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Weaver RJ, McDonald AE. Mitochondrial alternative oxidase across the tree of life: Presence, absence, and putative cases of lateral gene transfer. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. BIOENERGETICS 2023; 1864:149003. [PMID: 37557975 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.149003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
Abstract
The alternative oxidase (AOX) is a terminal oxidase in the electron transport system that plays a role in mitochondrial bioenergetics. The past 20 years of research shows AOX has a wide yet patchy distribution across the tree of life. AOX has been suggested to have a role in stress tolerance, growth, and development in plants, but less is known about its function in other groups, including animals. In this study, we analyzed the taxonomic distribution of AOX across >2800 species representatives from prokaryotes and eukaryotes and developed a standardized workflow for finding and verifying the authenticity of AOX sequences. We found that AOX is limited to proteobacteria among prokaryotes, but is widely distributed in eukaryotes, with the highest prevalence in plants, fungi, and protists. AOX is present in many invertebrates, but is absent in others including most arthropods, and is absent from vertebrates. We found aberrant AOX sequences associated with some animal groups. Some of these aberrant AOXs were contaminants, but we also found putative cases of lateral gene transfer of AOX from fungi and protists to nematodes, springtails, fungus gnats, and rotifers. Our findings provide a robust and detailed analysis of the distribution of AOX and a method for identifying and verifying putative AOX sequences, which will be useful as more sequence data becomes available on public repositories.
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- Ryan J Weaver
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Kuo WH, Small LL, Olsen KM. Variable expression of cyanide detoxification and tolerance genes in cyanogenic and acyanogenic white clover (Trifolium repens). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2023; 110:e16233. [PMID: 37661820 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Revised: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
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PREMISE β-Cyanoalanine synthase (β-CAS) and alternative oxidase (AOX) play important roles in the ability of plants to detoxify and tolerate hydrogen cyanide (HCN). These functions are critical for all plants because HCN is produced at low levels during basic metabolic processes, and especially for cyanogenic species, which release high levels of HCN following tissue damage. However, expression of β-CAS and Aox genes has not been examined in cyanogenic species, nor compared between cyanogenic and acyanogenic genotypes within a species. METHODS We used a natural polymorphism for cyanogenesis in white clover to examine β-CAS and Aox gene expression in relation to cyanogenesis-associated HCN exposure. We identified all β-CAS and Aox gene copies present in the genome, including members of the Aox1, Aox2a, and Aox2d subfamilies previously reported in legumes. Expression levels were compared between cyanogenic and acyanogenic genotypes and between damaged and undamaged leaf tissue. RESULTS β-CAS and Aox2a expression was differentially elevated in cyanogenic genotypes, and tissue damage was not required to induce this increased expression. Aox2d, in contrast, appeared to be upregulated as a generalized wounding response. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest a heightened constitutive role for HCN detoxification (via elevated β-CAS expression) and HCN-toxicity mitigation (via elevated Aox2a expression) in plants that are capable of cyanogenesis. As such, freezing-induced cyanide autotoxicity is unlikely to be the primary selective factor in the evolution of climate-associated cyanogenesis clines.
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- Wen-Hsi Kuo
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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Liu Z, Basso P, Hossain S, Liston SD, Robbins N, Whitesell L, Noble SM, Cowen LE. Multifactor transcriptional control of alternative oxidase induction integrates diverse environmental inputs to enable fungal virulence. Nat Commun 2023; 14:4528. [PMID: 37500616 PMCID: PMC10374912 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40209-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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Metabolic flexibility enables fungi to invade challenging host environments. In Candida albicans, a common cause of life-threatening infections in humans, an important contributor to flexibility is alternative oxidase (Aox) activity. Dramatic induction of this activity occurs under respiratory-stress conditions, which impair the classical electron transport chain (ETC). Here, we show that deletion of the inducible AOX2 gene cripples C. albicans virulence in mice by increasing immune recognition. To investigate further, we examined transcriptional regulation of AOX2 in molecular detail under host-relevant, ETC-inhibitory conditions. We found that multiple transcription factors, including Rtg1/Rtg3, Cwt1/Zcf11, and Zcf2, bind and regulate the AOX2 promoter, conferring thousand-fold levels of inducibility to AOX2 in response to distinct environmental stressors. Further dissection of this complex promoter revealed how integration of stimuli ranging from reactive species of oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur to reduced copper availability is achieved at the transcriptional level to regulate AOX2 induction and enable pathogenesis.
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- Zhongle Liu
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- UCSF Department of Microbiology & Immunology, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- UCSF Department of Microbiology & Immunology, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- UCSF Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Sendra KM, Watson AK, Kozhevnikova E, Moore AL, Embley TM, Hirt RP. Inhibition of mitosomal alternative oxidase causes lifecycle arrest of early-stage Trachipleistophora hominis meronts during intracellular infection of mammalian cells. PLoS Pathog 2022; 18:e1011024. [PMID: 36538568 PMCID: PMC9767352 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Mitosomes are highly reduced forms of mitochondria which have lost two of the 'defining' features of the canonical organelle, the mitochondrial genome, and the capacity to generate energy in the form of ATP. Mitosomes are found in anaerobic protists and obligate parasites and, in most of the studied organisms, have a conserved function in the biosynthesis of iron-sulfur clusters (ISC) that are indispensable cofactors of many essential proteins. The genomes of some mitosome-bearing human pathogenic Microsporidia encode homologues of an alternative oxidase (AOX). This mitochondrial terminal respiratory oxidase is absent from the human host, and hence is a potential target for the development of new antimicrobial agents. Here we present experimental evidence for the mitosomal localization of AOX in the microsporidian Trachipleistophora hominis and demonstrate that it has an important role during the parasite's life cycle progression. Using a recently published methodology for synchronising T. hominis infection of mammalian cell lines, we demonstrated specific inhibition of T. hominis early meront growth and replication by an AOX inhibitor colletochlorin B. Treatment of T. hominis-infected host cells with the drug also inhibited re-infection by newly formed dispersive spores. Addition of the drug during the later stages of the parasite life cycle, when our methods suggest that AOX is not actively produced and T. hominis mitosomes are mainly active in Fe/S cluster biosynthesis, had no inhibitory effects on the parasites. Control experiments with the AOX-deficient microsporidian species Encephalitozoon cuniculi, further demonstrated the specificity of inhibition by the drug. Using the same methodology, we demonstrate effects of two clinically used anti-microsporidian drugs albendazole and fumagillin on the cell biology and life cycle progression of T. hominis infecting mammalian host cells. In summary, our results reveal that T. hominis mitosomes have an active role to play in the progression of the parasite life cycle as well as an important role in the biosynthesis of essential Fe/S clusters. Our work also demonstrates that T. hominis is a useful model for testing the efficacy of therapeutic agents and for studying the physiology and cell biology of microsporidian parasites growing inside infected mammalian cells.
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- Kacper M. Sendra
- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedicine, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Khan K, Van Aken O. The colonization of land was a likely driving force for the evolution of mitochondrial retrograde signalling in plants. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2022; 73:7182-7197. [PMID: 36055768 PMCID: PMC9675596 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Most retrograde signalling research in plants was performed using Arabidopsis, so an evolutionary perspective on mitochondrial retrograde regulation (MRR) is largely missing. Here, we used phylogenetics to track the evolutionary origins of factors involved in plant MRR. In all cases, the gene families can be traced to ancestral green algae or earlier. However, the specific subfamilies containing factors involved in plant MRR in many cases arose during the transition to land. NAC transcription factors with C-terminal transmembrane domains, as observed in the key regulator ANAC017, can first be observed in non-vascular mosses, and close homologs to ANAC017 can be found in seed plants. Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are common to eukaryotes, but E-type CDKs that control MRR also diverged in conjunction with plant colonization of land. AtWRKY15 can be traced to the earliest land plants, while AtWRKY40 only arose in angiosperms and AtWRKY63 even more recently in Brassicaceae. Apetala 2 (AP2) transcription factors are traceable to algae, but the ABI4 type again only appeared in seed plants. This strongly suggests that the transition to land was a major driver for developing plant MRR pathways, while additional fine-tuning events have appeared in seed plants or later. Finally, we discuss how MRR may have contributed to meeting the specific challenges that early land plants faced during terrestrialization.
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- Kasim Khan
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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El-Khoury R, Rak M, Bénit P, Jacobs HT, Rustin P. Cyanide resistant respiration and the alternative oxidase pathway: A journey from plants to mammals. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. BIOENERGETICS 2022; 1863:148567. [PMID: 35500614 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2022.148567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Revised: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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In a large number of organisms covering all phyla, the mitochondrial respiratory chain harbors, in addition to the conventional elements, auxiliary proteins that confer adaptive metabolic plasticity. The alternative oxidase (AOX) represents one of the most studied auxiliary proteins, initially identified in plants. In contrast to the standard respiratory chain, the AOX mediates a thermogenic cyanide-resistant respiration; a phenomenon that has been of great interest for over 2 centuries in that energy is not conserved when electrons flow through it. Here we summarize centuries of studies starting from the early observations of thermogenicity in plants and the identification of cyanide resistant respiration, to the fascinating discovery of the AOX and its current applications in animals under normal and pathological conditions.
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- Riyad El-Khoury
- American University of Beirut Medical Center, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Department, Cairo Street, Hamra, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Université Paris Cité, Inserm, Maladies neurodéveloppementales et neurovasculaires, F-75019 Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Inserm, Maladies neurodéveloppementales et neurovasculaires, F-75019 Paris, France
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, FI-33014, Tampere University, Finland; Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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- Université Paris Cité, Inserm, Maladies neurodéveloppementales et neurovasculaires, F-75019 Paris, France.
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Exogenous oxidative stressors elicit differing age and sex effects in Tigriopus californicus. Exp Gerontol 2022; 166:111871. [PMID: 35750273 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2022.111871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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As organisms age, cellular function declines in a time-dependent manner. Oxidative stress induced by reactive oxygen species damages cellular machinery and contributes to senescence which narrows the homeostatic window needed to maintain function and survive stress. Sex differences in longevity are apparent in many species and may be related to sex-specific homeostatic responses. Here we use the emerging aging model system Tigriopus californicus, the splashpool copepod, to estimate sex- and age-specific tolerances to two chemical oxidants, hydrogen peroxide and paraquat. Sex-specific tolerance was estimated for both oxidants simultaneously for 15 age-classes. As animals aged, hydrogen peroxide tolerance decreased but paraquat tolerance increased. Also, we observed no sex difference for hydrogen peroxide tolerance, while females were more tolerant of paraquat. Our results demonstrate that oxidative stressors can have dramatically different sex and age effects in Tigriopus californicus. These findings underscore the challenges ahead in understanding relationships among oxidative stressors, sex, and aging.
