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Baudry K, Issakidis-Bourguet E. A Semi-throughput Procedure for Assaying Plant NADP-malate Dehydrogenase Activity Using a Plate Reader. Bio Protoc 2023; 13:e4769. [PMID: 37638298 PMCID: PMC10450749 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.4769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 06/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023] Open
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Chloroplast NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase (NADP-MDH) is a redox regulated enzyme playing an important role in plant redox homeostasis. Leaf NADP-MDH activation level is considered a proxy for the chloroplast redox status. NADP-MDH enzyme activity is commonly assayed spectrophotometrically by following oxaloacetate-dependent NADPH oxidation at 340 nm. We have developed a plate-adapted protocol to monitor NADP-MDH activity allowing faster data production and lower reagent consumption compared to the classic cuvette format of a spectrophotometer. We provide a detailed procedure to assay NADP-MDH activity and measure the enzyme activation state in purified protein preparations or in leaf extracts. This protocol is provided together with a semi-automatized data analysis procedure using an R script.
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- Kevin Baudry
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRAE, Université Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Gif sur Yvette, France
- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRAE, Université Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Gif sur Yvette, France
- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Gif sur Yvette, France
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Baudry K, Barbut F, Domenichini S, Guillaumot D, Thy MP, Vanacker H, Majeran W, Krieger-Liszkay A, Issakidis-Bourguet E, Lurin C. Adenylates regulate Arabidopsis plastidial thioredoxin activities through the binding of a CBS domain protein. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 189:2298-2314. [PMID: 35736508 PMCID: PMC9342986 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiac199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Cystathionine-β-synthase (CBS) domains are found in proteins of all living organisms and have been proposed to play a role as energy sensors regulating protein activities through their adenosyl ligand binding capacity. In plants, members of the CBSX protein family carry a stand-alone pair of CBS domains. In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), CBSX1 and CBSX2 are targeted to plastids where they have been proposed to regulate thioredoxins (TRXs). TRXs are ubiquitous cysteine thiol oxido-reductases involved in the redox-based regulation of numerous enzymatic activities as well as in the regeneration of thiol-dependent peroxidases. In Arabidopsis, 10 TRX isoforms have been identified in plastids and divided into five sub-types. Here, we show that CBSX2 specifically inhibits the activities of m-type TRXs toward two chloroplast TRX-related targets. By testing activation of NADP-malate dehydrogenase and reduction of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin, we found that TRXm1/2 inhibition by CBSX2 was alleviated in the presence of AMP or ATP. We also determined, by pull-down assays, a direct interaction of CBSX2 with reduced TRXm1 and m2 that was abolished in the presence of adenosyl ligands. In addition, we report that, compared with wild-type plants, the Arabidopsis T-DNA double mutant cbsx1 cbsx2 exhibits growth and chlorophyll accumulation defects in cold conditions, suggesting a function of plastidial CBSX proteins in plant stress adaptation. Together, our results show an energy-sensing regulation of plastid TRX m activities by CBSX, possibly allowing a feedback regulation of ATP homeostasis via activation of cyclic electron flow in the chloroplast, to maintain a high energy level for optimal growth.
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- Kevin Baudry
- CNRS, INRAE, Univ Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
- CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris Cité, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
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- CNRS, INRAE, Univ Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
- CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris Cité, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
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- CNRS, INRAE, Univ Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
- CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris Cité, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
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- CNRS, INRAE, Univ Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
- CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris Cité, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
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- CNRS, INRAE, Univ Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
- CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris Cité, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
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- CNRS, INRAE, Univ Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
- CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris Cité, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
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- CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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- CNRS, INRAE, Univ Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
- CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Université Paris Cité, Gif sur Yvette 91190, France
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Yokochi Y, Yoshida K, Hahn F, Miyagi A, Wakabayashi KI, Kawai-Yamada M, Weber APM, Hisabori T. Redox regulation of NADP-malate dehydrogenase is vital for land plants under fluctuating light environment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2016903118. [PMID: 33531363 PMCID: PMC8017969 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2016903118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Many enzymes involved in photosynthesis possess highly conserved cysteine residues that serve as redox switches in chloroplasts. These redox switches function to activate or deactivate enzymes during light-dark transitions and have the function of fine-tuning their activities according to the intensity of light. Accordingly, many studies on chloroplast redox regulation have been conducted under the hypothesis that "fine regulation of the activities of these enzymes is crucial for efficient photosynthesis." However, the impact of the regulatory system on plant metabolism is still unclear. To test this hypothesis, we here studied the impact of the ablation of a redox switch in chloroplast NADP-malate dehydrogenase (MDH). By genome editing, we generated a mutant plant whose MDH lacks one of its redox switches and is active even in dark conditions. Although NADPH consumption by MDH in the dark is expected to be harmful to plant growth, the mutant line did not show any phenotypic differences under standard long-day conditions. In contrast, the mutant line showed severe growth retardation under short-day or fluctuating light conditions. These results indicate that thiol-switch redox regulation of MDH activity is crucial for maintaining NADPH homeostasis in chloroplasts under these conditions.
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- Yuichi Yokochi
- Laboratory of Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 226-8503 Yokohama, Japan
- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 226-8503 Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 226-8503 Yokohama, Japan
- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 226-8503 Yokohama, Japan
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- Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, Center for Synthetic Life Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 338-8570 Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 226-8503 Yokohama, Japan
- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 226-8503 Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 338-8570 Saitama, Japan
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- Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, Center for Synthetic Life Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Laboratory of Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 226-8503 Yokohama, Japan;
- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 226-8503 Yokohama, Japan
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Ford MM, Smythers AL, McConnell EW, Lowery SC, Kolling DRJ, Hicks LM. Inhibition of TOR in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Leads to Rapid Cysteine Oxidation Reflecting Sustained Physiological Changes. Cells 2019; 8:cells8101171. [PMID: 31569396 PMCID: PMC6829209 DOI: 10.3390/cells8101171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 09/16/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase is a master metabolic regulator with roles in nutritional sensing, protein translation, and autophagy. In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a unicellular green alga, TOR has been linked to the regulation of increased triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation, suggesting that TOR or a downstream target(s) is responsible for the elusive “lipid switch” in control of increasing TAG accumulation under nutrient limitation. However, while TOR has been well characterized in mammalian systems, it is still poorly understood in photosynthetic systems, and little work has been done to show the role of oxidative signaling in TOR regulation. In this study, the TOR inhibitor AZD8055 was used to relate reversible thiol oxidation to the physiological changes seen under TOR inhibition, including increased TAG content. Using oxidized cysteine resin-assisted capture enrichment coupled with label-free quantitative proteomics, 401 proteins were determined to have significant changes in oxidation following TOR inhibition. These oxidative changes mirrored characterized physiological modifications, supporting the role of reversible thiol oxidation in TOR regulation of TAG production, protein translation, carbohydrate catabolism, and photosynthesis through the use of reversible thiol oxidation. The delineation of redox-controlled proteins under TOR inhibition provides a framework for further characterization of the TOR pathway in photosynthetic eukaryotes.
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- Megan M Ford
- Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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Huang J, Niazi AK, Young D, Rosado LA, Vertommen D, Bodra N, Abdelgawwad MR, Vignols F, Wei B, Wahni K, Bashandy T, Bariat L, Van Breusegem F, Messens J, Reichheld JP. Self-protection of cytosolic malate dehydrogenase against oxidative stress in Arabidopsis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2018; 69:3491-3505. [PMID: 29194485 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Plant malate dehydrogenase (MDH) isoforms are found in different cell compartments and function in key metabolic pathways. It is well known that the chloroplastic NADP-dependent MDH activities are strictly redox regulated and controlled by light. However, redox dependence of other NAD-dependent MDH isoforms have been less studied. Here, we show by in vitro biochemical characterization that the major cytosolic MDH isoform (cytMDH1) is sensitive to H2O2 through sulfur oxidation of cysteines and methionines. CytMDH1 oxidation affects the kinetics, secondary structure, and thermodynamic stability of cytMDH1. Moreover, MS analyses and comparison of crystal structures between the reduced and H2O2-treated cytMDH1 further show that thioredoxin-reversible homodimerization of cytMDH1 through Cys330 disulfide formation protects the protein from overoxidation. Consistently, we found that cytosolic thioredoxins interact specifically with cytMDH in a yeast two-hybrid system. Importantly, we also show that cytosolic and chloroplastic, but not mitochondrial NAD-MDH activities are sensitive to H2O2 stress in Arabidopsis. NAD-MDH activities decreased both in a catalase2 mutant and in an NADP-thioredoxin reductase mutant, emphasizing the importance of the thioredoxin-reducing system to protect MDH from oxidation in vivo. We propose that the redox switch of the MDH activity contributes to adapt the cell metabolism to environmental constraints.
