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Yu L, Zhou C, Fan J, Shanklin J, Xu C. Mechanisms and functions of membrane lipid remodeling in plants. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2021; 107:37-53. [PMID: 33853198 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Revised: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Lipid remodeling, defined herein as post-synthetic structural modifications of membrane lipids, play crucial roles in regulating the physicochemical properties of cellular membranes and hence their many functions. Processes affected by lipid remodeling include lipid metabolism, membrane repair, cellular homeostasis, fatty acid trafficking, cellular signaling and stress tolerance. Glycerolipids are the major structural components of cellular membranes and their composition can be adjusted by modifying their head groups, their acyl chain lengths and the number and position of double bonds. This review summarizes recent advances in our understanding of mechanisms of membrane lipid remodeling with emphasis on the lipases and acyltransferases involved in the modification of phosphatidylcholine and monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, the major membrane lipids of extraplastidic and photosynthetic membranes, respectively. We also discuss the role of triacylglycerol metabolism in membrane acyl chain remodeling. Finally, we discuss emerging data concerning the functional roles of glycerolipid remodeling in plant stress responses. Illustrating the molecular basis of lipid remodeling may lead to novel strategies for crop improvement and other biotechnological applications such as bioenergy production.
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- Linhui Yu
- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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Shtark OY, Puzanskiy RK, Avdeeva GS, Yurkov AP, Smolikova GN, Yemelyanov VV, Kliukova MS, Shavarda AL, Kirpichnikova AA, Zhernakov AI, Afonin AM, Tikhonovich IA, Zhukov VA, Shishova MF. Metabolic alterations in pea leaves during arbuscular mycorrhiza development. PeerJ 2019; 7:e7495. [PMID: 31497392 PMCID: PMC6709666 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) is known to be a mutually beneficial plant-fungal symbiosis; however, the effect of mycorrhization is heavily dependent on multiple biotic and abiotic factors. Therefore, for the proper employment of such plant-fungal symbiotic systems in agriculture, a detailed understanding of the molecular basis of the plant developmental response to mycorrhization is needed. The aim of this work was to uncover the physiological and metabolic alterations in pea (Pisum sativum L.) leaves associated with mycorrhization at key plant developmental stages. Plants of pea cv. Finale were grown in constant environmental conditions under phosphate deficiency. The plants were analyzed at six distinct time points, which corresponded to certain developmental stages of the pea: I: 7 days post inoculation (DPI) when the second leaf is fully unfolded with one pair of leaflets and a simple tendril; II: 21 DPI at first leaf with two pairs of leaflets and a complex tendril; III: 32 DPI when the floral bud is enclosed; IV: 42 DPI at the first open flower; V: 56 DPI when the pod is filled with green seeds; and VI: 90-110 DPI at the dry harvest stage. Inoculation with Rhizophagus irregularis had no effect on the fresh or dry shoot weight, the leaf photochemical activity, accumulation of chlorophyll a, b or carotenoids. However, at stage III (corresponding to the most active phase of mycorrhiza development), the number of internodes between cotyledons and the youngest completely developed leaf was lower in the inoculated plants than in those without inoculation. Moreover, inoculation extended the vegetation period of the host plants, and resulted in increase of the average dry weight per seed at stage VI. The leaf metabolome, as analyzed with GC-MS, included about three hundred distinct metabolites and showed a strong correlation with plant age, and, to a lesser extent, was influenced by mycorrhization. Metabolic shifts influenced the levels of sugars, amino acids and other intermediates of nitrogen and phosphorus metabolism. The use of unsupervised dimension reduction methods showed that (i) at stage II, the metabolite spectra of inoculated plants were similar to those of the control, and (ii) at stages IV and V, the leaf metabolic profiles of inoculated plants shifted towards the profiles of the control plants at earlier developmental stages. At stage IV the inoculated plants exhibited a higher level of metabolism of nitrogen, organic acids, and lipophilic compounds in comparison to control plants. Thus, mycorrhization led to the retardation of plant development, which was also associated with higher seed biomass accumulation in plants with an extended vegetation period. The symbiotic crosstalk between host plant and AM fungi leads to alterations in several biochemical pathways the details of which need to be elucidated in further studies.