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Jiang N, Li SZ, Zhang YWQ, Habib MR, Xiong T, Xu S, Dong H, Zhao QP. The identification of alternative oxidase in intermediate host snails of Schistosoma and its potential role in protecting Oncomelania hupensis against niclosamide-induced stress. Parasit Vectors 2022; 15:97. [PMID: 35313980 PMCID: PMC8935807 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-022-05227-5] [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: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Snail intermediate hosts are mandatory for the transmission of schistosomiasis, which has to date infected more than 200 million people worldwide. Our previous studies showed that niclosamide treatment caused the inhibition of aerobic respiration and oxidative phosphorylation, and the disruption of energy supply, in one of the intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis, Oncomelania hupensis, which eventually led to the death of the snails. Meanwhile, the terminal oxidase in the mitochondrial respiratory chain, alternative oxidase (AOX), was significantly up-regulated, which was thought to counterbalance the oxidative stress and maintain metabolic homeostasis in the snails. The aims of the present study are to identify the AOXs in several species of snails and investigate the potential activation of O. hupensis AOX (OhAOX) under niclosamide-induced stress, leading to enhanced survival of the snail when exposed to this molluscicide. METHODS The complete complementary DNA was amplified from the AOXs of O. hupensis and three species of Biomphalaria; the sequence characteristics were analysed and the phylogenetics investigated. The dynamic expression and localisation of the AOX gene and protein in O. hupensis under niclosamide-induced stress were examined. In addition, the expression pattern of genes in the mitochondrial respiratory complex was determined and the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) calculated. Finally, the molluscicidal effect of niclosamide was compared between snails with and without inhibition of AOX activity. RESULTS AOXs containing the invertebrate AOX-specific motif NP-[YF]-XPG-[KQE] were identified from four species of snail, which phylogenetically clustered together into Gastropoda AOXs and further into Mollusca AOXs. After niclosamide treatment, the levels of OhAOX messenger RNA (mRNA) and OhAOX protein in the whole snail were 14.8 and 2.6 times those in untreated snails, respectively, but varied widely among tissues. Meanwhile, the level of cytochrome C reductase mRNA showed a significant decrease in the whole snail, and ROS production showed a significant decrease in the liver plus gonad (liver-gonad) of the snails. At 24 h post-treatment, the mortality of snails treated with 0.06-0.1 mg/L niclosamide and AOX inhibitor was 56.31-76.12% higher than that of snails treated with 0.1 mg/L niclosamide alone. CONCLUSIONS AOX was found in all the snail intermediate hosts of Schistosoma examined here. AOX was significantly activated in O. hupensis under niclosamide-induced stress, which led to a reduction in oxidative stress in the snail. The inhibition of AOX activity in snails can dramatically enhance the molluscicidal effect of niclosamide. A potential target for the development of an environmentally safe snail control method, which acts by inhibiting the activity of AOX, was identified in this study.
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- Ni Jiang
- Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei China
- Joint Inspection Center of Precision Medicine, The People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, Guangxi China
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- National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Tropical Diseases Research, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, Ministry of Health, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei China
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- Medical Malacology Department, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Giza, Egypt
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- Department of Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, Hunan China
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- Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei China
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- Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei China
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- Department of Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei China
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Yu LL, Liu CJ, Peng Y, He ZQ, Xu F. New insights into the role of cyanide in the promotion of seed germination in tomato. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 22:28. [PMID: 35016603 PMCID: PMC8751275 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-021-03405-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cyanide is a natural metabolite that exists widely in plants, and it is speculated to be involved in the regulation of various growth and development processes of plants in addition to being regarded as toxic waste. Previous studies have shown that exogenous cyanide treatment helps to improve seed germination, but the mechanism is still unclear. In this study, tomato (Solanum lycopersicum cv. Alisa Craig) was used as the material, and the effects of cyanide pretreatment at different concentrations on tomato seed germination were investigated. RESULTS The results showed that exogenous application of a lower concentration of cyanide (10 μmol/L KCN) for 12 h strongly increased the tomato seed germination rate. RNA-Seq showed that compared with the control, a total of 15,418 differentially expressed genes (P<0.05) were obtained after pretreatment with KCN for 12 h, and in the next 12 h, a total of 13,425 differentially expressed genes (P<0.05) were regulated. GO and KEGG analyses demonstrated that exogenous KCN pretreatment was involved in regulating the expression (mainly downregulation) of seed storage proteins, thereby accelerating the degradation of stored proteins for seed germination. In addition, KCN pretreatment was also involved in stimulating glycolysis, the TCA cycle and oxidative phosphorylation. Notably, it is shown that KCN acted on the regulation of plant hormone biosynthesis and perception, i.e., down-regulated the gene expression of ABA biosynthesis and signal transduction, but up-regulated the expression of genes related to GA biosynthesis and response. Consistent with this, plant hormone measurements confirmed that the levels of ABA were reduced, but GA levels were induced after pretreatment with KCN. CONCLUSION These findings provide new insights into the regulation of seed germination by cyanide, that is cyanide-mediated seed germination occurs in a time- and dose-dependent manner, and is related to the mobilization of energy metabolism and the regulation of some plant hormone signals.
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- Lu-Lu Yu
- Applied Biotechnology Center, Wuhan University of Bioengineering, Wuhan, 430415, China
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- Applied Biotechnology Center, Wuhan University of Bioengineering, Wuhan, 430415, China
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- Applied Biotechnology Center, Wuhan University of Bioengineering, Wuhan, 430415, China
- Biotechnology Research Center, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, China
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- Applied Biotechnology Center, Wuhan University of Bioengineering, Wuhan, 430415, China.
- Biotechnology Research Center, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, China.
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Qiao X, Ruan M, Yu T, Cui C, Chen C, Zhu Y, Li F, Wang S, Na X, Wang X, Bi Y. UCP1 and AOX1a contribute to regulation of carbon and nitrogen metabolism and yield in Arabidopsis under low nitrogen stress. Cell Mol Life Sci 2022; 79:69. [PMID: 34974624 PMCID: PMC11072780 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-021-04036-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2021] [Revised: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Nitrogen (N) availability is a critical factor for plant development and crop yield, and it closely correlates to carbon (C) metabolism. Uncoupling protein (UCP) and alternative oxidase (AOX) exhibit a strong correlation with N and C metabolism. Here, we investigated the functions of UCP1 and AOX1a using their mutants and complementation lines in Arabidopsis adaptation to low N. Low N markedly increased AOX1a and UCP1 expression, alternative pathway capacity and UCP activity. Eight-day-old aox1a/ucp1 seedlings were more sensitive to low N than Col-0 and single mutants, exhibiting lower primary root length and higher anthocyanin accumulation. The net photosynthetic rate, electron transport rate, PSII actual photochemical efficiency, stomatal conductance and carboxylation efficiency were markedly decreased in ucp1 and aox1a/ucp1 compared to those in Col-0 and aox1a under low N stress; comparatively, chlorophyll content and non-photochemical quenching coefficient were the lowest and highest in aox1a/ucp1, respectively. Nitrate acquisition rate was accelerated in aox1a/ucp1, but its transport activity was decreased, which resulted in low nitrate content and nitrate reductase activity under low N condition. The C/N ratio in seeds, but not in leaves, is higher in aox1a/ucp1 than that in Col-0, aox1a and ucp1 under low N condition. RNA-seq analysis revealed that many genes involved in photosynthesis and C/N metabolism were markedly down-regulated in aox1a/ucp1 under low N stress. These results highlight the key roles of UCP1 and AOX1a in modulating photosynthetic capacity, C/N assimilation and distribution under low N stress.
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- Xinyan Qiao
- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China.
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Xu F, Copsey AC, Young L, Barsottini MRO, Albury MS, Moore AL. Comparison of the Kinetic Parameters of Alternative Oxidases From Trypanosoma brucei and Arabidopsis thaliana-A Tale of Two Cavities. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:744218. [PMID: 34745175 PMCID: PMC8569227 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.744218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
The alternative oxidase (AOX) is widespread in plants, fungi, and some protozoa. While the general structure of the AOX remains consistent, its overall activity, sources of kinetic activation and their sensitivity to inhibitors varies between species. In this study, the recombinant Trypanosoma brucei AOX (rTAO) and Arabidopsis thaliana AOX1A (rAtAOX1A) were expressed in the Escherichia coli ΔhemA mutant FN102, and the kinetic parameters of purified AOXs were compared. Results showed that rTAO possessed the highest V max and K m for quinol-1, while much lower V max and K m were observed in the rAtAOX1A. The catalytic efficiency (k cat/K m) of rTAO was higher than that of rAtAOX1A. The rTAO also displayed a higher oxygen affinity compared to rAtAOX1A. It should be noted that rAtAOX1a was sensitive to α-keto acids while rTAO was not. Nevertheless, only pyruvate and glyoxylate can fully activate Arabidopsis AOX. In addition, rTAO and rAtAOX1A showed different sensitivity to AOX inhibitors, with ascofuranone (AF) being the best inhibitor against rTAO, while colletochlorin B (CB) appeared to be the most effective inhibitor against rAtAOX1A. Octylgallate (OG) and salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM) are less effective than the other inhibitors against protist and plant AOX. A Caver analysis indicated that the rTAO and rAtAOX1A differ with respect to the mixture of polar residues lining the hydrophobic cavity, which may account for the observed difference in kinetic and inhibitor sensitivities. The data obtained in this study are not only beneficial for our understanding of the variation in the kinetics of AOX within protozoa and plants but also contribute to the guidance for the future development of phytopathogenic fungicides.
