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Li X, Gu Y, Kayoumu M, Muhammad N, Wang X, Gui H, Luo T, Wang Q, Wumaierjiang X, Ruan S, Iqbal A, Zhang X, Song M, Dong Q. Systematic characterization of Gossypium GLN family genes reveals a potential function of GhGLN1.1a regulates nitrogen use efficiency in cotton. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2024; 24:313. [PMID: 38654158 PMCID: PMC11036627 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-024-04990-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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The enzyme glutamine synthetase (GLN) is mainly responsible for the assimilation and reassimilation of nitrogen (N) in higher plants. Although the GLN gene has been identified in various plants, there is little information about the GLN family in cotton (Gossypium spp.). To elucidate the roles of GLN genes in cotton, we systematically investigated and characterized the GLN gene family across four cotton species (G. raimondii, G. arboreum, G. hirsutum, and G. barbadense). Our analysis encompassed analysis of members, gene structure, cis-element, intragenomic duplication, and exploration of collinear relationships. Gene duplication analysis indicated that segmental duplication was the primary driving force for the expansion of the GhGLN gene family. Transcriptomic and quantitative real-time reverse-transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) analyses indicated that the GhGLN1.1a gene is responsive to N induction treatment and several abiotic stresses. The results of virus-induced gene silencing revealed that the accumulation and N use efficiency (NUE) of cotton were affected by the inactivation of GhGLN1.1a. This study comprehensively analyzed the GhGLN genes in Gossypium spp., and provides a new perspective on the functional roles of GhGLN1.1a in regulating NUE in cotton.
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- Xiaotong Li
- Zhengzhou Research Base, National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- Zhengzhou Research Base, National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- Western Agricultural Research Center of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changji, 831100, Xinjiang, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- Western Agricultural Research Center of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changji, 831100, Xinjiang, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- Department of Agriculture, Hazara University, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mansehra, 21120, Pakistan
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China
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- Zhengzhou Research Base, National Key Laboratory of Cotton Bio-Breeding and Integrated Utilization, School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
- Western Agricultural Research Center of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changji, 831100, Xinjiang, China.
- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China.
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- Western Agricultural Research Center of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changji, 831100, Xinjiang, China.
- National Engineering Research Center of Cotton Biology Breeding and Industrial Technology /Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Anyang, 455000, Henan, China.
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Wang L, Zhou Y, Li R, Liang J, Tian T, Ji J, Chen R, Zhou Y, Fan Q, Ning G, Larkin RM, Becana M, Duanmu D. Single cell-type transcriptome profiling reveals genes that promote nitrogen fixation in the infected and uninfected cells of legume nodules. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2022; 20:616-618. [PMID: 35038375 PMCID: PMC8989494 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2021] [Revised: 12/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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- Longlong Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural MicrobiologyHubei Hongshan LaboratoryHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural MicrobiologyHubei Hongshan LaboratoryHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant BiologyMinistry of EducationHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural MicrobiologyHubei Hongshan LaboratoryHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural MicrobiologyHubei Hongshan LaboratoryHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural MicrobiologyHubei Hongshan LaboratoryHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant BiologyMinistry of EducationHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural MicrobiologyHubei Hongshan LaboratoryHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant BiologyMinistry of EducationHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant BiologyMinistry of EducationHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant BiologyMinistry of EducationHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- Departamento de Nutrición VegetalEstación Experimental de Aula DeiConsejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasZaragozaSpain
