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Ma B, Liu Y, Li X, Fang Z, Zhang L, He Z. A combined approach to evaluate total phosphorus/inorganic phosphate levels in plants. STAR Protoc 2022; 3:101456. [PMID: 35719721 PMCID: PMC9204740 DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- Bin Ma
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- School of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China; School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China.
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China; School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
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Armarego-Marriott T, Kowalewska Ł, Burgos A, Fischer A, Thiele W, Erban A, Strand D, Kahlau S, Hertle A, Kopka J, Walther D, Reich Z, Schöttler MA, Bock R. Highly Resolved Systems Biology to Dissect the Etioplast-to-Chloroplast Transition in Tobacco Leaves. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 180:654-681. [PMID: 30862726 PMCID: PMC6501100 DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.01432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Accepted: 02/19/2019] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Upon exposure to light, plant cells quickly acquire photosynthetic competence by converting pale etioplasts into green chloroplasts. This developmental transition involves the de novo biogenesis of the thylakoid system and requires reprogramming of metabolism and gene expression. Etioplast-to-chloroplast differentiation involves massive changes in plastid ultrastructure, but how these changes are connected to specific changes in physiology, metabolism, and expression of the plastid and nuclear genomes is poorly understood. Here, we describe a new experimental system in the dicotyledonous model plant tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) that allows us to study the leaf deetiolation process at the systems level. We have determined the accumulation kinetics of photosynthetic complexes, pigments, lipids, and soluble metabolites and recorded the dynamic changes in plastid ultrastructure and in the nuclear and plastid transcriptomes. Our data describe the greening process at high temporal resolution, resolve distinct genetic and metabolic phases during deetiolation, and reveal numerous candidate genes that may be involved in light-induced chloroplast development and thylakoid biogenesis.
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- Faculty of Biology, Department of Plant Anatomy and Cytology, University of Warsaw, 02-096 Warszawa, Poland
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- Laboratorio de Biotecnología, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Guadalajara, CP 45200 Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- targenomix GmbH, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Ayadi A, David P, Arrighi JF, Chiarenza S, Thibaud MC, Nussaume L, Marin E. Reducing the genetic redundancy of Arabidopsis PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER1 transporters to study phosphate uptake and signaling. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 167:1511-26. [PMID: 25670816 PMCID: PMC4378149 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.252338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) absorbs inorganic phosphate (Pi) from the soil through an active transport process mediated by the nine members of the PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER1 (PHT1) family. These proteins share a high level of similarity (greater than 61%), with overlapping expression patterns. The resulting genetic and functional redundancy prevents the analysis of their specific roles. To overcome this difficulty, our approach combined several mutations with gene silencing to inactivate multiple members of the PHT1 family, including a cluster of genes localized on chromosome 5 (PHT1;1, PHT1;2, and PHT1;3). Physiological analyses of these lines established that these three genes, along with PHT1;4, are the main contributors to Pi uptake. Furthermore, PHT1;1 plays an important role in translocation from roots to leaves in high phosphate conditions. These genetic tools also revealed that some PHT1 transporters likely exhibit a dual affinity for phosphate, suggesting that their activity is posttranslationally controlled. These lines display significant phosphate deficiency-related phenotypes (e.g. biomass and yield) due to a massive (80%-96%) reduction in phosphate uptake activities. These defects limited the amount of internal Pi pool, inducing compensatory mechanisms triggered by the systemic Pi starvation response. Such reactions have been uncoupled from PHT1 activity, suggesting that systemic Pi sensing is most probably acting downstream of PHT1.
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- Amal Ayadi
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut de Biologie Environnementale et de Biotechnologie, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Biologie Végétale and Microbiologie Environnementale, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); Aix-Marseille Université, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); andLaboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, TA A-82/J Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France (J.-F.A.)
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut de Biologie Environnementale et de Biotechnologie, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Biologie Végétale and Microbiologie Environnementale, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); Aix-Marseille Université, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); andLaboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, TA A-82/J Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France (J.-F.A.)
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut de Biologie Environnementale et de Biotechnologie, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Biologie Végétale and Microbiologie Environnementale, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); Aix-Marseille Université, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); andLaboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, TA A-82/J Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France (J.-F.A.)
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut de Biologie Environnementale et de Biotechnologie, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Biologie Végétale and Microbiologie Environnementale, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); Aix-Marseille Université, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); andLaboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, TA A-82/J Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France (J.-F.A.)
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut de Biologie Environnementale et de Biotechnologie, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Biologie Végétale and Microbiologie Environnementale, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); Aix-Marseille Université, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); andLaboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, TA A-82/J Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France (J.-F.A.)
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut de Biologie Environnementale et de Biotechnologie, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Biologie Végétale and Microbiologie Environnementale, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); Aix-Marseille Université, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); andLaboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, TA A-82/J Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France (J.-F.A.)
