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Chang Y, Tang N, Zhang M. The peptidoglycan synthase PBP interacts with PLASTID DIVISION2 to promote chloroplast division in Physcomitrium patens. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2024; 241:1115-1129. [PMID: 37723553 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
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The peptidoglycan (PG) layer, a core component of the bacterial cell wall, has been retained in the Physcomitrium patens chloroplasts. The PG layer entirely encompasses the P. patens chloroplast, including the division site, but how PG biosynthesis cooperates with the constriction of two envelope membranes at the chloroplast division site remains elusive. Here, focusing on the PG synthase penicillin-binding protein (PBP), we performed cytological and molecular analyses to dissect the mechanism of chloroplast division in P. patens. We showed that PBP, acting in the final step of PG biosynthesis, is likely a chloroplast inner envelope protein that can aggregate at mid-chloroplasts during chloroplast division. Physcomitrium patens had five orthologs of PLASTID DIVISION2 (PDV2), an outer envelope component of the chloroplast division complex. Our data indicated that PpPDV2 proteins interact with PpPBP and are responsible for recruiting PpPBP to the chloroplast division site, in addition to PpDRP5B. Furthermore, we found that PBP deletion and carbenicillin application restrain constriction of the chloroplast division complex, rather than its assembly. This work provides direct molecular evidence for a link between chloroplast division of P. patens and PG biosynthesis and indicates that PG biosynthesis is required for the constriction of the chloroplast division apparatus in P. patens.
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- Ying Chang
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Plant Gene Resources and Biotechnology for Carbon Reduction and Environmental Improvement, College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Plant Gene Resources and Biotechnology for Carbon Reduction and Environmental Improvement, College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Plant Gene Resources and Biotechnology for Carbon Reduction and Environmental Improvement, College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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Wan C, Zhang H, Cheng H, Sowden RG, Cai W, Jarvis RP, Ling Q. Selective autophagy regulates chloroplast protein import and promotes plant stress tolerance. EMBO J 2023; 42:e112534. [PMID: 37248861 PMCID: PMC10350842 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2022112534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Revised: 03/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023] Open
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Chloroplasts are plant organelles responsible for photosynthesis and environmental sensing. Most chloroplast proteins are imported from the cytosol through the translocon at the outer envelope membrane of chloroplasts (TOC). Previous work has shown that TOC components are regulated by the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) to control the chloroplast proteome, which is crucial for the organelle's function and plant development. Here, we demonstrate that the TOC apparatus is also subject to K63-linked polyubiquitination and regulation by selective autophagy, potentially promoting plant stress tolerance. We identify NBR1 as a selective autophagy adaptor targeting TOC components, and mediating their relocation into vacuoles for autophagic degradation. Such selective autophagy is shown to control TOC protein levels and chloroplast protein import and to influence photosynthetic activity as well as tolerance to UV-B irradiation and heat stress in Arabidopsis plants. These findings uncover the vital role of selective autophagy in the proteolytic regulation of specific chloroplast proteins, and how dynamic control of chloroplast protein import is critically important for plants to cope with challenging environments.
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- Chen Wan
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Centre for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and EcologyChinese Academy of SciencesShanghaiChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Centre for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and EcologyChinese Academy of SciencesShanghaiChina
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Centre for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and EcologyChinese Academy of SciencesShanghaiChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Section of Molecular Plant Biology (Department of Biology)University of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Core Facility Center, CAS Centre for Excellence in Molecular Plant SciencesChinese Academy of SciencesShanghaiChina
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- Department of Plant Sciences and Section of Molecular Plant Biology (Department of Biology)University of OxfordOxfordUK
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Centre for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and EcologyChinese Academy of SciencesShanghaiChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- CAS‐JIC Center of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Sciences (CEPAMS), Institute of Plant Physiology and EcologyChinese Academy of SciencesShanghaiChina
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Ho J, Kwan W, Li V, Theg SM. Characterization of thylakoid division using chloroplast dividing mutants in Arabidopsis. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2023:10.1007/s11120-023-01002-4. [PMID: 36856939 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01002-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Chloroplasts are double membrane bound organelles that are found in plants and algae. Their division requires a number of proteins to assemble into rings along the center of the organelle and to constrict in synchrony. Chloroplasts possess a third membrane system, the thylakoids, which house the majority of proteins responsible for the light-dependent reactions. The mechanism that allows chloroplasts to sort out and separate the intricate thylakoid membrane structures during organelle division remain unknown. By characterizing the sizes of thylakoids found in a number of different chloroplast division mutants in Arabidopsis, we show that thylakoids do not divide independently of the chloroplast division cycle. More specifically, we show that thylakoid division requires the formation of both the inner and the outer contractile rings of the chloroplast.
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- Jonathan Ho
- Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
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Gao H, McCormick AJ, Roston RL, Lu Y. Editorial: Structure and function of chloroplasts, Volume III. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1145680. [PMID: 36938040 PMCID: PMC10014905 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1145680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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- Hongbo Gao
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
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David LC, Lee SK, Bruderer E, Abt MR, Fischer-Stettler M, Tschopp MA, Solhaug EM, Sanchez K, Zeeman SC. BETA-AMYLASE9 is a plastidial nonenzymatic regulator of leaf starch degradation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 188:191-207. [PMID: 34662400 PMCID: PMC8774843 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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β-Amylases (BAMs) are key enzymes of transitory starch degradation in chloroplasts, a process that buffers the availability of photosynthetically fixed carbon over the diel cycle to maintain energy levels and plant growth at night. However, during vascular plant evolution, the BAM gene family diversified, giving rise to isoforms with different compartmentation and biological activities. Here, we characterized BETA-AMYLASE 9 (BAM9) of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). Among the BAMs, BAM9 is most closely related to BAM4 but is more widely conserved in plants. BAM9 and BAM4 share features including their plastidial localization and lack of measurable α-1,4-glucan hydrolyzing capacity. BAM4 is a regulator of starch degradation, and bam4 mutants display a starch-excess phenotype. Although bam9 single mutants resemble the wild-type (WT), genetic experiments reveal that the loss of BAM9 markedly enhances the starch-excess phenotypes of mutants already impaired in starch degradation. Thus, BAM9 also regulates starch breakdown, but in a different way. Interestingly, BAM9 gene expression is responsive to several environmental changes, while that of BAM4 is not. Furthermore, overexpression of BAM9 in the WT reduced leaf starch content, but overexpression in bam4 failed to complement fully that mutant's starch-excess phenotype, suggesting that BAM9 and BAM4 are not redundant. We propose that BAM9 activates starch degradation, helping to manage carbohydrate availability in response to fluctuations in environmental conditions. As such, BAM9 represents an interesting gene target to explore in crop species.
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- Laure C David
- Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH-8092, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH-8092, Switzerland
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Zhang R, Guan X, Yang M, Law YS, Voon CP, Yan J, Sun F, Lim BL. Overlapping Functions of the Paralogous Proteins AtPAP2 and AtPAP9 in Arabidopsis thaliana. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:7243. [PMID: 34298863 PMCID: PMC8303434 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22147243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Revised: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Arabidopsis thaliana purple acid phosphatase 2 (AtPAP2), which is anchored to the outer membranes of chloroplasts and mitochondria, affects carbon metabolism by modulating the import of some preproteins into chloroplasts and mitochondria. AtPAP9 bears a 72% amino acid sequence identity with AtPAP2, and both proteins carry a hydrophobic motif at their C-termini. Here, we show that AtPAP9 is a tail-anchored protein targeted to the outer membrane of chloroplasts. Yeast two-hybrid and bimolecular fluorescence complementation experiments demonstrated that both AtPAP9 and AtPAP2 bind to a small subunit of rubisco 1B (AtSSU1B) and a number of chloroplast proteins. Chloroplast import assays using [35S]-labeled AtSSU1B showed that like AtPAP2, AtPAP9 also plays a role in AtSSU1B import into chloroplasts. Based on these data, we propose that AtPAP9 and AtPAP2 perform overlapping roles in modulating the import of specific proteins into chloroplasts. Most plant genomes contain only one PAP-like sequence encoding a protein with a hydrophobic motif at the C-terminus. The presence of both AtPAP2 and AtPAP9 in the Arabidopsis genome may have arisen from genome duplication in Brassicaceae. Unlike AtPAP2 overexpression lines, the AtPAP9 overexpression lines did not exhibit early-bolting or high-seed-yield phenotypes. Their differential growth phenotypes could be due to the inability of AtPAP9 to be targeted to mitochondria, as the overexpression of AtPAP2 on mitochondria enhances the capacity of mitochondria to consume reducing equivalents.
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- Renshan Zhang
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (R.Z.); (X.G.); (M.Y.); (Y.-S.L.); (C.P.V.); (J.Y.); (F.S.)
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (R.Z.); (X.G.); (M.Y.); (Y.-S.L.); (C.P.V.); (J.Y.); (F.S.)
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (R.Z.); (X.G.); (M.Y.); (Y.-S.L.); (C.P.V.); (J.Y.); (F.S.)
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (R.Z.); (X.G.); (M.Y.); (Y.-S.L.); (C.P.V.); (J.Y.); (F.S.)
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (R.Z.); (X.G.); (M.Y.); (Y.-S.L.); (C.P.V.); (J.Y.); (F.S.)
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (R.Z.); (X.G.); (M.Y.); (Y.-S.L.); (C.P.V.); (J.Y.); (F.S.)
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (R.Z.); (X.G.); (M.Y.); (Y.-S.L.); (C.P.V.); (J.Y.); (F.S.)
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (R.Z.); (X.G.); (M.Y.); (Y.-S.L.); (C.P.V.); (J.Y.); (F.S.)
- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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An J, Miao X, Wang L, Li X, Liu X, Gao H. Visualizing the Integrity of Chloroplast Envelope by Rhodamine and Nile Red Staining. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:668414. [PMID: 33981327 PMCID: PMC8107281 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.668414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Chloroplasts are essential organelles in plant cells with many important functions. Chloroplasts isolated by Percoll density gradient centrifugation are widely used in the study of chloroplasts. The intactness of isolated chloroplasts is necessary for many of the experiments. In the past, those isolated chloroplasts were either simply believed to be intact or had to be analyzed by indirect biochemical methods. Here we show a new method to check the intactness of isolated chloroplasts by staining their envelope with fluorescent dyes, Rhodamine or Nile red, and then observing them with a fluorescence microscope. With this method, broken chloroplasts and intact chloroplasts can be distinguished easily and their integrity can be checked in a few minutes. Results of this method agreed well with those of biochemical methods. Moreover, we have also found that sometimes the middle layer chloroplasts from the Percoll gradient centrifugation could be mostly broken, which could cause mistakes in the experiment. With our method, this problem can be easily found. This chloroplast envelope staining method can be used in the preparation of isolated chloroplasts to ensure the intactness.
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- Jinjie An
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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Rödiger A, Galonska J, Bergner E, Agne B, Helm S, Alseekh S, Fernie AR, Thieme D, Hoehenwarter W, Hause G, Pfannschmidt T, Baginsky S. Working day and night: plastid casein kinase 2 catalyses phosphorylation of proteins with diverse functions in light- and dark-adapted plastids. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 104:546-558. [PMID: 32745315 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2019] [Revised: 07/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Casein kinase 2 is a ubiquitous protein kinase that has puzzled researchers for several decades because of its pleiotropic activity. Here, we set out to identify the in vivo targets of plastid casein kinase 2 (pCK2) in Arabidopsis thaliana. Survey phosphoproteome analyses were combined with targeted analyses with wild-type and pck2 knockdown mutants to identify potential pCK2 targets by their decreased phosphorylation state in the mutant. To validate potential substrates, we complemented the pck2 knockdown line with tandem affinity tag (TAP)-tagged pCK2 and found it to restore growth parameters, as well as many, but not all, putative pCK2-dependent phosphorylation events. We further performed a targeted analysis at the end-of-night to increase the specificity of target protein identification. This analysis confirmed light-independent phosphorylation of several pCK2 target proteins. Based on the aforementioned data, we define a set of in vivo pCK2-targets that span different chloroplast functions, such as metabolism, transcription, translation and photosynthesis. The pleiotropy of pCK2 functions is also manifested by altered state transition kinetics during short-term acclimation and significant alterations in the mutant metabolism, supporting its function in photosynthetic regulation. Thus, our data expand our understanding on chloroplast phosphorylation networks and provide insights into kinase networks in the regulation of chloroplast functions.
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- Anja Rödiger
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Charles Tanford Proteinzentrum, Kurt-Mothes-Str. 3a, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Charles Tanford Proteinzentrum, Kurt-Mothes-Str. 3a, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Charles Tanford Proteinzentrum, Kurt-Mothes-Str. 3a, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Charles Tanford Proteinzentrum, Kurt-Mothes-Str. 3a, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Charles Tanford Proteinzentrum, Kurt-Mothes-Str. 3a, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Wissenschaftspark Golm, Potsdam, 14476, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Wissenschaftspark Golm, Potsdam, 14476, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie, Weinbergweg 3, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie, Weinbergweg 3, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
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- Biocentre, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Weinbergweg 22, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Charles Tanford Proteinzentrum, Kurt-Mothes-Str. 3a, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
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Eseverri Á, Baysal C, Medina V, Capell T, Christou P, Rubio LM, Caro E. Transit Peptides From Photosynthesis-Related Proteins Mediate Import of a Marker Protein Into Different Plastid Types and Within Different Species. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:560701. [PMID: 33101328 PMCID: PMC7545105 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.560701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Nucleus-encoded plastid proteins are synthesized as precursors with N-terminal targeting signals called transit peptides (TPs), which mediate interactions with the translocon complexes at the outer (TOC) and inner (TIC) plastid membranes. These complexes exist in multiple isoforms in higher plants and show differential specificity and tissue abundance. While some show specificity for photosynthesis-related precursor proteins, others distinctly recognize nonphotosynthetic and housekeeping precursor proteins. Here we used TPs from four Arabidopsis thaliana proteins, three related to photosynthesis (chlorophyll a/b binding protein, Rubisco activase) and photo-protection (tocopherol cyclase) and one involved in the assimilation of ammonium into amino-acids, and whose expression is most abundant in the root (ferredoxin dependent glutamate synthase 2), to determine whether they were able to mediate import of a nuclear-encoded marker protein into plastids of different tissues of a dicot and a monocot species. In A. thaliana, import and processing efficiency was high in all cases, while TP from the rice Rubisco small chain 1, drove very low import in Arabidopsis tissues. Noteworthy, our results show that Arabidopsis photosynthesis TPs also mediate plastid import in rice callus, and in leaf and root tissues with almost a 100% efficiency, providing new biotechnological tools for crop improvement strategies based on recombinant protein accumulation in plastids by the expression of nuclear-encoded transgenes.
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- Álvaro Eseverri
- Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
- Departamento de Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Plant Production and Forestry Science, University of Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain
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- Department of Plant Production and Forestry Science, University of Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain
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- Department of Plant Production and Forestry Science, University of Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain
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- Department of Plant Production and Forestry Science, University of Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain
- ICREA, Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
- Departamento de Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
- Departamento de Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Bhattacharya O, Ortiz I, Walling LL. Methodology: an optimized, high-yield tomato leaf chloroplast isolation and stroma extraction protocol for proteomics analyses and identification of chloroplast co-localizing proteins. PLANT METHODS 2020; 16:131. [PMID: 32983250 PMCID: PMC7513546 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-020-00667-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Chloroplasts are critical organelles that perceive and convey metabolic and stress signals to different cellular components, while remaining the seat of photosynthesis and a metabolic factory. The proteomes of intact leaves, chloroplasts, and suborganellar fractions of plastids have been evaluated in the model plant Arabidopsis, however fewer studies have characterized the proteomes of plastids in crops. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an important world-wide crop and a model system for the study of wounding, herbivory and fruit ripening. While significant advances have been made in understanding proteome and metabolome changes in fruit ripening, far less is known about the tomato chloroplast proteome or its subcompartments. RESULTS With the long-term goal of understanding chloroplast proteome dynamics in response to stress, we describe a high-yielding method to isolate intact tomato chloroplasts and stromal proteins for proteomic studies. The parameters that limit tomato chloroplast yields were identified and revised to increase yields. Compared to published data, our optimized method increased chloroplast yields by 6.7- and 4.3-fold relative to published spinach and Arabidopsis leaf protocols, respectively; furthermore, tomato stromal protein yields were up to 79-fold higher than Arabidopsis stromal proteins yields. We provide immunoblot evidence for the purity of the stromal proteome isolated using our enhanced methods. In addition, we leverage our nanoliquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (nanoLC-MS/MS) data to assess the quality of our stromal proteome. Using strict criteria, proteins detected by 1 peptide spectral match, by one peptide, or were sporadically detected were designated as low-level contaminating proteins. A set of 254 proteins that reproducibly co-isolated with the tomato chloroplast stroma were identified. The subcellular localization, frequency of detection, normalized spectral abundance, and functions of the co-isolating proteins are discussed. CONCLUSIONS Our optimized method for chloroplast isolation increased the yields of tomato chloroplasts eightfold enabling the proteomics analysis of the chloroplast stromal proteome. The set of 254 proteins that co-isolate with the chloroplast stroma provides opportunities for developing a better understanding of the extensive and dynamic interactions of chloroplasts with other organelles. These co-isolating proteins also have the potential for expanding our knowledge of proteins that are co-localized in multiple subcellular organelles.
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- Oindrila Bhattacharya
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
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Shanmugabalaji V, Grimm B, Kessler F. Characterization of a Plastoglobule-Localized SOUL4 Heme-Binding Protein in Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:2. [PMID: 32076429 PMCID: PMC7006542 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 01/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Heme plays an active role in primary plant metabolic pathways as well as in stress signaling. In this study, we characterized the predicted heme-binding protein SOUL4. Proteomics evidence suggests that SOUL4 is a component of Arabidopsis plastoglobules (PGs, chloroplast lipid droplets). SOUL4 contains heme-binding motifs and the recombinant protein is shown here to bind heme in vitro. Fluorescence-tagged SOUL4 colocalized with the specific PG marker Fibrillin1A (FBN1A) in transiently transformed Nicotiana benthamiana leaves. In addition, SOUL4 cofractionated with another PG marker Fibrillin2 (FBN2) in sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation experiments. In vitro kinase experiments revealed that SOUL4 is phosphorylated by a yet unknown chloroplast protein kinase. Our data demonstrate that SOUL4 is a bona fide PG protein and may function in heme-buffering in the chloroplast.
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- Venkatasalam Shanmugabalaji
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- *Correspondence: Venkatasalam Shanmugabalaji,
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- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Ling Q, Broad W, Trösch R, Töpel M, Demiral Sert T, Lymperopoulos P, Baldwin A, Jarvis RP. Ubiquitin-dependent chloroplast-associated protein degradation in plants. Science 2019; 363:363/6429/eaav4467. [PMID: 30792274 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav4467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2018] [Accepted: 01/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Chloroplasts contain thousands of nucleus-encoded proteins that are imported from the cytosol by translocases in the chloroplast envelope membranes. Proteolytic regulation of the translocases is critically important, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms. We applied forward genetics and proteomics in Arabidopsis to identify factors required for chloroplast outer envelope membrane (OEM) protein degradation. We identified SP2, an Omp85-type β-barrel channel of the OEM, and CDC48, a cytosolic AAA+ (ATPase associated with diverse cellular activities) chaperone. Both proteins acted in the same pathway as the ubiquitin E3 ligase SP1, which regulates OEM translocase components. SP2 and CDC48 cooperated to bring about retrotranslocation of ubiquitinated substrates from the OEM (fulfilling conductance and motor functions, respectively), enabling degradation of the substrates by the 26S proteasome in the cytosol. Such chloroplast-associated protein degradation (CHLORAD) is vital for organellar functions and plant development.