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural MicrobiologyHubei Hongshan LaboratoryHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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Salgado MG, van Velzen R, Nguyen TV, Battenberg K, Berry AM, Lundin D, Pawlowski K. Comparative Analysis of the Nodule Transcriptomes of Ceanothus thyrsiflorus (Rhamnaceae, Rosales) and Datisca glomerata (Datiscaceae, Cucurbitales). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1629. [PMID: 30487804 PMCID: PMC6246699 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Two types of nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbioses are known, rhizobial and actinorhizal symbioses. The latter involve plants of three orders, Fagales, Rosales, and Cucurbitales. To understand the diversity of plant symbiotic adaptation, we compared the nodule transcriptomes of Datisca glomerata (Datiscaceae, Cucurbitales) and Ceanothus thyrsiflorus (Rhamnaceae, Rosales); both species are nodulated by members of the uncultured Frankia clade, cluster II. The analysis focused on various features. In both species, the expression of orthologs of legume Nod factor receptor genes was elevated in nodules compared to roots. Since arginine has been postulated as export form of fixed nitrogen from symbiotic Frankia in nodules of D. glomerata, the question was whether the nitrogen metabolism was similar in nodules of C. thyrsiflorus. Analysis of the expression levels of key genes encoding enzymes involved in arginine metabolism revealed up-regulation of arginine catabolism, but no up-regulation of arginine biosynthesis, in nodules compared to roots of D. glomerata, while arginine degradation was not upregulated in nodules of C. thyrsiflorus. This new information corroborated an arginine-based metabolic exchange between host and microsymbiont for D. glomerata, but not for C. thyrsiflorus. Oxygen protection systems for nitrogenase differ dramatically between both species. Analysis of the antioxidant system suggested that the system in the nodules of D. glomerata leads to greater oxidative stress than the one in the nodules of C. thyrsiflorus, while no differences were found for the defense against nitrosative stress. However, induction of nitrite reductase in nodules of C. thyrsiflorus indicated that here, nitrite produced from nitric oxide had to be detoxified. Additional shared features were identified: genes encoding enzymes involved in thiamine biosynthesis were found to be upregulated in the nodules of both species. Orthologous nodule-specific subtilisin-like proteases that have been linked to the infection process in actinorhizal Fagales, were also upregulated in the nodules of D. glomerata and C. thyrsiflorus. Nodule-specific defensin genes known from actinorhizal Fagales and Cucurbitales, were also found in C. thyrsiflorus. In summary, the results underline the variability of nodule metabolism in different groups of symbiotic plants while pointing at conserved features involved in the infection process.
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- Marco G. Salgado
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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McAllister CH, Beatty PH, Good AG. Engineering nitrogen use efficient crop plants: the current status. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2012; 10:1011-25. [PMID: 22607381 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2012.00700.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In the last 40 years the amount of synthetic nitrogen (N) applied to crops has risen drastically, resulting in significant increases in yield but with considerable impacts on the environment. A requirement for crops that require decreased N fertilizer levels has been recognized in the call for a 'Second Green Revolution' and research in the field of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) has continued to grow. This has prompted a search to identify genes that improve the NUE of crop plants, with candidate NUE genes existing in pathways relating to N uptake, assimilation, amino acid biosynthesis, C/N storage and metabolism, signalling and regulation of N metabolism and translocation, remobilization and senescence. Herein is a review of the approaches taken to determine possible NUE candidate genes, an overview of experimental study of these genes as effectors of NUE in both cereal and non-cereal plants and the processes of commercialization of enhanced NUE crop plants. Patents issued regarding increased NUE in plants as well as gene pyramiding studies are also discussed as well as future directions of NUE research.
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Uheda E, Maejima K. Inhibition of nitrogen-fixing activity of the cyanobiont affects the localization of glutamine synthetase in hair cells of Azolla. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2009; 166:1705-1709. [PMID: 19464754 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2009.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2008] [Revised: 04/14/2009] [Accepted: 04/14/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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In the Azolla-Anabaena association, the host plant Azolla efficiently incorporates and assimilates ammonium ions that are released from the nitrogen-fixing cyanobiont, probably via glutamine synthetase (GS; EC 6.3.1.2) in hair cells, which are specialized cells protruding into the leaf cavity. In order to clarify the regulatory mechanism underlying ammonium assimilation in the Azolla-Anabaena association, Azolla plants were grown under an argon environment (Ar), in which the nitrogen-fixing activity of the cyanobiont was inhibited specifically and completely. The localization of GS in hair cells was determined by immunoelectron microscopy and quantitative analysis of immunogold labeling. Azolla plants grew healthily under Ar when nitrogen sources, such as NO(3)(-) and NH(4)(+), were provided in the growth medium. Both the number of cyanobacterial cells per leaf and the heterocyst frequency of the plants under Ar were similar to those of plants in a nitrogen environment (N(2)). In hair cells of plants grown under Ar, regardless of the type of nitrogen source provided, only weak labeling of GS was observed in the cytoplasm and in chloroplasts. In contrast, in hair cells of plants grown under N(2), abundant labeling of GS was observed in both sites. These findings indicate that specific inhibition of the nitrogen-fixing activity of the cyanobiont affects the localization of GS isoenzymes. Ammonium fixed and released by the cyanobiont could stimulate GS synthesis in hair cells. Simultaneously, the abundant GS, probably GS1, in these cells, could assimilate ammonium rapidly.