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- Oksana Y. Shtark
- Department of Biotechnology, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Laboratory of Dynamics of Arctic Vegetation, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Biotechnology, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Biotechnology, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Center for Molecular and Cell Technologies, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Biotechnology, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Biotechnology, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Biotechnology, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Biotechnology, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Brychkova G, Yarmolinsky D, Batushansky A, Grishkevich V, Khozin-Goldberg I, Fait A, Amir R, Fluhr R, Sagi M. Sulfite Oxidase Activity Is Essential for Normal Sulfur, Nitrogen and Carbon Metabolism in Tomato Leaves. PLANTS 2015; 4:573-605. [PMID: 27135342 PMCID: PMC4844397 DOI: 10.3390/plants4030573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2015] [Revised: 07/30/2015] [Accepted: 08/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Plant sulfite oxidase [SO; E.C.1.8.3.1] has been shown to be a key player in protecting plants against exogenous toxic sulfite. Recently we showed that SO activity is essential to cope with rising dark-induced endogenous sulfite levels in tomato plants (Lycopersicon esculentum/Solanum lycopersicum Mill. cv. Rheinlands Ruhm). Here we uncover the ramifications of SO impairment on carbon, nitrogen and sulfur (S) metabolites. Current analysis of the wild-type and SO-impaired plants revealed that under controlled conditions, the imbalanced sulfite level resulting from SO impairment conferred a metabolic shift towards elevated reduced S-compounds, namely sulfide, S-amino acids (S-AA), Co-A and acetyl-CoA, followed by non-S-AA, nitrogen and carbon metabolite enhancement, including polar lipids. Exposing plants to dark-induced carbon starvation resulted in a higher degradation of S-compounds, total AA, carbohydrates, polar lipids and total RNA in the mutant plants. Significantly, a failure to balance the carbon backbones was evident in the mutants, indicated by an increase in tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) cycle intermediates, whereas a decrease was shown in stressed wild-type plants. These results indicate that the role of SO is not limited to a rescue reaction under elevated sulfite, but SO is a key player in maintaining optimal carbon, nitrogen and sulfur metabolism in tomato plants.
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- Galina Brychkova
- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel.
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- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel.
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- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel.
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- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel.
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- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel.
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- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel.
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- Migal-Galilee Technology Center, Southern Industrial Zone, POB831 Kiryat-Shmona 11016, Israel.
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, P.O.B. 26 Rehovot 76100, Israel.
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- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel.
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Yin C, Andersson MX, Zhang H, Aronsson H. Phosphatidylcholine is transferred from chemically-defined liposomes to chloroplasts through proteins of the chloroplast outer envelope membrane. FEBS Lett 2015; 589:177-81. [PMID: 25479091 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.11.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2014] [Revised: 11/24/2014] [Accepted: 11/24/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Chloroplasts maintain their lipid balance through a tight interplay with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The outer envelope membrane of chloroplasts contains a large proportion of the phospholipid phosphatidylcholine (PC), which is synthesized in the ER and also a possible precursor for thylakoid galactolipids. The mechanism for PC transport from the ER to chloroplasts is not known. Using isolated chloroplasts and liposomes containing radiolabeled PC we investigated non-vesicular transport of PC in vitro. PC uptake in chloroplasts was time and temperature dependent, but nucleotide independent. Increased radius of liposomes stimulated PC uptake, and protease treatment of the chloroplasts impaired PC uptake. This implies that the chloroplast outer envelopes contains an exposed proteinaceous machinery for the uptake of PC from closely apposed membranes.
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- Congfei Yin
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Fan J, Yan C, Xu C. Phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase-mediated triacylglycerol biosynthesis is crucial for protection against fatty acid-induced cell death in growing tissues of Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 76:930-42. [PMID: 24118513 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2013] [Revised: 09/25/2013] [Accepted: 10/01/2013] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (PDAT) and diacylglycerol:acyl CoA acyltransferase play overlapping roles in triacylglycerol (TAG) assembly in Arabidopsis, and are essential for seed and pollen development, but the functional importance of PDAT in vegetative tissues remains largely unknown. Taking advantage of the Arabidopsis tgd1-1 mutant that accumulates oil in vegetative tissues, we demonstrate here that PDAT1 is crucial for TAG biosynthesis in growing tissues. We show that disruption of PDAT1 in the tgd1-1 mutant background causes serious growth retardation, gametophytic defects and premature cell death in developing leaves. Lipid analysis data indicated that knockout of PDAT1 results in increases in the levels of free fatty acids (FFAs) and diacylglycerol. In vivo ¹⁴C-acetate labeling experiments showed that, compared with wild-type, tgd1-1 exhibits a 3.8-fold higher rate of fatty acid synthesis (FAS), which is unaffected by disruption or over-expression of PDAT1, indicating a lack of feedback regulation of FAS in tgd1-1. We also show that detached leaves of both pdat1-2 and tgd1-1 pdat1-2 display increased sensitivity to FFA but not to diacylglycerol. Taken together, our results reveal a critical role for PDAT1 in mediating TAG synthesis and thereby protecting against FFA-induced cell death in fast-growing tissues of plants.