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- Qihua Ling
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK. .,Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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Zhao J, Xu J, Chen B, Cui W, Zhou Z, Song X, Chen Z, Zheng H, Lin L, Peng J, Lu Y, Deng Z, Chen J, Yan F. Characterization of Proteins Involved in Chloroplast Targeting Disturbed by Rice Stripe Virus by Novel Protoplast⁻Chloroplast Proteomics. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E253. [PMID: 30634635 PMCID: PMC6358847 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20020253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Revised: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Rice stripe virus (RSV) is one of the most devastating viral pathogens in rice and can also cause the general chlorosis symptom in Nicotiana benthamiana plants. The chloroplast changes associated with chlorosis symptom suggest that RSV interrupts normal chloroplast functions. Although the change of proteins of the whole cell or inside the chloroplast in response to RSV infection have been revealed by proteomics, the mechanisms resulted in chloroplast-related symptoms and the crucial factors remain to be elucidated. RSV infection caused the malformation of chloroplast structure and a global reduction of chloroplast membrane protein complexes in N. benthamiana plants. Here, both the protoplast proteome and the chloroplast proteome were acquired simultaneously upon RSV infection, and the proteins in each fraction were analyzed. In the protoplasts, 1128 proteins were identified, among which 494 proteins presented significant changes during RSV; meanwhile, 659 proteins were identified from the chloroplasts, and 279 of these chloroplast proteins presented significant change. According to the label-free LC⁻MS/MS data, 66 nucleus-encoded chloroplast-related proteins (ChRPs), which only reduced in chloroplast but not in the whole protoplast, were identified, indicating that these nuclear-encoded ChRPswere not transported to chloroplasts during RSV infection. Gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis confirmed that RSV infection changed the biological process of protein targeting to chloroplast, where 3 crucial ChRPs (K4CSN4, K4CR23, and K4BXN9) were involved in the regulation of protein targeting into chloroplast. In addition to these 3 proteins, 41 among the 63 candidate proteins were characterized to have chloroplast transit peptides. These results indicated that RSV infection changed the biological process of protein targeting into chloroplast and the location of ChRPs through crucial protein factors, which illuminated a new layer of RSV⁻host interaction that might contribute to the symptom development.
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- Jinping Zhao
- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- Texas A&M University AgriLife Research Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75252, USA.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
- Center of Research and Development of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- Center of Research and Development of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Sustainable Control of Pest and Disease, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MOA of China and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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The Direct Involvement of Dark-Induced Tic55 Protein in Chlorophyll Catabolism and Its Indirect Role in the MYB108-NAC Signaling Pathway during Leaf Senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19071854. [PMID: 29937503 PMCID: PMC6073118 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19071854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2018] [Revised: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The chloroplast relies on proteins encoded in the nucleus, synthesized in the cytosol and subsequently transported into chloroplast through the protein complexes Toc and Tic (Translocon at the outer/inner membrane of chloroplasts). A Tic complex member, Tic55, contains a redox-related motif essential for protein import into chloroplasts in peas. However, Tic55 is not crucial for protein import in Arabidopsis. Here, a tic55-II-knockout mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana was characterized for Tic55 localization, its relationship with other translocon proteins, and its association with plant leaf senescence when compared to the wild type. Individually darkened leaves (IDLs) obtained through dark-induced leaf senescence were used to demonstrate chlorophyll breakdown and its relationship with plant senescence in the tic55-II-knockout mutant. The IDLs of the tic55-II-knockout mutant contained higher chlorophyll concentrations than those of the wild type. Our microarray analysis of IDLs during leaf senescence identified seven senescence-associated genes (SAGs) that were downregulated in the tic55-II-knockout mutant: ASP3, APG7, DIN2, DIN11, SAG12, SAG13, and YLS9. Real-time quantitative PCR confirmed the reliability of microarray analysis by showing the same expression patterns with those of the microarray data. Thus, Tic55 functions in dark-induced aging in A. thaliana by indirectly regulating downstream SAGs expression. In addition, the expression of four NAC genes, including ANAC003, ANAC010, ANAC042, and ANAC075 of IDL treated tic55-II-knockout mutant appeared to be downregulated. Yeast one hybrid assay revealed that only ANAC003 promoter region can be bound by MYB108, suggesting that a MYB-NAC regulatory network is involved in dark-stressed senescence.
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Spicher L, Almeida J, Gutbrod K, Pipitone R, Dörmann P, Glauser G, Rossi M, Kessler F. Essential role for phytol kinase and tocopherol in tolerance to combined light and temperature stress in tomato. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:5845-5856. [PMID: 29186558 PMCID: PMC5854125 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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In a changing environment, plants need to cope with the impact of rising temperatures together with high light intensity. Here, we used lipidomics in the tomato model system to identify lipophilic molecules that enhance tolerance to combined high-temperature and high-light stress. Among several hundred metabolites, the two most strongly up-regulated compounds were α-tocopherol and plastoquinone/plastoquinol. Both are well-known lipid antioxidants and contribute to the protection of photosystem II (PSII) against photodamage under environmental stress. To address the protective function of tocopherol, an RNAi line (vte5) with decreased expression of VTE5 and reduced levels of α-tocopherol was selected. VTE5 encodes phytol kinase, which acts in the biosynthetic pathway of tocopherols. vte5 suffered strong photoinhibition and photobleaching when exposed to combined high-light and high-temperature stress, but neither stress alone produced a visible phenotype. As vte5 had plastoquinone levels similar to those of the wild type under combined stress, the strong phenotype could be attributed to the lack of α-tocopherol. These findings suggest that VTE5 protects against combined high-light and high-temperature stress and does so by supporting α-tocopherol production.
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- Livia Spicher
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants, University of Bonn, Germany
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants, University of Bonn, Germany
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- Neuchâtel Platform of Analytical Chemistry, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Schönberg A, Rödiger A, Mehwald W, Galonska J, Christ G, Helm S, Thieme D, Majovsky P, Hoehenwarter W, Baginsky S. Identification of STN7/STN8 kinase targets reveals connections between electron transport, metabolism and gene expression. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 90:1176-1186. [PMID: 28295753 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Revised: 03/03/2017] [Accepted: 03/06/2017] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The thylakoid-associated kinases STN7 and STN8 are involved in short- and long-term acclimation of photosynthetic electron transport to changing light conditions. Here we report the identification of STN7/STN8 in vivo targets that connect photosynthetic electron transport with metabolism and gene expression. Comparative phosphoproteomics with the stn7 and stn8 single and double mutants identified two proteases, one RNA-binding protein, a ribosomal protein, the large subunit of Rubisco and a ferredoxin-NADP reductase as targets for the thylakoid-associated kinases. Phosphorylation of three of the above proteins can be partially complemented by STN8 in the stn7 single mutant, albeit at lower efficiency, while phosphorylation of the remaining three proteins strictly depends on STN7. The properties of the STN7-dependent phosphorylation site are similar to those of phosphorylated light-harvesting complex proteins entailing glycine or another small hydrophobic amino acid in the -1 position. Our analysis uncovers the STN7/STN8 kinases as mediators between photosynthetic electron transport, its immediate downstream sinks and long-term adaptation processes affecting metabolite accumulation and gene expression.
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- Anna Schönberg
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Weinbergweg 22, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Weinbergweg 22, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Weinbergweg 22, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Weinbergweg 22, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Weinbergweg 22, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Weinbergweg 22, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Proteomeanalytik, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Proteomeanalytik, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Biozentrum, Weinbergweg 22, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Zhang R, Guan X, Law YS, Sun F, Chen S, Wong KB, Lim BL. AtPAP2 modulates the import of the small subunit of Rubisco into chloroplasts. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2016; 11:e1239687. [PMID: 27700374 PMCID: PMC5117095 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2016.1239687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Arabidopsis thaliana purple acid phosphatase 2 (AtPAP2) is the only phosphatase that is dual-targeted to both chloroplasts and mitochondria. Like Toc33/34 of the TOC and Tom 20 of the TOM, AtPAP2 is anchored to the outer membranes of chloroplasts and mitochondria via a hydrophobic C-terminal motif. AtPAP2 on the mitochondria was previously shown to recognize the presequences of several nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins and modulate the import of pMORF3 into the mitochondria. Here we show that AtPAP2 binds to the small subunit of Rubisco (pSSU) and that chloroplast import experiments demonstrated that pSSU was imported less efficiently into pap2 chloroplasts than into wild-type chloroplasts. We propose that AtPAP2 is an outer membrane-bound phosphatase receptor that facilitates the import of selected proteins into chloroplasts.