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Bremer K, Yasuo H, Debes PV, Jacobs HT. The alternative oxidase (AOX) increases sulphide tolerance in the highly invasive marine invertebrate Ciona intestinalis. J Exp Biol 2021; 224:jeb242985. [PMID: 34423818 PMCID: PMC8407659 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.242985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Ecological communities and biodiversity are shaped by both abiotic and biotic factors. This is well illustrated by extreme environments and invasive species. Besides naturally occurring sulphide-rich environments, global change can lead to an increase in hydrogen sulphide episodes that threaten many multicellular organisms. With the increase in the formation, size and abundance of oxygen minimum zones and hypoxic environments, bacterial-associated sulphide production is favoured and, as such, hydrogen-sulphide-rich environments are likely to also increase in size and abundance. Many species are challenged by the inhibiting effect of sulphide on aerobic energy production via cytochrome c oxidase, ultimately causing the death of the organism. Interestingly, many protist, yeast, plant and also animal species possess a sulphide-resistant alternative oxidase (AOX). In this study, we investigated whether AOX is functionally involved in the sulphide stress response of the highly invasive marine tunicate Ciona intestinalis. At the LC50, the sulphide-induced reduction of developmental success was three times stronger in AOX knock-down embryos than in control embryos. Further, AOX mRNA levels were higher under sulphide than under control conditions, and this effect increased during embryonic development. Together, we found that AOX is indeed functionally involved in the sulphide tolerance of C. intestinalis embryos, hence, very likely contributing to its invasive potential; and that the response of AOX to sulphide seems to be controlled at the transcriptional level. We suggest that AOX-possessing species play an important role in shaping marine ecological communities, and this importance may increase under ongoing global change.
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- Katharina Bremer
- Tampere University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, 33014 Tampere, Finland
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- Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 06230 Villefranche-sur-mer, France
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- Hólar University College, Department of Aquaculture and Fish Biology, 551 Sauðárkrókur, Iceland
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- Tampere University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, 33014 Tampere, Finland
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Arnholdt-Schmitt B, Mohanapriya G, Bharadwaj R, Noceda C, Macedo ES, Sathishkumar R, Gupta KJ, Sircar D, Kumar SR, Srivastava S, Adholeya A, Thiers KL, Aziz S, Velada I, Oliveira M, Quaresma P, Achra A, Gupta N, Kumar A, Costa JH. From Plant Survival Under Severe Stress to Anti-Viral Human Defense - A Perspective That Calls for Common Efforts. Front Immunol 2021; 12:673723. [PMID: 34211468 PMCID: PMC8240590 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.673723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Reprogramming of primary virus-infected cells is the critical step that turns viral attacks harmful to humans by initiating super-spreading at cell, organism and population levels. To develop early anti-viral therapies and proactive administration, it is important to understand the very first steps of this process. Plant somatic embryogenesis (SE) is the earliest and most studied model for de novo programming upon severe stress that, in contrast to virus attacks, promotes individual cell and organism survival. We argued that transcript level profiles of target genes established from in vitro SE induction as reference compared to virus-induced profiles can identify differential virus traits that link to harmful reprogramming. To validate this hypothesis, we selected a standard set of genes named 'ReprogVirus'. This approach was recently applied and published. It resulted in identifying 'CoV-MAC-TED', a complex trait that is promising to support combating SARS-CoV-2-induced cell reprogramming in primary infected nose and mouth cells. In this perspective, we aim to explain the rationale of our scientific approach. We are highlighting relevant background knowledge on SE, emphasize the role of alternative oxidase in plant reprogramming and resilience as a learning tool for designing human virus-defense strategies and, present the list of selected genes. As an outlook, we announce wider data collection in a 'ReprogVirus Platform' to support anti-viral strategy design through common efforts.
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- Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt
- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Plant Genetic Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Plant Genetic Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Cell and Molecular Biotechnology of Plants (BIOCEMP)/Industrial Biotechnology and Bioproducts, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida y de la Agricultura, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas-ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Plant Genetic Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Plant Genetic Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Centre for Mycorrhizal Research, Sustainable Agriculture Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), TERI Gram, Gual Pahari, Gurugram, India
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Centre for Mycorrhizal Research, Sustainable Agriculture Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), TERI Gram, Gual Pahari, Gurugram, India
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- MED—Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Department of Mathematics and CIMA - Center for Research on Mathematics and its Applications, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- NOVA LINCS – Laboratory for Informatics and Computer Science, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Department of Microbiology, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences & Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Hargovind Khorana Chair, Jayoti Vidyapeeth Womens University, Jaipur, India
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- Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) ‘Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity’ (FunCROP), Coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal
- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
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Roznere I, Sinn BT, Daly M, Watters GT. Freshwater mussels (Unionidae) brought into captivity exhibit up-regulation of genes involved in stress and energy metabolism. Sci Rep 2021; 11:2241. [PMID: 33500457 PMCID: PMC7838317 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81856-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/31/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Approximately two thirds of freshwater mussel species in the United States and Canada are imperiled, and populations are declining rapidly. Translocation and captive management are commonly used to mitigate losses of freshwater mussel biodiversity, but these conservation tools may result in decreased growth and increased mortality. This study uses RNA-Seq to determine how translocation into captivity affects gene expression in Amblema plicata. Mussels were collected from the Muskingum River in Ohio, USA and brought into a captive holding facility. RNA was extracted from gill tissue 11 months post translocation from mussels in captivity and the Muskingum River on the same day. RNA was sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq 2500, and differential expression analysis was performed on de novo assembled transcripts. More than 1200 transcripts were up-regulated in captive mussels, and 246 were assigned functional annotations. Many up-regulated transcripts were involved in energy metabolism and the stress response, such as heat shock proteins and antioxidants. More than 500 transcripts were down-regulated in captive mussels, and 41 were assigned functional annotations. We observed an over-representation of down-regulated transcripts associated with immune response. Our work suggests that A. plicata experienced moderate levels of stress and altered energy metabolism and immune response for at least 11 months post translocation into captivity.
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- Ieva Roznere
- grid.261331.40000 0001 2285 7943Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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- grid.261485.c0000 0001 2235 8896Department of Biology and Earth Science, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH 43081 USA
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- grid.261331.40000 0001 2285 7943Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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- grid.261331.40000 0001 2285 7943Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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Rosell-Hidalgo A, Young L, Moore AL, Ghafourian T. QSAR and molecular docking for the search of AOX inhibitors: a rational drug discovery approach. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2020; 35:245-260. [PMID: 33289903 PMCID: PMC7904559 DOI: 10.1007/s10822-020-00360-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The alternative oxidase (AOX) is a monotopic diiron carboxylate protein that catalyses the oxidation of ubiquinol and the reduction of oxygen to water. Although a number of AOX inhibitors have been discovered, little is still known about the ligand–protein interaction and essential chemical characteristics of compounds required for a potent inhibition. Furthermore, owing to the rapidly growing resistance to existing inhibitors, new compounds with improved potency and pharmacokinetic properties are urgently required. In this study we used two computational approaches, ligand–protein docking and Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationships (QSAR) to investigate binding of AOX inhibitors to the enzyme and the molecular characteristics required for inhibition. Docking studies followed by protein–ligand interaction fingerprint (PLIF) analysis using the AOX enzyme and the mutated analogues revealed the importance of the residues Leu 122, Arg 118 and Thr 219 within the hydrophobic cavity. QSAR analysis, using stepwise regression analysis with experimentally obtained IC50 values as the response variable, resulted in a multiple regression model with a good prediction accuracy. The model highlighted the importance of the presence of hydrogen bonding acceptor groups on specific positions of the aromatic ring of ascofuranone derivatives, acidity of the compounds, and a large linker group on the compounds on the inhibitory effect of AOX.
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- Alicia Rosell-Hidalgo
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedicine, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedicine, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedicine, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedicine, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK. .,School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 3JU, UK.
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Haloadaptative Responses of Aspergillus sydowii to Extreme Water Deprivation: Morphology, Compatible Solutes, and Oxidative Stress at NaCl Saturation. J Fungi (Basel) 2020; 6:jof6040316. [PMID: 33260894 PMCID: PMC7711451 DOI: 10.3390/jof6040316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Water activity (aw) is critical for microbial growth, as it is severely restricted at aw < 0.90. Saturating NaCl concentrations (~5.0 M) induce extreme water deprivation (aw ≅ 0.75) and cellular stress responses. Halophilic fungi have cellular adaptations that enable osmotic balance and ionic/oxidative stress prevention to grow at high salinity. Here we studied the morphology, osmolyte synthesis, and oxidative stress defenses of the halophile Aspergillus sydowii EXF-12860 at 1.0 M and 5.13 M NaCl. Colony growth, pigmentation, exudate, and spore production were inhibited at NaCl-saturated media. Additionally, hyphae showed unpolarized growth, lower diameter, and increased septation, multicellularity and branching compared to optimal NaCl concentration. Trehalose, mannitol, arabitol, erythritol, and glycerol were produced in the presence of both 1.0 M and 5.13 M NaCl. Exposing A. sydowii cells to 5.13 M NaCl resulted in oxidative stress evidenced by an increase in antioxidant enzymes and lipid peroxidation biomarkers. Also, genes involved in cellular antioxidant defense systems were upregulated. This is the most comprehensive study that investigates the micromorphology and the adaptative cellular response of different non-enzymatic and enzymatic oxidative stress biomarkers in halophilic filamentous fungi.
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Meyer AJ, Dreyer A, Ugalde JM, Feitosa-Araujo E, Dietz KJ, Schwarzländer M. Shifting paradigms and novel players in Cys-based redox regulation and ROS signaling in plants - and where to go next. Biol Chem 2020; 402:399-423. [PMID: 33544501 DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2020-0291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Cys-based redox regulation was long regarded a major adjustment mechanism of photosynthesis and metabolism in plants, but in the recent years, its scope has broadened to most fundamental processes of plant life. Drivers of the recent surge in new insights into plant redox regulation have been the availability of the genome-scale information combined with technological advances such as quantitative redox proteomics and in vivo biosensing. Several unexpected findings have started to shift paradigms of redox regulation. Here, we elaborate on a selection of recent advancements, and pinpoint emerging areas and questions of redox biology in plants. We highlight the significance of (1) proactive H2O2 generation, (2) the chloroplast as a unique redox site, (3) specificity in thioredoxin complexity, (4) how to oxidize redox switches, (5) governance principles of the redox network, (6) glutathione peroxidase-like proteins, (7) ferroptosis, (8) oxidative protein folding in the ER for phytohormonal regulation, (9) the apoplast as an unchartered redox frontier, (10) redox regulation of respiration, (11) redox transitions in seed germination and (12) the mitochondria as potential new players in reductive stress safeguarding. Our emerging understanding in plants may serve as a blueprint to scrutinize principles of reactive oxygen and Cys-based redox regulation across organisms.
