed protein indicates a role for CA1Pase in the removal of 'misfire' products of Rubisco.
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Portis AR, Parry MAJ. Discoveries in Rubisco (Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase): a historical perspective. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2007; 94:121-43. [PMID: 17665149 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-007-9225-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2007] [Accepted: 07/04/2007] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Historic discoveries and key observations related to Rubisco (Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase), from 1947 to 2006, are presented. Currently, around 200 papers describing Rubisco research are published each year and the literature contains more than 5000 manuscripts on the subject. While trying to ensure that all the major events over this period are recorded, this analysis will inevitably be incomplete and will reflect the areas of particular interest to the authors.
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- Archie R Portis
- Photosynthesis Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, University of Illinois, 1201 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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Obukosia SD, Richards CM, Boyer CD. Expression of plastid-encoded photosynthetic genes during chloroplast or chromoplast differentiation in Cucurbitae pepo L. fruits. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2003; 64:1213-1221. [PMID: 14599519 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9422(03)00164-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The objective of the study was to determine the patterns of expression of two photosynthetic genes rbcL and psbA, during chloroplast and chromoplast differentiation in fruit tissues of three Cucurbitae pepo L. cultivars: Early Prolific, Foodhook Zucchini and Bicolor Gourds. In two Early Prolific isogenic lines, YYBB and YYB+B+, the steady-state amounts of rbcL and psbA transcripts increased with fruit development upto 14 days post-pollination. The YYB+B+ line in which chloroplast differentiates into chromoplast at about pollination, did not show significantly higher amounts of both transcripts compared to YYBB, in which chromoplast develops early prior to pollination. In the Bicolor Gourds, in which the chromoplast and chloroplast containing tissues lie in juxtaposition on the same fruit, showed little differences in rbcL and psbA transcripts between the two tissues, if any the chromoplast containing tissue contained more of both transcripts than the chloroplast containing tissue. In Fordhook Zucchini fruits, where the chloroplast containing tissue developed early prior to pollination and was maintained, the steady-state amounts of rbcL transcripts increased to a maximum at 3 days post-pollination and levelled at 14 and 21 days post-pollination. In contrast, in Fordhook Zucchini fruits, the psbA transcript increased gradually up to 21 days post-pollination. In Fordhook Zucchini, the apparent ratios of psbA transcripts versus rbcL transcripts ranged from 2.5 to 3.9, at day 3 to 21 post-pollination, while in Bicolor Gourds were 2.9 and 4.5 at days 14 and 21 post-pollination. The two photosynthetic genes, psbA and rbcL were developmentally regulated and differentially expressed. However, their expression in chloroplast containing fruit tissues was not higher than in the chromoplast containing fruit tissues.
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- Silas D Obukosia
- Department of Crop Science, University of Nairobi, PO Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Andralojc PJ, Keys AJ, Kossmann J, Parry MAJ. Elucidating the biosynthesis of 2-carboxyarabinitol 1-phosphate through reduced expression of chloroplastic fructose 1,6-bisphosphate phosphatase and radiotracer studies with 14CO2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:4742-7. [PMID: 11917127 PMCID: PMC123718 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.072137099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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2-carboxyarabinitol 1-phosphate limits photosynthetic CO2 assimilation at low light because it is a potent, naturally occurring inhibitor of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. Evidence is presented that this inhibitor is derived from chloroplastic fructose 1,6-bisphosphate. First, transgenic plants containing decreased amounts of chloroplastic fructose 1,6-bisphosphate phosphatase contained increased amounts of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate and 2-carboxyarabinitol 1-phosphate and greatly increased amounts of the putative intermediates hamamelose and 2-carboxyarabinitol, which in some cases were as abundant as sucrose. Second, French bean leaves in the light were shown to incorporate 14C from 14CO2 sequentially into fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, hamamelose bisphosphate, hamamelose monophosphate, hamamelose, and 2-carboxyarabinitol. As shown previously, 14C assimilated by photosynthesis was also incorporated into 2-carboxyarabinitol 1-phosphate during subsequent darkness.
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- P John Andralojc
- IACR-Rothamsted, Crop Performance & Improvement Division, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom.
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Khan S, Andralojc PJ, Lea PJ, Parry MA. 2'-carboxy-D-arabitinol 1-phosphate protects ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase against proteolytic breakdown. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1999; 266:840-7. [PMID: 10583377 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00913.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Trypsin-catalysed cleavage of purified ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) and the resultant irreversible loss of carboxylase activity were prevented by prior incubation with the naturally occurring nocturnal Rubisco inhibitor 2'-carboxy-D-arabitinol 1-phosphate (CA1P), as well as with ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP), Mg2+ and CO2. CA1P also protected Rubisco from loss of activity caused by carboxypeptidase A. When similar experiments were carried out using soluble chloroplast proteases, CA1P was again able to protect Rubisco against proteolytic degradation and the consequent irreversible loss of catalytic activity. Thus, CA1P prevents the proteolytic breakdown of Rubisco by endogenous and exogenous proteases. In this way, CA1P may affect the amounts of Rubisco protein available for photosynthetic CO2 assimilation. Rubisco turnover (in the presence of RuBP, Mg2+ and CO2) may confer similar protection against proteases in the light.