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut de Biologie Environnementale et de Biotechnologie, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Biologie Végétale and Microbiologie Environnementale, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); Aix-Marseille Université, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (A.A., P.D., S.C., M.-C.T., L.N., E.M.); andLaboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, TA A-82/J Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France (J.-F.A.)
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Allen DK, Evans BS, Libourel IGL. Analysis of isotopic labeling in peptide fragments by tandem mass spectrometry. PLoS One 2014; 9:e91537. [PMID: 24626471 PMCID: PMC3953442 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2013] [Accepted: 02/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Phenotype in multicellular organisms is the consequence of dynamic metabolic events that occur in a spatially dependent fashion. This spatial and temporal complexity presents challenges for investigating metabolism; creating a need for improved methods that effectively probe biochemical events such as amino acid biosynthesis. Isotopic labeling can provide a temporal-spatial recording of metabolic events through, for example, the description of enriched amino acids in the protein pool. Proteins are therefore an important readout of metabolism and can be assessed with modern mass spectrometers. We compared the measurement of isotopic labeling in MS2 spectra obtained from tandem mass spectrometry under either higher energy collision dissociation (HCD) or collision induced dissociation (CID) at varied energy levels. Developing soybean embryos cultured with or without 13C-labeled substrates, and Escherichia coli MG1655 enriched by feeding 7% uniformly labeled glucose served as a source of biological material for protein evaluation. CID with low energies resulted in a disproportionate amount of heavier isotopologues remaining in the precursor isotopic distribution. HCD resulted in fewer quantifiable products; however deviation from predicted distributions were small relative to the CID-based comparisons. Fragment ions have the potential to provide information on the labeling of amino acids in peptides, but our results indicate that without further development the use of this readout in quantitative methods such as metabolic flux analysis is limited.
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- Doug K. Allen
- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Genetic Research Unit, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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Crosatti C, Quansah L, Maré C, Giusti L, Roncaglia E, Atienza SG, Cattivelli L, Fait A. Cytoplasmic genome substitution in wheat affects the nuclear-cytoplasmic cross-talk leading to transcript and metabolite alterations. BMC Genomics 2013; 14:868. [PMID: 24320731 PMCID: PMC4008262 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2013] [Accepted: 12/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background Alloplasmic lines provide a unique tool to study nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions. Three alloplasmic lines, with nuclear genomes from Triticum aestivum and harboring cytoplasm from Aegilops uniaristata, Aegilops tauschii and Hordeum chilense, were investigated by transcript and metabolite profiling to identify the effects of cytoplasmic substitution on nuclear-cytoplasmic signaling mechanisms. Results In combining the wheat nuclear genome with a cytoplasm of H. chilense, 540 genes were significantly altered, whereas 11 and 28 genes were significantly changed in the alloplasmic lines carrying the cytoplasm of Ae. uniaristata or Ae. tauschii, respectively. We identified the RNA maturation-related process as one of the most sensitive to a perturbation of the nuclear-cytoplasmic interaction. Several key components of the ROS chloroplast retrograde signaling, together with the up-regulation of the ROS scavenging system, showed that changes in the chloroplast genome have a direct impact on nuclear-cytoplasmic cross-talk. Remarkably, the H. chilense alloplasmic line down-regulated some genes involved in the determination of cytoplasmic male sterility without expressing the male sterility phenotype. Metabolic profiling showed a comparable response of the central metabolism of the alloplasmic and euplasmic lines to light, while exposing larger metabolite alterations in the H. chilense alloplasmic line as compared with the Aegilops lines, in agreement with the transcriptomic data. Several stress-related metabolites, remarkably raffinose, were altered in content in the H. chilense alloplasmic line when exposed to high light, while amino acids, as well as organic acids were significantly decreased. Alterations in the levels of transcript, related to raffinose, and the photorespiration-related metabolisms were associated with changes in the level of related metabolites. Conclusion The replacement of a wheat cytoplasm with the cytoplasm of a related species affects the nuclear-cytoplasmic cross-talk leading to transcript and metabolite alterations. The extent of these modifications was limited in the alloplasmic lines with Aegilops cytoplasm, and more evident in the alloplasmic line with H. chilense cytoplasm. We consider that, this finding might be linked to the phylogenetic distance of the genomes.
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- Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, 84990 Sde Boqer, Israel.