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- Jingjing Huang
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Brussels Center for Redox Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Perpignan, France
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- VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Brussels Center for Redox Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Brussels Center for Redox Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- de Duve Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Brussels Center for Redox Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Perpignan, France
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- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Perpignan, France
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Brussels Center for Redox Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Brussels Center for Redox Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Perpignan, France
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- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Perpignan, France
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Brussels Center for Redox Biology, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Perpignan, France
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Gütle DD, Roret T, Müller SJ, Couturier J, Lemaire SD, Hecker A, Dhalleine T, Buchanan BB, Reski R, Einsle O, Jacquot JP. Chloroplast FBPase and SBPase are thioredoxin-linked enzymes with similar architecture but different evolutionary histories. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:6779-84. [PMID: 27226308 PMCID: PMC4914176 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606241113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The Calvin-Benson cycle of carbon dioxide fixation in chloroplasts is controlled by light-dependent redox reactions that target specific enzymes. Of the regulatory members of the cycle, our knowledge of sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase (SBPase) is particularly scanty, despite growing evidence for its importance and link to plant productivity. To help fill this gap, we have purified, crystallized, and characterized the recombinant form of the enzyme together with the better studied fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase), in both cases from the moss Physcomitrella patens (Pp). Overall, the moss enzymes resembled their counterparts from seed plants, including oligomeric organization-PpSBPase is a dimer, and PpFBPase is a tetramer. The two phosphatases showed striking structural homology to each other, differing primarily in their solvent-exposed surface areas in a manner accounting for their specificity for seven-carbon (sedoheptulose) and six-carbon (fructose) sugar bisphosphate substrates. The two enzymes had a similar redox potential for their regulatory redox-active disulfides (-310 mV for PpSBPase vs. -290 mV for PpFBPase), requirement for Mg(2+) and thioredoxin (TRX) specificity (TRX f > TRX m). Previously known to differ in the position and sequence of their regulatory cysteines, the enzymes unexpectedly showed unique evolutionary histories. The FBPase gene originated in bacteria in conjunction with the endosymbiotic event giving rise to mitochondria, whereas SBPase arose from an archaeal gene resident in the eukaryotic host. These findings raise the question of how enzymes with such different evolutionary origins achieved structural similarity and adapted to control by the same light-dependent photosynthetic mechanism-namely ferredoxin, ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase, and thioredoxin.
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- Desirée D Gütle
- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France; Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) Université Paris 6, CNRS UMR 8226, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire des Eucaryotes, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 75005 Paris, France
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- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102;
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Institute for Biochemistry, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54500 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F-54280 Champenoux, France;
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Yoshida K, Hara S, Hisabori T. Thioredoxin Selectivity for Thiol-based Redox Regulation of Target Proteins in Chloroplasts. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:14278-88. [PMID: 25878252 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.647545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Redox regulation based on the thioredoxin (Trx) system is believed to ensure light-responsive control of various functions in chloroplasts. Five Trx subtypes have been reported to reside in chloroplasts, but their functional diversity in the redox regulation of Trx target proteins remains poorly clarified. To directly address this issue, we studied the Trx-dependent redox shifts of several chloroplast thiol-modulated enzymes in vitro and in vivo. In vitro assays using a series of Arabidopsis recombinant proteins provided new insights into Trx selectivity for the redox regulation as well as the underpinning for previous suggestions. Most notably, by combining the discrimination of thiol status with mass spectrometry and activity measurement, we identified an uncharacterized aspect of the reductive activation of NADP-malate dehydrogenase; two redox-active Cys pairs harbored in this enzyme were reduced via distinct utilization of Trxs even within a single polypeptide. In our in vitro assays, Trx-f was effective in reducing all thiol-modulated enzymes analyzed here. We then investigated the in vivo physiological relevance of these in vitro findings, using Arabidopsis wild-type and Trx-f-deficient plants. Photoreduction of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase was partially impaired in Trx-f-deficient plants, but the global impact of Trx-f deficiency on the redox behaviors of thiol-modulated enzymes was not as striking as expected from the in vitro data. Our results provide support for the in vivo functionality of the Trx system and also highlight the complexity and plasticity of the chloroplast redox network.
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- Keisuke Yoshida
- From the Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259-R1-8, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102-0075, Japan
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- From the Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259-R1-8, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, and
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- From the Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259-R1-8, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102-0075, Japan
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Bohrer AS, Massot V, Innocenti G, Reichheld JP, Issakidis-Bourguet E, Vanacker H. New insights into the reduction systems of plastidial thioredoxins point out the unique properties of thioredoxin z from Arabidopsis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2012; 63:6315-6323. [PMID: 23096001 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In plants, thioredoxins (TRX) constitute a large protein disulphide oxidoreductase family comprising 10 plastidial members in Arabidopsis thaliana and subdivided in five types. The f- and m-types regulate enzymes involved mainly in carbon metabolism whereas the x, y, and z types have an antioxidant function. The reduction of TRXm and f in chloroplasts is performed in the light by ferredoxin:thioredoxin reductase (FTR) that uses photosynthetically reduced ferredoxin (Fd) as a reductant. The reduction system of Arabidopsis TRXx, y, and z has never been demonstrated. Recently, a gene encoding an atypical plastidial NADPH-dependent TRX reductase (NTRC) was found. In the present study, gene expression analysis revealed that both reductases are expressed in all organs of Arabidopsis and could potentially serve as electron donors to plastidial TRX. This ability was tested in vitro either with purified NTRC in presence of NADPH or with a light-driven reconstituted system comprising thylakoids and purified Fd and FTR. The results demonstrate that FTR reduces the x and y TRX isoforms but not the recently identified TRXz. Moreover, the results show that NTRC cannot be an efficient alternative reducing system, neither for TRXz nor for the other plastidial TRX. The data reveal that TRXf, m, x, and y, known as redox regulators in the chloroplast, have also the ability to reduce TRXz in vitro. Overall, the present study points out the unique properties of TRXz among plastidial TRX.
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- Anne-Sophie Bohrer
- Institut de Biologie des Plantes, UMR CNRS 8618, Saclay Plant Sciences, Univ Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay cedex, France
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Isolation and characterization of a soluble and thermostable phosphite dehydrogenase from Ralstonia sp. strain 4506. J Biosci Bioeng 2011; 113:445-50. [PMID: 22197497 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2011.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2011] [Revised: 11/21/2011] [Accepted: 11/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Phosphite dehydrogenase (PtxD), which catalyzes the nearly irreversible oxidation of phosphite to phosphate with the concomitant reduction of NAD(+) to NADH, has great potential for NADH regeneration in industrial biocatalysts. Here, we isolated a soil bacterium, Ralstonia sp. strain 4506, that grew at 45°C on a minimal medium containing phosphite as the sole source of phosphorus. A recombinant PtxD of Ralstonia sp. (PtxD(R4506)) appeared in the soluble fraction in Escherichia coli. The purified PtxD(R4506) showed 6.7-fold greater catalytic efficiency (V(max)/K(m)) than the first characterized PtxD of Pseudomonas stutzeri (PtxD(PS)). Moreover, the purified PtxD(R4506) showed maximum activity at 50°C, and its half-life of thermal inactivation at 45°C was 80.5h, which is approximately 3,450-fold greater than that of PtxD(PS). Therefore, we concluded that PtxD(R4506), which shows high catalytic efficiency, solubility, and thermostability, would be useful for NADH regeneration applications.