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- Renshan Zhang
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
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- Centre for Protein Science and Crystallography, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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- Centre for Protein Science and Crystallography, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
- CONTACT Boon Leong LIM
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Paila YD, Richardson LG, Inoue H, Parks ES, McMahon J, Inoue K, Schnell DJ. Multi-functional roles for the polypeptide transport associated domains of Toc75 in chloroplast protein import. eLife 2016; 5. [PMID: 26999824 PMCID: PMC4811774 DOI: 10.7554/elife.12631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2015] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Toc75 plays a central role in chloroplast biogenesis in plants as the membrane channel of the protein import translocon at the outer envelope of chloroplasts (TOC). Toc75 is a member of the Omp85 family of bacterial and organellar membrane insertases, characterized by N-terminal POTRA (polypeptide-transport associated) domains and C-terminal membrane-integrated β-barrels. We demonstrate that the Toc75 POTRA domains are essential for protein import and contribute to interactions with TOC receptors, thereby coupling preprotein recognition at the chloroplast surface with membrane translocation. The POTRA domains also interact with preproteins and mediate the recruitment of molecular chaperones in the intermembrane space to facilitate membrane transport. Our studies are consistent with the multi-functional roles of POTRA domains observed in other Omp85 family members and demonstrate that the domains of Toc75 have evolved unique properties specific to the acquisition of protein import during endosymbiotic evolution of the TOC system in plastids. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12631.001 Chloroplasts are a hallmark feature of plant cells and the sites of photosynthesis – the process in which plants harness the energy in sunlight for their own needs. The first chloroplasts arose when a photosynthetic bacterium was engulfed by another host cell, and most of the original bacterial genes have been transferred to the host cell’s nucleus during the evolution of land plants. As a result, modern chloroplasts need to import the thousands of proteins encoded by these genes from the rest of the cell. The chloroplast protein import system relies on a protein transporter in the chloroplast membrane that evolved from a family of bacterial transporters. However, the bacterial transporters were initially involved in protein export, and it was not known how the activity of these transporters adapted to move proteins in the opposite direction. Paila et al. set out to better understand the chloroplast protein import system and produced mutated forms of the transporter in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. These experiments revealed that a part of the transporter that is conserved in many other organisms, the “protein transport associated domains”, has been adapted for three key roles in protein import. First, this part of the transporter interacts with the other components of the import system that make the transporter more selective and control which direction the proteins are transported. Second, the domains interact with proteins during transport to help move them across the chloroplast membrane. Finally, the domains recruit other molecules called chaperones, which stop the protein from aggregating or misfolding during the transport process. These activities are similar to those for the bacterial export transporters, but clearly evolved to allow transport in the opposite direction – that is, to import proteins into chloroplasts. The next challenges are to explain how proteins destined for chloroplasts are recognized and transported through the chloroplast’s membrane. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12631.002
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- Yamuna D Paila
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
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- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
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- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
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- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
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- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, United States
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- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
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Qiao J, Cai M, Yan G, Wang N, Li F, Chen B, Gao G, Xu K, Li J, Wu X. High-throughput multiplex cpDNA resequencing clarifies the genetic diversity and genetic relationships among Brassica napus, Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2016; 14:409-18. [PMID: 26031705 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2014] [Revised: 03/26/2015] [Accepted: 04/09/2015] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Brassica napus (rapeseed) is a recent allotetraploid plant and the second most important oilseed crop worldwide. The origin of B. napus and the genetic relationships with its diploid ancestor species remain largely unresolved. Here, chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) from 488 B. napus accessions of global origin, 139 B. rapa accessions and 49 B. oleracea accessions were populationally resequenced using Illumina Solexa sequencing technologies. The intraspecific cpDNA variants and their allelic frequencies were called genomewide and further validated via EcoTILLING analyses of the rpo region. The cpDNA of the current global B. napus population comprises more than 400 variants (SNPs and short InDels) and maintains one predominant haplotype (Bncp1). Whole-genome resequencing of the cpDNA of Bncp1 haplotype eliminated its direct inheritance from any accession of the B. rapa or B. oleracea species. The distribution of the polymorphism information content (PIC) values for each variant demonstrated that B. napus has much lower cpDNA diversity than B. rapa; however, a vast majority of the wild and cultivated B. oleracea specimens appeared to share one same distinct cpDNA haplotype, in contrast to its wild C-genome relatives. This finding suggests that the cpDNA of the three Brassica species is well differentiated. The predominant B. napus cpDNA haplotype may have originated from uninvestigated relatives or from interactions between cpDNA mutations and natural/artificial selection during speciation and evolution. These exhaustive data on variation in cpDNA would provide fundamental data for research on cpDNA and chloroplasts.
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- Jiangwei Qiao
- Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Chen YE, Yuan S, Schröder WP. Comparison of methods for extracting thylakoid membranes of Arabidopsis plants. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2016; 156:3-12. [PMID: 26337850 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Revised: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 07/15/2015] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Robust and reproducible methods for extracting thylakoid membranes are required for the analysis of photosynthetic processes in higher plants such as Arabidopsis. Here, we compare three methods for thylakoid extraction using two different buffers. Method I involves homogenizing the plant material with a metal/glass blender; method II involves manually grinding the plant material in ice-cold grinding buffer with a mortar and method III entails snap-freezing followed by manual grinding with a mortar, after which the frozen powder is thawed in isolation buffer. Thylakoid membrane samples extracted using each method were analyzed with respect to protein and chlorophyll content, yields relative to starting material, oxygen-evolving activity, protein complex content and phosphorylation. We also examined how the use of fresh and frozen thylakoid material affected the extracts' contents of protein complexes. The use of different extraction buffers did not significantly alter the protein content of the extracts in any case. Method I yielded thylakoid membranes with the highest purity and oxygen-evolving activity. Method III used low amounts of starting material and was capable of capturing rapid phosphorylation changes in the sample at the cost of higher levels of contamination. Method II yielded thylakoid membrane extracts with properties intermediate between those obtained with the other two methods. Finally, frozen and freshly isolated thylakoid membranes performed identically in blue native-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis experiments conducted in order to separate multimeric protein supracomplexes.
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- Yang-Er Chen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Umeå, Umeå, SE-901 87, Sweden
- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, 625014, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, China
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Lung SC, Smith MD, Chuong SDX. Isolation of Chloroplasts from Plant Protoplasts. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2015; 2015:895-899. [PMID: 26430249 DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot074559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Chloroplasts can be isolated from higher plants directly following homogenization; however, the resulting yield, purity, and intactness are often low, necessitating a large amount of starting material. This protocol is optimized to produce a high yield of pure chloroplasts from isolated Arabidopsis protoplasts. The two-part method is a simple, scaled-down, and low-cost procedure that readily provides healthy mesophyll protoplasts, which are then ruptured to release intact chloroplasts. Chloroplasts isolated using this method are competent for use in biochemical, cellular, and molecular analyses.
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- Shiu-Cheung Lung
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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Schönberg A, Bergner E, Helm S, Agne B, Dünschede B, Schünemann D, Schutkowski M, Baginsky S. The peptide microarray "ChloroPhos1.0" identifies new phosphorylation targets of plastid casein kinase II (pCKII) in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS One 2014; 9:e108344. [PMID: 25295873 PMCID: PMC4189921 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2014] [Accepted: 08/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We report the development of a peptide microarray based on previously determined phosphorylation sites in chloroplast proteins. Altogether, 905 peptides were spotted as 15mers in nine replicates onto glass slides. We used the microarray for in vitro phosphorylation experiments and specifically assessed the peptide substrate spectrum of chloroplast casein kinase II (pCKII). To this end, native pCKII from Arabidopsis thaliana and Sinapis alba chloroplasts was enriched by Heparin-Sepharose chromatography and its activity on the microarray was compared to the activity of a recombinant Arabidopsis pCKII. All three kinase preparations phosphorylated a similar set of peptides that were clearly distinct from those phosphorylated by bovine heart protein kinase A (PKA) in control experiments. The majority of the pCKII phosphorylation targets are involved in plastid gene expression, supporting the earlier denomination of pCKII as plastid transcription kinase (PTK). In addition we identified Alb3 as pCKII substrate that is essential for the integration of light-harvesting complex subunits (LHC) into the thylakoid membrane. Plastid CKII phosphorylation activity was characterized in greater detail in vitro with recombinant wildtype Alb3 and phosphorylation site mutants as substrates, establishing S424 as the pCKII phosphorylation site. Our data show that the peptide microarray ChloroPhos1.0 is a suitable tool for the identification of new kinase downstream targets in vitro that can be validated subsequently by in vivo experiments.
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- Anna Schönberg
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Molecular Biology of Plant Organelles, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Molecular Biology of Plant Organelles, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
- Steinbeis-Forschungszentrum, Peptide Microarrays, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Estavillo GM, Verhertbruggen Y, Scheller HV, Pogson BJ, Heazlewood JL, Ito J. Isolation of the plant cytosolic fraction for proteomic analysis. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1072:453-67. [PMID: 24136540 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-631-3_31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The cytosol is the fluid portion of the cell that is not partitioned by membranes. It contains a highly diverse collection of substances and is central to many essential cellular processes ranging from signal transduction, metabolite production and transport, protein biosynthesis and degradation to stress response and defense. Despite its importance, only a few proteomic studies have been performed on the plant cytosol. This is largely due to difficulties in isolating relatively pure samples from plant material free of disrupted organelle material. In this chapter we outline methods for isolating the cytosolic fraction from Arabidopsis cell cultures and seedlings and provide guidance on assessing purity for analysis by mass spectrometry.
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- Gonzalo M Estavillo
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology and Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Midorikawa T, Inoue K. Multiple fates of non-mature lumenal proteins in thylakoids. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 76:73-86. [PMID: 23802992 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2013] [Revised: 06/18/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Most proteins found in the thylakoid lumen are synthesized in the cytosol with an N-terminal extension consisting of transient signals for chloroplast import and thylakoid transfer in tandem. The thylakoid-transfer signal is required for protein sorting from the stroma to thylakoids, mainly via the cpSEC or cpTAT pathway, and is removed by the thylakoidal processing peptidase in the lumen. An Arabidopsis mutant lacking one of the thylakoidal processing peptidase homologs, Plsp1, contains plastids with anomalous thylakoids and is seedling-lethal. Furthermore, the mutant plastids accumulate two cpSEC substrates (PsbO and PetE) and one cpTAT substrate (PsbP) as intermediate forms. These properties of plsp1-null plastids suggest that complete maturation of lumenal proteins is a critical step for proper thylakoid assembly. Here we tested the effects of inhibition of thylakoid-transfer signal removal on protein targeting and accumulation by examining the localization of non-mature lumenal proteins in the Arabidopsis plsp1-null mutant and performing a protein import assay using pea chloroplasts. In plsp1-null plastids, the two cpSEC substrates were shown to be tightly associated with the membrane, while non-mature PsbP was found in the stroma. The import assay revealed that inhibition of thylakoid-transfer signal removal did not disrupt cpSEC- and cpTAT-dependent translocation, but prevented release of proteins from the membrane. Interestingly, non-mature PetE2 was quickly degraded under light, and unprocessed PsbO1 and PsbP1 were found in a 440-kDa complex and as a monomer, respectively. These results indicate that the cpTAT pathway may be disrupted in the plsp1-null mutant, and that there are multiple mechanisms to control unprocessed lumenal proteins in thylakoids.