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Kueger S, Steinhauser D, Willmitzer L, Giavalisco P. High-resolution plant metabolomics: from mass spectral features to metabolites and from whole-cell analysis to subcellular metabolite distributions. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2012; 70:39-50. [PMID: 22449042 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2012.04902.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The main goal of metabolomics is the comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analysis of the time- and space-resolved distribution of all metabolites present in a given biological system. Because metabolite structures, in contrast to transcript and protein sequences, are not directly deducible from the genomic DNA sequence, the massive increase in genomic information is only indirectly of use to metabolomics, leaving compound annotation as a key problem to be solved by the available analytical techniques. Furthermore, as metabolites vary widely in both concentration and chemical behavior, there is no single analytical procedure allowing the unbiased and comprehensive structural elucidation and determination of all metabolites present in a given biological system. In this review the different approaches for targeted and non-targeted metabolomics analysis will be described with special emphasis on mass spectrometry-based techniques. Particular attention is given to approaches which can be employed for the annotation of unknown compounds. In the second part, the different experimental approaches aimed at tissue-specific or subcellular analysis of metabolites are discussed including a range of non-mass spectrometry based technologies.
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- Stephan Kueger
- Botanical Institute II, University of Cologne, Zülpicherstrasse 47b, Cologne, Germany
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Wahrheit J, Nicolae A, Heinzle E. Eukaryotic metabolism: measuring compartment fluxes. Biotechnol J 2011; 6:1071-85. [PMID: 21910257 DOI: 10.1002/biot.201100032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2011] [Revised: 07/18/2011] [Accepted: 07/26/2011] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Metabolic compartmentation represents a major characteristic of eukaryotic cells. The analysis of compartmented metabolic networks is complicated by separation and parallelization of pathways, intracellular transport, and the need for regulatory systems to mediate communication between interdependent compartments. Metabolic flux analysis (MFA) has the potential to reveal compartmented metabolic events, although it is a challenging task requiring demanding experimental techniques and sophisticated modeling. At present no ready-made solution can be provided to cope with the complexity of compartmented metabolic networks, but new powerful tools are emerging. This review gives an overview of different strategies to approach this issue, focusing on different MFA methods and highlighting the additional information that should be included to improve the outcome of an experiment and associate estimation procedures.
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- Judith Wahrheit
- Biochemical Engineering, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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The benefits of being transient: isotope-based metabolic flux analysis at the short time scale. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2011; 91:1247-65. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-011-3390-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2011] [Revised: 05/15/2011] [Accepted: 05/16/2011] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Stefanovic A, Arpat AB, Bligny R, Gout E, Vidoudez C, Bensimon M, Poirier Y. Over-expression of PHO1 in Arabidopsis leaves reveals its role in mediating phosphate efflux. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 66:689-99. [PMID: 21309867 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2011.04532.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Inorganic phosphate (Pi) homeostasis in multi-cellular eukaryotes depends not only on Pi influx into cells, but also on Pi efflux. Examples in plants for which Pi efflux is crucial are transfer of Pi into the xylem of roots and release of Pi at the peri-arbuscular interface of mycorrhizal roots. Despite its importance, no protein has been identified that specifically mediates phosphate efflux either in animals or plants. The Arabidopsis thaliana PHO1 gene is expressed in roots, and was previously shown to be involved in long-distance transfer of Pi from the root to the shoot. Here we show that PHO1 over-expression in the shoot of A. thaliana led to a two- to threefold increase in shoot Pi content and a severe reduction in shoot growth. (31) P-NMR in vivo showed a normal initial distribution of intracellular Pi between the cytoplasm and the vacuole in leaves over-expressing PHO1, followed by a large efflux of Pi into the infiltration medium, leading to a rapid reduction of the vacuolar Pi pool. Furthermore, the Pi concentration in leaf xylem exudates from intact plants was more than 100-fold higher in PHO1 over-expressing plants compared to wild-type. Together, these results show that PHO1 over-expression in leaves leads to a dramatic efflux of Pi out of cells and into the xylem vessel, revealing a crucial role for PHO1 in Pi efflux.
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- Aleksandra Stefanovic
- Département de Biologie Moléculaire Végétale, Biophore, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Rouached H, Stefanovic A, Secco D, Bulak Arpat A, Gout E, Bligny R, Poirier Y. Uncoupling phosphate deficiency from its major effects on growth and transcriptome via PHO1 expression in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 65:557-70. [PMID: 21288266 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2010.04442.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Inorganic phosphate (Pi) is one of the most limiting nutrients for plant growth in both natural and agricultural contexts. Pi-deficiency leads to a strong decrease in shoot growth, and triggers extensive changes at the developmental, biochemical and gene expression levels that are presumably aimed at improving the acquisition of this nutrient and sustaining growth. The Arabidopsis thaliana PHO1 gene has previously been shown to participate in the transport of Pi from roots to shoots, and the null pho1 mutant has all the hallmarks associated with shoot Pi deficiency. We show here that A. thaliana plants with a reduced expression of PHO1 in roots have shoot growth similar to Pi-sufficient plants, despite leaves being strongly Pi deficient. Furthermore, the gene expression profile normally triggered by Pi deficiency is suppressed in plants with low PHO1 expression. At comparable levels of shoot Pi supply, the wild type reduces shoot growth but maintains adequate shoot vacuolar Pi content, whereas the PHO1 underexpressor maintains maximal growth with strongly depleted Pi reserves. Expression of the Oryza sativa (rice) PHO1 ortholog in the pho1 null mutant also leads to plants that maintain normal growth and suppression of the Pi-deficiency response, despite the low shoot Pi. These data show that it is possible to unlink low shoot Pi content with the responses normally associated with Pi deficiency through the modulation of PHO1 expression or activity. These data also show that reduced shoot growth is not a direct consequence of Pi deficiency, but is more likely to be a result of extensive gene expression reprogramming triggered by Pi deficiency.