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- Eiji Uheda
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Gakuen-cho 1-2, Minami-ku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8570, Japan.
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Ortega JL, Moguel-Esponda S, Potenza C, Conklin CF, Quintana A, Sengupta-Gopalan C. The 3' untranslated region of a soybean cytosolic glutamine synthetase (GS1) affects transcript stability and protein accumulation in transgenic alfalfa. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 45:832-46. [PMID: 16460515 PMCID: PMC3881554 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2005.02644.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Higher plants assimilate nitrogen in the form of ammonia through the concerted activity of glutamine synthetase (GS) and glutamate synthase (GOGAT). The GS enzyme is either located in the cytoplasm (GS1) or in the chloroplast (GS2). Glutamine synthetase 1 is regulated in different plants at the transcriptional level and there are some reports of regulation at the level of protein stability. Here we present data that clearly establish that GS1 in plants is also regulated at the level of transcript turnover and at the translational level. Using a Glycine max (soybean) GS1 transgene, with and without its 3' untranslated region (UTR), driven by the constitutive CaMV 35S promoter in Medicago sativa (alfalfa) and Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco), we show that the 3' UTR plays a major role in both transcript turnover and translation repression in both the leaves and the nodules. Our data suggest that the 3' UTR mediated turnover of the transcript is regulated by a nitrogen metabolite or carbon/nitrogen ratios. We also show that the 3' UTR of the gene for the soybean GS1 confers post-transcriptional regulation on a reporter gene. Our dissection of post-transcriptional and translational levels of regulation of GS in plants shows that the situation in plants strongly resembles that in other organisms where GS is regulated at almost all levels. Multistep regulation of GS shows the high priority given by organisms to regulating and ensuring optimal control of nitrogen substrates and preventing overproduction of glutamine and drainage of the glutamate pool.
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
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Ishiyama K, Inoue E, Tabuchi M, Yamaya T, Takahashi H. Biochemical background and compartmentalized functions of cytosolic glutamine synthetase for active ammonium assimilation in rice roots. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 45:1640-7. [PMID: 15574840 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Rice plants in paddy fields prefer to utilize ammonium as a major nitrogen source. Glutamine synthetase (GS) serves for assimilation of ammonium in rice root, and ameliorates the toxic effect of ammonium excess. Among the three isoenzymes of the cytosolic GS1 gene family in rice, OsGLN1;1 and OsGLN1;2 were abundantly expressed in roots. Analysis of the purified enzymes showed that OsGLN1;1 and OsGLN1;2 can be classified into high-affinity subtypes with relatively high V(max) values, as compared with the major high-affinity isoenzyme, GLN1;1, in Arabidopsis. Low-affinity forms of GS1 comparable to those in Arabidopsis (GLN1;2 and GLN1;3) were absent in rice roots. The OsGLN1;1 and OsGLN1;2 transcripts showed reciprocal responses to ammonium supply in the surface cell layers of roots. OsGLN1;1 accumulated in dermatogen, epidermis and exodermis under nitrogen-limited condition. By contrast, OsGLN1;2 was abundantly expressed in the same cell layers under nitrogen-sufficient conditions, replenishing the loss of OsGLN1;1 following ammonium treatment. Within the central cylinder of elongating zone, OsGLN1;1 and OsGLN1;2 were both induced by ammonium, which was distinguishable from the response observed in the surface cell layers. The high-capacity Gln synthetic activities of OsGLN1;1 and OsGLN1;2 facilitate active ammonium assimilation in specific cell types in rice roots.