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- S Khan
- Department of Biochemistry, IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
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Hammond ET, Andrews TJ, Woodrow IE. Regulation of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase by carbamylation and 2-carboxyarabinitol 1-phosphate in tobacco: insights from studies of antisense plants containing reduced amounts of rubisco activase. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 118:1463-71. [PMID: 9847122 PMCID: PMC34764 DOI: 10.1104/pp.118.4.1463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/1998] [Accepted: 09/08/1998] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The regulation of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) activity by 2-carboxyarabinitol 1-phosphate (CA1P) was investigated using gas-exchange analysis of antisense tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants containing reduced levels of Rubisco activase. When an increase in light flux from darkness to 1200 &mgr;mol quanta m-2 s-1 was followed, the slow increase in CO2 assimilation by antisense leaves contained two phases: one represented the activation of the noncarbamylated form of Rubisco, which was described previously, and the other represented the activation of the CA1P-inhibited form of Rubisco. We present evidence supporting this conclusion, including the observation that this second phase, like CA1P, is only present following darkness or very low light flux. In addition, the second phase of CO2 assimilation was correlated with leaf CA1P content. When this novel phase was resolved from the CO2 assimilation trace, most of it was found to have kinetics similar to the activation of the noncarbamylated form of Rubisco. Additionally, kinetics of the novel phase indicated that the activation of the CA1P-inhibited form of Rubisco proceeds faster than the degradation of CA1P by CA1P phosphatase. These results may be significant with respect to current models of the regulation of Rubisco activity by Rubisco activase.
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- ET Hammond
- School of Botany, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia (E.T.H., I.E.W.)
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Andralojc PJ, Keys AJ, Martindale W, Dawson GW, Parry MA. Conversion of D-hamamelose into 2-carboxy-D-arabinitol and 2-carboxy-D-arabinitol 1-phosphate in leaves of Phaseolus vulgaris L. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:26803-9. [PMID: 8900161 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.43.26803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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[1-14C]Hamamelose (2-hydroxymethyl-D-ribose) was synthesized by reaction of ribulose 5-phosphate with potassium [14C]cyanide, catalytic hydrogenation of the resulting cyanohydrin, and dephosphorylation of the product. Its identity was established by a chromatographic comparison with hamamelose isolated from the bark of witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana L.). Following vacuum infiltration of the [1-14C]hamamelose into leaf discs from Phaseolus vulgaris L., 14C-labeled 2carboxy-D-arabinitol (CA) and 2-carboxy-D-arabinitol 1-phosphate (CA1P) were formed, in the dark. Conversion of hamamelose to both CA and CA1P in the leaf discs was inhibited by dithiothreitol and sodium fluoride, although at high concentrations of these inhibitors conversion into CA was still evident when conversion into CA1P was totally inhibited. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) leaves converted hamamelose into CA without formation of CA1P. Leaves from P. vulgaris contained 68 nmol.g-1 fresh weight of hamamelose in the light and 35 nmol.g-1 fresh weight in the dark. A pathway for the biosynthesis of CA1P from Calvin cycle intermediates is proposed which includes the sequence: hamamelose --> CA --> CA1P.
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- P J Andralojc
- Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom
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Holbrook GP, Turner JA, Polans NO. Dark inhibition of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in legumes: A biosystematic study. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1992; 32:37-44. [PMID: 24408153 DOI: 10.1007/bf00028796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/1991] [Accepted: 12/10/1991] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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2-carboxyarabinitol 1-phosphate (CA 1-P) is a naturally occurring inhibitor of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco). Members of the Fabaceae exhibit a particularly wide range in the extent of CA 1-P accumulation during darkness and include Phaseolus vulgaris, whose dark/light regulation of Rubisco activity is principally achieved by synthesis/degradation of CA 1-P. An extensive survey of the degree of dark inhibition of Rubisco was undertaken for the subfamily Papilionoideae to elucidate evolutionary patterns in the occurrence of this regulatory mechanism. Seventy-five species from 21 tribes were examined. Dark inhibition of Rubisco was found in ancestral tribes such as the Sophoreae, but was substantially reduced or absent in representative species of three more recently evolved tribes, Cicereae, Hedysareae and Vicieae. We conclude that regulation of Rubisco by CA 1-P is neither of recent origin nor of restricted distribution among the Papilionoideae. On the contrary, it becomes lost or less pronounced only in a minority of the more evolutionarily advanced species in this important subfamily.
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- G P Holbrook
- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, 60115-2861, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
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Limitations of the primary events of CO2 fixation in photosynthetic organisms: the structure and mechanism of rubisco. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(90)90210-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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