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- Hatem Rouached
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Biophore, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Allen DK, Libourel IGL, Shachar-Hill Y. Metabolic flux analysis in plants: coping with complexity. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2009; 32:1241-57. [PMID: 19422611 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.01992.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Theory and experience in metabolic engineering both show that metabolism operates at the network level. In plants, this complexity is compounded by a high degree of compartmentation and the synthesis of a very wide array of secondary metabolic products. A further challenge to understanding and predicting plant metabolic function is posed by our ignorance about the structure of metabolic networks even in well-studied systems. Metabolic flux analysis (MFA) provides tools to measure and model the functioning of metabolism, and is making significant contributions to coping with their complexity. This review gives an overview of different MFA approaches, the measurements required to implement them and the information they yield. The application of MFA methods to plant systems is then illustrated by several examples from the recent literature. Next, the challenges that plant metabolism poses for MFA are discussed together with ways that these can be addressed. Lastly, new developments in MFA are described that can be expected to improve the range and reliability of plant MFA in the coming years.
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- Doug K Allen
- Michigan State University, Plant Biology Department, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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Rinder J, Casazza AP, Hoefgen R, Hesse H. Regulation of aspartate-derived amino acid homeostasis in potato plants (Solanum tuberosum L.) by expression of E. coli homoserine kinase. Amino Acids 2007; 34:213-22. [PMID: 17624493 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-007-0504-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2006] [Accepted: 02/06/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The availability of the carbon backbone O-phosphohomoserine (OPHS) is critical to methionine (met) and threonine (thr) synthesis. OPHS derives from homoserine and is formed by homoserine kinase (HSK). To clarify the function of HSK in cellular metabolism, the E. coli HSK ortholog thrB was expressed in potato plants targeting the EcHSK protein to chloroplasts and to the cytosol. Both approaches resulted in up to 11 times increased total HSK enzyme activity. Transgenic plants exhibited reduced homoserine levels while met and thr did not accumulate significantly. However, the precursor cysteine and upstream intermediates of met such as cystathionine and homocysteine did indicating an accelerated carbon flow towards the end products. Coincidently, plants with elevated cytosolic levels of EcHSK exhibited a reduction in transcript levels of the endogenous HSK, as well as of threonine synthase (TS), cystathionine beta-lyase (CbL), and met synthase (MS). In all plants, cystathionine gamma-synthase (CgS) expression remained relatively unchanged from wild type levels, while S-adenosylmethionine synthetase (SAMS) expression increased. Feeding studies with externally supplied homoserine fostered the synthesis of met and thr but the regulation of synthesis of both amino acids retained the wild type regulation pattern. The results indicate that excess of plastidial localised HSK activity does not influence the de novo synthesis of met and thr. However, expression of HSK in the cytosol resulted in the down-regulation of gene expression of pathway genes probably mediated via OPHS. We integrated these data in a novel working model describing the regulatory mechanism of met and thr homeostasis.
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- J Rinder
- Department of Molecular Physiology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Golm, Germany
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Lee M, Martin MN, Hudson AO, Lee J, Muhitch MJ, Leustek T. Methionine and threonine synthesis are limited by homoserine availability and not the activity of homoserine kinase in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 41:685-96. [PMID: 15703056 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2004.02329.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Homoserine kinase (HSK) produces O-phospho-l-homoserine (HserP) used by cystathionine gamma-synthase (CGS) for Met synthesis and threonine synthase (TS) for Thr synthesis. The effects of overexpressing Arabidopsis thaliana HSK, CGS, and Escherichia coli TS (eTS), each controlled by the 35S promoter, were compared. The results indicate that in Arabidopsis Hser supply is the major factor limiting the synthesis of HserP, Met and Thr. HSK is not limiting and CGS or TS control the partitioning of HserP. HSK overexpression had no effect on the level of soluble HserP, Met or Thr, however, when treated with Hser these plants produced far more HserP than wild type. Met and Thr also accumulated markedly after Hser treatment but the increase was similar in HSK overexpressing and wild-type plants. CGS overexpression was previously shown to increase Met content, but had no effect on Thr. After Hser treatment Met accumulation increased in CGS-overexpressing plants compared with wild type, whereas HserP declined and Thr was unaffected. Arabidopsis responded differentially to eTS expression depending on the level of the enzyme. At the highest eTS level the Thr content was not increased, but the phenotype was negatively affected and the T1 plants died before reproducing. Comparatively low eTS did not affect phenotype or Thr/Met level, however after Hser treatment HserP and Met accumulation were reduced compared with wild type and Thr was increased slightly. At intermediate eTS activity seedling growth was retarded unless Met was supplied and CGS expression was induced, indicating that eTS limited HserP availability for Met synthesis.
