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Luo L, Qu Q, Lin H, Chen J, Lin Z, Shao E, Lin D. Exploring the Evolutionary History and Phylogenetic Relationships of Giant Reed ( Arundo donax) through Comprehensive Analysis of Its Chloroplast Genome. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:7936. [PMID: 39063178 PMCID: PMC11277011 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25147936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2024] [Revised: 07/12/2024] [Accepted: 07/18/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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Giant reed (Arundo donax) is widely distributed across the globe and is considered an important energy crop. This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of the chloroplast genome of giant reed, revealing detailed characteristics of this species' chloroplast genome. The chloroplast genome has a total length of 137,153 bp, containing 84 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes, with a GC content of 39%. Functional analysis indicates that a total of 45 photosynthesis-related genes and 78 self-replication-related genes were identified, which may be closely associated with its adaptability and growth characteristics. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed that Arundo donax cv. Lvzhou No.1 belongs to the Arundionideae clade and occupies a distinct evolutionary position compared to other Arundo species. The findings of this study not only enhance our understanding of the giant reed genome but also provide valuable genetic resources for its application in biotechnology, bioenergy crop development, and ecological restoration.
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- Juncao Science and Ecology College, National Engineering Research Center of JUNCAO, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; (L.L.); (Q.Q.); (H.L.); (J.C.); (Z.L.)
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- Juncao Science and Ecology College, National Engineering Research Center of JUNCAO, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; (L.L.); (Q.Q.); (H.L.); (J.C.); (Z.L.)
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Xie Y, Yu J, Tian F, Li X, Chen X, Li Y, Wu B, Miao Y. MORF9-dependent specific plastid RNA editing inhibits root growth under sugar starvation in Arabidopsis. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2024; 47:1921-1940. [PMID: 38357785 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Revised: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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Multiple organellar RNA editing factor (MORF) complex was shown to be highly associated with C-to-U RNA editing of vascular plant editosome. However, mechanisms by which MORF9-dependent plastid RNA editing controls plant development and responses to environmental alteration remain obscure. In this study, we found that loss of MORF9 function impaired PSII efficiency, NDH activity, and carbohydrate production, rapidly promoted nuclear gene expression including sucrose transporter and sugar/energy responsive genes, and attenuated root growth under sugar starvation conditions. Sugar repletion increased MORF9 and MORF2 expression in wild-type seedlings and reduced RNA editing of matK-706, accD-794, ndhD-383 and ndhF-290 in the morf9 mutant. RNA editing efficiency of ndhD-383 and ndhF-290 sites was diminished in the gin2/morf9 double mutants, and that of matK-706, accD-794, ndhD-383 and ndhF-290 sites were significantly diminished in the snrk1/morf9 double mutants. In contrast, overexpressing HXK1 or SnRK1 promoted RNA editing rate of matK-706, accD-794, ndhD-383 and ndhF-290 in leaves of morf9 mutants, suggesting that HXK1 partially impacts MORF9 mediated ndhD-383 and ndhF-290 editing, while SnRK1 may only affect MORF9-mediated ndhF-290 site editing. Collectively, these findings suggest that sugar and/or its intermediary metabolites impair MORF9-dependent plastid RNA editing resulting in derangements of plant root development.
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- Yakun Xie
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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Shikanai T. Molecular Genetic Dissection of the Regulatory Network of Proton Motive Force in Chloroplasts. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2024; 65:537-550. [PMID: 38150384 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcad157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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The proton motive force (pmf) generated across the thylakoid membrane rotates the Fo-ring of ATP synthase in chloroplasts. The pmf comprises two components: membrane potential (∆Ψ) and proton concentration gradient (∆pH). Acidification of the thylakoid lumen resulting from ∆pH downregulates electron transport in the cytochrome b6f complex. This process, known as photosynthetic control, is crucial for protecting photosystem I (PSI) from photodamage in response to fluctuating light. To optimize the balance between efficient photosynthesis and photoprotection, it is necessary to regulate pmf. Cyclic electron transport around PSI and pseudo-cyclic electron transport involving flavodiiron proteins contribute to the modulation of pmf magnitude. By manipulating the ratio between the two components of pmf, it is possible to modify the extent of photosynthetic control without affecting the pmf size. This adjustment can be achieved by regulating the movement of ions (such as K+ and Cl-) across the thylakoid membrane. Since ATP synthase is the primary consumer of pmf in chloroplasts, its activity must be precisely regulated to accommodate other mechanisms involved in pmf optimization. Although fragments of information about each regulatory process have been accumulated, a comprehensive understanding of their interactions is lacking. Here, I summarize current knowledge of the network for pmf regulation, mainly based on genetic studies.
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- Toshiharu Shikanai
- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan
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Cao J, Wang H, Cao Y, Kan S, Li J, Liu Y. Extreme Reconfiguration of Plastid Genomes in Papaveraceae: Rearrangements, Gene Loss, Pseudogenization, IR Expansion, and Repeats. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:2278. [PMID: 38396955 PMCID: PMC10888665 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25042278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Revised: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 02/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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The plastid genomes (plastomes) of angiosperms are typically highly conserved, with extreme reconfiguration being uncommon, although reports of such events have emerged in some lineages. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive comparison of the complete plastomes from twenty-two species, covering seventeen genera from three subfamilies (Fumarioideae, Hypecooideae, and Papaveroideae) of Papaveraceae. Our results revealed a high level of variability in the plastid genome size of Papaveraceae, ranging from 151,864 bp to 219,144 bp in length, which might be triggered by the expansion of the IR region and a large number of repeat sequences. Moreover, we detected numerous large-scale rearrangements, primarily occurring in the plastomes of Fumarioideae and Hypecooideae. Frequent gene loss or pseudogenization were also observed for ndhs, accD, clpP, infA, rpl2, rpl20, rpl32, rps16, and several tRNA genes, particularly in Fumarioideae and Hypecooideae, which might be associated with the structural variation in their plastomes. Furthermore, we found that the plastomes of Fumarioideae exhibited a higher GC content and more repeat sequences than those of Papaveroideae. Our results showed that Papaveroideae generally displayed a relatively conserved plastome, with the exception of Eomecon chionantha, while Fumarioideae and Hypecooideae typically harbored highly reconfigurable plastomes, showing high variability in the genome size, gene content, and gene order. This study provides insights into the plastome evolution of Papaveraceae and may contribute to the development of effective molecular markers.
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- Jialiang Cao
- College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; (J.C.); (H.W.); (Y.C.)
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- College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; (J.C.); (H.W.); (Y.C.)
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- College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; (J.C.); (H.W.); (Y.C.)
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- Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China;
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; (J.C.); (H.W.); (Y.C.)
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Lee K. Relocation of chloroplast proteins from cytosols into chloroplasts. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2023; 18:2258321. [PMID: 37707988 PMCID: PMC10503445 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2023.2258321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Revised: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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The chloroplasts in terrestrial plants play a functional role as a major sensor for perceiving physiological changes under normal and stressful conditions. Despite the fact that the plant chloroplast genome encodes around 120 genes, which are mainly essential for photosynthesis and chloroplast biogenesis, the functional roles of the genes remain to be determined in plant's response to environmental stresses. Photosynthetic electron transfer D (PETD) is a key component of the chloroplast cytochrome b6f complex. Chloroplast ndhA (NADH dehydrogenase A) and ndhB (NADH dehydrogenase B) interact with photosystem I (PSI), forming NDH-PSI supercomplex. Notably, artificial targeting of chloroplasts-encoded proteins, PETD, NDHA, or NDHB, was successfully relocated from cytosols into chloroplasts. The result suggests that artificial targeting of proteins to chloroplasts is potentially open to the possibility of chloroplast biotechnology in engineering of plant tolerance against biotic and abiotic stresses.
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- Kwanuk Lee
- Department of Biology, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea
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Gu X, Li L, Li S, Shi W, Zhong X, Su Y, Wang T. Adaptive evolution and co-evolution of chloroplast genomes in Pteridaceae species occupying different habitats: overlapping residues are always highly mutated. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 23:511. [PMID: 37880608 PMCID: PMC10598918 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04523-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND The evolution of protein residues depends on the mutation rates of their encoding nucleotides, but it may also be affected by co-evolution with other residues. Chloroplasts function as environmental sensors, transforming fluctuating environmental signals into different physiological responses. We reasoned that habitat diversity may affect their rate and mode of evolution, which might be evidenced in the chloroplast genome. The Pteridaceae family of ferns occupy an unusually broad range of ecological niches, which provides an ideal system for analysis. RESULTS We conducted adaptive evolution and intra-molecular co-evolution analyses of Pteridaceae chloroplast DNAs (cpDNAs). The results indicate that the residues undergoing adaptive evolution and co-evolution were mostly independent, with only a few residues being simultaneously involved in both processes, and these overlapping residues tend to exhibit high mutations. Additionally, our data showed that Pteridaceae chloroplast genes are under purifying selection. Regardless of whether we grouped species by lineage (which corresponded with ecological niches), we determined that positively selected residues mainly target photosynthetic genes. CONCLUSIONS Our work provides evidence for the adaptive evolution of Pteridaceae cpDNAs, especially photosynthetic genes, to different habitats and sheds light on the adaptive evolution and co-evolution of proteins.
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- Xiaolin Gu
- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China.
- Research Institute of Sun Yat-sen University in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518057, China.
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China.
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Zhou SM, Wang F, Yan SY, Zhu ZM, Gao XF, Zhao XL. Phylogenomics and plastome evolution of Indigofera (Fabaceae). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1186598. [PMID: 37346129 PMCID: PMC10280451 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1186598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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Introduction Indigofera L. is the third largest genus in Fabaceae and includes economically important species that are used for indigo dye-producing, medicinal, ornamental, and soil and water conservation. The genus is taxonomically difficult due to the high level of overlap in morphological characters of interspecies, fewer reliability states for classification, and extensive adaptive evolution. Previous characteristic-based taxonomy and nuclear ITS-based phylogenies have contributed to our understanding of Indigofera taxonomy and evolution. However, the lack of chloroplast genomic resources limits our comprehensive understanding of the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary processes of Indigofera. Methods Here, we newly assembled 18 chloroplast genomes of Indigofera. We performed a series of analyses of genome structure, nucleotide diversity, phylogenetic analysis, species pairwise Ka/Ks ratios, and positive selection analysis by combining with allied species in Papilionoideae. Results and discussion The chloroplast genomes of Indigofera exhibited highly conserved structures and ranged in size from 157,918 to 160,040 bp, containing 83 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. Thirteen highly variable regions were identified, of which trnK-rbcL, ndhF-trnL, and ycf1 were considered as candidate DNA barcodes for species identification of Indigofera. Phylogenetic analysis using maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) methods based on complete chloroplast genome and protein-coding genes (PCGs) generated a well-resolved phylogeny of Indigofera and allied species. Indigofera monophyly was strongly supported, and four monophyletic lineages (i.e., the Pantropical, East Asian, Tethyan, and Palaeotropical clades) were resolved within the genus. The species pairwise Ka/Ks ratios showed values lower than 1, and 13 genes with significant posterior probabilities for codon sites were identified in the positive selection analysis using the branch-site model, eight of which were associated with photosynthesis. Positive selection of accD suggested that Indigofera species have experienced adaptive evolution to selection pressures imposed by their herbivores and pathogens. Our study provided insight into the structural variation of chloroplast genomes, phylogenetic relationships, and adaptive evolution in Indigofera. These results will facilitate future studies on species identification, interspecific and intraspecific delimitation, adaptive evolution, and the phylogenetic relationships of the genus Indigofera.