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Forty years ago, ferredoxin (Fdx) was shown to activate fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase in illuminated chloroplast preparations, thereby laying the foundation for the field now known as "redox biology." Enzyme activation was later shown to require the ubiquitous protein thioredoxin (Trx), reduced photosynthetically by Fdx via an enzyme then unknown-ferredoxin:thioredoxin reductase (FTR). These proteins, Fdx, FTR, and Trx, constitute a regulatory ensemble, the "Fdx/Trx system." The redox biology field has since grown beyond all expectations and now embraces a spectrum of processes throughout biology. Progress has been notable with plants that possess not only the plastid Fdx/Trx system, but also the earlier known NADP/Trx system in the cytosol, endoplasmic reticulum, and mitochondria. Plants contain at least 19 types of Trx (nine in chloroplasts). In this review, we focus on the structure and mechanism of action of members of the photosynthetic Fdx/Trx system and on biochemical processes linked to Trx. We also summarize recent evidence that extends the Fdx/Trx system to amyloplasts-heterotrophic plastids functional in the biosynthesis of starch and other cell components. The review highlights the plant as a model system to uncover principles of redox biology that apply to other organisms.
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- Peter Schürmann
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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Bechara C, Wang X, Chai H, Lin PH, Yao Q, Chen C. Growth-related oncogene-alpha induces endothelial dysfunction through oxidative stress and downregulation of eNOS in porcine coronary arteries. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2007; 293:H3088-95. [PMID: 17873023 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00473.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Growth-related oncogene-alpha (GRO-alpha) is a member of the CXC chemokine family, which is involved in the inflammatory process including atherosclerosis. We hypothesized that GRO-alpha may affect endothelial functions in both porcine coronary arteries and human coronary artery endothelial cells (HCAECs). Vasomotor function was analyzed in response to thromboxane A2 analog U-46619 for contraction, bradykinin for endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation, and sodium nitroprusside (SNP) for endothelium-independent vasorelaxation. In response to 10(-6) M bradykinin, GRO-alpha (50 and 100 ng/ml) significantly reduced endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation by 34.73 and 48.8%, respectively, compared with controls (P < 0.05). There were no changes in response to U-46619 or SNP between treated and control groups. With the lucigenin-enhanced chemiluminescence assay, superoxide anion production in GRO-alpha-treated vessels (50 and 100 ng/ml) was significantly increased by 50 and 86%, respectively, compared with controls (P < 0.05). With real-time PCR analysis, endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) mRNA levels in porcine coronary arteries and HCAECs after GRO-alpha treatment were significantly decreased compared with controls (P < 0.05). The eNOS protein levels by both immunohistochemistry and Western blot analyses were also decreased in GRO-alpha-treated vessels. Antioxidant seleno-l-methionine and anti-GRO-alpha antibody effectively blocked these effects of GRO-alpha on both porcine coronary arteries and HCAECs. In addition, GRO-alpha immunoreactivity was substantially increased in the atherosclerotic regions compared with nonatherosclerotic regions in human coronary arteries. Thus GRO-alpha impairs endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation in porcine coronary arteries through a mechanism of overproduction of superoxide anion and downregulation of eNOS. GRO-alpha may contribute to human coronary artery disease.
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- Carlos Bechara
- Molecular Surgeon Research Center, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Lemaire SD, Michelet L, Zaffagnini M, Massot V, Issakidis-Bourguet E. Thioredoxins in chloroplasts. Curr Genet 2007; 51:343-65. [PMID: 17431629 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-007-0128-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2007] [Revised: 03/05/2007] [Accepted: 03/09/2007] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Thioredoxins (TRXs) are small disulfide oxidoreductases of ca. 12 kDa found in all free living organisms. In plants, two chloroplastic TRXs, named TRX f and TRX m, were originally identified as light dependent regulators of several carbon metabolism enzymes including Calvin cycle enzymes. The availability of genome sequences revealed an unsuspected multiplicity of TRXs in photosynthetic eukaryotes, including new chloroplastic TRX types. Moreover, proteomic approaches and focused studies allowed identification of 90 potential chloroplastic TRX targets. Lately, recent studies suggest the existence of a complex interplay between TRXs and other redox regulators such as glutaredoxins (GRXs) or glutathione. The latter is involved in a post-translational modification, named glutathionylation that could be controlled by GRXs. Glutathionylation appears to specifically affect the activity of TRX f and other chloroplastic enzymes and could thereby constitute a previously undescribed regulatory mechanism of photosynthetic metabolism under oxidative stress. After summarizing the initial studies on TRX f and TRX m, this review will focus on the most recent developments with special emphasis on the contributions of genomics and proteomics to the field of TRXs. Finally, new emerging interactions with other redox signaling pathways and perspectives for future studies will also be discussed.
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- Stéphane D Lemaire
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8618, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Univ Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
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Issakidis-Bourguet E, Lavergne D, Trivelli X, Decottignies P, Miginiac-Maslow M. Transferring redox regulation properties from sorghum NADP-malate dehydrogenase to Thermus NAD-malate dehydrogenase. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2006; 89:213-23. [PMID: 17089214 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-006-9094-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2006] [Accepted: 08/14/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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NADP-dependent chloroplastic malate dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.82) is regulated by thiol disulfide-interchange with thioredoxin. It displays two regulatory disulfides per subunit, located in specific sequence extensions respectively at the N- and C-terminal ends of each subunit. In the present study, attempts were made to transfer the regulatory properties of sorghum NADP-malate dehydrogenase to a constitutively active NAD-dependent malate dehydogenase (E.C.1.1.1.37) from the thermophilic bacteria Thermus flavus, by grafting the regulatory extensions of the former to the latter. The results demonstrate that a successful transfer of redox regulation properties requires the grafting of both full-length extensions, but also the introduction of specific hydrophobic residues in the core part of the protein. These residues are very likely involved in the interaction between monomers, and structural changes at the active site.
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Lemaire SD, Quesada A, Merchan F, Corral JM, Igeno MI, Keryer E, Issakidis-Bourguet E, Hirasawa M, Knaff DB, Miginiac-Maslow M. NADP-malate dehydrogenase from unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. A first step toward redox regulation? PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 137:514-21. [PMID: 15579663 PMCID: PMC1065352 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.052670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2004] [Revised: 10/20/2004] [Accepted: 10/20/2004] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The determinants of the thioredoxin (TRX)-dependent redox regulation of the chloroplastic NADP-malate dehydrogenase (NADP-MDH) from the eukaryotic green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have been investigated using site-directed mutagenesis. The results indicate that a single C-terminal disulfide is responsible for this regulation. The redox midpoint potential of this disulfide is less negative than that of the higher plant enzyme. The regulation is of an all-or-nothing type, lacking the fine-tuning provided by the second N-terminal disulfide found only in NADP-MDH from higher plants. The decreased stability of specific cysteine/alanine mutants is consistent with the presence of a structural disulfide formed by two cysteine residues that are not involved in regulation of activity. Measurements of the ability of C. reinhardtii thioredoxin f (TRX f) to activate wild-type and site-directed mutants of sorghum (Sorghum vulgare) NADP-MDH suggest that the algal TRX f has a redox midpoint potential that is less negative than most those of higher plant TRXs f. These results are discussed from an evolutionary point of view.