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- Minsang Lee
- Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520, USA
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Ratcliffe RG, Shachar-Hill Y. Revealing metabolic phenotypes in plants: inputs from NMR analysis. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2005; 80:27-43. [PMID: 15727037 DOI: 10.1017/s1464793104006530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Assessing the performance of the plant metabolic network, with its varied biosynthetic capacity and its characteristic subcellular compartmentation, remains a considerable challenge. The complexity of the network is such that it is not yet possible to build large-scale predictive models of the fluxes it supports, whether on the basis of genomic and gene expression analysis or on the basis of more traditional measurements of metabolites and their interconversions. This limits the agronomic and biotechnological exploitation of plant metabolism, and it undermines the important objective of establishing a rational metabolic engineering strategy. Metabolic analysis is central to removing this obstacle and currently there is particular interest in harnessing high-throughput and/or large-scale analyses to the task of defining metabolic phenotypes. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy contributes to this objective by providing a versatile suite of analytical techniques for the detection of metabolites and the fluxes between them. The principles that underpin the analysis of plant metabolism by NMR are described, including a discussion of the measurement options for the detection of metabolites in vivo and in vitro, and a description of the stable isotope labelling experiments that provide the basis for metabolic flux analysis. Despite a relatively low sensitivity, NMR is suitable for high-throughput system-wide analyses of the metabolome, providing methods for both metabolite fingerprinting and metabolite profiling, and in these areas NMR can contribute to the definition of plant metabolic phenotypes that are based on metabolic composition. NMR can also be used to investigate the operation of plant metabolic networks. Labelling experiments provide information on the operation of specific pathways within the network, and the quantitative analysis of steady-state labelling experiments leads to the definition of large-scale flux maps for heterotrophic carbon metabolism. These maps define multiple unidirectional fluxes between branch-points in the metabolic network, highlighting the existence of substrate cycles and discriminating in favourable cases between fluxes in the cytosol and plastid. Flux maps can be used to define a functionally relevant metabolic phenotype and the extensive application of such maps in microbial systems suggests that they could have important applications in characterising the genotypes produced by plant genetic engineering.
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- R G Ratcliffe
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK.
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Mesnard F, Ratcliffe RG. NMR analysis of plant nitrogen metabolism. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2005; 83:163-80. [PMID: 16143850 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-004-2081-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2004] [Accepted: 07/17/2004] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The analysis of primary and secondary nitrogen metabolism in plants by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is comprehensively reviewed. NMR is a versatile analytical tool, and the combined use of (1)H, (2)H, (13)C, (14)N and (15)N NMR allows detailed investigation of the acquisition, assimilation and metabolism of nitrogen. The analysis of tissue extracts can be complemented by the in vivo NMR analysis of functioning tissues and cell suspensions, and by the application of solid state NMR techniques. Moreover stable isotope labelling with (2)H-, (13)C- and (15)N-labelled precursors provides direct insight into specific pathways, with the option of both time-course and steady state analysis increasing the potential value of the approach. The scope of the NMR method, and its contribution to studies of plant nitrogen metabolism, are illustrated with a wide range of examples. These include studies of the GS/GOGAT pathway of ammonium assimilation, investigations of the metabolism of glutamate, glycine and other amino acids, and applications to tropane alkaloid metabolism. The continuing development of the NMR technique, together with potential applications in the emerging fields of metabolomics and metabolic flux analysis, leads to the conclusion that NMR will play an increasingly valuable role in the analysis of plant nitrogen metabolism.