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- Sheng-Mao Zhou
- Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China
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- Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China
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- Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China
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- School of Ecology and Environmental Science and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization and Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China
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Azarin K, Usatov A, Minkina T, Duplii N, Kasyanova A, Fedorenko A, Khachumov V, Mandzhieva S, Rajput VD. Effects of bulk and nano-ZnO particles on functioning of photosynthetic apparatus in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 216:114748. [PMID: 36370809 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Revised: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The functioning of the photosynthetic apparatus in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) after 7-days of exposure to bulk (b-ZnO) and nanosized ZnO (n-ZnO) (300, 2000, and 10,000 mg/l) has been investigated. An impact on the amount of chlorophylls, photosynthetic efficiency, as well as the zinc accumulation in chloroplasts was demonstrated. Violation of the chloroplast fine structure was revealed. These changes were generally more pronounced with n-ZnO exposure, especially at high concentrations. For instance, the chlorophyll deficiency under 10,000 mg/l b-ZnO treatment was 31% and with exposure to 10,000 mg/l n-ZnO, the chlorophyll deficiency was already 52%. The expression analysis of the photosynthetic genes revealed their different sensitivity to b-ZnO and n-ZnO exposure. The genes encoding subunits of photosystem II (PSII) and, to a slightly lesser extent, photosystem I (PSI) showed the highest suppression of transcriptional levels. The mRNA levels of the subunits of cytochrome-b6f, NADH dehydrogenase, ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase and ATP synthase, which, in addition to linear electron flow (LEF), participate in cyclic electron flow (CEF) and autotrophic CO2 fixation, were more stable or increased under b-ZnO and n-ZnO treatments. At the same time, CEF was increased. It was assumed that under the action of b-ZnO and n-ZnO, the processes of LEF are disrupted, and CEF is activated. This allows the plant to prevent photo-oxidation and compensate for the lack of ATP for the CO2 fixation process, thereby ensuring the stability of photosynthetic function in the initial stages of stress factor exposure. The study of photosynthetic structures of crops is important from the point of view of understanding the risks of reducing the production potential and the level of food security due to the growing use of nanoparticles in agriculture.
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- Kirill Azarin
- Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russian Federation
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- Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russian Federation
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- Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russian Federation
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- Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russian Federation
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- Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russian Federation
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- Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russian Federation.
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Yang Y, Jia Y, Zhao Y, Wang Y, Zhou T. Comparative chloroplast genomics provides insights into the genealogical relationships of endangered Tetraena mongolica and the chloroplast genome evolution of related Zygophyllaceae species. Front Genet 2022; 13:1026919. [PMID: 36568371 PMCID: PMC9773207 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1026919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A comprehensive understanding of genetic background for rare species will provide an important theoretical basis for the future species management, monitoring and conservation. Tetraena mongolica is restrictedly distributed in the western Ordos plateau of China and has been listed as a national protected plant. We generated 13 chloroplast (cp) genomes of T. mongolica (size range of 106,062-106,230 bp) and conducted a series of comparative analyses of six Zygophyllaceae cp genomes. T. mongolica cp genome exhibited a quadripartite structure with drastically reduced inverted repeats (IRs, 4,315 bp) and undergone the loss of a suit of ndh genes and a copy of rRNAs. Furthermore, all the T. mongolica populations were divided into two genetic groups based on complete cp phylogenomics. In addition, notably variable genome size, gene order and structural changes had been observed among the six Zygophyllaceae cp genomes. Overall, our findings provide insights into the cp genome evolution mode and intraspecific relationships of T. mongolica, and provide a molecular basis for scientific conservation of this endangered plant.
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- Yanci Yang
- School of Biological Science and Technology, Baotou Teachers’ College, Baotou, China
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- Xi’an Botanical Garden of Shaanxi Province, Institute of Botany of Shaanxi Province, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Biological Science and Technology, Baotou Teachers’ College, Baotou, China
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- School of Biological Science and Technology, Baotou Teachers’ College, Baotou, China,*Correspondence: Yonglong Wang, ; Tao Zhou,
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- School of Pharmacy, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China,*Correspondence: Yonglong Wang, ; Tao Zhou,
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Xu YL, Shen HH, Du XY, Lu L. Plastome characteristics and species identification of Chinese medicinal wintergreens ( Gaultheria, Ericaceae). PLANT DIVERSITY 2022; 44:519-529. [PMID: 36540705 PMCID: PMC9751084 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2022.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Wintergreen oil is a folk medicine widely used in foods, pesticides, cosmetics and drugs. In China, nine out of 47 species within Gaultheria (Ericaceae) are traditionally used as Chinese medicinal wintergreens; however, phylogenetic approaches currently used to discriminating these species remain unsatisfactory. In this study, we sequenced and characterized plastomes from nine Chinese wintergreen species and identified candidate DNA barcoding regions for Gaultheria. Each Gaultheria plastome contained 110 unique genes (76 protein-coding, 30 tRNA, and four rRNA genes). Duplication of trnfM, rps14, and rpl23 genes were detected, while all plastomes lacked ycf1 and ycf2 genes. Gaultheria plastomes shared substantially contracted SSC regions that contained only the ndhF gene. Moreover, plastomes of Gaultheria leucocarpa var. yunnanensis contained an inversion in the LSC region and an IR expansion to cover the ndhF gene. Multiple rearrangement events apparently occurred between the Gaultheria plastomes and those from several previously reported families in Ericales. Our phylogenetic reconstruction using 42 plastomes revealed well-supported relationships within all nine Gaultheria species. Additionally, seven mutational hotspot regions were identified as potential DNA barcodes for Chinese medicinal wintergreens. Our study is the first to generate complete plastomes and describe the structural variations of the complicated genus Gaultheria. In addition, our findings provide important resources for identification of Chinese medicinal wintergreens.
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- Yan-Ling Xu
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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Adamiec M, Dobrogojski J, Wojtyla Ł, Luciński R. Stress-related expression of the chloroplast EGY3 pseudoprotease and its possible impact on chloroplasts' proteome composition. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:965143. [PMID: 35937369 PMCID: PMC9355673 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.965143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The EGY3 is a pseudoprotease, located in the thylakoid membrane, that shares homology with the family of site-2-proteases (S2P). Although S2P proteases are present in the cells of all living organisms, the EGY3 was found only in plant cells. The sequence of the pseudoprotease is highly conserved in the plant kingdom; however, little is known about its physiological importance. Results obtained with real-time PCR indicated that the expression of the EGY3 gene is dramatically induced during the first few hours of exposure to high light and high-temperature stress. The observed increase in transcript abundance correlates with protein accumulation level, which indicates that EGY3 participates in response to both high-temperature and high light stresses. The lack of the pseudoprotease leads, in both stresses, to lower concentrations of hydrogen peroxide. However, the decrease of chloroplast copper/zinc superoxide dismutase 2 level was observed only during the high light stress. In both analyzed stressful conditions, proteins related to RubisCO folding, glycine metabolism, and photosystem I were identified as differently accumulating in egy3 mutant lines and WT plants; however, the functional status of PSII during analyzed stressful conditions remains very similar. Our results lead to a conclusion that EGY3 pseudoprotease participates in response to high light and high-temperature stress; however, its role is associated rather with photosystem I and light-independent reactions of photosynthesis.
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- Małgorzata Adamiec
- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agronomy, Horticulture and Bioengineering, University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
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Zheng C, Fan J, Caraballo-Ortiz MA, Liu Y, Liu T, Fu G, Zhang Y, Yang P, Su X. The complete chloroplast genome and phylogenetic relationship of Apocynum pictum (Apocynaceae), a Central Asian shrub and second-class national protected species of western China. Gene X 2022; 830:146517. [PMID: 35452705 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2021] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Apocynum pictum of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, is a perennial semi-shrub species of ecological, medicinal, and economic value. It is mainly distributed in semi-arid, saline-alkaline, and desert regions of Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Gansu of western China and adjacent regions from Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Here, we reported the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of A. pictum for the first time, and we found that it had a circular structure with an estimated length of 150,749 bp and a GC content of 38.3%. The cp genome was composed of a large single copy (LSC), a single small single copy (SSC), and two inverted repeat (IR) regions, which were 81,888 bp, 17,251 bp and 25,805 bp long, respectively. The cp genome of A. pictum encoded 134 genes and contained 66 simple sequence repeats (SSRs). A comparative analysis with other cp genomes from Apocynaceae indicated that the cp genome of A. pictum was very conserved, except for subtle differences occurring in the protein-coding genes accD, ndhF, rpl22, rpl32, rpoC2, ycf1 and ycf2. A phylogenetic reconstruction showed that A. pictum and A. venetum were sister species, forming a strongly supported clade with Trachelospermum. Interestingly, nucleotide substitution ratios (Ka/Ks) between A. pictum and A. venetum on accD and ndhF were >1.0, suggesting positive selective pressure on these genes. Our result enriches the genomic resources for the diverse dogbane family and provides critical molecular resources to develop future studies on ecological adaptation to desert habitats in Apocynum.
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- Changyuan Zheng
- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China
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- Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China; Academy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810016, China; Key Laboratory of Medicinal Animal and Plant Resources of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai Province, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China; Academy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810016, China; Key Laboratory of Medicinal Animal and Plant Resources of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai Province, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China; Key Laboratory of Education Ministry of Earth Surface Processes and Ecological Conservation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China.
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Zhao J, Jiang Y, Tian Y, Mao J, Wei L, Ma W. New insights into the effect of NdhO levels on cyanobacterial cell death triggered by high temperature. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2022; 49:533-541. [PMID: 34428393 DOI: 10.1071/fp21097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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NdhO, a regulatory oxygenic photosynthesis-specific subunit, is close to the ferredoxin-binding site of cyanobacterial NDH-1, and its levels are negatively associated with the rates of cyclic electron transfer around PSI mediated by NDH-1 (NDH-CET). However, the effect of NdhO levels on cyanobacterial cell death triggered by high temperature remains elusive. Here, our results uncovered a synergistic effect of NdhO levels on the cell death and reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation when cyanobacterial cells grown at 30°C for 1 day were transferred to 45°C for 2 days. Such synergistic effect was found to be closely associated with the activities of NDH-CET and CO2 assimilation during high temperature. Collectively, we propose that the effect of NdhO levels on the cyanobacterial cell bleaching and cell death triggered by high temperature is a result of influencing production of ROS by NDH-CET, which is considered to be vital to balance the ATP/NADPH ratio and improve the Calvin-Benson cycle.