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- Takafumi Midorikawa
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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Endow JK, Inoue K. Stable complex formation of thylakoidal processing peptidase and PGRL1. FEBS Lett 2013; 587:2226-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.05.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2013] [Revised: 05/10/2013] [Accepted: 05/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Ling Q, Huang W, Baldwin A, Jarvis P. Chloroplast biogenesis is regulated by direct action of the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Science 2012; 338:655-9. [PMID: 23118188 DOI: 10.1126/science.1225053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Development of chloroplasts and other plastids depends on the import of thousands of nucleus-encoded proteins from the cytosol. Import is initiated by TOC (translocon at the outer envelope of chloroplasts) complexes in the plastid outer membrane that incorporate multiple, client-specific receptors. Modulation of import is thought to control the plastid's proteome, developmental fate, and functions. Using forward genetics, we identified Arabidopsis SP1, which encodes a RING-type ubiquitin E3 ligase of the chloroplast outer membrane. The SP1 protein associated with TOC complexes and mediated ubiquitination of TOC components, promoting their degradation. Mutant sp1 plants performed developmental transitions that involve plastid proteome changes inefficiently, indicating a requirement for reorganization of the TOC machinery. Thus, the ubiquitin-proteasome system acts on plastids to control their development.
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- Qihua Ling
- Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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Tapken W, Ravet K, Pilon M. Plastocyanin controls the stabilization of the thylakoid Cu-transporting P-type ATPase PAA2/HMA8 in response to low copper in Arabidopsis. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:18544-50. [PMID: 22493454 PMCID: PMC3365703 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.318204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2011] [Revised: 03/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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PAA2/HMA8 (P-type ATPase of Arabidopsis/Heavy-metal-associated 8) is a thylakoid located copper (Cu)-transporter in Arabidopsis thaliana. In tandem with PAA1/HMA6, which is located in the inner chloroplast envelope, it supplies Cu to plastocyanin (PC), an essential cuproenzyme of the photosynthetic machinery. We investigated whether the chloroplast Cu transporters are affected by Cu addition to the growth media. Immunoblots showed that PAA2 protein abundance decreased significantly and specifically when Cu in the media was increased, while PAA1 remained unaffected. The function of SPL7, the transcriptional regulator of Cu homeostasis, was not required for this regulation of PAA2 protein abundance and Cu addition did not affect PAA2 transcript levels, as determined by qRT-PCR. We used the translational inhibitor cycloheximide to analyze turnover and observed that the stability of the PAA2 protein was decreased in plants grown with elevated Cu. Interestingly, PAA2 protein abundance was significantly increased in paa1 mutants, in which the Cu content in the chloroplast is half of that of the wild-type, due to impaired Cu import into the organelle. In contrast in a pc2 insertion mutant, which has strongly reduced plastocyanin expression, the PAA2 protein levels were low regardless of Cu addition to the growth media. Together, these data indicate that plastid Cu levels control PAA2 stability and that plastocyanin, which is the target of PAA2 mediated Cu delivery in thylakoids, is a major determinant of this regulatory mechanism.
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- Wiebke Tapken
- From the Biology Department and Program in Molecular Plant Biology Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1878
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- From the Biology Department and Program in Molecular Plant Biology Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1878
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- From the Biology Department and Program in Molecular Plant Biology Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1878
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Yang Y, Jin H, Chen Y, Lin W, Wang C, Chen Z, Han N, Bian H, Zhu M, Wang J. A chloroplast envelope membrane protein containing a putative LrgB domain related to the control of bacterial death and lysis is required for chloroplast development in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2012; 193:81-95. [PMID: 21916894 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03867.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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• A protein encoded by At1g32080 was consistently identified in proteomic studies of Arabidopsis chloroplast envelope membranes, but its function remained unclear. The protein, designated AtLrgB, may have evolved from a gene fusion of lrgA and lrgB. In bacteria, two homologous operons, lrgAB and cidAB, participate in an emerging mechanism to control cell death and lysis. • We aim to characterize AtLrgB using reverse genetics and cell biological and biochemical analysis. • AtLrgB is expressed in leaves, but not in roots. T-DNA insertion mutation of AtLrgB produced plants with interveinal chlorotic and premature necrotic leaves. Overexpression of full-length AtLrgB (or its LrgA and LrgB domains, separately), under the control of CaMV 35S promoter, produced plants exhibiting veinal chlorosis and delayed greening. At the end of light period, the T-DNA mutant had high starch and low sucrose contents in leaves, while the 35S:AtLrgB plants had low starch and high sucrose contents. Metabolite profiling revealed that AtLrgB appeared not to directly transport triose phosphate or hexose phosphates. In yeast cells, AtLrgB could augment nystatin-induced membrane permeability. • Our work indicates that AtLrgB is a new player in chloroplast development, carbon partitioning and leaf senescence, although its molecular mechanism remains to be established.
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- Yanjun Yang
- Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Santelia D, Kötting O, Seung D, Schubert M, Thalmann M, Bischof S, Meekins DA, Lutz A, Patron N, Gentry MS, Allain FHT, Zeeman SC. The phosphoglucan phosphatase like sex Four2 dephosphorylates starch at the C3-position in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2011; 23:4096-111. [PMID: 22100529 PMCID: PMC3246334 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.092155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2011] [Revised: 09/28/2011] [Accepted: 10/27/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Starch contains phosphate covalently bound to the C6-position (70 to 80% of total bound phosphate) and the C3-position (20 to 30%) of the glucosyl residues of the amylopectin fraction. In plants, the transient phosphorylation of starch renders the granule surface more accessible to glucan hydrolyzing enzymes and is required for proper starch degradation. Phosphate also confers desired properties to starch-derived pastes for industrial applications. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the removal of phosphate by the glucan phosphatase Starch Excess4 (SEX4) is essential for starch breakdown. We identified a homolog of SEX4, LSF2 (Like Sex Four2), as a novel enzyme involved in starch metabolism in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. Unlike SEX4, LSF2 does not have a carbohydrate binding module. Nevertheless, it binds to starch and specifically hydrolyzes phosphate from the C3-position. As a consequence, lsf2 mutant starch has elevated levels of C3-bound phosphate. SEX4 can release phosphate from both the C6- and the C3-positions, resulting in partial functional overlap with LSF2. However, compared with sex4 single mutants, the lsf2 sex4 double mutants have a more severe starch-excess phenotype, impaired growth, and a further change in the proportion of C3- and C6-bound phosphate. These findings significantly advance our understanding of the metabolism of phosphate in starch and provide innovative options for tailoring novel starches with improved functionality for industry.
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- Diana Santelia
- Institute for Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Bischof S, Baerenfaller K, Wildhaber T, Troesch R, Vidi PA, Roschitzki B, Hirsch-Hoffmann M, Hennig L, Kessler F, Gruissem W, Baginsky S. Plastid proteome assembly without Toc159: photosynthetic protein import and accumulation of N-acetylated plastid precursor proteins. THE PLANT CELL 2011; 23:3911-28. [PMID: 22128122 PMCID: PMC3246318 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.092882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2011] [Revised: 10/19/2011] [Accepted: 11/14/2011] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Import of nuclear-encoded precursor proteins from the cytosol is an essential step in chloroplast biogenesis that is mediated by protein translocon complexes at the inner and outer envelope membrane (TOC). Toc159 is thought to be the main receptor for photosynthetic proteins, but lacking a large-scale systems approach, this hypothesis has only been tested for a handful of photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic proteins. To assess Toc159 precursor specificity, we quantitatively analyzed the accumulation of plastid proteins in two mutant lines deficient in this receptor. Parallel genome-wide transcript profiling allowed us to discern the consequences of impaired protein import from systemic transcriptional responses that contribute to the loss of photosynthetic capacity. On this basis, we defined putative Toc159-independent and Toc159-dependent precursor proteins. Many photosynthetic proteins accumulate in Toc159-deficient plastids, and, surprisingly, several distinct metabolic pathways are negatively affected by Toc159 depletion. Lack of Toc159 furthermore affects several proteins that accumulate as unprocessed N-acetylated precursor proteins outside of plastids. Together, our data show an unexpected client protein promiscuity of Toc159 that requires a far more differentiated view of Toc159 receptor function and regulation of plastid protein import, in which cytosolic Met removal followed by N-terminal acetylation of precursors emerges as an additional regulatory step.
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- Sylvain Bischof
- Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Végétale, 2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Functional Genomics Center Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Balsemão-Pires E, Jaillais Y, Olson BJSC, Andrade LR, Umen JG, Chory J, Sachetto-Martins G. The Arabidopsis translocator protein (AtTSPO) is regulated at multiple levels in response to salt stress and perturbations in tetrapyrrole metabolism. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2011; 11:108. [PMID: 21689410 PMCID: PMC3141639 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-11-108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2011] [Accepted: 06/20/2011] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND The translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO), previously known as the peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), is important for many cellular functions in mammals and bacteria, such as steroid biosynthesis, cellular respiration, cell proliferation, apoptosis, immunomodulation, transport of porphyrins and anions. Arabidopsis thaliana contains a single TSPO/PBR-related gene with a 40 amino acid N-terminal extension compared to its homologs in bacteria or mammals suggesting it might be chloroplast or mitochondrial localized. RESULTS To test if the TSPO N-terminal extension targets it to organelles, we fused three potential translational start sites in the TSPO cDNA to the N-terminus of GFP (AtTSPO:eGFP). The location of the AtTSPO:eGFP fusion protein was found to depend on the translational start position and the conditions under which plants were grown. Full-length AtTSPO:eGFP fusion protein was found in the endoplasmic reticulum and in vesicles of unknown identity when plants were grown in standard conditions. However, full length AtTSPO:eGFP localized to chloroplasts when grown in the presence of 150 mM NaCl, conditions of salt stress. In contrast, when AtTSPO:eGFP was truncated to the second or third start codon at amino acid position 21 or 42, the fusion protein co-localized with a mitochondrial marker in standard conditions. Using promoter GUS fusions, qRT-PCR, fluorescent protein tagging, and chloroplast fractionation approaches, we demonstrate that AtTSPO levels are regulated at the transcriptional, post-transcriptional and post-translational levels in response to abiotic stress conditions. Salt-responsive genes are increased in a tspo-1 knock-down mutant compared to wild type under conditions of salt stress, while they are decreased when AtTSPO is overexpressed. Mutations in tetrapyrrole biosynthesis genes and the application of chlorophyll or carotenoid biosynthesis inhibitors also affect AtTSPO expression. CONCLUSION Our data suggest that AtTSPO plays a role in the response of Arabidopsis to high salt stress. Salt stress leads to re-localization of the AtTSPO from the ER to chloroplasts through its N-terminal extension. In addition, our results show that AtTSPO is regulated at the transcriptional level in tetrapyrrole biosynthetic mutants. Thus, we propose that AtTSPO may play a role in transporting tetrapyrrole intermediates during salt stress and other conditions in which tetrapyrrole metabolism is compromised.