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- Stéphane D Lemaire
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8618 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
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Woodyer R, van der Donk WA, Zhao H. Relaxing the nicotinamide cofactor specificity of phosphite dehydrogenase by rational design. Biochemistry 2004; 42:11604-14. [PMID: 14529270 DOI: 10.1021/bi035018b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Homology modeling was used to identify two particular residues, Glu175 and Ala176, in Pseudomonas stutzeri phosphite dehydrogenase (PTDH) as the principal determinants of nicotinamide cofactor (NAD(+) and NADP(+)) specificity. Replacement of these two residues by site-directed mutagenesis with Ala175 and Arg176 both separately and in combination resulted in PTDH mutants with relaxed cofactor specificity. All three mutants exhibited significantly better catalytic efficiency for both cofactors, with the best kinetic parameters displayed by the double mutant, which had a 3.6-fold higher catalytic efficiency for NAD(+) and a 1000-fold higher efficiency for NADP(+). The cofactor specificity was changed from 100-fold in favor of NAD(+) for the wild-type enzyme to 3-fold in favor of NADP(+) for the double mutant. Isoelectric focusing of the proteins in a nondenaturing gel showed that the replacement with more basic residues indeed changed the effective pI of the protein. HPLC analysis of the enzymatic products of the double mutant verified that the reaction proceeded to completion using either substrate and produced only the corresponding reduced cofactor and phosphate. Thermal inactivation studies showed that the double mutant was protected from thermal inactivation by both cofactors, while the wild-type enzyme was protected by only NAD(+). The combined results provide clear evidence that Glu175 and Ala176 are both critical for nicotinamide cofactor specificity. The rationally designed double mutant might be useful for the development of an efficient in vitro NAD(P)H regeneration system for reductive biocatalysis.
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- Ryan Woodyer
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Lemaire SD, Collin V, Keryer E, Quesada A, Miginiac-Maslow M. Characterization of thioredoxin y, a new type of thioredoxin identified in the genome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. FEBS Lett 2003; 543:87-92. [PMID: 12753911 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00416-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome revealed a multiplicity of thioredoxins (TRX), ubiquitous protein disulfide oxido-reductases. We have analyzed the TRX family in the genome of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and identified eight different thioredoxins for which we have cloned and sequenced the corresponding cDNAs. One of these TRXs represents a new type that we named TRX y. This most probably chloroplastic TRX is highly conserved in photosynthetic organisms. The biochemical characterization of the recombinant protein shows that it exhibits a thermal stability profile and specificity toward target enzymes completely different from those of TRXs characterized so far.
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- S D Lemaire
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, UMR 8618 CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 630, 91405 Cedex, Orsay, France.
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Kozaki A, Mayumi K, Sasaki Y. Thiol-disulfide exchange between nuclear-encoded and chloroplast-encoded subunits of pea acetyl-CoA carboxylase. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:39919-25. [PMID: 11546765 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m103525200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Fatty acid synthesis in pea chloroplasts is regulated by light/dark. The regulatory enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase is modulated by light/dark, presumably under redox regulation. Acetyl-CoA carboxylase is a multienzyme complex composed of biotin carboxylase and carboxyltransferase (CT). To demonstrate the redox regulation of CT, composed of the nuclear-encoded alpha and the chloroplast-encoded beta subunits, we identified the cysteine residues involved in such regulation. We expressed the recombinant CT in Escherichia coli and found that the partly deleted CT was, like the full-length CT, sensitive to a redox state. Site-directed mutagenesis of the deleted CT showed that replacement by alanine of the cysteine residue 267 in the alpha polypeptide or 442 in the beta polypeptide resulted in redox-insensitive CT and broke the intermolecular disulfide bond between the alpha and beta polypeptides. Similar results were confirmed in the full-length CT. These results indicate that the two cysteines in recombinant CT are involved in redox regulation by intermolecular disulfide-dithiol exchange between the alpha and beta subunits. Immunoblots of extract from plants incubated in the light or dark supported that such a disulfide-dithiol exchange is relevant in vivo. A covalent bond between a nuclear-encoded polypeptide and a chloroplast-encoded polypeptide probably regulates the enzyme activity in response to light.
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- A Kozaki
- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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Goyer A, Decottignies P, Issakidis-Bourguet E, Miginiac-Maslow M. Sites of interaction of thioredoxin with sorghum NADP-malate dehydrogenase. FEBS Lett 2001; 505:405-8. [PMID: 11576537 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02860-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The activation pathway of the chloroplastic NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase (MDH) by reduced thioredoxin has been examined using a method based on the mechanism of thiol/disulfide interchanges, i.e. the transient formation of a mixed disulfide between the target and the reductant. This disulfide can be stabilized when each of the partners is mutated in the less reactive cysteine of the disulfide/dithiol pair. As NADP-MDH has two regulatory disulfides per monomer, four different single cysteine mutants were examined, two for the C-terminal bridge and two for the N-terminal bridge. The results clearly show that the nucleophilic attack of thioredoxin on the C-terminal bridge proceeds through the formation of a disulfide with the most external Cys377. The results are less clear-cut for the N-terminal cysteines and suggest that the Cys24-Cys207 disulfide bridge previously proposed to be an intermediary step in MDH activation can form only when the C-terminal disulfide is reduced.
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- A Goyer
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, UMR CNRS 8618, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Latouche G, Cerovic ZG, Montagnini F, Moya I. Light-induced changes of NADPH fluorescence in isolated chloroplasts: a spectral and fluorescence lifetime study. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2000; 1460:311-29. [PMID: 11106772 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(00)00198-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Isolated chloroplasts show a light-induced reversible increase in blue-green fluorescence (BGF), which is only dependent on NADPH changes. In the present communication, we report a time-resolved and spectral analysis of this BGF in reconstituted chloroplasts and intact isolated chloroplasts, in the dark and under actinic illumination. From these measurements we deduced the contribution of the different forms of NADPH (free and bound to proteins) to the light-induced variation of BGF and conclude that this variation is due only to the redox change of the NADP pool. A simple model estimating the distribution of NADPH between the free and bound form was designed, that explains the differences measured for the BGF of reconstituted chloroplasts and intact chloroplasts. From the decay-associated spectra of the chloroplast BGF, we also deduced the participation of flavins to the green peak of chloroplast fluorescence emission spectrum, and the existence of excitation energy transfer from proteins to bound NADPH in chloroplasts. In addition, we re-examined the use of chloroplast BGF as a quantitative measure of NADPH concentration, and confirmed that chloroplast BGF can be used for non-destructive, continuous and probably quantitative monitoring of light-induced changes in NADP redox state.
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- G Latouche
- Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique, Université de Paris XI, 91898, Orsay, France.
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Schepens I, Ruelland E, Miginiac-Maslow M, Le Maréchal P, Decottignies P. The role of active site arginines of sorghum NADP-malate dehydrogenase in thioredoxin-dependent activation and activity. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:35792-8. [PMID: 10958800 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m006526200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The activation of sorghum NADP-malate dehydrogenase is initiated by thiol/disulfide interchanges with reduced thioredoxin followed by the release of the C-terminal autoinhibitory extension and a structural modification shaping the active site into a high efficiency and high affinity for oxaloacetate conformation. In the present study, the role of the active site arginines in the activation and catalysis was investigated by site-directed mutagenesis and arginyl-specific chemical derivatization using butanedione. Sequence and mass spectrometry analysis were used to identify the chemically modified groups. Taken together, our data reveal the involvement of Arg-134 and Arg-204 in oxaloacetate coordination, suggest an indirect role for Arg-140 in substrate binding and catalysis, and clearly confirm that Arg-87 is implicated in cofactor binding. In contrast with NAD-malate dehydrogenase, no lactate dehydrogenase activity could be promoted by the R134Q mutation. The decreased susceptibility of the activation of the R204K mutant to NADP and its increased sensitivity to the histidine-specific reagent diethylpyrocarbonate indicated that Arg-204 is involved in the locking of the active site. These results are discussed in relation with the recently published NADP-MDH three-dimensional structures and the previously established three-dimensional structures of NAD-malate dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase.