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- Jiaohong Zhao
- Shanghai Key laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, China
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- Shanghai Key laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, China
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- Shanghai Key laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, China
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- Shanghai Key laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, China
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- Shanghai Key laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, China; and Corresponding author
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- Shanghai Key laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, China; and Corresponding author
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Han H, Qiu R, Liu Y, Zhou X, Gao C, Pang Y, Zhao Y. Analysis of Chloroplast Genomes Provides Insights Into the Evolution of Agropyron. Front Genet 2022; 13:832809. [PMID: 35145553 PMCID: PMC8821885 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.832809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Plants of the Agropyron genus are important pasture resources, and they also play important roles in the ecological restoration. Chloroplast genomes are inherited from maternal parents, and they are important for studying species taxonomy and evolution. In this study, we sequenced the complete chloroplast genomes of five typical species of the Agropyron genus (eg., A. cristatum × A. desertorum Fisch. Schult, A. desertorum, A. desertorum Fisch. Schult. cv. Nordan, A. michnoi Roshev, and A. mongolicum Keng) using the Illumina NovaSeq platform. We found that these five chloroplast genomes exhibit a typical quadripartite structure with a conserved genome arrangement and structure. Their chloroplast genomes contain the large single-copy regions (LSC, 79,613 bp-79,634 bp), the small single-copy regions (SSC, 12,760 bp-12,768 bp), and the inverted repeat regions (IR, 43,060 bp-43,090 bp). Each of the five chloroplast genomes contains 129 genes, including 38 tRNA genes, eight rRNA genes, and 83 protein-coding genes. Among them, the genes trnG-GCC, matK, petL, ccsA, and rpl32 showed significant nucleotide diversity in these five species, and they may be used as molecular markers in taxonomic studies. Phylogenetic analysis showed that A. mongolicum is closely related to A. michnoi, while others have a closer genetic relationship with the Triticum genus.
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- Huijie Han
- Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources (IMAU), Key Laboratory of Forage Cultivation, Processing and High Efficient Utilization, College of Grassland, Resource and Environmental Science, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
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- Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources (IMAU), Key Laboratory of Forage Cultivation, Processing and High Efficient Utilization, College of Grassland, Resource and Environmental Science, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
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- Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources (IMAU), Key Laboratory of Forage Cultivation, Processing and High Efficient Utilization, College of Grassland, Resource and Environmental Science, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
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- Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources (IMAU), Key Laboratory of Forage Cultivation, Processing and High Efficient Utilization, College of Grassland, Resource and Environmental Science, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
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- Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources (IMAU), Key Laboratory of Forage Cultivation, Processing and High Efficient Utilization, College of Grassland, Resource and Environmental Science, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
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- Institute of Animal Science, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Yongzhen Pang, ; Yan Zhao,
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- Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources (IMAU), Key Laboratory of Forage Cultivation, Processing and High Efficient Utilization, College of Grassland, Resource and Environmental Science, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
- *Correspondence: Yongzhen Pang, ; Yan Zhao,
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Yamamoto H, Sato N, Shikanai T. Critical Role of NdhA in the Incorporation of the Peripheral Arm into the Membrane-Embedded Part of the Chloroplast NADH Dehydrogenase-Like Complex. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 62:1131-1145. [PMID: 33169158 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcaa143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like (NDH) complex mediates ferredoxin-dependent plastoquinone reduction in the thylakoid membrane. In angiosperms, chloroplast NDH is composed of five subcomplexes and further forms a supercomplex with photosystem I (PSI). Subcomplex A (SubA) mediates the electron transport and consists of eight subunits encoded by both plastid and nuclear genomes. The assembly of SubA in the stroma has been extensively studied, but it is unclear how SubA is incorporated into the membrane-embedded part of the NDH complex. Here, we isolated a novel Arabidopsis mutant chlororespiratory reduction 16 (crr16) defective in NDH activity. CRR16 encodes a chloroplast-localized P-class pentatricopeptide repeat protein conserved in angiosperms. Transcript analysis of plastid-encoded ndh genes indicated that CRR16 was responsible for the efficient splicing of the group II intron in the ndhA transcript, which encodes a membrane-embedded subunit localized to the connecting site between SubA and the membrane subcomplex (SubM). To analyze the roles of NdhA in the assembly and stability of the NDH complex, the homoplastomic knockout plant of ndhA (ΔndhA) was generated in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). Biochemical analyses of crr16 and ΔndhA plants indicated that NdhA was essential for stabilizing SubA and SubE but not for the accumulation of the other three subcomplexes. Furthermore, the crr16 mutant accumulated the SubA assembly intermediates in the stroma more than that in the wild type. These results suggest that NdhA biosynthesis is essential for the incorporation of SubA into the membrane-embedded part of the NDH complex at the final assembly step of the NDH-PSI supercomplex.
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- Hiroshi Yamamoto
- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan
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- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan
- Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo Motoyama, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan
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- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan
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Lyu MJA, Gowik U, Kelly S, Covshoff S, Hibberd JM, Sage RF, Ludwig M, Wong GKS, Westhoff P, Zhu XG. The coordination of major events in C 4 photosynthesis evolution in the genus Flaveria. Sci Rep 2021; 11:15618. [PMID: 34341365 PMCID: PMC8329263 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93381-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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C4 photosynthesis is a remarkable complex trait, elucidations of the evolutionary trajectory of C4 photosynthesis from its ancestral C3 pathway can help us better understand the generic principles of the evolution of complex traits and guide the engineering of C3 crops for higher yields. Here, we used the genus Flaveria that contains C3, C3-C4, C4-like and C4 species as a system to study the evolution of C4 photosynthesis. We first mapped transcript abundance, protein sequence and morphological features onto the phylogenetic tree of the genus Flaveria, and calculated the evolutionary correlation of different features; we then predicted the relative changes of ancestral nodes of those features to illustrate the major events during the evolution of C4 photosynthesis. We found that gene expression and protein sequence showed consistent modification patterns in the phylogenetic tree. High correlation coefficients ranging from 0.46 to 0.9 among gene expression, protein sequence and morphology were observed. The greatest modification of those different features consistently occurred at the transition between C3-C4 species and C4-like species. Our results show highly coordinated changes in gene expression, protein sequence and morphological features, which support evolutionary major events during the evolution of C4 metabolism.
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- Ming-Ju Amy Lyu
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen, 518083, China
- Department of Medicine and Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E1, Canada
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- Institute of Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
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Characterization of the Free and Membrane-Associated Fractions of the Thylakoid Lumen Proteome in Arabidopsis thaliana. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22158126. [PMID: 34360890 PMCID: PMC8346976 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22158126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Revised: 07/25/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The thylakoid lumen houses proteins that are vital for photosynthetic electron transport, including water-splitting at photosystem (PS) II and shuttling of electrons from cytochrome b6f to PSI. Other lumen proteins maintain photosynthetic activity through biogenesis and turnover of PSII complexes. Although all lumen proteins are soluble, these known details have highlighted interactions of some lumen proteins with thylakoid membranes or thylakoid-intrinsic proteins. Meanwhile, the functional details of most lumen proteins, as well as their distribution between the soluble and membrane-associated lumen fractions, remain unknown. The current study isolated the soluble free lumen (FL) and membrane-associated lumen (MAL) fractions from Arabidopsis thaliana, and used gel- and mass spectrometry-based proteomics methods to analyze the contents of each proteome. These results identified 60 lumenal proteins, and clearly distinguished the difference between the FL and MAL proteomes. The most abundant proteins in the FL fraction were involved in PSII assembly and repair, while the MAL proteome was enriched in proteins that support the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC). Novel proteins, including a new PsbP domain-containing isoform, as well as several novel post-translational modifications and N-termini, are reported, and bi-dimensional separation of the lumen proteome identified several protein oligomers in the thylakoid lumen.
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Valach M, Gonzalez Alcazar JA, Sarrasin M, Lang BF, Gray MW, Burger G. An Unexpectedly Complex Mitoribosome in Andalucia godoyi, a Protist with the Most Bacteria-like Mitochondrial Genome. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:788-804. [PMID: 32886790 PMCID: PMC7947838 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The mitoribosome, as known from studies in model organisms, deviates considerably from its ancestor, the bacterial ribosome. Deviations include substantial reduction of the mitochondrial ribosomal RNA (mt-rRNA) structure and acquisition of numerous mitochondrion-specific (M) mitoribosomal proteins (mtRPs). A broadly accepted view assumes that M-mtRPs compensate for structural destabilization of mt-rRNA resulting from its evolutionary remodeling. Since most experimental information on mitoribosome makeup comes from eukaryotes having derived mitochondrial genomes and mt-rRNAs, we tested this assumption by investigating the mitochondrial translation machinery of jakobids, a lineage of unicellular protists with the most bacteria-like mitochondrial genomes. We report here proteomics analyses of the Andalucia godoyi small mitoribosomal subunit and in silico transcriptomic and comparative genome analyses of four additional jakobids. Jakobids have mt-rRNA structures that minimally differ from their bacterial counterparts. Yet, with at least 31 small subunit and 44 large subunit mtRPs, the mitoriboproteome of Andalucia is essentially as complex as that in animals or fungi. Furthermore, the relatively high conservation of jakobid sequences has helped to clarify the identity of several mtRPs, previously considered to be lineage-specific, as divergent homologs of conserved M-mtRPs, notably mS22 and mL61. The coexistence of bacteria-like mt-rRNAs and a complex mitoriboproteome refutes the view that M-mtRPs were ancestrally recruited to stabilize deviations of mt-rRNA structural elements. We postulate instead that the numerous M-mtRPs acquired in the last eukaryotic common ancestor allowed mt-rRNAs to pursue a broad range of evolutionary trajectories across lineages: from dramatic reduction to acquisition of novel elements to structural conservatism.
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- Matus Valach
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Bassi R, Dall'Osto L. Dissipation of Light Energy Absorbed in Excess: The Molecular Mechanisms. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 72:47-76. [PMID: 34143647 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-071720-015522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Light is essential for photosynthesis. Nevertheless, its intensity widely changes depending on time of day, weather, season, and localization of individual leaves within canopies. This variability means that light collected by the light-harvesting system is often in excess with respect to photon fluence or spectral quality in the context of the capacity of photosynthetic metabolism to use ATP and reductants produced from the light reactions. Absorption of excess light can lead to increased production of excited, highly reactive intermediates, which expose photosynthetic organisms to serious risks of oxidative damage. Prevention and management of such stress are performed by photoprotective mechanisms, which operate by cutting down light absorption, limiting the generation of redox-active molecules, or scavenging reactive oxygen species that are released despite the operation of preventive mechanisms. Here, we describe the major physiological and molecular mechanisms of photoprotection involved in the harmless removal of the excess light energy absorbed by green algae and land plants. In vivo analyses of mutants targeting photosynthetic components and the enhanced resolution of spectroscopic techniques have highlighted specific mechanisms protecting the photosynthetic apparatus from overexcitation. Recent findings unveil a network of multiple interacting elements, the reaction times of which vary from a millisecond to weeks, that continuously maintain photosynthetic organisms within the narrow safety range between efficient light harvesting and photoprotection.