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- Jilian Fan
- Biosciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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Seema, Khokhar M, Mukherjee D. Role of kinetin and a morphactin in leaf disc senescence of Raphanus sativus L. under low light. PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANTS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2011; 17:247-53. [PMID: 23573016 PMCID: PMC3550581 DOI: 10.1007/s12298-011-0077-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The effects of exogenous application of plant growth regulators (PGRs) like kinetin and a morphactin were investigated in leaf discs obtained from detached senescent Raphanus sativus L. Chetki long leaves under continuous light with fluorescent tube of 8.12 μmol photon m(-2) s(-1) PFD. Senescence induced changes were characterized by a gradual breakdown of chlorophylls, carotenoids and protein whereas, POD (peroxidase) and protease activity; and total sugars revealed an increment. Application of kinetin (KN) and a morphactin (MOR; chlorflurenol methyl ester-CME 74050) found to be effective in senescence delay, by minimizing breakdown of chlorophylls and carotenoids; and by bringing down peroxidase and protease activity, and sugar accumulation. Although both PGR's were able to minimize senescence, their higher concentration found to be more effective than the lower one.
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- Seema
- Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, 136119 India
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- Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, 136119 India
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- Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, 136119 India
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Wiesenberg GLB, Gocke M, Kuzyakov Y. Optimization of 14C liquid scintillation counting of plant and soil lipids to trace short term formation, translocation and degradation of lipids. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s10967-010-0450-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Andersson MX, Dörmann P. Chloroplast Membrane Lipid Biosynthesis and Transport. PLANT CELL MONOGRAPHS 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68696-5_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Tjellström H, Andersson MX, Larsson KE, Sandelius AS. Membrane phospholipids as a phosphate reserve: the dynamic nature of phospholipid-to-digalactosyl diacylglycerol exchange in higher plants. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2008; 31:1388-98. [PMID: 18643953 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01851.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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It is well established that phosphate deficiency induces the replacement of membrane phospholipid with non-phosphorous lipids in extra-plastidial membranes (e.g. plasma membrane, tonoplast, mitochondria). The predominant replacement lipid is digalactosyl diacylglycerol (DGDG). This paper reports that the phospholipid-to-DGDG replacement is reversible, and that when oat seedlings are re-supplied with radio-labelled phosphate, it is initially recovered primarily in phosphatidylcholine (PC). Within 2 d, the shoot contains more than half of the lipid-associated radiolabel, reflecting phosphate translocation. Oat was also cultivated in different concentrations of phosphate and the DGDG/PC ratio in roots and phospholipase activities in isolated plasma membranes was assayed after different times of cultivation. The DGDG/PC ratio in root tissue correlated more closely with plasma membrane-localized phospholipase D, yielding phosphatidic acid (PA), than with plasma membrane-localized PA phosphatase, the activity that results in a decreased proportion of phospolipids. The lipid degradation data did not reflect a significant involvement of phospholipase C, although a putative phospholipase C analogue, non-specific phospholipase C4 (NPC4), was present in oat roots. The correlation between increased phospholipase D activity and DGDG/PC ratio is consistent with a model where phospholipid-to-DGDG replacement involves formation of PA that readily is removed from the plasma membrane for further degradation elsewhere.