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- I Schepens
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, UMR 8618 CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, France
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Schepens I, Johansson K, Decottignies P, Gillibert M, Hirasawa M, Knaff DB, Miginiac-Maslow M. Inhibition of the thioredoxin-dependent activation of the NADP-malate dehydrogenase and cofactor specificity. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:20996-1001. [PMID: 10801830 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m002066200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The chloroplastic NADP-malate dehydrogenase is activated by reduction of its N- and C-terminal disulfides by reduced thioredoxin. The activation is inhibited by NADP(+), the oxidized form of the cofactor. Previous studies suggested that the C-terminal disulfide was involved in this process. Recent structural data pointed toward a possible direct interaction between the C terminus of the oxidized enzyme and the cofactor. In the present study, the relationship between the cofactor specificity for catalysis and for inhibition of activation has been investigated by changing the cofactor specificity of the enzyme by substitution of selected residues of the cofactor-binding site. An NAD-specific thiol-regulated MDH was engineered. Its activation was inhibited by NAD(+) but no longer by NADP(+). These results demonstrate that the oxidized cofactor is bound at the same site as the reduced cofactor and support the idea of a direct interaction between the negatively charged C-terminal end of the enzyme and the positively charged nicotinamide ring of the cofactor, in agreement with the structural data. The structural requirements for cofactor specificity are modeled and discussed.
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- I Schepens
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, UMR 8618 CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 630, Orsay, France
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Schepens I, Decottignies P, Ruelland E, Johansson K, Miginiac-Maslow M. The dimer contact area of sorghum NADP-malate dehydrogenase: role of aspartate 101 in dimer stability and catalytic activity. FEBS Lett 2000; 471:240-4. [PMID: 10767431 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01405-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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During thioredoxin-mediated activation of chloroplastic NADP-malate dehydrogenase, a homodimeric enzyme, the interaction between subunits is known to be loosened but maintained. A modeling of the 3D structure of the protein identified Asp-101 as being potentially involved in the association between subunits through an electrostatic interaction. Indeed, upon site-directed substitution of Asp-101 by an asparagine, the mutated enzyme behaved mainly as a monomer. The mutation strongly affected the catalytical efficiency of the enzyme. The now available 3D structure of the enzyme shows that Asp-101 is protruding at the dimer interface, interacting with Arg-268 of the neighbouring subunit.
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- I Schepens
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, UMR 8618 CNRS, Bâtiment 630, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay, France
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Hirasawa M, Ruelland E, Schepens I, Issakidis-Bourguet E, Miginiac-Maslow M, Knaff DB. Oxidation-reduction properties of the regulatory disulfides of sorghum chloroplast nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-malate dehydrogenase. Biochemistry 2000; 39:3344-50. [PMID: 10727227 DOI: 10.1021/bi9916731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Oxidation-reduction midpoint potentials (E(m)) have been measured for the thioredoxin-dependent, reductive activation of sorghum nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate- (NADP-) dependent malate dehydrogenase (MDH) in the wild-type enzyme and in a number of site-specific mutants. The E(m) value associated with activation of the wild-type enzyme, -330 mV at pH 7.0, can be attributed to the E(m) of the C365/C377 disulfide present in the C-terminal region of the enzyme. The C24/C29 disulfide, located in the N-terminal region of the enzyme and the only other disulfide present in oxidized, wild-type MDH, has a E(m) value of -280 mV at pH 7.0. A third regulatory disulfide, C24/C207, that is absent in the oxidized enzyme but is thought to be formed during the activation process, has an E(m) value at pH 7.0 of -310 mV. E(m) vs pH profiles suggest pK(a) values for the more acidic cysteine involved in the formation of each of these disulfides of 8.5 for C24/C29; 8.1 for C24/C207; and 8.7 for C365/C377. The results of this study show that the N-terminal disulfide formed between C24 and C29 has a more positive E(m) value than the two other disulfides and is thus is likely to be the "preregulatory disulfide" postulated to function in activating the enzyme.
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- M Hirasawa
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, USA
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Lancelin JM, Guilhaudis L, Krimm I, Blackledge MJ, Marion D, Jacquot JP. NMR structures of thioredoxinm from the green algaChlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proteins 2000. [DOI: 10.1002/1097-0134(20001115)41:3<334::aid-prot60>3.0.co;2-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Krimm I, Goyer A, Issakidis-Bourguet E, Miginiac-Maslow M, Lancelin JM. Direct NMR observation of the thioredoxin-mediated reduction of the chloroplast NADP-malate dehydrogenase provides a structural basis for the relief of autoinhibition. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:34539-42. [PMID: 10574915 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.49.34539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The chloroplastic NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase (NADP-MDH) catalyzing the reduction of oxaloacetate into L-malate is regulated by light. Its activation results from the thioredoxin-mediated reduction of two disulfides, located, respectively, in N- and C-terminal sequence extensions typical of all NADP-dependent light-regulated forms. Site-directed mutagenesis studies and the resolution of the three-dimensional structure of the oxidized (inactive) Sorghum vulgare enzyme showed that the C-terminal Cys(365)-Cys(377) disulfide constrains the C-terminal extension to fold into the active site where it acts as an internal inhibitor. In the present study, two-dimensional proton NMR spectra of an engineered NADP-MDH rendered monomeric by a 33-amino acid deletion at the N terminus (38 kDa) revealed that a 15-amino acid-long C-terminal peptide (Ala(375) to C-terminal Val(389)) acquired an increased mobility upon reduction, allowing its direct sequence-specific NMR assignment. The location of the flexible peptide in the sequence suggests that the first part of the C-terminal peptide is still folded near the core of the enzyme, so that cysteines 365 and 377 remain in proximity to allow for an efficient reoxidation/inactivation of the enzyme.
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- I Krimm
- Laboratoire de RMN Biomoléculaire Associé au CNRS, Université Claude Bernard-Lyon 1 and Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon, Bâtiment 308G, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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Johansson K, Ramaswamy S, Saarinen M, Lemaire-Chamley M, Issakidis-Bourguet E, Miginiac-Maslow M, Eklund H. Structural basis for light activation of a chloroplast enzyme: the structure of sorghum NADP-malate dehydrogenase in its oxidized form. Biochemistry 1999; 38:4319-26. [PMID: 10194350 DOI: 10.1021/bi982876c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Some key chloroplast enzymes are activated by light via a ferredoxin-thioredoxin reduction system which reduces disulfide bridges in the enzymes. We describe for the first time the structural basis for the redox activation of a chloroplast enzyme, the NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase (MDH) from Sorghum vulgare whose structure has been determined and refined at 2.4 A resolution. In addition to the normal structural components of MDHs, the enzyme exhibits extensions at both the N- and C-termini, each of which contains a regulatory disulfide bridge which must be reduced for activation. The N-terminal disulfide motif is inserted in a cleft between the two subunits of the dimer, thereby locking the domains in each subunit. The C-terminal disulfide keeps the C-terminal residues tight to the enzyme surface and blocks access to the active site. Reduction of the N-terminal disulfide would release the stopper between the domains and give the enzyme the necessary flexibility. Simultaneous reduction of the C-terminal disulfide would free the C-terminal residues from binding to the enzyme and make the active site accessible.
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- K Johansson
- Department of Molecular Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
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Goyer A, Decottignies P, Lemaire S, Ruelland E, Issakidis-Bourguet E, Jacquot JP, Miginiac-Maslow M. The internal Cys-207 of sorghum leaf NADP-malate dehydrogenase can form mixed disulphides with thioredoxin. FEBS Lett 1999; 444:165-9. [PMID: 10050751 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00051-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The role of the internal Cys-207 of sorghum NADP-malate dehydrogenase (NADP-MDH) in the activation of the enzyme has been investigated through the examination of the ability of this residue to form mixed disulphides with thioredoxin mutated at either of its two active-site cysteines. The h-type Chlamydomonas thioredoxin was used, because it has no additional cysteines in the primary sequence besides the active-site cysteines. Both thioredoxin mutants proved equally efficient in forming mixed disulphides with an NADP-MDH devoid of its N-terminal bridge either by truncation, or by mutation of its N-terminal cysteines. They were poorly efficient with the more compact WT oxidised NADP-MDH. Upon mutation of Cys-207, no mixed disulphide could be formed, showing that this cysteine is the only one, among the four internal cysteines, which can form mixed disulphides with thioredoxin. These experiments confirm that the opening of the N-terminal disulphide loosens the interaction between subunits, making Cys-207, located at the dimer contact area, more accessible.