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- Andreas J Meyer
- Chemical Signalling, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, D-53113Bonn, Germany
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- Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, Faculty of Biology, W5-134, Bielefeld University, University Street 25, D-33501Bielefeld, Germany
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- Chemical Signalling, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, D-53113Bonn, Germany
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- Plant Energy Biology, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology (IBBP), University of Münster, Schlossplatz 8, D-48143Münster, Germany
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- Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, Faculty of Biology, W5-134, Bielefeld University, University Street 25, D-33501Bielefeld, Germany
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- Plant Energy Biology, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology (IBBP), University of Münster, Schlossplatz 8, D-48143Münster, Germany
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The Destructive Fungal Pathogen Botrytis cinerea-Insights from Genes Studied with Mutant Analysis. Pathogens 2020; 9:pathogens9110923. [PMID: 33171745 PMCID: PMC7695001 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens9110923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Revised: 11/01/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Botrytis cinerea is one of the most destructive fungal pathogens affecting numerous plant hosts, including many important crop species. As a molecularly under-studied organism, its genome was only sequenced at the beginning of this century and it was recently updated with improved gene annotation and completeness. In this review, we summarize key molecular studies on B. cinerea developmental and pathogenesis processes, specifically on genes studied comprehensively with mutant analysis. Analyses of these studies have unveiled key genes in the biological processes of this pathogen, including hyphal growth, sclerotial formation, conidiation, pathogenicity and melanization. In addition, our synthesis has uncovered gaps in the present knowledge regarding development and virulence mechanisms. We hope this review will serve to enhance the knowledge of the biological mechanisms behind this notorious fungal pathogen.
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Weaver RJ, Carrion G, Nix R, Maeda GP, Rabinowitz S, Iverson ENK, Thueson K, Havird JC. High mitochondrial mutation rates in Silene are associated with nuclear-mediated changes in mitochondrial physiology. Biol Lett 2020; 16:20200450. [PMID: 32933406 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial (mt) respiration depends on proteins encoded both by the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes. Variation in mt-DNA mutation rates exists across eukaryotes, although the functional consequences of elevated mt mutation rates in some lineages remain underexplored. In the angiosperm genus Silene, closely related, ecologically similar species have either 'fast' or 'slow' mt-DNA mutation rates. Here, we investigated the functional consequences of elevated mt-DNA mutation rates on mt respiration profiles of Silene mitochondria. Overall levels of respiration were similar among Species. Fast species had lower respiration efficiency than slow species and relied up to 48% more on nuclear-encoded respiratory enzymes alternative oxidase (AOX) and accessory dehydrogenases (DHex), which participate in stress responses in plants. However, not all fast species showed these trends. Respiratory profiles of some enzymes were correlated, most notably AOX and DHex. We conclude that subtle differences in mt physiology among Silene lineages with dramatically different mt mutation rates may underly similar phenotypes at higher levels of biological organization, betraying the consequences of mt mutations.
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- Ryan J Weaver
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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Characterization of Single Gene Deletion Mutants Affecting Alternative Oxidase Production in Neurospora crassa: Role of the yvh1 Gene. Microorganisms 2020; 8:microorganisms8081186. [PMID: 32759834 PMCID: PMC7463738 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8081186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The Neurospora crassa AOD1 protein is a mitochondrial alternative oxidase that passes electrons directly from ubiquinol to oxygen. The enzyme is encoded by the nuclear aod-1 gene and is produced when the standard electron transport chain is inhibited. We previously identified eleven strains in the N. crassa single gene deletion library that were severely deficient in their ability to produce AOD1 when grown in the presence of chloramphenicol, an inhibitor of mitochondrial translation that is known to induce the enzyme. Three mutants affected previously characterized genes. In this report we examined the remaining mutants and found that the deficiency of AOD1 was due to secondary mutations in all but two of the strains. One of the authentic mutants contained a deletion of the yvh1 gene and was found to have a deficiency of aod-1 transcripts. The YVH1 protein localized to the nucleus and a post mitochondrial pellet from the cytoplasm. A zinc binding domain in the protein was required for rescue of the AOD1 deficiency. In other organisms YVH1 is required for ribosome assembly and mutants have multiple phenotypes. Lack of YVH1 in N. crassa likely also affects ribosome assembly leading to phenotypes that include altered regulation of AOD1 production.
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Liu J, Wang X, Yang L, Nan W, Ruan M, Bi Y. Involvement of active MKK9-MAPK3/MAPK6 in increasing respiration in salt-treated Arabidopsis callus. PROTOPLASMA 2020; 257:965-977. [PMID: 32008084 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-020-01483-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 9 (MKK9) is an upstream activator of mitogen-activated protein kinase 3 (MAPK3) and MAPK6 in planta. To investigate MKK9 roles in mitochondrial respiration in Arabidopsis, MKK9DD, the active allele with mutations of Thr-201 and Ser-205 to Asp, and MKK9KR, the allele lacking MKK9 activity with a mutation of Lys-76 to Arg, were used. Results showed that the total respiratory rate (Vt), alternative pathway capacity (Valt) and cytochrome pathway capacity (Vcyt) increased under 0-100 mM NaCl treatments but decreased under 150-300 mM NaCl treatments in Col-0 callus. However, the activation of MKK9 by dexamethasone (DEX) increased Vt, Valt and Vcyt under 200 mM NaCl treatment; moreover, Valt showed more increase than Vcyt. The activation of MKK9 in MKK9DD callus sharply increased AOX protein expression under normal and NaCl conditions, but the increase was not observed in MKK9KR callus. Further results indicated that MAPK3 and MAPK6 were involved in the MKK9-induced increase of AOX protein levels. qRT-PCR results showed that MKK9-MAPK3/MAPK6 was involved in the NaCl-induced AOX1b and AOX1d expression, but only MKK9-MAPK3 was necessary for AOX2 expression; in addition, MAPK3 regulated the AOX1a transcription in an MKK9-independent manner. MKK9 positively regulated SOD and CAT activities by affecting MAPK3 and MAPK6 and negatively regulated APX and POD activities by affecting MAPK3. Moreover, MKK9 functions as a positive factor in H2O2 accumulation under salt stress. The regulation of ethylene on alternative respiration was also associated with MKK9 under salt stress. Taken together, the MKK9-MAPK3/MAPK6 pathway plays a pivotal role in increasing alternative respiration in the salt-treated Arabidopsis callus.
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- Jie Liu
- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Developmental Regulation, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People's Republic of China.
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Weaver RJ. Hypothesized Evolutionary Consequences of the Alternative Oxidase (AOX) in Animal Mitochondria. Integr Comp Biol 2020; 59:994-1004. [PMID: 30912813 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icz015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The environment in which eukaryotes first evolved was drastically different from what they experience today, and one of the key limiting factors was the availability of oxygen for mitochondrial respiration. During the transition to a fully oxygenated Earth, other compounds such as sulfide posed a considerable constraint on using mitochondrial aerobic respiration for energy production. The ancestors of animals, and those that first evolved from the simpler eukaryotes have mitochondrial respiratory components that are absent from later-evolving animals. Specifically, mitochondria of most basal metazoans have a sulfide-resistant alternative oxidase (AOX), which provides a secondary oxidative pathway to the classical cytochrome pathway. In this essay, I argue that because of its resistance to sulfide, AOX respiration was critical to the evolution of animals by enabling oxidative metabolism under otherwise inhibitory conditions. I hypothesize that AOX allowed for metabolic flexibility during the stochastic oxygen environment of early Earth which shaped the evolution of basal metazoans. I briefly describe the known functions of AOX, with a particular focus on the decreased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during stress conditions. Then, I propose three evolutionary consequences of AOX-mediated protection from ROS observed in basal metazoans: 1) adaptation to stressful environments, 2) the persistence of facultative sexual reproduction, and 3) decreased mitochondrial DNA mutation rates. Recognizing the diversity of mitochondrial respiratory systems present in animals may help resolve the mechanisms involved in major evolutionary processes such as adaptation and speciation.
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- Ryan J Weaver
- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, 331 Funchess Hall, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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Bosnjak N, Smith KM, Asaria I, Lahola-Chomiak A, Kishore N, Todd AT, Freitag M, Nargang FE. Involvement of a G Protein Regulatory Circuit in Alternative Oxidase Production in Neurospora crassa. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2019; 9:3453-3465. [PMID: 31444295 PMCID: PMC6778808 DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The Neurospora crassa nuclear aod-1 gene encodes an alternative oxidase that functions in mitochondria. The enzyme provides a branch from the standard electron transport chain by transferring electrons directly from ubiquinol to oxygen. In standard laboratory strains, aod-1 is transcribed at very low levels under normal growth conditions. However, if the standard electron transport chain is disrupted, aod-1 mRNA expression is induced and the AOD1 protein is produced. We previously identified a strain of N. crassa, that produces high levels of aod-1 transcript under non-inducing conditions. Here we have crossed this strain to a standard lab strain and determined the genomic sequences of the parents and several progeny. Analysis of the sequence data and the levels of aod-1 mRNA in uninduced cultures revealed that a frameshift mutation in the flbA gene results in the high uninduced expression of aod-1 The flbA gene encodes a regulator of G protein signaling that decreases the activity of the Gα subunit of heterotrimeric G proteins. Our data suggest that strains with a functional flbA gene prevent uninduced expression of aod-1 by inactivating a G protein signaling pathway, and that this pathway is activated in cells grown under conditions that induce aod-1 Induced cells with a deletion of the gene encoding the Gα protein still have a partial increase in aod-1 mRNA levels, suggesting a second pathway for inducing transcription of the gene in N. crassa We also present evidence that a translational control mechanism prevents production of AOD1 protein in uninduced cultures.