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- F Mesnard
- EA 2084, Faculté de Pharmacie, Laboratoire de Phytotechnologie, 1 rue des Louvels, F-80037 Amiens Cedex 1, France
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Curien G, Ravanel S, Dumas R. A kinetic model of the branch-point between the methionine and threonine biosynthesis pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 270:4615-27. [PMID: 14622248 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03851.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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This work proposes a model of the metabolic branch-point between the methionine and threonine biosynthesis pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana which involves kinetic competition for phosphohomoserine between the allosteric enzyme threonine synthase and the two-substrate enzyme cystathionine gamma-synthase. Threonine synthase is activated by S-adenosylmethionine and inhibited by AMP. Cystathionine gamma-synthase condenses phosphohomoserine to cysteine via a ping-pong mechanism. Reactions are irreversible and inhibited by inorganic phosphate. The modelling procedure included an examination of the kinetic links, the determination of the operating conditions in chloroplasts and the establishment of a computer model using the enzyme rate equations. To test the model, the branch-point was reconstituted with purified enzymes. The computer model showed a partial agreement with the in vitro results. The model was subsequently improved and was then found consistent with flux partition in vitro and in vivo. Under near physiological conditions, S-adenosylmethionine, but not AMP, modulates the partition of a steady-state flux of phosphohomoserine. The computer model indicates a high sensitivity of cystathionine flux to enzyme and S-adenosylmethionine concentrations. Cystathionine flux is sensitive to modulation of threonine flux whereas the reverse is not true. The cystathionine gamma-synthase kinetic mechanism favours a low sensitivity of the fluxes to cysteine. Though sensitivity to inorganic phosphate is low, its concentration conditions the dynamics of the system. Threonine synthase and cystathionine gamma-synthase display similar kinetic efficiencies in the metabolic context considered and are first-order for the phosphohomoserine substrate. Under these conditions outflows are coordinated.
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- Gilles Curien
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale DRDC/CEA-Grenoble, France.
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Streb P, Aubert S, Gout E, Bligny R. Cold- and light-induced changes of metabolite and antioxidant levels in two high mountain plant species Soldanella alpina and Ranunculus glacialis and a lowland species Pisum sativum. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2003; 118:96-104. [PMID: 12702018 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2003.00099.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Leaves of the two cold-acclimated alpine plant species Ranunculus glacialis and Soldanella alpina and, for comparison, of the non-acclimated lowland species Pisum sativum were illuminated with high light intensity at low temperature. The light- and cold-induced changes of antioxidants and of the major carbon and phosphate metabolites were analysed to examine which metabolic pathways might be limiting in non-acclimated pea leaves and whether alpine plants are able to circumvent such limitation. During illumination at low temperature pea leaves accumulated high quantities of sucrose, glucose-6-phosphate, fructose-6-phosphate, mannose-6-phosphate and phosphoglycerate (PGA) whereas ATP/ADP-ratios decreased. Although the PGA content also increased in leaves of R. glacialis the other metabolites did not accumulate and ATP/ADP-ratios remained fairly constant in either alpine species. These data indicate a inorganic phosphate (Pi)-limitation in the chloroplasts of pea leaves but not in the alpine species. However, the total phosphate pool and the percentage of free Pi were highest in pea and did not change during illumination in cold. In contrast, free Pi contents declined markedly in R. glacialis leaves, suggesting that Pi is available for metabolism in this species. In S. alpina leaves contents of ascorbate and glutathione doubled in light and cold, while the contents of sugars did not increase. Obviously, S. alpina leaves can use assimilated carbon for ascorbate synthesis, rather than for the synthesis of sugars. A high capacity for ascorbate synthesis might prevent the accumulation of mannose-6-phosphate and Pi-limitation.
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- Peter Streb
- Station Alpine du Lautaret and Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5019 (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Joseph Fourier), Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, CEA-Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble cedex 9, France Present address: Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie Végétale, Bâtiment 362, UFR Scientifique d'Orsay Université Paris XI, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Crecelius F, Streb P, Feierabend J. Malate metabolism and reactions of oxidoreduction in cold-hardened winter rye (Secale cereale L.) leaves. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2003; 54:1075-1083. [PMID: 12598577 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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In cold-hardened leaves (CHL) of winter rye (Secale cereale L.) much higher levels of malate were detected by (13)C-NMR than in non-hardened leaves (NHL). As this was not observed previously, malate metabolism of CHL was studied in more detail by biochemical assays. The activities of several enzymes of malate metabolism, NADP-malate dehydrogenase, NAD-malate dehydrogenase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, and NADP-malic enzyme, were also increased in CHL. Short exposures to low temperature of 1-3 d did not induce increases in the malate content or in the activities of enzymes of malate metabolism in mature NHL. The malate content and the enzyme activities declined within 1-2 d after a transfer of CHL from their growing temperature of 4 degrees C to 22 degrees C. The malate content was further increased when CHL were exposed to a higher light intensity at 4 degrees C. In CO(2)-free air the malate content of CHL strongly declined at 4 degrees C. Malate may thus serve as an additional carbon sink and as a CO(2)-store in CHL. It may further function as a vacuolar osmolyte balancing increased concentrations of soluble sugars previously observed in the cytosol of CHL. Malate was not used as a source of reductants when CHL were exposed to photo-oxidative stress by treatment with paraquat. However, the activities of enzymes of the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway were markedly increased in CHL and may serve as non-photosynthetic sources of NADPH and thus contribute to the previously observed superior capacity of CHL of winter rye to maintain their antioxidants in a reduced state in the presence of paraquat.