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- Keiki Ishiyama
- RIKEN Plant Science Center, 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045 Japan
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Berry AM, Murphy TM, Okubara PA, Jacobsen KR, Swensen SM, Pawlowski K. Novel expression pattern of cytosolic Gln synthetase in nitrogen-fixing root nodules of the actinorhizal host, Datisca glomerata. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 135:1849-62. [PMID: 15247391 PMCID: PMC519095 DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.031534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2003] [Revised: 04/14/2004] [Accepted: 05/02/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Gln synthetase (GS) is the key enzyme of primary ammonia assimilation in nitrogen-fixing root nodules of legumes and actinorhizal (Frankia-nodulated) plants. In root nodules of Datisca glomerata (Datiscaceae), transcripts hybridizing to a conserved coding region of the abundant nodule isoform, DgGS1-1, are abundant in uninfected nodule cortical tissue, but expression was not detectable in the infected zone or in the nodule meristem. Similarly, the GS holoprotein is immunolocalized exclusively to the uninfected nodule tissue. Phylogenetic analysis of the full-length cDNA of DgGS1-1 indicates affinities with cytosolic GS genes from legumes, the actinorhizal species Alnus glutinosa, and nonnodulating species, Vitis vinifera and Hevea brasilensis. The D. glomerata nodule GS expression pattern is a new variant among reported root nodule symbioses and may reflect an unusual nitrogen transfer pathway from the Frankia nodule microsymbiont to the plant infected tissue, coupled to a distinctive nitrogen cycle in the uninfected cortical tissue. Arg, Gln, and Glu are the major amino acids present in D. glomerata nodules, but Arg was not detected at high levels in leaves or roots. Arg as a major nodule nitrogen storage form is not found in other root nodule types except in the phylogenetically related Coriaria. Catabolism of Arg through the urea cycle could generate free ammonium in the uninfected tissue where GS is expressed.
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- Alison M Berry
- Department of Environmental Horticulture, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
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Pawlowski K, Swensen S, Guan C, Hadri AE, Berry AM, Bisseling T. Distinct patterns of symbiosis-related gene expression in actinorhizal nodules from different plant families. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2003; 16:796-807. [PMID: 12971603 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.2003.16.9.796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Phylogenetic analyses suggest that, among the members of the Eurosid I clade, nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbioses developed multiple times independently, four times with rhizobia and four times with the genus Frankia. In order to understand the degree of similarity between symbiotic systems of different phylogenetic subgroups, gene expression patterns were analyzed in root nodules of Datisca glomerata and compared with those in nodules of another actinorhizal plant, Alnus glutinosa, and with the expression patterns of homologous genes in legumes. In parallel, the phylogeny of actinorhizal plants was examined more closely. The results suggest that, although relationships between major groups are difficult to resolve using molecular phylogenetic analysis, the comparison of gene expression patterns can be used to inform evolutionary relationships. In this case, stronger similarities were found between legumes and intracellularly infected actinorhizal plants (Alnus) than between actinorhizal plants of two different phylogenetic subgroups (Alnus/Datisca).