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- Emilia Balsemão-Pires
- Laboratório de Genômica Funcional e Transdução de Sinal, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute 4000 Jones Bridge RoadChevy Chase, MD 20815-6789, USA
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- Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Laboratório de Biomineralização, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute 4000 Jones Bridge RoadChevy Chase, MD 20815-6789, USA
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- Laboratório de Genômica Funcional e Transdução de Sinal, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Infanger S, Bischof S, Hiltbrunner A, Agne B, Baginsky S, Kessler F. The chloroplast import receptor Toc90 partially restores the accumulation of Toc159 client proteins in the Arabidopsis thaliana ppi2 mutant. MOLECULAR PLANT 2011; 4:252-63. [PMID: 21220583 DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssq071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Successful import of hundreds of nucleus-encoded proteins is essential for chloroplast biogenesis. The import of cytosolic precursor proteins relies on the Toc- (translocon at the outer chloroplast membrane) and Tic- (translocon at the inner chloroplast membrane) complexes. In Arabidopsis thaliana, precursor recognition is mainly mediated by outer membrane receptors belonging to two gene families: Toc34/33 and Toc159/132/120/90. The role in import and precursor selectivity of these receptors has been intensively studied, but the function of Toc90 still remains unclear. Here, we report the ability of Toc90 to support the import of Toc159 client proteins. We show that the overexpression of Toc90 partially complements the albino knockout of Toc159 and restores photoautotrophic growth. Several lines of evidence including proteome profiling demonstrate the import and accumulation of proteins essential for chloroplast biogenesis and functionality.
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- Sibylle Infanger
- Laboratoire de physiologie végétale, Université de Neuchâtel, Rue Emile-Argand 11, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Aronsson H, Jarvis RP. Rapid isolation of Arabidopsis chloroplasts and their use for in vitro protein import assays. Methods Mol Biol 2011; 774:281-305. [PMID: 21822845 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-234-2_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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In vitro chloroplast protein import assays have been performed since the late 1970s, initially with plant species (e.g., pea and spinach) that readily provide an abundant source of starting material and also, subsequently, a good yield of chloroplasts for import assays. However, the sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome paved the way for an additional model system that is more amenable to genetic analysis, as a complement to the more biochemically orientated models such as pea and spinach. A prerequisite for this change was an efficient and reliable protocol for the isolation of chloroplasts for use in protein import assays, enabling biochemical approaches to be combined with the genetic potential of the plant. The method described here was developed as a rapid and low-cost procedure that can be accessed by everyone due to its simplicity. Despite its rapidity and simplicity, the method yields highly pure chloroplasts, and in addition works well with mutant plants that exhibit pale or chlorotic phenotypes. The protocol is also optimized for work with material from young plants (10-14 days old), when protein import is believed to be at its peak, and so plant growth can be conducted in vitro on Murashige and Skoog medium. The isolation method has been used not only for protein import assays, but also for proteomic analysis and further subfractionation studies.
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- Henrik Aronsson
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Su PH, Li HM. Stromal Hsp70 is important for protein translocation into pea and Arabidopsis chloroplasts. THE PLANT CELL 2010; 22:1516-31. [PMID: 20484004 PMCID: PMC2899880 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.071415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2009] [Revised: 04/26/2010] [Accepted: 05/10/2010] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Hsp70 family proteins function as motors driving protein translocation into mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum. Whether Hsp70 is involved in protein import into chloroplasts has not been resolved. We show here Arabidopsis thaliana knockout mutants of either of the two stromal cpHsc70s, cpHsc70-1 and cpHsc70-2, are defective in protein import into chloroplasts during early developmental stages. Protein import was found to be affected at the step of precursor translocation across the envelope membranes. From solubilized envelope membranes, stromal cpHsc70 was specifically coimmunoprecipitated with importing precursors and stoichiometric amounts of Tic110 and Hsp93. Moreover, in contrast with receptors at the outer envelope membrane, cpHsp70 is important for the import of both photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic proteins. These data indicate that cpHsc70 is part of the chloroplast translocon for general import and is important for driving translocation into the stroma. We further analyzed the relationship of cpHsc70 with the other suggested motor system, Hsp93/Tic40. Chloroplasts from the cphsc70-1 hsp93-V double mutant had a more severe import defect than did the single mutants, suggesting that the two proteins function in parallel. The cphsc70-1 tic40 double knockout was lethal, further indicating that cpHsc70-1 and Tic40 have an overlapping essential function. In conclusion, our data indicate that chloroplasts have two chaperone systems facilitating protein translocation into the stroma: the cpHsc70 system and the Hsp93/Tic40 system.
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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Shipman-Roston RL, Ruppel NJ, Damoc C, Phinney BS, Inoue K. The significance of protein maturation by plastidic type I signal peptidase 1 for thylakoid development in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2010; 152:1297-308. [PMID: 20097790 PMCID: PMC2832241 DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.151977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2009] [Accepted: 01/19/2010] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Thylakoids are the chloroplast internal membrane systems that house light-harvesting and electron transport reactions. Despite the important functions and well-studied constituents of thylakoids, the molecular mechanism of their development remains largely elusive. A recent genetic study has demonstrated that plastidic type I signal peptidase 1 (Plsp1) is vital for proper thylakoid development in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) chloroplasts. Plsp1 was also shown to be necessary for processing of an envelope protein, Toc75, and a thylakoid lumenal protein, OE33; however, the relevance of the protein maturation in both of the two distinct subcompartments for proper chloroplast development remained unknown. Here, we conducted an extensive analysis of the plsp1-null mutant to address the significance of lumenal protein maturation in thylakoid development. Plastids that lack Plsp1 were found to accumulate vesicles of variable sizes in the stroma. Analyses of the mutant plastids revealed that the lack of Plsp1 causes a reduction in accumulation of thylakoid proteins and that Plsp1 is involved in maturation of two additional lumenal proteins, OE23 and plastocyanin. Further immunoblotting and electron microscopy immunolocalization studies showed that OE33 associates with the stromal vesicles of the mutant plastids. Finally, we used a genetic complementation system to demonstrate that accumulation of improperly processed forms of Toc75 in the plastid envelope does not disrupt normal plant development. These results suggest that proper maturation of lumenal proteins may be a key process for correct assembly of thylakoids.
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Schneider T, Keller F. Raffinose in chloroplasts is synthesized in the cytosol and transported across the chloroplast envelope. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2009; 50:2174-82. [PMID: 19880397 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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In chloroplasts, several water-soluble carbohydrates have been suggested to act as stress protectants. The trisaccharide raffinose (alpha-1,6-galactosyl sucrose) is such a carbohydrate but has received little attention. We here demonstrate by compartmentation analysis of leaf mesophyll protoplasts that raffinose is clearly (to about 20%) present in chloroplasts of cold-treated common bugle (Ajuga reptans L.), spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) and Arabidopsis [Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.] plants. The two dedicated enzymes needed for raffinose synthesis, galactinol synthase and raffinose synthase, were found to be extra-chloroplastic (probably cytosolic) in location, suggesting that the chloroplast envelope contains a raffinose transporter. Uptake experiments with isolated Ajuga and Arabidopsis chloroplasts clearly demonstrated that raffinose is indeed transported across the chloroplast envelope by a raffinose transporter, probably actively. Raffinose uptake into Ajuga chloroplasts was a saturable process with apparent K(m) and v(max) values of 27.8 mM and 3.3 micromol mg(-1) Chl min(-1), respectively.
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- Thomas Schneider
- Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Universität Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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Schelbert S, Aubry S, Burla B, Agne B, Kessler F, Krupinska K, Hörtensteiner S. Pheophytin pheophorbide hydrolase (pheophytinase) is involved in chlorophyll breakdown during leaf senescence in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2009; 21:767-85. [PMID: 19304936 PMCID: PMC2671698 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.108.064089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 332] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2008] [Revised: 02/12/2009] [Accepted: 03/08/2009] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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During leaf senescence, chlorophyll is removed from thylakoid membranes and converted in a multistep pathway to colorless breakdown products that are stored in vacuoles. Dephytylation, an early step of this pathway, increases water solubility of the breakdown products. It is widely accepted that chlorophyll is converted into pheophorbide via chlorophyllide. However, chlorophyllase, which converts chlorophyll to chlorophyllide, was found not to be essential for dephytylation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Here, we identify pheophytinase (PPH), a chloroplast-located and senescence-induced hydrolase widely distributed in algae and land plants. In vitro, Arabidopsis PPH specifically dephytylates the Mg-free chlorophyll pigment, pheophytin (phein), yielding pheophorbide. An Arabidopsis mutant deficient in PPH (pph-1) is unable to degrade chlorophyll during senescence and therefore exhibits a stay-green phenotype. Furthermore, pph-1 accumulates phein during senescence. Therefore, PPH is an important component of the chlorophyll breakdown machinery of senescent leaves, and we propose that the sequence of early chlorophyll catabolic reactions be revised. Removal of Mg most likely precedes dephytylation, resulting in the following order of early breakdown intermediates: chlorophyll --> pheophytin --> pheophorbide. Chlorophyllide, the last precursor of chlorophyll biosynthesis, is most likely not an intermediate of breakdown. Thus, chlorophyll anabolic and catabolic reactions are metabolically separated.