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- Roberto Bassi
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy;
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy;
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Evolution of an assembly factor-based subunit contributed to a novel NDH-PSI supercomplex formation in chloroplasts. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3685. [PMID: 34140516 PMCID: PMC8211685 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24065-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like (NDH) complex is structurally related to mitochondrial Complex I and forms a supercomplex with two copies of Photosystem I (the NDH-PSI supercomplex) via linker proteins Lhca5 and Lhca6. The latter was acquired relatively recently in a common ancestor of angiosperms. Here we show that NDH-dependent Cyclic Electron Flow 5 (NDF5) is an NDH assembly factor in Arabidopsis. NDF5 initiates the assembly of NDH subunits (PnsB2 and PnsB3) and Lhca6, suggesting that they form a contact site with Lhca6. Our analysis of the NDF5 ortholog in Physcomitrella and angiosperm genomes reveals the subunit PnsB2 to be newly acquired via tandem gene duplication of NDF5 at some point in the evolution of angiosperms. Another Lhca6 contact subunit, PnsB3, has evolved from a protein unrelated to NDH. The structure of the largest photosynthetic electron transport chain complex has become more complicated by acquiring novel subunits and supercomplex formation with PSI. The chloroplast NDH complex interacts with Photosystem I to form the NDH-PSI supercomplex. Here the authors show that Arabidopsis NDF5 shares a common ancestor with the NDH subunit PnsB2 and acts as an NDH assembly factor initiating the assembly of PnsB2 and the evolutionarily distinct PnsB3.
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Ermakova M, Bellasio C, Fitzpatrick D, Furbank RT, Mamedov F, von Caemmerer S. Upregulation of bundle sheath electron transport capacity under limiting light in C 4 Setaria viridis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2021; 106:1443-1454. [PMID: 33772896 PMCID: PMC9291211 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Revised: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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C4 photosynthesis is a biochemical pathway that operates across mesophyll and bundle sheath (BS) cells to increase CO2 concentration at the site of CO2 fixation. C4 plants benefit from high irradiance but their efficiency decreases under shade, causing a loss of productivity in crop canopies. We investigated shade acclimation responses of Setaria viridis, a model monocot of NADP-dependent malic enzyme subtype, focussing on cell-specific electron transport capacity. Plants grown under low light (LL) maintained CO2 assimilation rates similar to high light plants but had an increased chlorophyll and light-harvesting-protein content, predominantly in BS cells. Photosystem II (PSII) protein abundance, oxygen-evolving activity and the PSII/PSI ratio were enhanced in LL BS cells, indicating a higher capacity for linear electron flow. Abundances of PSI, ATP synthase, Cytochrome b6 f and the chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex, which constitute the BS cyclic electron flow machinery, were also increased in LL plants. A decline in PEP carboxylase activity in mesophyll cells and a consequent shortage of reducing power in BS chloroplasts were associated with a more oxidised plastoquinone pool in LL plants and the formation of PSII - light-harvesting complex II supercomplexes with an increased oxygen evolution rate. Our results suggest that the supramolecular composition of PSII in BS cells is adjusted according to the redox state of the plastoquinone pool. This discovery contributes to the understanding of the acclimation of PSII activity in C4 plants and will support the development of strategies for crop improvement, including the engineering of C4 photosynthesis into C3 plants.
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- Maria Ermakova
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Translational PhotosynthesisDivision of Plant ScienceResearch School of BiologyThe Australian National UniversityActonAustralian Capital Territory2601Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Translational PhotosynthesisDivision of Plant ScienceResearch School of BiologyThe Australian National UniversityActonAustralian Capital Territory2601Australia
- University of the Balearic IslandsPalmaIlles Balears07122Spain
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Translational PhotosynthesisDivision of Plant ScienceResearch School of BiologyThe Australian National UniversityActonAustralian Capital Territory2601Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Translational PhotosynthesisDivision of Plant ScienceResearch School of BiologyThe Australian National UniversityActonAustralian Capital Territory2601Australia
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- Molecular BiomimeticsDepartment of Chemistry – Ångström LaboratoryUppsala UniversityUppsala75 120Sweden
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Translational PhotosynthesisDivision of Plant ScienceResearch School of BiologyThe Australian National UniversityActonAustralian Capital Territory2601Australia
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Yan Q, Zhao L, Wang W, Pi X, Han G, Wang J, Cheng L, He YK, Kuang T, Qin X, Sui SF, Shen JR. Antenna arrangement and energy-transfer pathways of PSI-LHCI from the moss Physcomitrella patens. Cell Discov 2021; 7:10. [PMID: 33589616 PMCID: PMC7884438 DOI: 10.1038/s41421-021-00242-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Plants harvest light energy utilized for photosynthesis by light-harvesting complex I and II (LHCI and LHCII) surrounding photosystem I and II (PSI and PSII), respectively. During the evolution of green plants, moss is at an evolutionarily intermediate position from aquatic photosynthetic organisms to land plants, being the first photosynthetic organisms that landed. Here, we report the structure of the PSI–LHCI supercomplex from the moss Physcomitrella patens (Pp) at 3.23 Å resolution solved by cryo-electron microscopy. Our structure revealed that four Lhca subunits are associated with the PSI core in an order of Lhca1–Lhca5–Lhca2–Lhca3. This number is much decreased from 8 to 10, the number of subunits in most green algal PSI–LHCI, but the same as those of land plants. Although Pp PSI–LHCI has a similar structure as PSI–LHCI of land plants, it has Lhca5, instead of Lhca4, in the second position of Lhca, and several differences were found in the arrangement of chlorophylls among green algal, moss, and land plant PSI–LHCI. One chlorophyll, PsaF–Chl 305, which is found in the moss PSI–LHCI, is located at the gap region between the two middle Lhca subunits and the PSI core, and therefore may make the excitation energy transfer from LHCI to the core more efficient than that of land plants. On the other hand, energy-transfer paths at the two side Lhca subunits are relatively conserved. These results provide a structural basis for unravelling the mechanisms of light-energy harvesting and transfer in the moss PSI–LHCI, as well as important clues on the changes of PSI–LHCI after landing.
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- Qiujing Yan
- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology & Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology & Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology & Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
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- School of Biological Science and Technology, University of Jinan, Jinan, Shandong, 250022, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology & Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. .,Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China. .,Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, and Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan.
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Sharpe RM, Williamson-Benavides B, Edwards GE, Dhingra A. Methods of analysis of chloroplast genomes of C 3, Kranz type C 4 and Single Cell C 4 photosynthetic members of Chenopodiaceae. PLANT METHODS 2020; 16:119. [PMID: 32874195 PMCID: PMC7457496 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-020-00662-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Chloroplast genome information is critical to understanding forms of photosynthesis in the plant kingdom. During the evolutionary process, plants have developed different photosynthetic strategies that are accompanied by complementary biochemical and anatomical features. Members of family Chenopodiaceae have species with C3 photosynthesis, and variations of C4 photosynthesis in which photorespiration is reduced by concentrating CO2 around Rubisco through dual coordinated functioning of dimorphic chloroplasts. Among dicots, the family has the largest number of C4 species, and greatest structural and biochemical diversity in forms of C4 including the canonical dual-cell Kranz anatomy, and the recently identified single cell C4 with the presence of dimorphic chloroplasts separated by a vacuole. This is the first comparative analysis of chloroplast genomes in species representative of photosynthetic types in the family. RESULTS Methodology with high throughput sequencing complemented with Sanger sequencing of selected loci provided high quality and complete chloroplast genomes of seven species in the family and one species in the closely related Amaranthaceae family, representing C3, Kranz type C4 and single cell C4 (SSC4) photosynthesis six of the eight chloroplast genomes are new, while two are improved versions of previously published genomes. The depth of coverage obtained using high-throughput sequencing complemented with targeted resequencing of certain loci enabled superior resolution of the border junctions, directionality and repeat region sequences. Comparison of the chloroplast genomes with previously sequenced plastid genomes revealed similar genome organization, gene order and content with a few revisions. High-quality complete chloroplast genome sequences resulted in correcting the orientation the LSC region of the published Bienertia sinuspersici chloroplast genome, identification of stop codons in the rpl23 gene in B. sinuspersici and B. cycloptera, and identifying an instance of IR expansion in the Haloxylon ammodendron inverted repeat sequence. The rare observation of a mitochondria-to-chloroplast inter-organellar gene transfer event was identified in family Chenopodiaceae. CONCLUSIONS This study reports complete chloroplast genomes from seven Chenopodiaceae and one Amaranthaceae species. The depth of coverage obtained using high-throughput sequencing complemented with targeted resequencing of certain loci enabled superior resolution of the border junctions, directionality, and repeat region sequences. Therefore, the use of high throughput and Sanger sequencing, in a hybrid method, reaffirms to be rapid, efficient, and reliable for chloroplast genome sequencing.
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- Richard M. Sharpe
- Department of Horticulture, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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- Department of Horticulture, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
- Molecular Plants Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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- Molecular Plants Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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- Department of Horticulture, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
- Molecular Plants Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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Mehmood F, Abdullah, Ubaid Z, Shahzadi I, Ahmed I, Waheed MT, Poczai P, Mirza B. Plastid genomics of Nicotiana (Solanaceae): insights into molecular evolution, positive selection and the origin of the maternal genome of Aztec tobacco ( Nicotiana rustica). PeerJ 2020; 8:e9552. [PMID: 32775052 PMCID: PMC7382938 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Species of the genus Nicotiana (Solanaceae), commonly referred to as tobacco plants, are often cultivated as non-food crops and garden ornamentals. In addition to the worldwide production of tobacco leaves, they are also used as evolutionary model systems due to their complex development history tangled by polyploidy and hybridization. Here, we assembled the plastid genomes of five tobacco species: N. knightiana, N. rustica, N. paniculata, N. obtusifolia and N. glauca. De novo assembled tobacco plastid genomes had the typical quadripartite structure, consisting of a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions (25,323-25,369 bp each) separated by a large single-copy (LSC) region (86,510-86,716 bp) and a small single-copy (SSC) region (18,441-18,555 bp). Comparative analyses of Nicotiana plastid genomes with currently available Solanaceae genome sequences showed similar GC and gene content, codon usage, simple sequence and oligonucleotide repeats, RNA editing sites, and substitutions. We identified 20 highly polymorphic regions, mostly belonging to intergenic spacer regions (IGS), which could be suitable for the development of robust and cost-effective markers for inferring the phylogeny of the genus Nicotiana and family Solanaceae. Our comparative plastid genome analysis revealed that the maternal parent of the tetraploid N. rustica was the common ancestor of N. paniculata and N. knightiana, and the later species is more closely related to N. rustica. Relaxed molecular clock analyses estimated the speciation event between N. rustica and N. knightiana appeared 0.56 Ma (HPD 0.65-0.46). Biogeographical analysis supported a south-to-north range expansion and diversification for N. rustica and related species, where N. undulata and N. paniculata evolved in North/Central Peru, while N. rustica developed in Southern Peru and separated from N. knightiana, which adapted to the Southern coastal climatic regimes. We further inspected selective pressure on protein-coding genes among tobacco species to determine if this adaptation process affected the evolution of plastid genes. These analyses indicate that four genes involved in different plastid functions, including DNA replication (rpoA) and photosynthesis (atpB, ndhD and ndhF), came under positive selective pressure as a result of specific environmental conditions. Genetic mutations in these genes might have contributed to better survival and superior adaptations during the evolutionary history of tobacco species.