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- Natasa Bosnjak
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9 and
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4003
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9 and
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9 and
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9 and
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9 and
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4003
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9 and
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Lin Z, Wu J, Jamieson PA, Zhang C. Alternative Oxidase Is Involved in the Pathogenicity, Development, and Oxygen Stress Response of Botrytis cinerea. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2019; 109:1679-1688. [PMID: 31479404 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-01-19-0012-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Alternative oxidase (AOX) is a ubiquinol terminal oxidase that is involved in fungal mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. In this study, we analyzed the roles of AOX in Botrytis cinerea by generating BcAOX deletion mutants. The mutants exhibited defects in mycelial growth, sporulation, spore germination, and virulence. Furthermore, the sensitivity of the mutants to quinone outside inhibitor fungicides and oxidative stress were increased. All phenotypic variations could be restored in the complemented strain. In summary, these results showed that BcAOX is involved in the regulation for vegetative development, adaptation to environmental stress, and virulence of B. cinerea.
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- Zesong Lin
- Department of Crop Protection, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forest University, Hangzhou 311300, China
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- Department of Crop Protection, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forest University, Hangzhou 311300, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, and Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, U.S.A
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- Department of Crop Protection, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forest University, Hangzhou 311300, China
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Sellem CH, Humbert A, Sainsard-Chanet A. Mutations in the phosphatase domain of the 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase result in the transcriptional activation of the alternative oxidase and gluconeogenic pathways in Podospora anserina. Fungal Genet Biol 2019; 130:1-10. [PMID: 30980907 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2019.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Revised: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 04/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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By screening suppressors of a respiratory mutant lacking a functional cytochrome pathway in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina, we isolated a mutation located in the phosphatase domain of the bi-functional enzyme 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase (PFK-2/FBPase-2). We show that the inactivation of the phosphatase but not of the kinase domain is responsible for the suppressor effect that results from the activation of the RSEs transcription factors that control expression of AOX, an alternative oxidase able to bypass the mitochondria cytochrome pathway of respiration. Remarkably, activation of the RSEs also stimulates the expression of the gluconeogenic enzymes, fructose-1,6 bi-phosphatase (FBPase-1) and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PCK-1). We thus reveal in P. anserina an apparently paradoxical situation where the inactivation of the phosphatase domain of PFK-2/FBPase-2, supposed to stimulate glycolysis, is correlated with the transcriptional induction of the gluconeogenic enzymes. Phylogenic analysis revealed the presence of multiple presumed PFK-2/FBPase-2 isoforms in all the species of tested Ascomycetes.
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- Carole H Sellem
- Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
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- Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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Ünlü ES, Ünüvar ÖC, Aydın M. Identification of alternative oxidase encoding genes in Caulerpa cylindracea by de novo RNA-Seq assembly analysis. Mar Genomics 2019; 46:41-48. [PMID: 30922784 DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2019.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Revised: 02/06/2019] [Accepted: 03/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Alternative oxidases (AOX) are defined in plants, fungi and algae. The main function of AOX proteins has been described for electron flow through electron transport chain and regulation of mitochondrial retrograde signaling pathway. The roles of AOX proteins have been characterized in reproduction and resistance against oxidative stress, cold stress, starvation, and biotic attacks. Caulerpa cylindracea is an invasive marine green alga. Although the natural habitats of the species are Australia coasts, the impact of the invasion has been monitored through the Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea. C. cylindracea species have advantages against others by showing higher resistance to stress conditions such as cold, starvation, pathogen attacks and by their capability of sexual and vegetative reproduction. Comparing the advantages of C. cylindracea over the niche and defined functional roles of mitochondrial AOX proteins, it is evident that AOX proteins are likely involved in developing those advantageous skills in C. cylindracea. However, there is limited data about biochemical and molecular mechanisms that take part in stress resistance and invasion characteristics. We aimed to identify mitochondrial alternative oxidase encoding genes in C. cylindracea while annotating whole transcriptome data for the species. Samples were collected from Seferihisar/İzmir. Transcriptome analysis from pooled RNA samples revealed 47,400 assembled contigs represented by 33,340 unigenes. Using standalone Blast analysis, we were able to identify two alternative oxidase encoding genes.
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- Ercan Selçuk Ünlü
- Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Chemistry, Bolu 14280, Turkey.
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- Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Chemistry, Bolu 14280, Turkey
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- Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Chemistry, Bolu 14280, Turkey
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Tward CE, Singh J, Cygelfarb W, McDonald AE. Identification of the alternative oxidase gene and its expression in the copepod Tigriopus californicus. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2019; 228:41-50. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2018.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Ding CQ, Ng S, Wang L, Wang YC, Li NN, Hao XY, Zeng JM, Wang XC, Yang YJ. Genome-wide identification and characterization of ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE genes and their response under abiotic stresses in Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze. PLANTA 2018; 248:1231-1247. [PMID: 30097722 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-018-2974-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2018] [Accepted: 08/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Four typical ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE genes have been identified in tea plants, and their sequence features and gene expression profiles have provided useful information for further studies on function and regulation. Alternative oxidase (AOX) is a terminal oxidase located in the respiratory electron transport chain. AOX catalyzes the oxidation of quinol and the reduction of oxygen into water. In this study, a genome-wide search and subsequent DNA cloning were performed to identify and characterize AOX genes in tea plant (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze cv. Longjing43). Our results showed that tea plant possesses four AOX genes, i.e., CsAOX1a, CsAOX1d, CsAOX2a and CsAOX2b. Gene structure and protein sequence analyses revealed that all CsAOXs share a four-exon/three-intron structure with highly conserved regions and amino acid residues, which are necessary for AOX secondary structures, catalytic activities and post-translational regulations. All CsAOX were shown to localize in mitochondria using the green fluorescent protein (GFP)-targeting assay. Both CsAOX1a and CsAOX1d were induced by cold, salt and drought stresses, and with different expression patterns in young and mature leaves. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulated strongly after 72 and 96 h cold treatments in both young and mature leaves, while the polyphenol and total catechin decreased significantly only in mature leaves. In comparison to AtAOX1a in Arabidopsis thaliana, CsAOX1a lost almost all of the stress-responsive cis-acting regulatory elements in its promoter region (1500 bp upstream), but possesses a flavonoid biosynthesis-related MBSII cis-acting regulatory element. These results suggest a link between CsAOX1a function and the metabolism of some secondary metabolites in tea plant. Our studies provide a basis for the further elucidation of the biological function and regulation of the AOX pathway in tea plants.
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- Chang-Qing Ding
- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Center for Tea Improvement, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310008, People's Republic of China
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- ARC Centre of Excellence Plant Energy Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
- Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Cadarache, 13108, St Paul-Lez-Durance, France
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- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Center for Tea Improvement, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310008, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Center for Tea Improvement, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310008, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Center for Tea Improvement, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310008, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Center for Tea Improvement, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310008, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Center for Tea Improvement, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310008, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Center for Tea Improvement, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310008, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Center for Tea Improvement, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310008, People's Republic of China.
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Kooyers NJ, Hartman Bakken B, Ungerer MC, Olsen KM. Freeze-induced cyanide toxicity does not maintain the cyanogenesis polymorphism in white clover (Trifolium repens). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2018; 105:1224-1231. [PMID: 30080261 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY The maintenance of adaptive polymorphisms within species requires fitness trade-offs reflecting selection for each morph. Cyanogenesis, the ability to produce hydrogen cyanide (HCN) after tissue damage, occurs in >3000 plant species and exists as a discrete polymorphism in white clover. This polymorphism is spatially distributed in recurrent clines, with higher frequencies of cyanogenic plants in warmer climates. The HCN autotoxicity hypothesis proposes that cyanogenic plants are selected against where frosts are common, as freezing liberates HCN and could impair cellular respiration. METHODS We tested the HCN autotoxicity hypothesis using a freezing chamber to examine survival, tissue damage, and physiological recovery as assessed via chlorophyll fluorescence following mild and severe freezing treatments. We utilized 65 genotypes from a single polymorphic population to eliminate effects of population structure. KEY RESULTS Cyanogenic plants did not differ from acyanogenic plants in survival, tissue damage, or recovery following freezing. However, plants producing either of the two required cyanogenic precursors had lower survival and tissue damage after freezing than plants lacking both precursors. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that freezing-induced HCN toxicity is unlikely to be responsible for the maintenance of the cyanogenesis polymorphism in white clover. However, energetic trade-offs associated with costs of producing the cyanogenic precursors may confer a fitness benefit to acyanogenic plants under stressful climatic conditions. The lack of evidence for HCN toxicity suggests that cyanogenic clover uses physiological mechanisms mediated by β-cyanoalanine synthase and alternative oxidase to maintain cellular function in the presence of HCN.
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- Nicholas J Kooyers
- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 70504, USA
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA
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- Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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The potential of alternative oxidase (AOX) genes to develop functional markers for plant breeding programs has been emphasized. In this sense, it is essential to have a reliable classification system, which could aid in the selection of candidate AOX genes from different species. In the case of angiosperms AOX, a robust classification system is required because this enzyme is encoded by variable gene numbers (1-6 genes) with variable AOX subfamilies and subtypes. Thus, in this protocol, we present a detailed guideline to application of a classification scheme of AOX based on specific amino acids and phylogeny. We believe that this classification protocol provides an easier and practical way of classifying new angiosperm AOX genes besides that it can help to standardize AOX gene names used in AOX research community.
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Martínez-Cárdenas A, Chávez-Cabrera C, Vasquez-Bahena JM, Flores-Cotera LB. A common mechanism explains the induction of aerobic fermentation and adaptive antioxidant response in Phaffia rhodozyma. Microb Cell Fact 2018; 17:53. [PMID: 29615045 PMCID: PMC5883411 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-018-0898-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Background Growth conditions that bring about stress on Phaffia rhodozyma cells encourage the synthesis of astaxanthin, an antioxidant carotenoid, which protects cells against oxidative damage. Using P. rhodozyma cultures performed with and without copper limitation, we examined the kinetics of astaxanthin synthesis along with the expression of asy, the key astaxanthin synthesis gene, as well as aox, which encodes an alternative oxidase protein. Results Copper deficiency had a detrimental effect on the rates of oxygen consumption and ethanol reassimilation at the diauxic shift. In contrast, copper deficiency prompted alcoholic fermentation under aerobic conditions and had a favorable effect on the astaxanthin content of cells, as well as on aox expression. Both cultures exhibited strong aox expression while consuming ethanol, but particularly when copper was absent. Conclusion We show that the induction of either astaxanthin production, aox expression, or aerobic fermentation exemplifies the crucial role that redox imbalance plays in triggering any of these phenomena. Based on our own results and data from others, we propose a mechanism that rationalizes the central role played by changes of respiratory activity, which lead to redox imbalances, in triggering both the short-term antioxidant response as well as fermentation in yeasts and other cell types.