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- Silvia Schelbert
- Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zürich, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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Agne B, Infanger S, Wang F, Hofstetter V, Rahim G, Martin M, Lee DW, Hwang I, Schnell D, Kessler F. A toc159 import receptor mutant, defective in hydrolysis of GTP, supports preprotein import into chloroplasts. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:8670-9. [PMID: 19188370 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m804235200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The heterotrimeric Toc core complex of the chloroplast protein import apparatus contains two GTPases, Toc159 and Toc34, together with the protein-conducting channel Toc75. Toc159 and Toc34 are exposed at the chloroplast surface and function in preprotein recognition. Together, they have been shown to facilitate the import of photosynthetic proteins into chloroplasts in Arabidopsis. Consequently, the ppi2 mutant lacking atToc159 has a non-photosynthetic albino phenotype. Previous mutations in the conserved G1 and G3 GTPase motifs abolished the function of Toc159 in vivo by disrupting targeting of the receptor to chloroplasts. Here, we demonstrate that a mutant in a conserved G1 lysine (atToc159 K868R) defective in GTP binding and hydrolysis can target and assemble into Toc complexes. We show that atToc159 K868R can support protein import into isolated chloroplasts, albeit at lower preprotein binding and import efficiencies compared with the wild-type receptor. Considering the absence of measurable GTPase activity in the K868R mutant, we conclude that GTP hydrolysis at atToc159 is not strictly required for preprotein translocation. The data also indicate that preprotein import requires at least one additional GTPase other than Toc159.
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- Birgit Agne
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Végétale, Université de Neuchâtel, Rue Emile-Argand 11, 2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Chiu CC, Li HM. Tic40 is important for reinsertion of proteins from the chloroplast stroma into the inner membrane. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 56:793-801. [PMID: 18657235 PMCID: PMC2667645 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2008.03638.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2008] [Revised: 07/16/2008] [Accepted: 07/17/2008] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Chloroplast inner-membrane proteins Tic40 and Tic110 are first imported from the cytosol into the chloroplast stroma, and subsequently reinserted from the stroma into the inner membrane. However, the mechanism of reinsertion remains unclear. Here we show that Tic40 itself is involved in this reinsertion process. When precursors of either Tic40 or a Tic110 C-terminal truncate, tpTic110-Tic110N, were imported into chloroplasts isolated from a tic40-null mutant, soluble Tic40 and Tic110N intermediates accumulated in the stroma of tic40-mutant chloroplasts, due to a slower rate of reinsertion. We further show that a larger quantity of soluble Tic21 intermediates also accumulated in the stroma of tic40-mutant chloroplasts. In contrast, inner-membrane insertion of the triose-phosphate/phosphate translocator was not affected by the tic40 mutation. Our data suggest that multiple pathways exist for the insertion of chloroplast inner-membrane proteins.
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- * For correspondence (fax +886 2 2782 6085; e-mail )
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Seigneurin-Berny D, Salvi D, Dorne AJ, Joyard J, Rolland N. Percoll-purified and photosynthetically active chloroplasts from Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2008; 46:951-5. [PMID: 18707896 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2008.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2008] [Revised: 06/11/2008] [Accepted: 06/14/2008] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The availability of the complete genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana and of large collections of insertion mutants paved the way for systematic studies of gene functions in this organism, thus requiring adapting biochemical and physiological tools to this model plant. For physiological analysis of photosynthesis, methods combining high level of chloroplast purity and preservation of the photosynthetic activity were missing. Here, we describe a rapid method (less than 1h) to obtain Percoll-purified and photosynthetically active chloroplasts from Arabidopsis leaves retaining almost 90% of the Vmax of photosynthesis measured in the starting leaves from plants grown under a light intensity of 150mumolphotonm(-2)s(-1) and 80% of their initial photosynthetic rate after 3h of storage.
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- Daphné Seigneurin-Berny
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, CNRS (UMR-5168)/CEA/INRA (UMR-1200)/Université Joseph Fourier, iRTSV, CEA-Grenoble, France.
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Morris J, Tian H, Park S, Sreevidya CS, Ward JM, Hirschi KD. AtCCX3 is an Arabidopsis endomembrane H+ -dependent K+ transporter. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 148:1474-86. [PMID: 18775974 PMCID: PMC2577254 DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.118810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2008] [Accepted: 08/30/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) cation calcium exchangers (CCXs) were recently identified as a subfamily of cation transporters; however, no plant CCXs have been functionally characterized. Here, we show that Arabidopsis AtCCX3 (At3g14070) and AtCCX4 (At1g54115) can suppress yeast mutants defective in Na(+), K(+), and Mn(2+) transport. We also report high-capacity uptake of (86)Rb(+) in tonoplast-enriched vesicles from yeast expressing AtCCX3. Cation competition studies showed inhibition of (86)Rb(+) uptake in AtCCX3 cells by excess Na(+), K(+), and Mn(2+). Functional epitope-tagged AtCCX3 fusion proteins were localized to endomembranes in plants and yeast. In Arabidopsis, AtCCX3 is primarily expressed in flowers, while AtCCX4 is expressed throughout the plant. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction showed that expression of AtCCX3 increased in plants treated with NaCl, KCl, and MnCl(2). Insertional mutant lines of AtCCX3 and AtCCX4 displayed no apparent growth defects; however, overexpression of AtCCX3 caused increased Na(+) accumulation and increased (86)Rb(+) transport. Uptake of (86)Rb(+) increased in tonoplast-enriched membranes isolated from Arabidopsis lines expressing CCX3 driven by the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. Overexpression of AtCCX3 in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) produced lesions in the leaves, stunted growth, and resulted in the accumulation of higher levels of numerous cations. In summary, these findings suggest that AtCCX3 is an endomembrane-localized H(+)-dependent K(+) transporter with apparent Na(+) and Mn(2+) transport properties distinct from those of previously characterized plant transporters.
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- Jay Morris
- Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77845, USA
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Patel R, Hsu SC, Bédard J, Inoue K, Jarvis P. The Omp85-related chloroplast outer envelope protein OEP80 is essential for viability in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 148:235-45. [PMID: 18621981 PMCID: PMC2528115 DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.122754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2008] [Accepted: 07/07/2008] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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beta-Barrel proteins of the Omp85 (Outer membrane protein, 85 kD) superfamily exist in the outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria, mitochondria, and chloroplasts. Prominent Omp85 proteins in bacteria and mitochondria mediate biogenesis of other beta-barrel proteins and are indispensable for viability. In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) chloroplasts, there are two distinct types of Omp85-related protein: Toc75 (Translocon at the outer envelope membrane of chloroplasts, 75 kD) and OEP80 (Outer Envelope Protein, 80 kD). Toc75 functions as a preprotein translocation channel during chloroplast import, but the role of OEP80 remains elusive. We characterized three T-DNA mutants of the Arabidopsis OEP80 (AtOEP80) gene. Selectable markers associated with the oep80-1 and oep80-2 insertions segregated abnormally, suggesting embryo lethality of the homozygous genotypes. Indeed, no homozygotes were identified among >100 individuals, and heterozygotes of both mutants produced approximately 25% aborted seeds upon self-pollination. Embryo arrest occurred at a relatively late stage (globular embryo proper) as revealed by analysis using Nomarski optics microscopy. This is substantially later than arrest caused by loss of the principal Toc75 isoform, atToc75-III (two-cell stage), suggesting a more specialized role for AtOEP80. Surprisingly, the oep80-3 T-DNA (located in exon 1 between the first and second ATG codons of the open reading frame) did not cause any detectable developmental defects or affect the size of the AtOEP80 protein in chloroplasts. This indicates that the N-terminal region of AtOEP80 is not essential for the targeting, biogenesis, or functionality of the protein, in contrast with atToc75-III, which requires a bipartite targeting sequence.
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- Ramesh Patel
- Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
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Jasinski M, Sudre D, Schansker G, Schellenberg M, Constant S, Martinoia E, Bovet L. AtOSA1, a member of the Abc1-like family, as a new factor in cadmium and oxidative stress response. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 147:719-31. [PMID: 18390807 PMCID: PMC2409006 DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.110247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2007] [Accepted: 03/20/2008] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The analysis of gene expression in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) using cDNA microarrays and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction showed that AtOSA1 (A. thaliana oxidative stress-related Abc1-like protein) transcript levels are influenced by Cd2+ treatment. The comparison of protein sequences revealed that AtOSA1 belongs to the family of Abc1 proteins. Up to now, Abc1-like proteins have been identified in prokaryotes and in the mitochondria of eukaryotes. AtOSA1 is the first member of this family to be localized in the chloroplasts. However, despite sharing homology to the mitochondrial ABC1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, AtOSA1 was not able to complement yeast strains deleted in the endogenous ABC1 gene, thereby suggesting different function between AtOSA1 and the yeast ABC1. The atosa1-1 and atosa1-2 T-DNA insertion mutants were more affected than wild-type plants by Cd2+ and revealed an increased sensitivity toward oxidative stress (hydrogen peroxide) and high light. The mutants exhibited higher superoxide dismutase activities and differences in the expression of genes involved in the antioxidant pathway. In addition to the conserved Abc1 region in the AtOSA1 protein sequence, putative kinase domains were found. Protein kinase assays in gelo using myelin basic protein as a kinase substrate revealed that chloroplast envelope membrane fractions from the AtOSA1 mutant lacked a 70-kD phosphorylated protein compared to the wild type. Our data suggest that the chloroplast AtOSA1 protein is a new factor playing a role in the balance of oxidative stress.
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- Michal Jasinski
- University of Zurich, Institute of Plant Biology, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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McAndrew RS, Olson BJSC, Kadirjan-Kalbach DK, Chi-Ham CL, Vitha S, Froehlich JE, Osteryoung KW. In vivo quantitative relationship between plastid division proteins FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 and identification of ARC6 and ARC3 in a native FtsZ complex. Biochem J 2008; 412:367-78. [PMID: 18284374 DOI: 10.1042/bj20071354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 are phylogenetically distinct homologues of the tubulin-like bacterial cell division protein FtsZ that play major roles in the initiation and progression of plastid division in plant cells. Both proteins are components of a mid-plastid ring, the Z-ring, which functions as a contractile ring on the stromal surface of the chloroplast IEM (inner envelope membrane). FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 have been shown to interact, but their in vivo biochemical properties are largely unknown. To gain insight into the in vivo biochemical relationship between FtsZ1 and FtsZ2, in the present study we investigated their molecular levels in wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana plants and endogenous interactions in Arabidopsis and pea. Quantitative immunoblotting and morphometric analysis showed that the average total FtsZ concentration in chloroplasts of 3-week-old Arabidopsis plants is comparable with that in Escherichia coli. FtsZ levels declined as plants matured, but the molar ratio between FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 remained constant at approx. 1:2, suggesting that this stoichiometry is regulated and functionally important. Density-gradient centrifugation, native gel electrophoresis, gel filtration and co-immunoprecipitation experiments showed that a portion of the FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 in Arabidopsis and pea chloroplasts is stably associated in a complex of approximately 200-245 kDa. This complex also contains the FtsZ2-interacting protein ARC6 (accumulation and replicatioin of chloroplasts 6), an IEM protein, and analysis of density-gradient fractions suggests the presence of the FtsZ1-interacting protein ARC3. Based on the mid-plastid localization of ARC6 and ARC3 and their postulated roles in promoting and inhibiting chloroplast FtsZ polymer formation respectively, we hypothesize that the FtsZ1-FtsZ2-ARC3-ARC6 complex represents an unpolymerized IEM-associated pool of FtsZ that contributes to the dynamic regulation of Z-ring assembly and remodelling at the plastid division site in vivo.