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- Furrukh Mehmood
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
- Botany Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Alpha Genomics Private Limited, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Botany Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Koo HJ, Yang TJ. RNA editing may stabilize membrane-embedded proteins by increasing phydrophobicity: A study of Zanthoxylum piperitum and Z. schinifolium chloroplast NdhG. Gene 2020; 746:144638. [PMID: 32244054 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2020.144638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Revised: 03/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Most chloroplast genes in Zanthoxylum schinifolium (Korean pepper) and Z. piperitum (Japanese pepper) are subject to neutral or purifying selection (Ka/Ks values < 1); however, NAD(P)H dehydrogenase subunit G (ndhG) has a Ka/Ks value of 1.43, which may indicate positive selection. Here, we modeled the ZsNdhG and ZpNdhG structures by comparing them with the NuoJ subunit of respiratory complex I in Escherichia coli, revealing the locations of four amino acid differences between ZsNdhG and ZpNdhG. As these polymorphisms were located at the end of a membrane-spanning α-helix or in peptide loops external to the membrane, they are not expected to have major effects on the membrane-embedding properties of these proteins. However, we found that C-to-U RNA editing occurred at the ndhG-50 sites of ndhG (uCa to uUa, Ser to Leu) in both species, resulting in changes to an amino acid located in the middle of a membrane-spanning α-helix, which may maintain its hydrophobicity. RNA editing at the ndhG-50 site was conserved in many plant species, and the modeled structures of Anthoceros formosae NdhG and Spirodela polyrhiza NdhB provided further evidence that RNA editing increases the hydrophobicity of membrane-embedded proteins. We also speculate that the polar residues inside membrane-spanning α-helices serve to support the protein structure. This report represents the first RNA-editing site identified in Zanthoxylum and points to the importance of considering RNA editing when identifying positively selected genes based on Ka/Ks values.
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- Hyun Jo Koo
- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea.
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Ishikawa N, Yokoe Y, Nishimura T, Nakano T, Ifuku K. PsbQ-Like Protein 3 Functions as an Assembly Factor for the Chloroplast NADH Dehydrogenase-Like Complex in Arabidopsis. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2020; 61:1252-1261. [PMID: 32333781 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcaa050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Accepted: 04/17/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Angiosperms have three PsbQ-like (PQL) proteins in addition to the PsbQ subunit of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Previous studies have shown that two PQL proteins, PnsL2 and PnsL3, are subunits of the chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like (NDH) complex involved in the photosystem I (PSI) cyclic electron flow. In addition, another PsbQ homolog, PQL3, is required for the NDH activity; however, the molecular function of PQL3 has not been elucidated. Here, we show that PQL3 is an assembly factor, particularly for the accumulation of subcomplex B (SubB) of the chloroplast NDH. In the pql3 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, the amounts of NDH subunits in SubB, PnsB1 and PsnB4, were decreased, causing a severe reduction in the NDH-PSI supercomplex. Analysis using blue native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis suggested that the incorporation of PnsL3 into SubB was affected in the pql3 mutant. Unlike other PsbQ homologs, PQL3 was weakly associated with thylakoid membranes and was only partially protected from thermolysin digestion. Consistent with the function as an assembly factor, PQL3 accumulated independently in other NDH mutants, such as pnsl1-3. Furthermore, PQL3 accumulated in young leaves in a manner similar to the accumulation of CRR3, an assembly factor for SubB. These results suggest that PQL3 has developed a distinct function as an assembly factor for the NDH complex during evolution of the PsbQ protein family in angiosperms.
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- Noriko Ishikawa
- Division of Integrated Life Science, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Division of Integrated Life Science, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Division of Integrated Life Science, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Division of Integrated Life Science, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Division of Integrated Life Science, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Zhou T, Zhu H, Wang J, Xu Y, Xu F, Wang X. Complete chloroplast genome sequence determination of Rheum species and comparative chloroplast genomics for the members of Rumiceae. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2020; 39:811-824. [PMID: 32221666 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-020-02532-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 03/13/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Complete plastomes of Rheum species facilitated to clarify the phylogeny of Polygonaceae, and comparative chloroplast genomics contributed to develop genetic markers for the authentication of Rheum species. Rheum (Polygonaceae) is widely distributed throughout the temperate and subtropical areas of Asian interior. Rheum species are usually perennial herbs, and half of them are endemic to China with important medicinal properties. On account of similar morphological characteristics, species delimitation of Rheum still remains unclear. Chloroplast genomes of eight Rheum species, Rumex crispus and Oxyria digyna were characterized. Based on the comparison of genome structure of these species and the two published Rheum species, it is shown that plastome sequences of these species are relatively conserved with the same gene order, and three Sect. Palmata species remarkably showed high sequence similarities. Some hotspots could be used to discriminate the Rheum species, and 17 plastid genes were subject to positive selection. The phylogenetic analyses indicated that all the Polygonaceae species were clustered in the same group and showed that Rheum species, except for Rheum wittrockii, formed a monophyletic group with high maximum parsimony/maximum likelihood bootstrap support values and Bayesian posterior probabilities. The molecular dating based on plastomes indicated that the divergences within Polygonaceae species were dated to the Upper Cretaceous period [73.86-77.99 million years ago (Ma)]. The divergence of Sect. Palmata species was estimated to have occurred around 1.60 Ma, indicating that its diversification was affected by the repeated climatic fluctuation in the Quaternary.
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- Tao Zhou
- School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China
- Key Laboratory of Qiyao Resources and Anti-Tumor Activities, Shaanxi Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China.
- Key Laboratory of Qiyao Resources and Anti-Tumor Activities, Shaanxi Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China.
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Tyagi S, Jung JA, Kim JS, Won SY. Comparative Analysis of the Complete Chloroplast Genome of Mainland Aster spathulifolius and Other Aster Species. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 9:E568. [PMID: 32365609 PMCID: PMC7285121 DOI: 10.3390/plants9050568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2020] [Revised: 04/25/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Aster spathulifolius, a common ornamental and medicinal plant, is widely distributed in Korea and Japan, and is genetically classified into mainland and island types. Here, we sequenced the whole chloroplast genome of mainland A. spathulifolius and compared it with those of the island type and other Aster species. The chloroplast genome of mainland A. spathulifolius is 152,732 bp with a conserved quadripartite structure, has 37.28% guanine-cytosine (GC) content, and contains 114 non-redundant genes. Comparison of the chloroplast genomes between the two A. spathulifolius lines and the other Aster species revealed that their sequences, GC contents, gene contents and orders, and exon-intron structure were well conserved; however, differences were observed in their lengths, repeat sequences, and the contraction and expansion of the inverted repeats. The variations were mostly in the single-copy regions and non-coding regions, which, together with the detected simple sequence repeats, could be used for the development of molecular markers to distinguish between these plants. All Aster species clustered into a monophyletic group, but the chloroplast genome of mainland A. spathulifolius was more similar to the other Aster species than to that of the island A. spathulifolius. The accD and ndhF genes were detected to be under positive selection within the Aster lineage compared to other related taxa. The complete chloroplast genome of mainland A. spathulifolius presented in this study will be helpful for species identification and the analysis of the genetic diversity, evolution, and phylogenetic relationships in the Aster genus and the Asteraceae.
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- Swati Tyagi
- Genomics Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju 54874, Korea; (S.T.); (J.S.K.)
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- Floriculture Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Wanju 55365, Korea;
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- Genomics Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju 54874, Korea; (S.T.); (J.S.K.)
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- Genomics Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju 54874, Korea; (S.T.); (J.S.K.)
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Zheng G, Wei L, Ma L, Wu Z, Gu C, Chen K. Comparative analyses of chloroplast genomes from 13 Lagerstroemia (Lythraceae) species: identification of highly divergent regions and inference of phylogenetic relationships. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 102:659-676. [PMID: 31997112 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-020-00972-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2019] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Seven divergence hotspots as plastid markers for DNA barcoding was selected, and the phylogeny of 13 Lagerstroemia species based on the cp genome data was reconstructed within Myrtales. The Lagerstroemia species used in this study originated in China and have high economic and ecological value. The shared interspecific morphological characteristics and intraspecific morphological variation resulting from hybridization among Lagerstroemia taxa have made resolving their classification problems and phylogenetic relationships difficult. Systematic comparative genomic analysis has been shown to resolve phylogenetic relationships. We sequenced and annotated 6 Lagerstroemia cp genomes (Lagerstroemia excelsa, Lagerstroemia limii, Lagerstroemia siamica, Lagerstroemia tomentosa, Lagerstroemia venusta, and Lagerstroemia calyculata) for the first time and combined them with previously published genomes for Lagerstroemia species. Bioinformatics was used to analyse the 13 cp genomes in terms of gene structure and organization, codon usage, contraction and expansion of inverted repeat regions, repeat structure, divergence hotspots, species pairwise Ka/Ks ratios and phylogenetic relationships. The length varied between 152,049 bp in Lagerstroemia subcostata and 152,521 bp in L. venusta. We selected seven divergence hotspots in the cp genomes that had the potential to act as plastid markers to distinguish Lagerstroemia species. The phylogenetic relationships within Myrtales inferred from the cp genomes of 13 Lagerstroemia species and 27 other Myrtales species were highly supported, which illustrated several novel relationships within Myrtales. Taken together, our results provide comprehensive chloroplast genomic resources, which can be used further for species identification and molecular breeding of Lagerstroemia species.
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- Gang Zheng
- School of Landscape and Architecture, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Germplasm Innovation and Utilization for Garden Plants, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Germplasm Innovation and Utilization for Southern Garden Plants, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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- School of Landscape and Architecture, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
- School of Humanities and social sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Landscape and Architecture, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Germplasm Innovation and Utilization for Garden Plants, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Germplasm Innovation and Utilization for Southern Garden Plants, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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- Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, 518000, China
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- School of Landscape and Architecture, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China.
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Germplasm Innovation and Utilization for Garden Plants, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China.
- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Germplasm Innovation and Utilization for Southern Garden Plants, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China.
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- School of Landscape and Architecture, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Germplasm Innovation and Utilization for Garden Plants, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Germplasm Innovation and Utilization for Southern Garden Plants, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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Ishibashi K, Small I, Shikanai T. Evolutionary Model of Plastidial RNA Editing in Angiosperms Presumed from Genome-Wide Analysis of Amborella trichopoda. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 60:2141-2151. [PMID: 31150097 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcz111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Accepted: 05/21/2019] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Amborella trichopoda is placed close to the base of the angiosperm lineage (basal angiosperm). By genome-wide RNA sequencing, we identified 184C-to-U RNA editing sites in the plastid genome of Amborella. This number is much higher than that observed in other angiosperms including maize (44 sites), rice (39 sites) and grape (115 sites). Despite the high frequency of RNA editing, the biased distribution of RNA editing sites in the genome, target codon preference and nucleotide preference adjacent to the edited cytidine are similar to that in other angiosperms, suggesting a common editing machinery. Consistent with this idea, the Amborella nuclear genome encodes 2-3 times more of the E- and DYW-subclass members of pentatricopeptide repeat proteins responsible for RNA editing site recognition in plant organelles. Among 165 editing sites in plastid protein coding sequences in Amborella, 100 sites were conserved at least in one out of 38 species selected to represent key branching points of the angiosperm phylogenetic tree. We assume these 100 sites represent at least a subset of the sites in the plastid editotype of ancestral angiosperms. We then mapped the loss and gain of editing sites on the phylogenetic tree of angiosperms. Our results support the idea that the evolution of angiosperms has led to the loss of RNA editing sites in plastids.