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- Henrik Tjellström
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden
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Mazzella MA, Zanor MI, Fernie AR, Casal JJ. Metabolic responses to red/far-red ratio and ontogeny show poor correlation with the growth rate of sunflower stems. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2008; 59:2469-2477. [PMID: 18515831 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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In sparse canopies, low red to far-red (R/FR) ratios reach only vertically-oriented stems, which respond with faster rates of extension. It is shown here that this signal also promotes stem dry matter accumulation in sunflower (Helianthus annuus) but not in mustard (Sinapis alba L.). Physically blocking internode extension growth also blocked internode recovery of labelled carbon fed to the leaves, indicating that increased carbon accumulation is partially a consequence of increased extension growth in sunflower. However, low R/FR also promoted carbon accumulation in the lower section of the internode, where extension growth was unaffected. Although the levels of many soluble metabolites and of cell-wall carbohydrates increased in the stem in response to low R/FR, allowing conservation of their concentration, sucrose was present at a lower concentration under low R/FR. This change is anticipated to favour carbon unloading from the stem phloem. Low R/FR also reduced the levels of selected fatty acids, fatty acid alcohols, and sterols. Compared with the lower section, the upper section of the internode showed higher levels of organic acids, amino acids, fatty acids, and sterols. It is concluded that the promotion of stem extension growth by low R/FR ratios causes increased dry matter gain in sunflower internodes by a mechanism that is largely independent of changes in metabolism, since, whilst both low R/FR and ontogeny alter the metabolic profile, the changes do not correlate with the observed growth responses.
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- Maria Agustina Mazzella
- INGEBI, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, 1428-Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Andersson MX, Dörmann P. Chloroplast Membrane Lipid Biosynthesis and Transport. PLANT CELL MONOGRAPHS 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/7089_2008_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Larsson KE, Nyström B, Liljenberg C. A phosphatidylserine decarboxylase activity in root cells of oat (Avena sativa) is involved in altering membrane phospholipid composition during drought stress acclimation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2006; 44:211-9. [PMID: 16762557 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2006.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2005] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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During acclimation to drought stress, the lipid composition of oat root cell membranes is altered. The level of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), a non-bilayer forming lipid, is increased relative to the bilayer-forming lipid phosphatidylcholine (PC). These changes are believed to increase stress tolerance by increasing the flexibility of the membranes. To elucidate if de novo lipid synthesis is involved in altering membrane lipid composition, oat plants, acclimated or non-acclimated, were incubated in vivo with radioactively labelled lipid precursors. The labelling pattern indicated that de novo synthesis, at least partly, is causing the alterations. In plants, phospholipids can be synthesized by the Kennedy pathway, with addition of activated head groups to diacylglycerol (DAG) or, alternatively, via the CDP-DAG pathway, where phospahtidylserine (PS) is decarboxylated to form PE. To reveal the importance of the respective pathways during acclimation, we studied the effect of a decarboxylase inhibitor and the relative incorporation of [(3)H]-serine and [(14)C]-ethanolamine in vivo. Activities of CTP:ethanolaminephosphate cytidyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.14), phosphatidylserine decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.65) and phosphatidylserine synthase; CDP-DAG:L-serine o-phosphatidyltransferase (EC 2.7.8.8) were measured and additionally, the presence of a PS decarboxylase (PSD1) in oat was confirmed by immunoblotting. The results suggest that PE synthesis via the Kennedy pathway is downregulated during acclimation and that synthesis by PS decarboxylation, via the CDP-DAG pathway, is increased, mainly through an increased activity of PS synthase.
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- Karin E Larsson
- Department of Botany, Göteborg University, Carl Skottsbergs g. 22 B, P.O. Box 461, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden.