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- A Goyer
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, UMR 8618 CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Ruelland E, Johansson K, Decottignies P, Djukic N, Miginiac-Maslow M. The autoinhibition of sorghum NADP malate dehydrogenase is mediated by a C-terminal negative charge. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:33482-8. [PMID: 9837927 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.50.33482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The chloroplastic NADP malate dehydrogenase is completely inactive in its oxidized form and is activated by thiol/disulfide interchange with reduced thioredoxin. To elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying the absence of activity of the oxidized enzyme, we used site-directed mutagenesis to delete or substitute the two most C-terminal residues (C-terminal Val, penultimate Glu, both bearing negative charges). We also combined these mutations with the elimination of one or both of the possible regulatory N-terminal disulfides by mutating the corresponding cysteines. Proteins mutated at the C-terminal residues had no activity in the oxidized form but were partially inhibited when pretreated with the histidine-specific reagent diethyl pyrocarbonate before activation, showing that the active site was partially accessible. Proteins missing both N-terminal regulatory disulfides reached almost full activity without activation upon elimination of the negative charge of the penultimate Glu. These results strongly support a model where the C-terminal extension is docked into the active site through a negatively charged residue, acting as an internal inhibitor. They show also that the reduction of both N-terminal bridges is necessary to release the C-terminal extension from the active site. This is the first report for a thiol-activated enzyme of a regulatory mechanism resembling the well known intrasteric inhibition of protein kinases.
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- E Ruelland
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, ERS 569 CNRS, Bâtiment 630, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Wenderoth I, Scheibe R, von Schaewen A. Identification of the cysteine residues involved in redox modification of plant plastidic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:26985-90. [PMID: 9341136 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.43.26985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The cDNA sequences encoding cytosolic and light-modulated plastidic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) from potato were modified by polymerase chain reaction and subsequently overexpressed in Escherichia coli. Characterization of the recombinant enzymes showed that they closely resembled their native counterparts. Treatment with reduced dithiothreitol or glutathione led to inactivation of plastidic G6PDH, whereas the activity of the cytosolic isoenzyme was not influenced by reduction. As for the native enzyme, inactivation of recombinant plastidic G6PDH was accelerated by thioredoxin m and could be fully reversed by subsequent addition of oxidant. To identify the residues which are involved in redox regulation of plastidic G6PDH, each of the six cysteines in the mature protein sequence was exchanged separately for serine by site-directed mutagenesis. Two mutant proteins exhibited characteristics of the reduced wild-type enzyme. Exchange of either Cys149 or Cys157 to serine abolished the regulatory properties, suggesting that these cysteine residues are the sites responsible for redox-mediated inactivation of plastidic G6PDH.
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- I Wenderoth
- Pflanzenphysiologie, FB 5 Biologie/Chemie, Universität Osnabrück, D-49069 Osnabrück, Germany
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Ocheretina O, Scheibe R. Cloning and sequence analysis of cDNAs encoding plant cytosolic malate dehydrogenase. Gene 1997; 199:145-8. [PMID: 9358050 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00361-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Here we report the first complete sequence of plant cytosolic malate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.37). The phylogenetic relationships between malate dehydrogenases from different cell compartments are discussed. The constructed phylogenetic tree shows that cytosolic NAD-MDH and chloroplast NADP-MDH have evolved through gene duplication of the pre-existing nuclear gene.
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- O Ocheretina
- Pflanzenphysiologie, Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie, Universität Osnabrück, Germany
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Anderson LE, Li D, Muslin EH, Stevens FJ, Schiffer M. Predicting redox-sensitive cysteines in plant enzymes by homology modeling. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0764-4469(97)85012-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Riessland R, Jaenicke R. Determination of the regulatory disulfide bonds of NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase from Pisum sativum by site-directed mutagenesis. Biol Chem 1997; 378:983-8. [PMID: 9348107 DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1997.378.9.983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The light-mediated reversible activation of NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase (NADP-MDH) from Pisum sativum can be simulated in vitro by reducing the inactive oxidized enzyme with dithiothreitol. Since the gross structure and the dimeric state of the enzyme are unaffected by the state of oxidation, the redox modulation cannot be attributed to inter-subunit disulfide bridges. In order to identify intra-chain cystine cross bridges that might be candidates responsible for the activation reaction, site-directed mutagenesis experiments were performed, substituting alanine for up to four exposed cysteine residues. Mutants were expressed in freshly transformed EcoB cells and purified to homogeneity. As indicated by the activation behavior (by dithiothreitol-mediated thioldisulfide exchange), disulfides C23-C28 in the N-terminal and C364-C376 in the C-terminal part of the polypeptide chain are involved in the light-induced modulation of the activity of the wild type enzyme. A mutant of the enzyme lacking the N-terminal 45 residues confirms this result. Electrophoretic mobility and FPLC prove the wild type enzyme and its mutants to be dimeric; differences refer to the packing of the N- and C-terminal portions of the enzyme in its oxidized and reduced state. The kinetics of the redox modulation differ, depending on the solvent conditions and the mode of activation. After elimination of the N-terminal disulfide bond, sigmoidal activation profiles are no longer observed, suggesting a slow conformational rearrangement in the N-terminal portion of the wild type enzyme to be rate-limiting in the course of reductive activation. For the wild type, this finding can be mimicked in the presence of non-denaturing concentrations of guanidinium-chloride.
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- R Riessland
- Institut für Biophysik und Physikalische Biochemie, Universität Regensburg, Germany
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Ruelland E, Lemaire-Chamley M, Le Maréchal P, Issakidis-Bourguet E, Djukic N, Miginiac-Maslow M. An internal cysteine is involved in the thioredoxin-dependent activation of sorghum leaf NADP-malate dehydrogenase. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:19851-7. [PMID: 9242647 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.32.19851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The chloroplastic NADP-malate dehydrogenase is activated by thiol/disulfide interchange with reduced thioredoxins. Previous experiments showed that four cysteines located in specific N- and carboxyl-terminal extensions were implicated in this process, leading to a model where no internal cysteine was involved in activation. In the present study, the role of the conserved four internal cysteines was investigated. Surprisingly, the mutation of cysteine 207 into alanine yielded a protein with accelerated activation time course, whereas the mutations of the three other internal cysteines into alanines yielded proteins with unchanged activation kinetics. These results suggested that cysteine 207 might be linked in a disulfide bridge with one of the four external cysteines, most probably with one of the two amino-terminal cysteines whose mutation similarly accelerates the activation rate. To investigate this possibility, mutant malate dehydrogenases (MDHs) where a single amino-terminal cysteine was mutated in combination with the mutation of both carboxyl-terminal cysteines were produced and purified. The C29S/C365A/C377A mutant MDH still needed activation by reduced thioredoxin, while the C24S/C365A/C377A mutant MDH exhibited a thioredoxin-insensitive spontaneous activity, leading to the hypothesis that a Cys24-Cys207 disulfide bridge might be formed during the activation process. Indeed, an NADP-MDH where the cysteines 29, 207, 365, and 377 are mutated yielded a permanently active enzyme very similar to the previously created permanently active C24S/C29S/C365A/C377A mutant. A two-step activation model involving a thioredoxin-mediated disulfide isomerization at the amino terminus is proposed.