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- Frauke Crecelius
- Botanisches Institut, Goethe-Universität, PO Box 111932, D-60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Streb P, Aubert S, Gout E, Bligny R. Reversibility of cold- and light-stress tolerance and accompanying changes of metabolite and antioxidant levels in the two high mountain plant species Soldanella alpina and Ranunculus glacialis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2003; 54:405-18. [PMID: 12493869 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Two high mountain plants Soldanella alpina (L.) and Ranunculus glacialis (L.) were transferred from their natural environment to two different growth conditions (22 degrees C and 6 degrees C) at low elevation in order to investigate the possibility of de-acclimation to light and cold and the importance of antioxidants and metabolite levels. The results were compared with the lowland crop plant Pisum sativum (L.) as a control. Leaves of R. glacialis grown for 3 weeks at 22 degrees C were more sensitive to light-stress (defined as damage to photosynthesis, reduction of catalase activity (EC 1.11.1.6) and bleaching of chlorophyll) than leaves collected in high mountains or grown at 6 degrees C. Light-stress tolerance of S. alpina leaves was not markedly changed. Therefore, acclimation is reversible in R. glacialis leaves, but constitutive or long-lasting in S. alpina leaves. The different growth conditions induced significant changes in non-photochemical fluorescence quenching (qN) and the contents of antioxidants and xanthophyll cycle pigments. These changes did not correlate with light-stress tolerance, questioning their role for light- and cold-acclimation of both alpine species. However, ascorbate contents remained very high in leaves of S. alpina under all growth conditions (12-19% of total soluble carbon). In cold-acclimated leaves of R. glacialis, malate represented one of the most abundant compounds of total soluble carbon (22%). Malate contents declined significantly in de-acclimated leaves, suggesting a possible involvement of malate, or malate metabolism, in light-stress tolerance. Leaves of the lowland plant P. sativum were more sensitive to light-stress than the alpine species, and contained only low amounts of malate and ascorbate.
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- P Streb
- Unité Mixte de Recherche 5019 (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Joseph Fourier), Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Grenoble, France.
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Recent advances in NMR methodology offer a way to acquire a comprehensive profile of a wide range of metabolites from various plant tissues or cells. NMR is a powerful approach for plant metabolite profiling and provides a capacity for the dynamic exploration of plant metabolism that is virtually unmatched by any other analytical technique.
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- R Bligny
- Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, CEA, CNRS et Université Joseph Fourier, 17 rue des martyrs, F 38054 Grenoble, 9, Cedex, France
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Ratcliffe RG, Shachar-Hill Y. PROBING PLANT METABOLISM WITH NMR. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2001; 52:499-526. [PMID: 11337407 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.52.1.499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Analytical methods for probing plant metabolism are taking on new significance in the era of functional genomics and metabolic engineering. Among the available methods, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a technique that can provide insights into the integration and regulation of plant metabolism through a combination of in vivo and in vitro measurements. Thus NMR can be used to identify, quantify, and localize metabolites, to define the intracellular environment, and to explore pathways and their operation. We review these applications and their significance from a metabolic perspective. Topics of current interest include applications of NMR to metabolic flux analysis, metabolite profiling, and metabolite imaging. These and other areas are discussed in relation to NMR investigations of intermediary carbon and nitrogen metabolism. We conclude that metabolic NMR has a continuing role to play in the development of a quantitative understanding of plant metabolism and in the characterization of metabolic phenotypes.
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- R George Ratcliffe
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom; e-mail: , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003; e-mail:
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Gerendás J, Ratcliffe RG. Intracellular pH regulation in maize root tips exposed to ammonium at high external pH. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2000; 51:207-219. [PMID: 10938827 DOI: 10.1093/jexbot/51.343.207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Ammonium-induced changes in the cytoplasmic and vacuolar pH values of excised maize (Zea mays L.) root tips, measured by in vivo 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, were correlated with the ammonium content of the tissue, determined by 14N NMR. Calculations based on these measurements indicated that the pH changes observed during exposure to 10 mM ammonium for 1 h at pH 9.0, and in the recovery following the removal of the external ammonium supply, were largely determined by the influx and efflux of the weak base NH3. Carboxylate synthesis, detected by both in vivo 13C NMR and the incorporation of [14C]bicarbonate, was stimulated by the ammonium-induced alkalinization of the root tips, but the contribution that this proton-generating process made to pH regulation during and after the ammonium treatment was quantitatively insignificant. Similarly, ammonium assimilation, which was shown to occur via the proton-generating glutamine synthetase/glutamate synthase pathway using in vivo 15N NMR, was also quantitatively insignificant in comparison with the large changes in ammonium content that occurred during the ammonium treatment and subsequent recovery. The results are discussed in relation to several recent studies in which ammonium was used to perturb intracellular pH values, and it is argued (i) that a new method for probing the subcellular compartmentation of amino acids, based on an ammonium-induced alkalinization of the cytoplasm may be difficult to implement in dense heterogeneous tissues; and (ii) that observations on the apparently proton-consuming effect of ammonium assimilation in rice root hairs may actually reflect unusually rapid assimilation.