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- Anahí Martínez-Cárdenas
- Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Mexico City, Mexico.,College of Science and Technology Studies of the State of Michoacán, Loma de las Liebres 180, Fraccionamiento Lomas del Sur, 58095, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
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- Avi-mex Laboratory S.A de C.V, Trigo 169, Col. Granjas Esmeralda, 09810, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Cinvestav-IPN, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Del-Saz NF, Ribas-Carbo M, McDonald AE, Lambers H, Fernie AR, Florez-Sarasa I. An In Vivo Perspective of the Role(s) of the Alternative Oxidase Pathway. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 23:206-219. [PMID: 29269217 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2017.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2017] [Revised: 10/18/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Despite intense research on the in vitro characterization of regulatory factors modulating the alternative oxidase (AOX) pathway, the regulation of its activity in vivo is still not fully understood. Advances concerning in vivo regulation of AOX based on the oxygen-isotope fractionation technique are reviewed, and regulatory factors that merit future research are highlighted. In addition, we review and discuss the main biological functions assigned to the plant AOX, and suggest future experiments involving in vivo activity measurements to test different hypothesized physiological roles.
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- Néstor Fernández Del-Saz
- Grup de Recerca en Biologia de les Plantes en Condicions Mediterranies, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Carretera de Valldemossa Km 7.5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- Grup de Recerca en Biologia de les Plantes en Condicions Mediterranies, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Carretera de Valldemossa Km 7.5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Science Building, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5, Canada
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley (Perth), Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
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Liu M, Guo X. A novel and stress adaptive alternative oxidase derived from alternative splicing of duplicated exon in oyster Crassostrea virginica. Sci Rep 2017; 7:10785. [PMID: 28883650 PMCID: PMC5589949 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10976-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 08/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Alternative oxidase (AOX) is a mitochondrial inner-membrane oxidase that accepts electrons directly from ubiquinol and reduces oxygen to water without involving cytochrome-linked electron transport chain. It is highly conserved in many non-vertebrate taxa and may protect cells against hypoxia and oxidative stress. We identified two AOX mRNAs in eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica, CvAOXA and CvAOXB, which differ by 170 bp but encode AOXs of the same size. Sequence analyses indicate that CvAOX has 10 exons with a tandem duplication of exon 10, and 3' alternative splicing using either the first or second exon 10 produces the two variants CvAOXB or CvAOXA, respectively. The second exon 10 in CvAOXA is more conserved across taxa, while the first exon 10 in CvAOXB contains novel mutations surrounding key functional sites. Both variants are expressed in all organs with the expression of CvAOXA higher than that of CvAOXB under normal condition. Under stress by air exposure, CvAOXB showed significantly higher expression than CvAOXA and became the dominant variant. This is the first case of alternative splicing of duplicated exon in a mollusc that produces a novel variant adaptive to stress, highlighting genome's versatility in generating diversity and phenotypic plasticity.
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- Ming Liu
- Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 6959 Miller Avenue, Port Norris, NJ, 08349, USA
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- Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 6959 Miller Avenue, Port Norris, NJ, 08349, USA.
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Structural insights into the alternative oxidases: are all oxidases made equal? Biochem Soc Trans 2017; 45:731-740. [PMID: 28620034 DOI: 10.1042/bst20160178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Revised: 03/08/2017] [Accepted: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The alternative oxidases (AOXs) are ubiquinol-oxidoreductases that are members of the diiron carboxylate superfamily. They are not only ubiquitously distributed within the plant kingdom but also found in increasing numbers within the fungal, protist, animal and prokaryotic kingdoms. Although functions of AOXs are highly diverse in general, they tend to play key roles in thermogenesis, stress tolerance (through the management of radical oxygen species) and the maintenance of mitochondrial and cellular energy homeostasis. The best structurally characterised AOX is from Trypanosoma brucei In this review, we compare the structure of AOXs, created using homology modelling, from many important species in an attempt to explain differences in activity and sensitivity to AOX inhibitors. We discuss the implications of these findings not only for future structure-based drug design but also for the design of novel AOXs for gene therapy.
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Costa JH, Santos CPD, de Sousa E Lima B, Moreira Netto AN, Saraiva KDDC, Arnholdt-Schmitt B. In silico identification of alternative oxidase 2 (AOX2) in monocots: A new evolutionary scenario. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 210:58-63. [PMID: 28081503 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2016.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Revised: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 12/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We identified AOX2 genes in monocot species from Lemnoideae (Spirodela polyrhiza, Lemna gibba and Landoltia punctata), Pothoideae (Anthurium andraeanum and Anthurium amnicola) and Monsteroideae (Epipremnum aureum) subfamilies within the Araceae, an early-diverging monocot family. These findings highlight the presence of AOX2 in the most ancient monocot ancestor and also that at least partial loss of this gene occurred during speciation events within several monocot orders. The presence of AOX2 in monocot species challenges (1) new understanding of the evolutionary history of the AOX gene family in angiosperms and (2) drives experimental and bioinformatics efforts to explore functional relevance of the two AOX gene family members for plant growth and development. Knowledge gain in this field will impact running strategies on AOX-derived functional marker candidate development for plant breeding.
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- José Hélio Costa
- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, 60451-970, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil.
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- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, 60451-970, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
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- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, 60451-970, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
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- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, 60451-970, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
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- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, 60451-970, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
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- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, 60451-970, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil; Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity (FunCrop), EU Marie Curie Chair, ICAAM, University of Évora, Apartado 94, 7002-554 Évora, Portugal
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Qi Z, Smith KM, Bredeweg EL, Bosnjak N, Freitag M, Nargang FE. Alternative Oxidase Transcription Factors AOD2 and AOD5 of Neurospora crassa Control the Expression of Genes Involved in Energy Production and Metabolism. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2017; 7:449-466. [PMID: 27986792 PMCID: PMC5295593 DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.035402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2016] [Accepted: 11/22/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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In Neurospora crassa, blocking the function of the standard mitochondrial electron transport chain results in the induction of an alternative oxidase (AOX). AOX transfers electrons directly from ubiquinol to molecular oxygen. AOX serves as a model of retrograde regulation since it is encoded by a nuclear gene that is regulated in response to signals from mitochondria. The N. crassa transcription factors AOD2 and AOD5 are necessary for the expression of the AOX gene. To gain insight into the mechanism by which these factors function, and to determine if they have roles in the expression of additional genes in N. crassa, we constructed strains expressing only tagged versions of the proteins. Cell fractionation experiments showed that both proteins are localized to the nucleus under both AOX inducing and noninducing conditions. Furthermore, chromatin immunoprecipitation and high throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq) analysis revealed that the proteins are bound to the promoter region of the AOX gene under both conditions. ChIP-seq also showed that the transcription factors bind to the upstream regions of a number of genes that are involved in energy production and metabolism. Dependence on AOD2 and AOD5 for the expression of several of these genes was verified by quantitative PCR. The majority of ChIP-seq peaks observed were enriched for both AOD2 and AOD5. However, we also observed occasional sites where one factor appeared to bind preferentially. The most striking of these was a conserved sequence that bound large amounts of AOD2 but little AOD5. This sequence was found within a 310 bp repeat unit that occurs at several locations in the genome.
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- Zhigang Qi
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4003
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4003
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4003
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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Heterologous expression of the Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster) alternative oxidase in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Bioenerg Biomembr 2016; 48:509-520. [PMID: 27816999 DOI: 10.1007/s10863-016-9685-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Accepted: 10/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Alternative oxidase (AOX) is a terminal oxidase within the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM) present in many organisms where it functions in the electron transport system (ETS). AOX directly accepts electrons from ubiquinol and is therefore capable of bypassing ETS Complexes III and IV. The human genome does not contain a gene coding for AOX, so AOX expression has been suggested as a gene therapy for a range of human mitochondrial diseases caused by genetic mutations that render Complex III and/or IV dysfunctional. An effective means of screening mutations amenable to AOX treatment remains to be devised. We have generated such a tool by heterologously expressing AOX from the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the control of a galactose promoter. Our results show that this animal AOX is monomeric and is correctly targeted to yeast mitochondria. Moreover, when expressed in yeast, Pacific oyster AOX is a functional quinol oxidase, conferring cyanide-resistant growth and myxothiazol-resistant oxygen consumption to yeast cells and isolated mitochondria. This system represents a high-throughput screening tool for determining which Complex III and IV genetic mutations in yeast will be amenable to AOX gene therapy. As many human genes are orthologous to those found in yeast, our invention represents an efficient and cost-effective way to evaluate viable research avenues. In addition, this system provides the opportunity to learn more about the localization, structure, and regulation of AOXs from animals that are not easily reared or manipulated in the lab.
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Nobre T, Oliveira M, Arnholdt-Schmitt B. Wild Carrot Differentiation in Europe and Selection at DcAOX1 Gene? PLoS One 2016; 11:e0164872. [PMID: 27768735 PMCID: PMC5074564 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2016] [Accepted: 10/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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By definition, the domestication process leads to an overall reduction of crop genetic diversity. This lead to the current search of genomic regions in wild crop relatives (CWR), an important task for modern carrot breeding. Nowadays massive sequencing possibilities can allow for discovery of novel genetic resources in wild populations, but this quest could be aided by the use of a surrogate gene (to first identify and prioritize novel wild populations for increased sequencing effort). Alternative oxidase (AOX) gene family seems to be linked to all kinds of abiotic and biotic stress reactions in various organisms and thus have the potential to be used in the identification of CWR hotspots of environment-adapted diversity. High variability of DcAOX1 was found in populations of wild carrot sampled across a West-European environmental gradient. Even though no direct relation was found with the analyzed climatic conditions or with physical distance, population differentiation exists and results mainly from the polymorphisms associated with DcAOX1 exon 1 and intron 1. The relatively high number of amino acid changes and the identification of several unusually variable positions (through a likelihood ratio test), suggests that DcAOX1 gene might be under positive selection. However, if positive selection is considered, it only acts on some specific populations (i.e. is in the form of adaptive differences in different population locations) given the observed high genetic diversity. We were able to identify two populations with higher levels of differentiation which are promising as hot spots of specific functional diversity.