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- E Ruelland
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, ERS 569 CNRS, Bâtiment 630, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Jacquot JP, Lancelin JM, Meyer Y. Thioredoxins: structure and function in plant cells. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 1997; 136:543-570. [PMID: 33863109 DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1997.00784.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Thioredoxins are ubiquitous small-molecular-weight proteins (typically 100-120 amino-acid residues) containing an extremely reactive disulphide bridge with a highly conserved sequence -Cys-Gly(Ala/Pro)-Pro-Cys-. In bacteria and animal cells, thioredoxins participate in multiple reactions which require reduction of disulphide bonds on selected target proteins/ enzymes. There is now ample biochemical evidence that thioredoxins exert very specific functions in plants, the best documented being the redox regulation of chloroplast enzymes. Another area in which thioredoxins are believed to play a prominent role is in reserve protein mobilization during the process of germination. It has been discovered that thioredoxins constitute a large multigene family in plants with different-subcellular localizations, a unique feature in living cells so far. Evolutionary studies based on these molecules will be discussed, as well as the available biochemical and genetic evidence related to their functions in plant cells. Eukaryotic photosynthetic plant cells are also unique in that they possess two different reducing systems, one extrachloroplastic dependent on NADPH as an electron donor, and the other one chloroplastic, dependent on photoreduced ferredoxin. This review will examine in detail the latest progresses in the area of thioredoxin structural biology in plants, this protein being an excellent model for this purpose. The structural features of the reducing enzymes ferredoxin thioredoxin reductase and NADPH thioredoxin reductase will also be described. The properties of the target enzymes known so far in plants will be detailed with special emphasis on the structural features which make them redox regulatory. Based on sequence analysis, evidence will be presented that redox regulation of enzymes of the biosynthetic pathways first appeared in cyanobacteria possibly as a way to cope with the oxidants produced by oxygenic photosynthesis. It became more elaborate in the chloroplasts of higher plants where a co-ordinated functioning of the chloroplastic and extra chloroplastic metabolisms is required. CONTENTS Summary 543 I. Introduction 544 II. Thioredoxins from photosynthetic organisms as a structural model 545 III. Physiological functions 552 IV. The thioredoxin reduction systems 556 V. Structural aspects of target enzymes 558 VI. Concluding remarks 563 Acknowledgements 564 References 564.
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- Jean-Pierre Jacquot
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, URA 1128 CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Bâilment 630, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de RMN Biomoléculaire, ESA 5078 CNRS, Université de Lyon 1 et CPE-Lyon, Bâilment 308, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologic et Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, UMR 5545 CNRS, Université de Perpignan, 66025 Perpignan Cedex France
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Plants, some fungi, and protists contain a cyanide-resistant, alternative mitochondrial respiratory pathway. This pathway branches at the ubiquinone pool and consists of an alternative oxidase encoded by the nuclear gene Aox1. Alternative pathway respiration is only linked to proton translocation at Complex 1 (NADH dehydrogenase). Alternative oxidase expression is influenced by stress stimuli-cold, oxidative stress, pathogen attack-and by factors constricting electron flow through the cytochrome pathway of respiration. Control is exerted at the levels of gene expression and in response to the availability of carbon and reducing potential. Posttranslational control involves reversible covalent modification of the alternative oxidase and activation by specific carbon metabolites. This dynamic system of coarse and fine control may function to balance upstream respiratory carbon metabolism and downstream electron transport when these coupled processes become imbalanced as a result of changes in the supply of, or demand for, carbon, reducing power, and ATP.
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- Greg C. Vanlerberghe
- Department of Botany and Division of Life Science, University of Toronto at Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada, Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory and Biochemistry Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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Jacquot JP, Lopez-Jaramillo J, Miginiac-Maslow M, Lemaire S, Cherfils J, Chueca A, Lopez-Gorge J. Cysteine-153 is required for redox regulation of pea chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. FEBS Lett 1997; 401:143-7. [PMID: 9013875 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(96)01459-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Chloroplastic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatases are redox regulatory enzymes which are activated by the ferredoxin thioredoxin system via the reduction/isomerization of a critical disulfide bridge. All chloroplastic sequences contain seven cysteine residues, four of which are located in, or close to, an amino acid insertion region of approximately 17 amino acids. In order to gain more information on the nature of the regulatory site, five cysteine residues (Cys49, Cys153, Cys173, Cys178 and Cys190) have been modified individually into serine residues by site-directed mutagenesis. While mutations C173S and C178S strongly affected the redox regulatory properties of the enzyme, the most striking effect was observed with the C153S mutant which became permanently active and redox independent. On the other hand, the C190S mutant retained most of the properties of the wild-type enzyme (except that it could now also be partially activated by the NADPH/NTR/thioredoxin h system). Finally, the C49S mutant is essentially identical to the wild-type enzyme. These results are discussed in the light of recent crystallographic data obtained on spinach FBPase [Villeret et al. (1995) Biochemistry 34, 4299-4306].
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- J P Jacquot
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, URA 1128 CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France.
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Braun H, Lichter A, Häberlein I. Kinetic evidence for protein complexes between thioredoxin and NADP-malate dehydrogenase and presence of a thioredoxin binding site at the N-terminus of the enzyme. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1996; 240:781-8. [PMID: 8856084 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0781h.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The kinetics of activation of NADP-malate dehydrogenase (MDH; EC 1.1.1.82) from soybean and spinach leaves by the chloroplast thioredoxins isolated from the same plants, by the corresponding storage forms of the soybean chloroplast thioredoxins from soybean seeds, and by the bacterial Escherichia coli thioredoxin have been studied. The Hill equation has been applied to evaluate the saturation kinetics. The observed variable thioredoxin saturation characteristics (Vmax 0.37-14.5 mumol NADPH min-1 mg enzyme-1; K0.5 0.15-1.33 microM; Hill coefficient h 0.90-3.04) indicate that the activation of NADP-MDH depends strongly on the individual thioredoxin used. Thus, thioredoxin action is not solely due to simple reductive activation of the NADP-MDH. Specific thioredoxin complex formation between thioredoxin and NADP-MDH must be included into the mechanism of the activation process. To study the regulatory consequences of the specific thioredoxin/NADP-MDH complexes we investigated the saturation kinetics of the substrates NADPH and oxaloacetate in presence of different concentrations of each individual thioredoxin species. The kinetic characteristics of the substrates (S0.5, Vmax, and Hill coefficients h) varied individually in response to the different thioredoxin species substantiating our model of thioredoxin/ NADP-MDH complex formation. Aminopeptidase-K-truncated pea NADP-MDH has been used to demonstrate that the N-terminal 37 amino residues are involved in providing a specific thioredoxin binding site. The fact that the versatile light-dependent regulation of numerous enzyme activities by only two thioredoxin species in chloroplasts cannot be accomplished without the formation of thioredoxin/target enzyme complexes is discussed in detail.
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- H Braun
- Biochemie, Fachbereich Biologie-Chemie, Universität Kassel, Germany
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Issakidis E, Lemaire M, Decottignies P, Jacquot JP, Miginiac-Maslow M. Direct evidence for the different roles of the N- and C-terminal regulatory disulfides of sorghum leaf NADP-malate dehydrogenase in its activation by reduced thioredoxin. FEBS Lett 1996; 392:121-4. [PMID: 8772188 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00801-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Plant NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase is activated through thiol/disulfide interchange with reduced thioredoxin. Previous studies showed that this process involves the reduction of two different disulfides per subunit: one N-terminal, the other C-terminal. Substitution of regulatory cysteines at each end by site-directed mutagenesis and comparison of activation kinetics of the mutants led us to propose a model for the activation mechanism where the C-terminal end shielded the access to the catalytic residues, whereas the N- terminal end was involved in the slow conformational change of the active site. In the present study, we took advantage of the previous identification of the catalytic histidine residue which can be specifically derivatized by diethyl pyrocarbonate to test the accessibility of the active site. The results clearly show that in the mutants where the C-terminal bridge is open the active site histidine is freely accessible to the reagent, whereas in the mutants where the N-terminal bridge is open, the active site cannot be reached without activation, thus demonstrating the validity of the model.
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- E Issakidis
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Lemaire M, Miginiac-Maslow M, Decottignies P. The catalytic site of chloroplastic NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase contains a His/Asp pair. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1996; 236:947-52. [PMID: 8665917 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00947.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Plant chloroplastic NADP-malate dehydrogenase is unique among malate dehydrogenases because of its reductive activation in the light and cofactor specificity. In this paper, the role of His229 in sorghum leaf protein has been investigated by site-directed mutagenesis. His229 was replaced by Asn and Gln, both mutations yielding an inactive protein. The role of a conserved Asp (Asp201) as a possible partner of His229 in catalysis has been studied by the same approach. Both Asp mutants (D201A, D201N) were only slightly active and were essentially characterized by a dramatically increased Km for oxaloacetate (45-80-fold). pH dependence of catalytic rates revealed differences between the two Asp mutants. These results demonstrate that, in sorghum leaf NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase, His229 is involved in catalysis in interaction with Asp201.