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- J Gerendás
- Institute for Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, University of Kiel, Germany.
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The era of metabolic engineering has begun, but there is only limited knowledge about metabolic fluxes and how they are regulated in plants. Particular challenges are the non-linearities between enzyme abundances, metabolite concentrations and metabolic fluxes, and the existence of metabolic networks that provide multiple routes between many important metabolites. NMR offers the means to distinguish and quantitate the fluxes along different routes to key metabolites. NMR can therefore help us understand and resolve the apparent paradox of, on the one hand, great metabolic flexibility evident in the natural responses of plants and, on the other hand, the unpredictable changes in metabolism reported in genetically engineered plants.
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- J K Roberts
- Dept of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
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Lee M, Leustek T. Identification of the gene encoding homoserine kinase from Arabidopsis thaliana and characterization of the recombinant enzyme derived from the gene. Arch Biochem Biophys 1999; 372:135-42. [PMID: 10562426 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1999.1481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Homoserine kinase (EC 2.7.1.39) catalyzes the formation of O-phospho-l-homoserine, a branch point intermediate in the pathways for Met and Thr in plants. A genomic open reading frame located on the top arm of chromosome II and a corresponding cDNA have been identified from Arabidopsis thaliana that encode homoserine kinase. The HSK gene is composed of an 1113-bp continuous open reading frame that could produce a 38-kDa protein. The gene product has homology with homoserine kinase from bacteria and fungi. It contains a conserved motif, known as GHMP, found in a group of ATP-dependent metabolite kinases and thought to comprise the ATP binding site. The amino-terminal 50 amino acids of the HSK protein show features of a transit peptide for localization to plastids. Genomic blot analysis revealed that there is a single locus in A. thaliana to which the HSK cDNA hybridizes. The HSK protein expressed as a His-tagged construct in Escherichia coli shows a specific activity in an l-homoserine-dependent ADP synthesis assay of 3.09 +/- 0.25 micromol min(-1) mg(-1) protein at pH 8.5 and 37 degrees C. The apparent K(m) values are 0.40 mM for l-homoserine and 0.32 mM for Mg-ATP. Other hydroxylated compounds are not used as substrates. The enzyme requires 40 mM K(+) and 3 mM Mg(2+) for activity. It has an unusually high temperature optimum, yet it is very unstable, losing more than 80% of its activity after a single cycle of freeze-thawing. The HSK enzyme shows no significant regulation by amino acids in vitro.
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- M Lee
- Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment and the Plant Science Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901-8520, USA
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Mouillon JM, Aubert S, Bourguignon J, Gout E, Douce R, Rébeillé F. Glycine and serine catabolism in non-photosynthetic higher plant cells: their role in C1 metabolism. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 20:197-205. [PMID: 10571879 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1999.00591.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Glycine and serine are two interconvertible amino acids that play an important role in C1 metabolism. Using 13C NMR and various 13C-labelled substrates, we studied the catabolism of each of these amino acids in non-photosynthetic sycamore cambial cells. On one hand, we observed a rapid glycine catabolism that involved glycine oxidation by the mitochondrial glycine decarboxylase (GDC) system. The methylenetetra- hydrofolate (CH2-THF) produced during this reaction did not equilibrate with the overall CH2-THF pool, but was almost totally recycled by the mitochondrial serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) for the synthesis of one serine from a second molecule of glycine. Glycine, in contrast to serine, was a poor source of C1 units for the synthesis of methionine. On the other hand, catabolism of serine was about three times lower than catabolism of glycine. Part of this catabolism presumably involved the glycolytic pathway. However, the largest part (about two-thirds) involved serine-to-glycine conversion by cytosolic SHMT, then glycine oxidation by GDC. The availability of cytosolic THF for the initial SHMT reaction is possibly the limiting factor of this catabolic pathway. These data support the view that serine catabolism in plants is essentially connected to C1 metabolism. The glycine formed during this process is rapidly oxidized by the mitochondrial GDC-SHMT enzymatic system, which is therefore required in all plant tissues.
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