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- Kota Ishibashi
- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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Ran Z, Zhao J, Tong G, Gao F, Wei L, Ma W. Ssl3451 is Important for Accumulation of NDH-1 Assembly Intermediates in the Cytoplasm of Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 60:1374-1385. [PMID: 30847493 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcz045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Accepted: 02/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Two mutants sensitive to high light for growth and impaired in NDH-1 activity were isolated from a transposon-tagged library of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Both mutants were tagged in the ssl3451 gene encoding a hypothetical protein, which shares a significant homology with the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) CHLORORESPIRATORY REDUCTION 42 (CRR42). In Arabidopsis, CRR42 associates only with an NDH-1 hydrophilic arm assembly intermediate (NAI) of about 400 kDa (NAI400), one of total three NAIs (NAI800, NAI500 and NAI400), and its deletion has little, if any, effect on accumulation of any NAIs in the stroma. In comparison, the ssl3451 product was localized mainly in the cytoplasm and associates with two NAIs of about 300 kDa (NAI300) and 130 kDa (NAI130). Deletion of Ssl3451 reduced the abundance of the NAI300 complex to levels no longer visible on gels and of the NAI130 complex to a low level, thereby impeding the assembly process of NDH-1 hydrophilic arm. Further, Ssl3451 interacts with another assembly factor Ssl3829 and they have a similar effect on accumulation of NAIs and NdhI maturation factor Slr1097 in the cytoplasm. We thus propose that Ssl3451 plays an important role in accumulation of the NAI300 and NAI130 complexes in the cytoplasm via its interacting protein Ssl3829.
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- Zhaoxing Ran
- College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, China
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Refojo PN, Sena FV, Calisto F, Sousa FM, Pereira MM. The plethora of membrane respiratory chains in the phyla of life. Adv Microb Physiol 2019; 74:331-414. [PMID: 31126533 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2019.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The diversity of microbial cells is reflected in differences in cell size and shape, motility, mechanisms of cell division, pathogenicity or adaptation to different environmental niches. All these variations are achieved by the distinct metabolic strategies adopted by the organisms. The respiratory chains are integral parts of those strategies especially because they perform the most or, at least, most efficient energy conservation in the cell. Respiratory chains are composed of several membrane proteins, which perform a stepwise oxidation of metabolites toward the reduction of terminal electron acceptors. Many of these membrane proteins use the energy released from the oxidoreduction reaction they catalyze to translocate charges across the membrane and thus contribute to the establishment of the membrane potential, i.e. they conserve energy. In this work we illustrate and discuss the composition of the respiratory chains of different taxonomic clades, based on bioinformatic analyses and on biochemical data available in the literature. We explore the diversity of the respiratory chains of Animals, Plants, Fungi and Protists kingdoms as well as of Prokaryotes, including Bacteria and Archaea. The prokaryotic phyla studied in this work are Gammaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Epsilonproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, Chlamydiae, Verrucomicrobia, Acidobacteria, Planctomycetes, Cyanobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Deinococcus-Thermus, Aquificae, Thermotogae, Deferribacteres, Nitrospirae, Euryarchaeota, Crenarchaeota and Thaumarchaeota.
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- Patrícia N Refojo
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica - António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República EAN, 2780-157, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica - António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República EAN, 2780-157, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica - António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República EAN, 2780-157, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica - António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República EAN, 2780-157, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica - António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República EAN, 2780-157, Oeiras, Portugal; University of Lisboa, Faculty of Sciences, BIOISI- Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute, Lisboa, Portugal
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Wang X, Zhou T, Bai G, Zhao Y. Complete chloroplast genome sequence of Fagopyrum dibotrys: genome features, comparative analysis and phylogenetic relationships. Sci Rep 2018; 8:12379. [PMID: 30120274 PMCID: PMC6098159 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-30398-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2017] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Fagopyrum dibotrys, belongs to Polygonaceae family, is one of national key conserved wild plants of China with important medicinal and economic values. Here, the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of F. dibotrys is reported. The cp genome size is 159,919 bp with a typical quadripartite structure and consisting of a pair of inverted repeat regions (30,738 bp) separated by large single copy region (85,134 bp) and small single copy region (13,309 bp). Sequencing analyses indicated that the cp genome encodes 131 genes, including 80 protein-coding genes, 28 tRNA genes and 4 rRNA genes. The genome structure, gene order and codon usage are typical of angiosperm cp genomes. We also identified 48 simple sequence repeats (SSR) loci, fewer of them are distributed in the protein-coding sequences compared to the noncoding regions. Comparison of F. dibotrys cp genome to other Polygonaceae cp genomes indicated the inverted repeats (IRs) and coding regions were more conserved than single copy and noncoding regions, and several variation hotspots were detected. Coding gene sequence divergence analyses indicated that five genes (ndhK, petL rpoC2, ycf1, ycf2) were subject to positive selection. Phylogenetic analysis among 42 species based on cp genomes and 50 protein-coding genes indicated a close relationship between F. dibotrys and F. tataricum. In summary, the complete cp genome sequence of F. dibotrys reported in this study will provide useful plastid genomic resources for population genetics and pave the way for resolving phylogenetic relationships of order Caryophyllales.
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- Xumei Wang
- School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China.
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- School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China
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- Shaanxi Engineering Research Centre for Conservation and Utilization of Botanical Resources, Xi'an Botanical Garden of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an, 710061, China
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- College of Biopharmaceutical and Food Engineering, Shangluo University, Shangluo, 726000, China
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Ye WQ, Yap ZY, Li P, Comes HP, Qiu YX. Plastome organization, genome-based phylogeny and evolution of plastid genes in Podophylloideae (Berberidaceae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 127:978-987. [PMID: 29981470 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2017] [Revised: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/01/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Species of Podophylloideae (Berberidaceae, Ranunculales) are of great pharmacogenetic importance and represent the classic biogeographic disjunction between eastern Asia (EA; 10 ssp.) and eastern North America (ENA; 2 ssp.). However, previous molecular studies of this group suffered from low phylogenetic resolution and/or insufficient marker variability. This study is the first to report whole-plastome sequence data for all 12 species of Podophylloideae (14 individuals) and a close relative, Achlys triphylla. These 15 plastomes proved highly similar in overall size (156,240-157,370 bp), structure, gene order and content, also when compared to other Ranunculales, but also revealed some structural variations caused by the expansion or contraction of the inverted repeats (IRs) into or out of adjacent single-copy regions. Our phylogenomic analysis, based on 63 plastome-derived protein-coding genes (CDS), supported the monophyly of Podophylloideae and its two major genera (EA: Dysosma, EA/ENA: Diphylleia), with Podophyllum peltatum L. (ENA) being more closely related to Diphylleia than to the group's earliest diverging species, Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (EA). Furthermore, within this subfamily/dataset, matK was identified as the fastest evolving gene, which proved to be under positive selection especially in more recently derived, lower-elevation lineages of Dysosma, possibly reflecting an adaptive response to novel environmental (i.e. subtropical compared to higher-elevation/alpine) conditions. Finally, several highly variable noncoding regions were identified in the plastomes of Podophylloideae and Ranunculales. These highly variable loci should be the best choices for future phylogenetic, phylogeographic, and population-level genetic studies. Overall, our results demonstrate the power of plastid phylogenomics to improve phylogenetic resolution, and contribute to a better understanding of plastid gene evolution in Podophylloideae.
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- Wen-Qing Ye
- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.
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- Department of Biosciences, Salzburg University, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.
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Mirzaei S, Mansouri M, Mohammadi-Nejad G, Sablok G. Comparative assessment of chloroplast transcriptional responses highlights conserved and unique patterns across Triticeae members under salt stress. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2018; 136:357-369. [PMID: 29230609 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-017-0469-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2017] [Accepted: 11/30/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Chloroplast functional genomics, in particular understanding the chloroplast transcriptional response is of immense importance mainly due to its role in oxygenic photosynthesis. As a photosynthetic unit, its efficiency and transcriptional activity is directly regulated by reactive oxygen species during abiotic and biotic stress and subsequently affects carbon assimilation, and plant biomass. In crops, understanding photosynthesis is crucial for crop domestication by identifying the traits that could be exploited for crop improvement. Transcriptionally and translationally active chloroplast plays a key role by regulating the PSI and PSII photo-reaction centres, which ubiquitously affects the light harvesting. Using a comparative transcriptomics mapping approach, we identified differential regulation of key chloroplast genes during salt stress across Triticeae members with potential genes involved in photosynthesis and electron transport system such as CytB6f. Apart from differentially regulated genes involved in PSI and PSII, we found widespread evidence of intron splicing events, specifically uniquely spliced petB and petD in Triticum aestivum and high proportion of RNA editing in ndh genes across the Triticeae members during salt stress. We also highlight the role and differential regulation of ATP synthase as member of CF0CF1 and also revealed the effect of salt stress on the water-splitting complex under salt stress. It is worthwhile to mention that the observed conserved down-regulation of psbJ across the Triticeae is limiting the assembly of water-splitting complexes and thus making the BEP clade Triticeae members more vulnerable to high light during the salt stress. Comparative understanding of the chloroplast transcriptional dynamics and photosynthetic regulation will improve the approaches for improved crop domestication.
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- Saeid Mirzaei
- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Science, High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, 7631818356, Iran.
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
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- Research and Technology Institute of Plant Production, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History (Botany), PO Box 7, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Bioscience, Viikki Plant Science Center, PO Box 7, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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Yin X, Struik PC. The energy budget in C 4 photosynthesis: insights from a cell-type-specific electron transport model. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2018; 218:986-998. [PMID: 29520959 PMCID: PMC5947737 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2017] [Accepted: 01/16/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Extra ATP required in C4 photosynthesis for the CO2 -concentrating mechanism probably comes from cyclic electron transport (CET). As metabolic ATP : NADPH requirements in mesophyll (M) and bundle-sheath (BS) cells differ among C4 subtypes, the subtypes may differ in the extent to which CET operates in these cells. We present an analytical model for cell-type-specific CET and linear electron transport. Modelled NADPH and ATP production were compared with requirements. For malic-enzyme (ME) subtypes, c. 50% of electron flux is CET, occurring predominantly in BS cells for standard NADP-ME species, but in a ratio of c. 6 : 4 in BS : M cells for NAD-ME species. Some C4 acids follow a secondary decarboxylation route, which is obligatory, in the form of 'aspartate-malate', for the NADP-ME subtype, but facultative, in the form of phosphoenolpyruvate-carboxykinase (PEP-CK), for the NAD-ME subtype. The percentage for secondary decarboxylation is c. 25% and that for 3-phosphoglycerate reduction in BS cells is c. 40%; but these values vary with species. The 'pure' PEP-CK type is unrealistic because its is impossible to fulfil ATP : NADPH requirements in BS cells. The standard PEP-CK subtype requires negligible CET, and thus has the highest intrinsic quantum yields and deserves further studies in the context of improving canopy productivity.