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Wang X, Beno-Moualem D, Kobiler I, Leikin-Frenkel A, Lichter A, Prusky D. Expression of Delta(12) fatty acid desaturase during the induced accumulation of the antifungal diene in avocado fruits. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2004; 5:575-85. [PMID: 20565631 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2004.00249.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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SUMMARY The preformed (Z,Z)-1-acetoxy-2-hydroxy-4-oxo-heneicosa-12,15-diene (AFD) is the most active antifungal compound in avocado; it affects the quiescence of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in unripe fruit. One of the genes encoding Delta(12) fatty acid desaturase (avfad12) was hypothesized to take part in the biosynthesis of AFD, and its expression pattern and enzymatic activity were determined in relation to the content of AFD. Using avfad12-3 as a probe, high levels of expression were detected in young fruits and leaves, where the level of AFD was highest. In contrast, Northern analysis of RNA from mature leaves and fruits showed no transcripts from the avfad12 gene family and lower AFD content. The transcripts from the avfad12 gene family, the enzymatic activity of Delta(12) fatty acid desaturase, and the level of AFD in unripe-resistant fruits increased transiently when the fruits were inoculated with C. gloeosporioides or exposed to ethylene (40 microL/L), low temperature (4 degrees C) or 1 mm H(2)O(2), but ripe fruits were not affected. The effect of H(2)O(2) on the transcripts from the avfad12 gene family is of specific importance, because reactive oxygen species were produced by unripe-resistant host fruit soon after inoculation of C. gloeosporioides. In addition, the fungus itself produced H(2)O(2) in culture medium at pH 5.0, which is similar to the pH of unripe-resistant fruit, but not at pH 7.0. Treatments that enhanced Delta(12) fatty acid desaturase activity increased the concentration of the AFD precursor, linoleic acid, and its incorporation into AFD; these treatments also caused a delay in decay development. The present results demonstrate temporal relationships among the transcripts from the avfad12 gene family, the synthesis of the precursor of AFD (linoleic acid), the AFD content and quiescence of C. gloeosporioides in unripe fruits.
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- Xuejun Wang
- Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce, Institute of Technology and Storage of Agricultural Products, the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, PO Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
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Andersson MX, Kjellberg JM, Sandelius AS. The involvement of cytosolic lipases in converting phosphatidyl choline to substrate for galactolipid synthesis in the chloroplast envelope. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2004; 1684:46-53. [PMID: 15450209 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2004.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2003] [Revised: 04/27/2004] [Accepted: 06/14/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Here we report that cytosolic phospholipases are involved in the utilization of phosphatidylcholine (PC) as substrate for chloroplast-localized synthesis of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG). Isolated chloroplasts were pre-incubated with lysoPC and [14C]18:0-CoA to form [14C]PC. When soluble plant proteins (cytosol) and UDP-galactose were added, [14C] MGDG was formed. An inhibitor of phospholipase D markedly lowered the formation of [14C]MGDG, whereas thermolysin pretreatment of the chloroplasts was without effect. The cytosolic activity resided in the >100-kDa fraction. In a second approach, [14C]PC-containing lipid mixtures were incubated with cytosol. Degradation of [14C]PC to [14C]diacylglycerol was highest when the lipid composition of the mixture mimicked that of the outer chloroplast envelope. We also investigated whether PC of extraplastidic origin could function as substrate for MGDG synthesis. Isolated chloroplasts were incubated with enriched endoplasmic reticulum containing radiolabelled acyl lipids. In the presence of cytosol and UDP-galactose, there was a time-dependent transfer of [14C]PC from this fraction to chloroplasts, where [14C]MGDG was formed. We conclude that chloroplasts recruit cytosolic phospholipase D and phosphatidic acid phosphatase to convert PC to diacylglycerol. Apparently, these lipases do not interact with chloroplast surface proteins, but rather with outer membrane lipids, either for association to the envelope or for substrate presentation.
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- Mats X Andersson
- Department of Botany, Göteborg University, P.O. Box 461, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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Madoka Y, Tomizawa KI, Mizoi J, Nishida I, Nagano Y, Sasaki Y. Chloroplast transformation with modified accD operon increases acetyl-CoA carboxylase and causes extension of leaf longevity and increase in seed yield in tobacco. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 43:1518-25. [PMID: 12514249 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcf172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
Abstract
Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) in plastids is a key enzyme regulating the rate of de novo fatty acid biosynthesis in plants. Plastidic ACCase is composed of three nuclear-encoded subunits and one plastid-encoded accD subunit. To boost ACCase levels, we examined whether overexpression of accD elevates ACCase production. Using homologous recombination, we replaced the promoter of the accD operon in the tobacco plastid genome with a plastid rRNA-operon (rrn) promoter that directs enhanced expression in photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic organs, and successfully raised the total ACCase levels in plastids. This result suggests that the level of the accD subunit is a determinant of ACCase levels, and that enzyme levels are in part controlled post-transcriptionally at the level of subunit assembly. The resultant transformants grew normally and the fatty acid content was significantly increased in leaves, but not significantly in seeds. However, the transformants displayed extended leaf longevity and a twofold increase of seed yield over the control value, which eventually almost doubled the fatty acid production per plant of the transformants relative to control and wild-type plants. These findings offer a potential method for raising plant productivity and oil production.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yuka Madoka
- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan
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