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- Rosemary S McAndrew
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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Fulton DC, Stettler M, Mettler T, Vaughan CK, Li J, Francisco P, Gil M, Reinhold H, Eicke S, Messerli G, Dorken G, Halliday K, Smith AM, Smith SM, Zeeman SC. Beta-AMYLASE4, a noncatalytic protein required for starch breakdown, acts upstream of three active beta-amylases in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. THE PLANT CELL 2008; 20:1040-58. [PMID: 18390594 PMCID: PMC2390740 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.056507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2007] [Revised: 02/21/2008] [Accepted: 03/20/2008] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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This work investigated the roles of beta-amylases in the breakdown of leaf starch. Of the nine beta-amylase (BAM)-like proteins encoded in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, at least four (BAM1, -2, -3, and -4) are chloroplastic. When expressed as recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli, BAM1, BAM2, and BAM3 had measurable beta-amylase activity but BAM4 did not. BAM4 has multiple amino acid substitutions relative to characterized beta-amylases, including one of the two catalytic residues. Modeling predicts major differences between the glucan binding site of BAM4 and those of active beta-amylases. Thus, BAM4 probably lost its catalytic capacity during evolution. Total beta-amylase activity was reduced in leaves of bam1 and bam3 mutants but not in bam2 and bam4 mutants. The bam3 mutant had elevated starch levels and lower nighttime maltose levels than the wild type, whereas bam1 did not. However, the bam1 bam3 double mutant had a more severe phenotype than bam3, suggesting functional overlap between the two proteins. Surprisingly, bam4 mutants had elevated starch levels. Introduction of the bam4 mutation into the bam3 and bam1 bam3 backgrounds further elevated the starch levels in both cases. These data suggest that BAM4 facilitates or regulates starch breakdown and operates independently of BAM1 and BAM3. Together, our findings are consistent with the proposal that beta-amylase is a major enzyme of starch breakdown in leaves, but they reveal unexpected complexity in terms of the specialization of protein function.
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- Daniel C Fulton
- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, United Kingdom
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Su PH, Li HM. Arabidopsis stromal 70-kD heat shock proteins are essential for plant development and important for thermotolerance of germinating seeds. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 146:1231-41. [PMID: 18192441 PMCID: PMC2259073 DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.114496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2007] [Accepted: 01/06/2008] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The 70-kD heat shock proteins (Hsp70s) have been shown to be important for protein folding, protein translocation, and stress responses in almost all organisms and in almost all subcellular compartments. However, the function of plastid stromal Hsp70s in higher plants is still uncertain. Genomic surveys have revealed that there are two putative stromal Hsp70s in Arabidopsis thaliana, denoted cpHsc70-1 (At4g24280) and cpHsc70-2 (At5g49910). In this study, we show that cpHsc70-1 and cpHsc70-2 could indeed be imported into the chloroplast stroma. Their corresponding T-DNA insertion knockout mutants were isolated and designated as Deltacphsc70-1 and Deltacphsc70-2. No visible phenotype was observed in the Deltacphsc70-2 mutant under normal growth conditions. In contrast, Deltacphsc70-1 mutant plants exhibited variegated cotyledons, malformed leaves, growth retardation, and impaired root growth, even though the protein level of cpHsc70-2 was up-regulated in the Deltacphsc70-1 mutant. After heat shock treatment of germinating seeds, root growth from Deltacphsc70-1 seeds was further impaired, indicating that cpHsc70-1 is important for thermotolerance of germinating seeds. No Deltacphsc70-1 Deltacphsc70-2 double mutant could be obtained, suggesting that the Deltacphsc70 double knockout was lethal. Genotype analyses of F(1) seedlings from various crosses indicated that double-knockout mutation was lethal to the female gametes and reduced the transmission efficiency of the male gametes. These results indicate that cpHsc70s are essential for plant development and the two cpHsc70s most likely have redundant but also distinct functions.
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- Pai-Hsiang Su
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
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Balasubramanian R, Karve A, Kandasamy M, Meagher RB, Moore BD. A role for F-actin in hexokinase-mediated glucose signaling. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 145:1423-34. [PMID: 17965176 PMCID: PMC2151701 DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.108704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2007] [Accepted: 10/22/2007] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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HEXOKINASE1 (HXK1) from Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) has dual roles in glucose (Glc) signaling and in Glc phosphorylation. The cellular context, though, for HXK1 function in either process is not well understood. Here we have shown that within normal experimental detection limits, AtHXK1 is localized continuously to mitochondria. Two mitochondrial porin proteins were identified as capable of binding to overexpressed HXK1 protein, both in vivo and in vitro. We also found that AtHXK1 can be associated with its structural homolog, F-actin, based on their coimmunoprecipitation from transgenic plants that overexpress HXK1-FLAG or from transient expression assays, and based on their localization in leaf cells after cryofixation. This association might be functionally important because Glc signaling in protoplast transient expression assays is compromised by disruption of F-actin. We also demonstrate that Glc treatment of Arabidopsis seedlings rapidly and reversibly disrupts fine mesh actin filaments. The possible roles of actin in HXK-dependent Glc signaling are discussed.
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Robert S, Zouhar J, Carter C, Raikhel N. Isolation of intact vacuoles from Arabidopsis rosette leaf-derived protoplasts. Nat Protoc 2007; 2:259-62. [PMID: 17406583 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Vacuoles are very prominent compartments within plant cells, and understanding of their function relies on knowledge of their content. Here, we present a simple vacuole purification protocol that was successfully used for large-scale isolation of vacuoles, free of significant contamination from other endomembrane compartments. This method is based on osmotic and thermal disruption of mesophyl-derived Arabidopsis protoplasts, followed by a density gradient fractionation of the cellular content. The whole procedure, including protoplast isolation, takes approximately 6 h.
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- Stéphanie Robert
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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Bouvier F, Linka N, Isner JC, Mutterer J, Weber APM, Camara B. Arabidopsis SAMT1 defines a plastid transporter regulating plastid biogenesis and plant development. THE PLANT CELL 2006; 18:3088-105. [PMID: 17098813 PMCID: PMC1693945 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.040741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2005] [Revised: 09/01/2006] [Accepted: 10/24/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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S-Adenosylmethionine (SAM) is formed exclusively in the cytosol but plays a major role in plastids; SAM can either act as a methyl donor for the biogenesis of small molecules such as prenyllipids and macromolecules or as a regulator of the synthesis of aspartate-derived amino acids. Because the biosynthesis of SAM is restricted to the cytosol, plastids require a SAM importer. However, this transporter has not yet been identified. Here, we report the molecular and functional characterization of an Arabidopsis thaliana gene designated SAM TRANSPORTER1 (SAMT1), which encodes a plastid metabolite transporter required for the import of SAM from the cytosol. Recombinant SAMT1 produced in yeast cells, when reconstituted into liposomes, mediated the counter-exchange of SAM with SAM and with S-adenosylhomocysteine, the by-product and inhibitor of transmethylation reactions using SAM. Insertional mutation in SAMT1 and virus-induced gene silencing of SAMT1 in Nicotiana benthamiana caused severe growth retardation in mutant plants. Impaired function of SAMT1 led to decreased accumulation of prenyllipids and mainly affected the chlorophyll pathway. Biochemical analysis suggests that the latter effect represents one prominent example of the multiple events triggered by undermethylation, when there is decreased SAM flux into plastids.
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- Florence Bouvier
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université Louis Pasteur, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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Cheng NH, Liu JZ, Brock A, Nelson RS, Hirschi KD. AtGRXcp, an Arabidopsis chloroplastic glutaredoxin, is critical for protection against protein oxidative damage. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:26280-8. [PMID: 16829529 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m601354200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Glutaredoxins (Grxs) are ubiquitous small heat-stable disulfide oxidoreductases and members of the thioredoxin (Trx) fold protein family. In bacterial, yeast, and mammalian cells, Grxs appear to be involved in maintaining cellular redox homeostasis. However, in plants, the physiological roles of Grxs have not been fully characterized. Recently, an emerging subgroup of Grxs with one cysteine residue in the putative active motif (monothiol Grxs) has been identified but not well characterized. Here we demonstrate that a plant protein, AtGRXcp, is a chloroplast-localized monothiol Grx with high similarity to yeast Grx5. In yeast expression assays, AtGRXcp localized to the mitochondria and suppressed the sensitivity of yeast grx5 cells to H2O2 and protein oxidation. AtGRXcp expression can also suppress iron accumulation and partially rescue the lysine auxotrophy of yeast grx5 cells. Analysis of the conserved monothiol motif suggests that the cysteine residue affects AtGRXcp expression and stability. In planta, AtGRXcp expression was elevated in young cotyledons, green tissues, and vascular bundles. Analysis of atgrxcp plants demonstrated defects in early seedling growth under oxidative stresses. In addition, atgrxcp lines displayed increased protein carbonylation within chloroplasts. Thus, this work describes the initial functional characterization of a plant monothiol Grx and suggests a conserved biological function in protecting cells against protein oxidative damage.
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- Ning-Hui Cheng
- Plant Physiology Group, United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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