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- Xinyou Yin
- Department of Plant SciencesCentre for Crop Systems AnalysisWageningen University & ResearchPO Box 4306700 AKWageningenthe Netherlands
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- Department of Plant SciencesCentre for Crop Systems AnalysisWageningen University & ResearchPO Box 4306700 AKWageningenthe Netherlands
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Molecular mechanisms involved in plant photoprotection. Biochem Soc Trans 2018; 46:467-482. [DOI: 10.1042/bst20170307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2017] [Revised: 03/04/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Photosynthesis uses sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into biomass and oxygen. When in excess, light can be dangerous for the photosynthetic apparatus because it can cause photo-oxidative damage and decreases the efficiency of photosynthesis because of photoinhibition. Plants have evolved many photoprotective mechanisms in order to face reactive oxygen species production and thus avoid photoinhibition. These mechanisms include quenching of singlet and triplet excited states of chlorophyll, synthesis of antioxidant molecules and enzymes and repair processes for damaged photosystem II and photosystem I reaction centers. This review focuses on the mechanisms involved in photoprotection of chloroplasts through dissipation of energy absorbed in excess.
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Murata N, Nishiyama Y. ATP is a driving force in the repair of photosystem II during photoinhibition. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2018; 41:285-299. [PMID: 29210214 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2017] [Revised: 11/21/2017] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Repair of photosystem II (PSII) during photoinhibition involves replacement of photodamaged D1 protein by newly synthesized D1 protein. In this review, we summarize evidence for the indispensability of ATP in the degradation and synthesis of D1 during the repair of PSII. Synthesis of one molecule of the D1 protein consumes more than 1,300 molecules of ATP equivalents. The degradation of photodamaged D1 by FtsH protease also consumes approximately 240 molecules of ATP. In addition, ATP is required for several other aspects of the repair of PSII, such as transcription of psbA genes. These requirements for ATP during the repair of PSII have been demonstrated by experiments showing that the synthesis of D1 and the repair of PSII are interrupted by inhibitors of ATP synthase and uncouplers of ATP synthesis, as well as by mutation of components of ATP synthase. We discuss the contribution of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I to the repair of PSII. Furthermore, we introduce new terms relevant to the regulation of the PSII repair, namely, "ATP-dependent regulation" and "redox-dependent regulation," and we discuss the possible contribution of the ATP-dependent regulation of PSII repair under environmental stress.
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- Norio Murata
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan
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Oh S, Strand DD, Kramer DM, Chen J, Montgomery BL. Transcriptome and phenotyping analyses support a role for chloroplast sigma factor 2 in red-light-dependent regulation of growth, stress, and photosynthesis. PLANT DIRECT 2018; 2:e00043. [PMID: 31245709 PMCID: PMC6508532 DOI: 10.1002/pld3.43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2017] [Revised: 01/23/2018] [Accepted: 01/25/2018] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Sigma factor (SIG) proteins contribute to promoter specificity of the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase during chloroplast genome transcription. All six members of the SIG family, that is, SIG1-SIG6, are nuclear-encoded proteins targeted to chloroplasts. Sigma factor 2 (SIG2) is a phytochrome-regulated protein important for stoichiometric control of the expression of plastid- and nuclear-encoded genes that impact plastid development and plant growth and development. Among SIG factors, SIG2 is required not only for transcription of chloroplast genes (i.e., anterograde signaling), but also impacts nuclear-encoded, photosynthesis-related, and light signaling-related genes (i.e., retrograde signaling) in response to plastid functional status. Although SIG2 is involved in photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis, the molecular bases for its role in light signaling that impacts photomorphogenesis and aspects of photosynthesis have only recently begun to be investigated. Previously, we reported that SIG2 is necessary for phytochrome-mediated photomorphogenesis specifically under red (R) and far-red light, thereby suggesting a link between phytochromes and nuclear-encoded SIG2 in light signaling. To explore transcriptional roles of SIG2 in R-dependent growth and development, we performed RNA sequencing analysis to compare gene expression in sig2-2 mutant and Col-0 wild-type seedlings at two developmental stages (1- and 7-day). We identified a subset of misregulated genes involved in growth, hormonal cross talk, stress responses, and photosynthesis. To investigate the functional relevance of these gene expression analyses, we performed several comparative phenotyping tests. In these analyses, strong sig2 mutants showed insensitivity to bioactive GA 3, high intracellular levels of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) indicative of a stress response, and specific defects in photosynthesis, including elevated levels of cyclic electron flow (CEF) and nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ). We demonstrated that SIG2 regulates a broader range of physiological responses at the molecular level than previously reported, with specific roles in red-light-mediated photomorphogenesis.
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- Sookyung Oh
- Department of Energy – Plant Research LaboratoryMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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- Department of Energy – Plant Research LaboratoryMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
- Present address:
Max‐Planck‐Institut für Molekulare PflanzenphysiologiePotsdam‐GolmGermany
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- Department of Energy – Plant Research LaboratoryMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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- UK Medical Center MN 150University of Kentucky College of MedicineLexingtonKYUSA
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- Department of Energy – Plant Research LaboratoryMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
- Department of Microbiology & Molecular GeneticsMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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Rühle T, Reiter B, Leister D. Chlorophyll Fluorescence Video Imaging: A Versatile Tool for Identifying Factors Related to Photosynthesis. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:55. [PMID: 29472935 PMCID: PMC5810273 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence provide an elegant and non-invasive means of probing the dynamics of photosynthesis. Advances in video imaging of chlorophyll fluorescence have now made it possible to study photosynthesis at all levels from individual cells to entire crop populations. Since the technology delivers quantitative data, is easily scaled up and can be readily combined with other approaches, it has become a powerful phenotyping tool for the identification of factors relevant to photosynthesis. Here, we review genetic chlorophyll fluorescence-based screens of libraries of Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas mutants, discuss its application to high-throughput phenotyping in quantitative genetics and highlight potential future developments.
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- Thilo Rühle
- Plant Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Przybyla-Toscano J, Roland M, Gaymard F, Couturier J, Rouhier N. Roles and maturation of iron-sulfur proteins in plastids. J Biol Inorg Chem 2018; 23:545-566. [PMID: 29349662 PMCID: PMC6006212 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-018-1532-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2017] [Accepted: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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One reason why iron is an essential element for most organisms is its presence in prosthetic groups such as hemes or iron–sulfur (Fe–S) clusters, which are notably required for electron transfer reactions. As an organelle with an intense metabolism in plants, chloroplast relies on many Fe–S proteins. This includes those present in the electron transfer chain which will be, in fact, essential for most other metabolic processes occurring in chloroplasts, e.g., carbon fixation, nitrogen and sulfur assimilation, pigment, amino acid, and vitamin biosynthetic pathways to cite only a few examples. The maturation of these Fe–S proteins requires a complex and specific machinery named SUF (sulfur mobilisation). The assembly process can be split in two major steps, (1) the de novo assembly on scaffold proteins which requires ATP, iron and sulfur atoms, electrons, and thus the concerted action of several proteins forming early acting assembly complexes, and (2) the transfer of the preformed Fe–S cluster to client proteins using a set of late-acting maturation factors. Similar machineries, having in common these basic principles, are present in the cytosol and in mitochondria. This review focuses on the currently known molecular details concerning the assembly and roles of Fe–S proteins in plastids.
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- Jonathan Przybyla-Toscano
- Université de Lorraine, Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, UMR1136, 54500, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, UMR1136, 54500, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS/INRA/Université Montpellier 2, SupAgro Campus, 34060, Montpellier, France
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- Université de Lorraine, Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, UMR1136, 54500, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, UMR1136, 54500, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
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Silva SR, Michael TP, Meer EJ, Pinheiro DG, Varani AM, Miranda VFO. Comparative genomic analysis of Genlisea (corkscrew plants-Lentibulariaceae) chloroplast genomes reveals an increasing loss of the ndh genes. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0190321. [PMID: 29293597 PMCID: PMC5749785 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In the carnivorous plant family Lentibulariaceae, all three genome compartments (nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondria) have some of the highest rates of nucleotide substitutions across angiosperms. While the genera Genlisea and Utricularia have the smallest known flowering plant nuclear genomes, the chloroplast genomes (cpDNA) are mostly structurally conserved except for deletion and/or pseudogenization of the NAD(P)H-dehydrogenase complex (ndh) genes known to be involved in stress conditions of low light or CO2 concentrations. In order to determine how the cpDNA are changing, and to better understand the evolutionary history within the Genlisea genus, we sequenced, assembled and analyzed complete cpDNA from six species (G. aurea, G. filiformis, G. pygmaea, G. repens, G. tuberosa and G. violacea) together with the publicly available G. margaretae cpDNA. In general, the cpDNA structure among the analyzed Genlisea species is highly similar. However, we found that the plastidial ndh genes underwent a progressive process of degradation similar to the other terrestrial Lentibulariaceae cpDNA analyzed to date, but in contrast to the aquatic species. Contrary to current thinking that the terrestrial environment is a more stressful environment and thus requiring the ndh genes, we provide evidence that in the Lentibulariaceae the terrestrial forms have progressive loss while the aquatic forms have the eleven plastidial ndh genes intact. Therefore, the Lentibulariaceae system provides an important opportunity to understand the evolutionary forces that govern the transition to an aquatic environment and may provide insight into how plants manage water stress at a genome scale.
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- Saura R. Silva
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Botucatu, Instituto de Biociências, São Paulo, Brazil
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States of America
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- 10X Genomics, Pleasanton, California, United States of America
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- Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Jaboticabal, Departamento de Tecnologia, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Jaboticabal, Departamento de Tecnologia, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Jaboticabal, Departamento de Biologia Aplicada à Agropecuária, São Paulo, Brazil
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Kamies R, Farrant JM, Tadele Z, Cannarozzi G, Rafudeen MS. A Proteomic Approach to Investigate the Drought Response in the Orphan Crop Eragrostis tef. Proteomes 2017; 5:E32. [PMID: 29140297 PMCID: PMC5748567 DOI: 10.3390/proteomes5040032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2017] [Revised: 10/20/2017] [Accepted: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The orphan crop, Eragrostis tef, was subjected to controlled drought conditions to observe the physiological parameters and proteins changing in response to dehydration stress. Physiological measurements involving electrolyte leakage, chlorophyll fluorescence and ultra-structural analysis showed tef plants tolerated water loss to 50% relative water content (RWC) before adverse effects in leaf tissues were observed. Proteomic analysis using isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantification (iTRAQ) mass spectrometry and appropriate database searching enabled the detection of 5727 proteins, of which 211 proteins, including a number of spliced variants, were found to be differentially regulated with the imposed stress conditions. Validation of the iTRAQ dataset was done with selected stress-related proteins, fructose-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA) and the protective antioxidant proteins, monodehydroascorbate reductase (MDHAR) and peroxidase (POX). Western blot analyses confirmed protein presence and showed increased protein abundance levels during water deficit while enzymatic activity for FBA, MDHAR and POX increased at selected RWC points. Gene ontology (GO)-term enrichment and analysis revealed terms involved in biotic and abiotic stress response, signaling, transport, cellular homeostasis and pentose metabolic processes, to be enriched in tef upregulated proteins, while terms linked to reactive oxygen species (ROS)-producing processes under water-deficit, such as photosynthesis and associated light harvesting reactions, manganese transport and homeostasis, the synthesis of sugars and cell wall catabolism and modification, to be enriched in tef downregulated proteins.