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- Tânia Nobre
- EU Marie Curie Chair, ICAAM - Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação em Matemática e Aplicações, Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal
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- EU Marie Curie Chair, ICAAM - Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal
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Zhang G, Feng J, Han L, Zhang X. Antiviral activity of glycoprotein GP-1 isolated from Streptomyces kanasensis ZX01. Int J Biol Macromol 2016; 88:572-7. [PMID: 27091231 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2016.04.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2015] [Revised: 03/27/2016] [Accepted: 04/13/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Plant virus diseases have seriously damaged global food security. However, current antiviral agents are not efficient enough for the requirement of agriculture production. So, developing new efficient and nontoxic antiviral agents is imperative. GP-1, from Streptomyces kanasensis ZX01, is a new antiviral glycoprotein, of which the antiviral activity and the mode of action against Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) were investigated in this study. The results showed that GP-1 could fracture TMV particles, and the infection and accumulation of TMV in host plants were inhibited. Moreover, GP-1 could induce systematic resistance against TMV in the host, according to the results of activities of defensive enzymes increasing, MDA decreasing and overexpression of pathogenesis-related proteins. Furthermore, GP-1 could promote growth of the host plant. In conclusion, GP-1 showed the ability to be developed as an efficient antiviral agent and a fertilizer for agriculture.
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- Guoqiang Zhang
- Research & Development Center of Biorational Pesticide, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Research & Development Center of Biorational Pesticide, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- Research & Development Center of Biorational Pesticide, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
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- Research & Development Center of Biorational Pesticide, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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Terry LI, Roemer RB, Booth DT, Moore CJ, Walter GH. Thermogenic respiratory processes drive the exponential increase of volatile organic compound emissions in Macrozamia cycad cones. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2016; 39:1588-1600. [PMID: 26924274 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2015] [Revised: 02/12/2016] [Accepted: 02/14/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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An important outcome of plant thermogenesis is increased emissions of volatiles that mediate pollinator behaviour. We investigated whether the large increase in emissions, mainly the monoterpene ß-myrcene (>90%), during daily thermogenic events of Macrozamia macleayi and lucida cycad cones are due solely to the influence of high cone temperatures or are, instead, a result of increased respiratory rates during thermogenesis. We concurrently measured temperature, oxygen consumption and ß-myrcene emission profiles during thermogenesis of pollen cones under typical environmental temperatures and during experimental manipulations of cone temperatures and aerobic conditions, all in the dark. The exponential rise in ß-myrcene emissions never occurred without a prior, large increase in respiration, whereas an increase in cone temperature alone did not increase emissions. When respiration during thermogenesis was interrupted by anoxic conditions, ß-myrcene emissions decreased. The increased emission rates are not a result of increased cone temperature per se (through increased enzyme activity or volatilization of stored volatiles) but are dependent on biosynthetic pathways associated with increased respiration during thermogenesis that provide the carbon, energy (ATP) and reducing compounds (NADPH) required for ß-myrcene production through the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway. These findings establish the significant contribution of respiration to volatile production during thermogenesis.
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- L Irene Terry
- Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, 50 S. Central Campus Dr., 2202 Merrill Engineering Bldg, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Queensland, Australia
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Nobre T, Campos MD, Lucic-Mercy E, Arnholdt-Schmitt B. Misannotation Awareness: A Tale of Two Gene-Groups. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:868. [PMID: 27379147 PMCID: PMC4909761 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Accepted: 06/02/2016] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Incorrectly or simply not annotated data is largely increasing in most public databases, undoubtedly caused by the rise in sequence data and the more recent boom of genomic projects. Molecular biologists and bioinformaticists should join efforts to tackle this issue. Practical challenges have been experienced when studying the alternative oxidase (AOX) gene family, and hence the motivation for the present work. Commonly used databases were screened for their capacity to distinguish AOX from the plastid terminal oxidase (also called plastoquinol terminal oxidase; PTOX) and we put forward a simple approach, based on amino acids signatures, that unequivocally distinguishes these gene families. Further, available sequence data on the AOX family in plants was carefully revised to: (1) confirm the classification as AOX and (2) identify to which AOX family member they belong to. We bring forward the urgent need of misannotation awareness and re-annotation of public AOX sequences by highlighting different types of misclassifications and the large under-estimation of data availability.
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- Tania Nobre
- EU Marie Curie Chair, Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Universidade de ÉvoraÉvora, Portugal
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- EU Marie Curie Chair, Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Universidade de ÉvoraÉvora, Portugal
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- EU Marie Curie Chair, Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Universidade de ÉvoraÉvora, Portugal
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Pennisi R, Salvi D, Brandi V, Angelini R, Ascenzi P, Polticelli F. Molecular Evolution of Alternative Oxidase Proteins: A Phylogenetic and Structure Modeling Approach. J Mol Evol 2016; 82:207-18. [PMID: 27090422 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-016-9738-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Alternative oxidases (AOXs) are mitochondrial cyanide-resistant membrane-bound metallo-proteins catalyzing the oxidation of ubiquinol and the reduction of oxygen to water bypassing two sites of proton pumping, thus dissipating a major part of redox energy into heat. Here, the structure of Arabidopsis thaliana AOX 1A has been modeled using the crystal structure of Trypanosoma brucei AOX as a template. Analysis of this model and multiple sequence alignment of members of the AOX family from all kingdoms of Life indicate that AOXs display a high degree of conservation of the catalytic core, which is formed by a four-α-helix bundle, hosting the di-iron catalytic site, and is flanked by two additional α-helices anchoring the protein to the membrane. Plant AOXs display a peculiar covalent dimerization mode due to the conservation in the N-terminal region of a Cys residue forming the inter-monomer disulfide bond. The multiple sequence alignment has also been used to infer a phylogenetic tree of AOXs whose analysis shows a polyphyletic origin for the AOXs found in Fungi and a monophyletic origin of the AOXs of Eubacteria, Mycetozoa, Euglenozoa, Metazoa, and Land Plants. This suggests that AOXs evolved from a common ancestral protein in each of these kingdoms. Within the Plant AOX clade, the AOXs of monocotyledon plants form two distinct clades which have unresolved relationships relative to the monophyletic clade of the AOXs of dicotyledonous plants. This reflects the sequence divergence of the N-terminal region, probably due to a low selective pressure for sequence conservation linked to the covalent homo-dimerization mode.
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- Rosa Pennisi
- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 446, 00146, Rome, Italy
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- CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 446, 00146, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 446, 00146, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 446, 00146, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 446, 00146, Rome, Italy. .,National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Roma Tre Section, 00146, Rome, Italy.
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Campos C, Cardoso H, Nogales A, Svensson J, Lopez-Ráez JA, Pozo MJ, Nobre T, Schneider C, Arnholdt-Schmitt B. Intra and Inter-Spore Variability in Rhizophagus irregularis AOX Gene. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0142339. [PMID: 26540237 PMCID: PMC4634980 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2015] [Accepted: 10/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are root-inhabiting fungi that form mutualistic symbioses with their host plants. AMF symbiosis improves nutrient uptake and buffers the plant against a diversity of stresses. Rhizophagus irregularis is one of the most widespread AMF species in the world, and its application in agricultural systems for yield improvement has increased over the last years. Still, from the inoculum production perspective, a lack of consistency of inoculum quality is referred to, which partially may be due to a high genetic variability of the fungus. The alternative oxidase (AOX) is an enzyme of the alternative respiratory chain already described in different taxa, including various fungi, which decreases the damage caused by oxidative stress. Nevertheless, virtually nothing is known on the involvement of AMF AOX on symbiosis establishment, as well on the existence of AOX variability that could affect AMF effectiveness and consequently plant performance. Here, we report the isolation and characterisation of the AOX gene of R. irregularis (RiAOX), and show that it is highly expressed during early phases of the symbiosis with plant roots. Phylogenetic analysis clustered RiAOX sequence with ancient fungi, and multiple sequence alignment revealed the lack of several regulatory motifs which are present in plant AOX. The analysis of RiAOX polymorphisms in single spores of three different isolates showed a reduced variability in one spore relatively to a group of spores. A high number of polymorphisms occurred in introns; nevertheless, some putative amino acid changes resulting from non-synonymous variants were found, offering a basis for selective pressure to occur within the populations. Given the AOX relatedness with stress responses, differences in gene variants amongst R. irregularis isolates are likely to be related with its origin and environmental constraints and might have a potential impact on inoculum production.