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- M Lemaire
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, Université Paris-Sud, France
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Lemaire M, Issakidis E, Ruelland E, Decottignies P, Miginiac-Maslow M. An active-site cysteine of sorghum leaf NADP-malate dehydrogenase studied by site-directed mutagenesis. FEBS Lett 1996; 382:137-40. [PMID: 8612735 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00153-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The chloroplast NADP-malate dehydrogenase is activated through the reduction of two different disulfides per subunit. The activated enzyme, as well as a permanently active mutant where all four regulatory cysteines were replaced are still sensitive to thiol reagents. This observation suggested the presence of an additional important cysteine at the active site. In an attempt to identify that cysteine, site-directed mutagenesis was performed on the cDNA encoding sorghum leaf NADP-malate dehydrogenase. The replacement of Cys-175 by an alanine yielded an enzyme whose sensitivity to thiol reagents was markedly decreased whereas its catalytic activity was enhanced. This finding suggests that Cys-175 has no catalytic function but is located close to the active site.
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- M Lemaire
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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BACKGROUND Thioredoxins are ubiquitous proteins that serve as reducing agents and general protein disulfide reductases. The structures of thioredoxins from a number of species, including man and Escherichia coli, are known. Cyanobacteria, such as Anabaena, contain two thioredoxins that exhibit very different activities with target enzymes and share little sequence similarity. Thioredoxin-2 (Trx-2) from Anabaena resembles chloroplast type-f thioredoxin in its activities and the two proteins may be evolutionarily related. We have undertaken structural studies of Trx-2 in order to gain insights into the structure/function relationships of thioredoxins. RESULTS Anabaena Trx-2, like E. coli thioredoxin, consists of a five-stranded beta sheet core surrounded by four alpha helices. The active site includes a conserved disulfide ring (in the sequence 31WCGPC35). An aspartate (E. coli) to tyrosine (Trx-2) substitution alters the position of this disulfide ring relative to the central pleated sheet. However, loss of this conserved aspartate does not affect the disulfide geometry. In the Trx-2 crystals, the N-terminal residues make extensive contacts with a symmetry-related molecule with hydrogen bonds to residues 74-76 mimicking thioredoxin-protein interactions. CONCLUSIONS The overall three-dimensional structure of Trx-2 is similar to E. coli thioredoxin and other related disulfide oxido-reductases. Single amino acid substitutions around the protein interaction area probably account for the unusual enzymatic activities of Trx-2 and its ability to discriminate between substrate and non-substrate peptides.
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- M Saarinen
- Department of Molecular Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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Stein M, Jacquot JP, Jeannette E, Decottignies P, Hodges M, Lancelin JM, Mittard V, Schmitter JM, Miginiac-Maslow M. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii thioredoxins: structure of the genes coding for the chloroplastic m and cytosolic h isoforms; expression in Escherichia coli of the recombinant proteins, purification and biochemical properties. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 28:487-503. [PMID: 7632918 DOI: 10.1007/bf00020396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Based on known amino acid sequences, probes have been generated by PCR and used for the subsequent isolation of cDNAs and genes coding for two thioredoxins (m and h) of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Thioredoxin m, a chloroplastic protein, is encoded as a preprotein of 140 amino acids (15,101 Da) containing a transit peptide of 34 amino acids with a very high content of Ala and Arg residues. The sequence for thioredoxin h codes for a 113 amino acid protein with a molecular mass of 11,817 Da and no signal sequence. The thioredoxin m gene contains a single intron and seems to be more archaic in structure than the thioredoxin h gene, which is split into 4 exons. The cDNA sequences encoding C. reinhardtii thioredoxins m and h have been integrated into the pET-3d expression vector, which permits efficient production of proteins in Escherichia coli cells. A high expression level of recombinant thioredoxins was obtained (up to 50 mg/l culture). This has allowed us to study the biochemical/biophysical properties of the two recombinant proteins. Interestingly, while the m-type thioredoxin was found to have characteristics very close to the ones of prokaryotic thioredoxins, the h-type thioredoxin was quite different with respect to its kinetic behaviour and, most strikingly, its heat denaturation properties.
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- M Stein
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Végétale Moléculaire, URA 1128 CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Jacquot JP, Lopez-Jaramillo J, Chueca A, Cherfils J, Lemaire S, Chedozeau B, Miginiac-Maslow M, Decottignies P, Wolosiuk R, Lopez-Gorge J. High-level expression of recombinant pea chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase and mutagenesis of its regulatory site. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1995; 229:675-81. [PMID: 7758462 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.tb20513.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The cDNA fragment coding for mature chloroplast pea fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase [Fru(1,6)P2ase] was introduced by PCR into the expression vector pET-3d resulting in the construction pET-FBP. After transformation of BL21 (DE3) Escherichia coli cells by the pET-FBP plasmid and induction with isopropyl thio-beta-D-galactoside, high-level expression of the recombinant enzyme was achieved. The protein could be purified in three days by a simple procedure which includes heat treatment, ammonium sulfate fractionation, DEAE Sephacel and ACA 44 chromatographies with a yield of 20 mg/l culture. In every respect, the recombinant enzyme was similar to plant chloroplast Fru(1,6)P2ase and, in particular, its reactivity with Mg2+ and redox regulatory properties were conserved. In a second series of experiments based on three-dimensional modeling of the chloroplast protein and sequence alignments, two cysteine residues of the recombinant enzyme (Cys173 and Cys178) were mutated into serine residues. An active enzyme, which did not respond to thiol reagents and to light activation, was obtained, confirming the putative regulatory role of the insertional sequence characteristic of the chloroplast enzyme.
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- J P Jacquot
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Schmidt M, Svendsen I, Feierabend J. Analysis of the primary structure of the chloroplast isozyme of triosephosphate isomerase from rye leaves by protein and cDNA sequencing indicates a eukaryotic origin of its gene. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1261:257-64. [PMID: 7711069 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(95)00015-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The primary structure of the chloroplast isozyme of triosephosphate isomerase from rye leaves was identified by protein and cDNA sequencing and compared to the deduced amino acid sequence of a cDNA for the cytosolic isozyme. The mature cytosolic and chloroplast isozyme proteins share 64% amino acid sequence identity. The cDNA for the chloroplast isozyme codes for a precursor protein consisting of an N-terminal transit peptide of Mr 4351 and a mature subunit of Mr 27,282. Southern blot analysis indicates that the two rye isozymes are encoded by two independent single genes. Amino acid residues or sequence regions of basic functional relevance in known triosephosphate isomerases are strictly conserved in the chloroplast isozyme. The chloroplast isozyme contains 6 cysteine residues, instead of 4 in the cytosolic isozyme. A cysteine at position 143 of the chloroplast isozyme appears to be modified. Phylogenetic trees constructed on the basis of sequence comparisons for triosephosphate isomerases from different species of all major taxonomic groups indicate that the chloroplast isozyme is much more closely related to eukaryotic cytosolic enzymes than to eubacterial enzymes. The results indicate that the nuclear gene for the chloroplast isozyme originated with that for the cytosolic isozyme through duplication of an ancestral eukaryotic gene, rather than through gene transfer from a prokaryotic endosymbiont.
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- M Schmidt
- Botanisches Institut, J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Jacquot JP, Issakidis E, Decottignies P, Lemaire M, Miginiac-Maslow M. Analysis and manipulation of target enzymes for thioredoxin control. Methods Enzymol 1995; 252:240-52. [PMID: 7476358 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(95)52027-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- J P Jacquot
- Physiologie Végétale Moléculaire, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Lemaire M, Schmitter JM, Issakidis E, Miginiac-Maslow M, Gadal P, Decottignies P. Essential histidine at the active site of sorghum leaf NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)46983-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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