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- Rizqah Kamies
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
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Strand DD, Fisher N, Kramer DM. The higher plant plastid NAD(P)H dehydrogenase-like complex (NDH) is a high efficiency proton pump that increases ATP production by cyclic electron flow. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:11850-11860. [PMID: 28559282 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.770792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2016] [Revised: 05/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Cyclic electron flow around photosystem I (CEF) is critical for balancing the photosynthetic energy budget of the chloroplast by generating ATP without net production of NADPH. We demonstrate that the chloroplast NADPH dehydrogenase complex, a homolog to respiratory Complex I, pumps approximately two protons from the chloroplast stroma to the lumen per electron transferred from ferredoxin to plastoquinone, effectively increasing the efficiency of ATP production via CEF by 2-fold compared with CEF pathways involving non-proton-pumping plastoquinone reductases. By virtue of this proton-pumping stoichiometry, we hypothesize that NADPH dehydrogenase not only efficiently contributes to ATP production but operates near thermodynamic reversibility, with potentially important consequences for remediating mismatches in the thylakoid energy budget.
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- Deserah D Strand
- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823.
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Khan F, Chai HH, Ajmera I, Hodgman C, Mayes S, Lu C. A Transcriptomic Comparison of Two Bambara Groundnut Landraces under Dehydration Stress. Genes (Basel) 2017; 8:E121. [PMID: 28420201 PMCID: PMC5406868 DOI: 10.3390/genes8040121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2017] [Revised: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The ability to grow crops under low-water conditions is a significant advantage in relation to global food security. Bambara groundnut is an underutilised crop grown by subsistence farmers in Africa and is known to survive in regions of water deficit. This study focuses on the analysis of the transcriptomic changes in two bambara groundnut landraces in response to dehydration stress. A cross-species hybridisation approach based on the Soybean Affymetrix GeneChip array has been employed. The differential gene expression analysis of a water-limited treatment, however, showed that the two landraces responded with almost completely different sets of genes. Hence, both landraces with very similar genotypes (as assessed by the hybridisation of genomic DNA onto the Soybean Affymetrix GeneChip) showed contrasting transcriptional behaviour in response to dehydration stress. In addition, both genotypes showed a high expression of dehydration-associated genes, even under water-sufficient conditions. Several gene regulators were identified as potentially important. Some are already known, such as WRKY40, but others may also be considered, namely PRR7, ATAUX2-11, CONSTANS-like 1, MYB60, AGL-83, and a Zinc-finger protein. These data provide a basis for drought trait research in the bambara groundnut, which will facilitate functional genomics studies. An analysis of this dataset has identified that both genotypes appear to be in a dehydration-ready state, even in the absence of dehydration stress, and may have adapted in different ways to achieve drought resistance. This will help in understanding the mechanisms underlying the ability of crops to produce viable yields under drought conditions. In addition, cross-species hybridisation to the soybean microarray has been shown to be informative for investigating the bambara groundnut transcriptome.
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- Faraz Khan
- School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK.
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- Crops for the Future, Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
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- Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK.
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- Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK.
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- School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Nottingham LE12 5RD, UK.
- Crops for the Future, Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
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- School of Animal Rural and Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK.
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Rodrigues NF, Fonseca GCD, Kulcheski FR, Margis R. Salt stress affects mRNA editing in soybean chloroplasts. Genet Mol Biol 2017; 40:200-208. [PMID: 28257523 PMCID: PMC5452132 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2016-0055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Soybean, a crop known by its economic and nutritional importance, has been the
subject of several studies that assess the impact and the effective plant responses
to abiotic stresses. Salt stress is one of the main environmental stresses and
negatively impacts crop growth and yield. In this work, the RNA editing process in
the chloroplast of soybean plants was evaluated in response to a salt stress.
Bioinformatics approach using sRNA and mRNA libraries were employed to detect
specific sites showing differences in editing efficiency. RT-qPCR was used to measure
editing efficiency at selected sites. We observed that transcripts of
NDHA, NDHB, RPS14 and
RPS16 genes presented differences in coverage and editing rates
between control and salt-treated libraries. RT-qPCR assays demonstrated an increase
in editing efficiency of selected genes. The salt stress enhanced the RNA editing
process in transcripts, indicating responses to components of the electron transfer
chain, photosystem and translation complexes. These increases can be a response to
keep the homeostasis of chloroplast protein functions in response to salt stress.
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- Nureyev F Rodrigues
- Departamento de Genética, PPGBM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Centro de Biotecnologia, PPGBCM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Centro de Biotecnologia, PPGBCM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, PPGBM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,Centro de Biotecnologia, PPGBCM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,Departamento de Biofísica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Nath K, O'Donnell JP, Lu Y. Chloroplastic iron-sulfur scaffold protein NFU3 is essential to overall plant fitness. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2017; 12:e1282023. [PMID: 28102753 PMCID: PMC5351725 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2017.1282023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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A previous study showed that Nitrogen-Fixing-subunit-U-type protein NFU3 may act an iron-sulfur scaffold protein in the assembly and transfer of 4Fe-4S and 3Fe-4S clusters in the chloroplast. Examples of 4Fe-4S and 3Fe-4S-requiring proteins and complexes include Photosystem I (PSI), NAD(P)H dehydrogenase, and ferredoxin-dependent glutamine oxoglutarate aminotransferases. In this paper, the authors provided additional evidence for the role of NFU3 in 4Fe-4S and 3Fe-4S cluster assembly and transfer, as well as its role in overall plant fitness. Confocal microscopic analysis of the fluorescently-tagged NFU3 protein confirmed the chloroplast localization of the NFU3 protein. Detailed analysis of chlorophyll fluorescence data revealed that a substantial increase in minimal fluorescence is the primary contributor to the decrease in PSII maximum photochemical efficiency observed in the nfu3 mutants. The substantial increase in minimal fluorescence in the nfu3 mutants is probably the result of an impaired PSI function, blockage of electron flow from PSII to PSI, and over-accumulation of reduced plastoquinone at the acceptor side of PSII. Analyses of seed morphology and germination showed that NFU3 is essential to seed development and germination, in addition to plant growth, development, and flowering. In summary, NFU3 has wide-ranging effects on many biologic processes and is therefore important to overall plant fitness. NFU3 may exert these effects by modulating the availability of 4Fe-4S and 3Fe-4S clusters to 4Fe-4S and 3Fe-4S-requiring proteins and complexes involved in various biologic processes.
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- Krishna Nath
- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
- CONTACT Yan Lu Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA
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Rodrigues NF, Christoff AP, da Fonseca GC, Kulcheski FR, Margis R. Unveiling Chloroplast RNA Editing Events Using Next Generation Small RNA Sequencing Data. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:1686. [PMID: 29033962 PMCID: PMC5626879 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Organellar RNA editing involves the modification of nucleotide sequences to maintain conserved protein functions, mainly by reverting non-neutral codon mutations. The loss of plastid editing events, resulting from mutations in RNA editing factors or through stress interference, leads to developmental, physiological and photosynthetic alterations. Recently, next generation sequencing technology has generated the massive discovery of sRNA sequences and expanded the number of sRNA data. Here, we present a method to screen chloroplast RNA editing using public sRNA libraries from Arabidopsis, soybean and rice. We mapped the sRNAs against the nuclear, mitochondrial and plastid genomes to confirm predicted cytosine to uracil (C-to-U) editing events and identify new editing sites in plastids. Among the predicted editing sites, 40.57, 34.78, and 25.31% were confirmed using sRNAs from Arabidopsis, soybean and rice, respectively. SNP analysis revealed 58.2, 43.9, and 37.5% new C-to-U changes in the respective species and identified known and new putative adenosine to inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing in tRNAs. The present method and data reveal the potential of sRNA as a reliable source to identify new and confirm known editing sites.
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- Nureyev F. Rodrigues
- Programa de Posgraduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Programa de Posgraduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Programa de Posgraduação em Biologia Celular e Molecular, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Programa de Pósgraduação em Biologia Celular e do Desenvolvimento, Departamento de Biologia Celular, Genética e Embriologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
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- Programa de Posgraduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Programa de Posgraduação em Biologia Celular e Molecular, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Departamento de Biofísica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- *Correspondence: Rogerio Margis
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Kono M, Yamori W, Suzuki Y, Terashima I. Photoprotection of PSI by Far-Red Light Against the Fluctuating Light-Induced Photoinhibition in Arabidopsis thaliana and Field-Grown Plants. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 58:35-45. [PMID: 28119424 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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It has been reported that PSI photoinhibition is induced even in wild-type plants of Arabidopsis thaliana, rice and other species by exposure of leaves to fluctuating light (FL) for a few hours. Because plants are exposed to FL in nature, they must possess protective mechanisms against the FL-induced photodamage. Here, using A. thaliana grown at various irradiances, we examined PSI photoprotection by far-red (FR) light at intensities comparable with those observed in nature. Dark-treated leaves were illuminated by red FL alternating high/low light at 1,200/30 µmol m-2 s-1 for 800 ms/10 s. By this FL treatment without FR light for 120 min, the level of photo-oxidizable P700 was decreased by 30% even in the plants grown at high irradiances. The addition of continuous FR light during the FL suppressed this damage almost completely. With FR light, P700 was kept in a more oxidized state in both low- and high-light phases. The protective effect of FR light was diminished more in mutants of the NADH dehydrogenase-like complex (NDH)-mediated cyclic electron flow around PSI (CEF-PSI) than in the PGR5 (proton gradient regulation 5)-mediated CEF-PSI, indicating that the NDH-mediated CEF-PSI would be a major contributor to PSI photoprotection in the presence of FR light. We also confirmed that PSI photoinhibition decreased with the increase in growth irradiance in A. thaliana and field-grown plants, and that this PSI photodamage was largely suppressed by addition of FR light. These results clearly indicate that the most effective PSI protection is realized in the presence of FR light.
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- Masaru Kono
- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Bellasio C, Lundgren MR. Anatomical constraints to C4 evolution: light harvesting capacity in the bundle sheath. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 212:485-496. [PMID: 27375085 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2016] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In C4 photosynthesis CO2 assimilation and reduction are typically coordinated across mesophyll (M) and bundle sheath (BS) cells, respectively. This system consequently requires sufficient light to reach BS to generate enough ATP to allow ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) regeneration in BS. Leaf anatomy influences BS light penetration and therefore constrains C4 cycle functionality. Using an absorption scattering model (coded in Excel, and freely downloadable) we simulate light penetration profiles and rates of ATP production in BS across the C3 , C3 -C4 and C4 anatomical continua. We present a trade-off for light absorption between BS pigment concentration and space allocation. C3 BS anatomy limits light absorption and benefits little from high pigment concentrations. Unpigmented BS extensions increase BS light penetration. C4 and C3 -C4 anatomies have the potential to generate sufficient ATP in the BS, whereas typical C3 anatomy does not, except some C3 taxa closely related to C4 groups. Insufficient volume of BS, relative to M, will hamper a C4 cycle via insufficient BS light absorption. Thus, BS ATP production and RuBP regeneration, coupled with increased BS investments, allow greater operational plasticity. We propose that larger BS in C3 lineages may be co-opted for C3 -C4 and C4 biochemistry requirements.
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- Chandra Bellasio
- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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