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- Catarina Campos
- EU Marie Curie Chair, ICAAM—Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, IIFA-Instituto de Formação e Investigação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Núcleo da Mitra, Évora, Portugal
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- EU Marie Curie Chair, ICAAM—Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, IIFA-Instituto de Formação e Investigação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Núcleo da Mitra, Évora, Portugal
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- EU Marie Curie Chair, ICAAM—Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, IIFA-Instituto de Formação e Investigação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Núcleo da Mitra, Évora, Portugal
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- Department of Soil Microbiology and Symbiotic Systems, Estación Experimental del Zaidín-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EEZ-CSIC), Granada, Spain
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- Department of Soil Microbiology and Symbiotic Systems, Estación Experimental del Zaidín-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EEZ-CSIC), Granada, Spain
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- EU Marie Curie Chair, ICAAM—Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, IIFA-Instituto de Formação e Investigação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Núcleo da Mitra, Évora, Portugal
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- EU Marie Curie Chair, ICAAM—Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, IIFA-Instituto de Formação e Investigação Avançada, Universidade de Évora, Núcleo da Mitra, Évora, Portugal
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Zhu F, Deng XG, Xu F, Jian W, Peng XJ, Zhu T, Xi DH, Lin HH. Mitochondrial alternative oxidase is involved in both compatible and incompatible host-virus combinations in Nicotiana benthamiana. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 239:26-35. [PMID: 26398788 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2015.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2015] [Revised: 07/08/2015] [Accepted: 07/10/2015] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The alternative oxidase (AOX) functions in the resistance to biotic stress. However, the mechanisms of AOX in the systemic antiviral defense response and N (a typical resistance gene)-mediated resistance to Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) are elusive. A chemical approach was undertaken to investigate the role of NbAOX in the systemic resistance to RNA viruses. Furthermore, we used a virus-induced gene-silencing (VIGS)-based genetics approach to investigate the function of AOX in the N-mediated resistance to TMV. The inoculation of virus significantly increased the NbAOX transcript and protein levels and the cyanide-resistant respiration in the upper un-inoculated leaves. Pretreatment with potassium cyanide greatly increased the plant's systemic resistance, whereas the application of salicylhydroxamic acid significantly compromised the plant's systemic resistance. Additionally, in NbAOX1a-silenced N-transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plants, the inoculated leaf collapsed and the movement of TMV into the systemic tissue eventually led to the spreading of HR-PCD and the death of the whole plant. The hypersensitive response marker gene HIN1 was significantly increased in the NbAOX1a-silenced plants. Significant amounts of TMV-CP mRNA and protein were detected in the NbAOX1a-silenced plants but not in the control plants. Overall, evidence is provided that AOX plays important roles in both compatible and incompatible plant-virus combinations.
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- Feng Zhu
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China; College of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Applied Biotechnology Center, Wuhan Bioengineering Insititute, 430415, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China.
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Humbert A, Bovier E, Sellem CH, Sainsard-Chanet A. Deletion of the MED13 and CDK8 subunits of the Mediator improves the phenotype of a long-lived respiratory deficient mutant of Podospora anserina. Fungal Genet Biol 2015; 82:228-37. [PMID: 26231682 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2015.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2015] [Revised: 07/27/2015] [Accepted: 07/28/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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In Podospora anserina, the loss of function of the cytochrome segment of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is viable. This is due to the presence in this organism, as in most filamentous fungi, of an alternative respiratory oxidase (AOX) that provides a bypass to the cytochrome pathway. However mutants lacking a functional cytochrome pathway present multiple phenotypes including poorly colored thin mycelium and slow growth. In a large genetic screen based on the improvement of these phenotypes, we isolated a large number of independent suppressor mutations. Most of them led to the constitutive overexpression of the aox gene. In this study, we characterize a new suppressor mutation that does not affect the production of AOX. It is a loss-of-function mutation in the gene encoding the MED13 subunit of the kinase module of the Mediator complex. Inactivation of the cdk8 gene encoding another subunit of the same module also results in partial suppression of a cytochrome-deficient mutant. Analysis of strains lacking the MED13 or CDK8 subunits points to the importance of these subunits as regulators involved in diverse physiological processes such as growth, longevity and sexual development. Interestingly, transcriptional analyses indicate that in P. anserina, loss of the respiratory cytochrome pathway results in the up-regulation of glycolysis-related genes revealing a new type of retrograde regulation. The loss of MED13 augments the up-regulation of some of these genes.
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- Adeline Humbert
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
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Zhou G, Song Z, Yin Y, Jiang W, Wang Z. Involvement of an alternative oxidase in the regulation of hyphal growth and microsclerotial formation in Nomuraea rileyi CQNr01. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 31:1343-52. [PMID: 26135515 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-015-1877-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2015] [Accepted: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Mitochondria of Nomuraea rileyi contain an alternative oxidase (Aox), which reduces oxygen to water by accepting electrons directly from ubiquinol. Furthermore, through a transcriptional analysis, we found that an alternative oxidase (Nraox) was up-regulated during microsclerotial formation. To study the function of NrAox, Nraox was cloned from N. rileyi CQNr01. The full-length cDNA was 1266 bp with an open reading frame of 1068 bp encoding 355 amino acids. A phylogenetic analysis revealed that the NrAox of N. rileyi was closely related to Metarhizium acridum Aox. The relative expression level of the Nraox was up-regulated during microsclerotial (MS) initiation. A salicylhydroxamic acid, a specific alternative oxidase inhibitor, application to the culture media severely decreased MS yields, changed the hyphae morphology and slowed the H2O2 removal. Nraox silencing caused mycelial deformations, reduced the MS yields by 97.3 % and increased MS size compared with those of the control. MS virulence was decreased to 26.2 % after Nraox was silenced. However, the Nraox-silenced strain was sensitive to environmental stress, and the growth rate was reduced under stress conditions. The results obtained suggested that Nraox is required for MS differentiation by regulating the intracellular H2O2 concentration and hypha growth. Additionally, Nraox had a great impact on the virulence of N. rileyi.
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- Guilin Zhou
- Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Fungal Insecticides, School of Life Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China
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Mróz TL, Havey MJ, Bartoszewski G. Cucumber Possesses a Single Terminal Alternative Oxidase Gene That is Upregulated by Cold Stress and in the Mosaic (MSC) Mitochondrial Mutants. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTER 2015; 33:1893-1906. [PMID: 26752808 PMCID: PMC4695503 DOI: 10.1007/s11105-015-0883-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Alternative oxidase (AOX) is a mitochondrial terminal oxidase which is responsible for an alternative route of electron transport in the respiratory chain. This nuclear-encoded enzyme is involved in a major path of survival under adverse conditions by transfer of electrons from ubiquinol instead of the main cytochrome pathway. AOX protects against unexpected inhibition of the cytochrome c oxidase pathway and plays an important role in stress tolerance. Two AOX subfamilies (AOX1 and AOX2) exist in higher plants and are usually encoded by small gene families. In this study, genome-wide searches and cloning were completed to identify and characterize AOX genes in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Our results revealed that cucumber possesses no AOX1 gene(s) and only a single AOX2 gene located on chromosome 4. Expression studies showed that AOX2 in wild-type cucumber is constitutively expressed at low levels and is upregulated by cold stress. AOX2 transcripts and protein were detected in leaves and flowers of wild-type plants, with higher levels in the three independently derived mosaic (MSC) mitochondrial mutants. Because cucumber possesses a single AOX gene and its expression increases under cold stress and in the MSC mutants, this plant is a unique and intriguing model to study AOX expression and regulation particularly in the context of mitochondria-to-nucleus retrograde signaling.
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- Tomasz L. Mróz
- />Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, ul. Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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- />Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Vegetable Crops Unit, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, 1575 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706 USA
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- />Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, ul. Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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Nawrocki WJ, Tourasse NJ, Taly A, Rappaport F, Wollman FA. The plastid terminal oxidase: its elusive function points to multiple contributions to plastid physiology. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 66:49-74. [PMID: 25580838 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-043014-114744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plastids have retained from their cyanobacterial ancestor a fragment of the respiratory electron chain comprising an NADPH dehydrogenase and a diiron oxidase, which sustain the so-called chlororespiration pathway. Despite its very low turnover rates compared with photosynthetic electron flow, knocking out the plastid terminal oxidase (PTOX) in plants or microalgae leads to severe phenotypes that encompass developmental and growth defects together with increased photosensitivity. On the basis of a phylogenetic and structural analysis of the enzyme, we discuss its physiological contribution to chloroplast metabolism, with an emphasis on its critical function in setting the redox poise of the chloroplast stroma in darkness. The emerging picture of PTOX is that of an enzyme at the crossroads of a variety of metabolic processes, such as, among others, the regulation of cyclic electron transfer and carotenoid biosynthesis, which have in common their dependence on the redox state of the plastoquinone pool, set largely by the activity of PTOX in darkness.
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- Wojciech J Nawrocki
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Membranaire et Moléculaire du Chloroplaste, UMR 7141, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Université Pierre et Marie Curie
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Kühn K, Yin G, Duncan O, Law SR, Kubiszewski-Jakubiak S, Kaur P, Meyer E, Wang Y, Small CCDF, Giraud E, Narsai R, Whelan J. Decreasing electron flux through the cytochrome and/or alternative respiratory pathways triggers common and distinct cellular responses dependent on growth conditions. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 167:228-50. [PMID: 25378695 PMCID: PMC4281006 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.249946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2014] [Accepted: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Diverse signaling pathways are activated by perturbation of mitochondrial function under different growth conditions.Mitochondria have emerged as an important organelle for sensing and coping with stress in addition to being the sites of important metabolic pathways. Here, responses to moderate light and drought stress were examined in different Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) mutant plants lacking a functional alternative oxidase (alternative oxidase1a [aox1a]), those with reduced cytochrome electron transport chain capacity (T3/T7 bacteriophage-type RNA polymerase, mitochondrial, and plastidial [rpoTmp]), and double mutants impaired in both pathways (aox1a:rpoTmp). Under conditions considered optimal for growth, transcriptomes of aox1a and rpoTmp were distinct. Under adverse growth conditions, however, transcriptome changes in aox1a and rpoTmp displayed a highly significant overlap and were indicative of a common mitochondrial stress response and down-regulation of photosynthesis. This suggests that the role of mitochondria to support photosynthesis is provided through either the alternative pathway or the cytochrome pathway, and when either pathway is inhibited, such as under environmental stress, a common, dramatic, and succinct mitochondrial signal is activated to alter energy metabolism in both organelles. aox1a:rpoTmp double mutants grown under optimal conditions showed dramatic reductions in biomass production compared with aox1a and rpoTmp and a transcriptome that was distinct from aox1a or rpoTmp. Transcript data indicating activation of mitochondrial biogenesis in aox1a:rpoTmp were supported by a proteomic analysis of over 200 proteins. Under optimal conditions, aox1a:rpoTmp plants seemed to switch on many of the typical mitochondrial stress regulators. Under adverse conditions, aox1a:rpoTmp turned off these responses and displayed a biotic stress response. Taken together, these results highlight the diverse signaling pathways activated by the perturbation of mitochondrial function under different growth conditions.
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- Kristina Kühn
- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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Costa JH, McDonald AE, Arnholdt-Schmitt B, Fernandes de Melo D. A classification scheme for alternative oxidases reveals the taxonomic distribution and evolutionary history of the enzyme in angiosperms. Mitochondrion 2014; 19 Pt B:172-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2014.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2013] [Revised: 03/23/2014] [Accepted: 04/11/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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