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- Katharina Pawlowski
- Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, Dreijenlaan 3, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Reisdorf-Cren M, Carrayol E, Tercé-Laforgue T, Hirel B. A novel HMG A-like protein binds differentially to the AT-rich regions located in the far distal and proximal parts of a soybean glutamine synthetase gene (GS15) promoter. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 43:1006-16. [PMID: 12354918 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcf123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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In soybean (Glycine max L.) ammonium provided externally or as the result of symbiotic nitrogen fixation stimulates the transcription of GS15, a gene encoding cytosolic glutamine synthetase. Strong constitutive positive expression (SCPE), silencer-like and organ-specific elements, located respectively in the distal, the central and the proximal region of the promoter are required to control the ammonium responsiveness of the gene expression [Tercé-Laforgue et al. (1999) Plant Mol. Biol. 39: 551]. It was hypothesized that the correct spatial conformation of the promoter permitted the cooperative action of these three cis-acting elements. Further investigations were therefore required to ascertain this hypothesis. A nodule nuclear protein, binding to a 66 bp AT-rich DNA fragment containing a 13 bp AT-rich repeated sequence (AT-1) and located just downstream of the SCPE element, was identified using a gel retardation assay. A cDNA clone likely to code for this protein was isolated using the yeast one-hybrid system. It encodes a novel DNA binding protein (AT-1SNBP) similar to HMG A proteins but exhibiting a higher molecular weight. AT-1SNBP appears to be encoded by a single gene that is expressed in roots, root nodules and leaves of soybean. Since two other 13 bp AT-rich repeated sequences (AT-2 and AT-3) were localized in the organ-specific element, we have quantified the binding affinity of AT-1SNBP to these sequences. We demonstrate that AT-1SNBP binds differentially to DNA fragments containing AT-1, AT-2 and AT-3 and that its binding affinity depends on the presence of adjacent sequences. This result suggests that AT-1SNBP may be an architectural protein involved in maintaining the spatial conformation of the GS15 promoter, thus facilitating the interaction between the distal and proximal regulatory elements.
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MESH Headings
- AT Rich Sequence/genetics
- AT-Hook Motifs/genetics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Bradyrhizobium/growth & development
- Carrier Proteins/genetics
- Carrier Proteins/metabolism
- Cytosol/enzymology
- DNA, Complementary/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/isolation & purification
- DNA, Plant/chemistry
- DNA, Plant/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/drug effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant/drug effects
- Genes, Plant/genetics
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/genetics
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/metabolism
- HMGA Proteins/genetics
- HMGA Proteins/metabolism
- Lotus/enzymology
- Lotus/genetics
- Lotus/microbiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Quaternary Ammonium Compounds/pharmacology
- Rhizobium/growth & development
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Deletion
- Soybean Proteins/genetics
- Soybean Proteins/metabolism
- Glycine max/enzymology
- Glycine max/genetics
- Glycine max/microbiology
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Two-Hybrid System Techniques
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- Michèle Reisdorf-Cren
- Laboratoire de la Nutrition Azotée des Plantes, INRA, centre de Versailles, Route de Saint Cyr, F-78026 Versailles Cedex, France.
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Morey KJ, Ortega JL, Sengupta-Gopalan C. Cytosolic glutamine synthetase in soybean is encoded by a multigene family, and the members are regulated in an organ-specific and developmental manner. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 128:182-93. [PMID: 11788764 PMCID: PMC148970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2001] [Revised: 07/09/2001] [Accepted: 09/27/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Gln synthetase (GS) is the key enzyme in N metabolism and it catalyzes the synthesis of Gln from glutamic acid, ATP, and NH4+. There are two major isoforms of GS in plants, a cytosolic form (GS1) and a chloroplastic form (GS2). In leaves, GS2 functions to assimilate ammonia produced by nitrate reduction and photorespiration, and GS1 is the major isoform assimilating NH3 produced by all other metabolic processes, including symbiotic N2 fixation in the nodules. GS1 is encoded by a small multigene family in soybean (Glycine max), and cDNA clones for the different members have been isolated. Based on sequence divergence in the 3'-untranslated region, three distinct classes of GS1 genes have been identified (alpha, beta, and gamma). Genomic Southern analysis and analysis of hybrid-select translation products suggest that each class has two distinct members. The alpha forms are the major isoforms in the cotyledons and young roots. The beta forms, although constitutive in their expression pattern, are ammonia inducible and show high expression in N2-fixing nodules. The gamma1 gene appears to be more nodule specific, whereas the gamma2 gene member, although nodule enhanced, is also expressed in the cotyledons and flowers. The two members of the alpha and beta class of GS1 genes show subtle differences in the expression pattern. Analysis of the promoter regions of the gamma1 and gamma2 genes show sequence conservation around the TATA box but complete divergence in the rest of the promoter region. We postulate that each member of the three GS1 gene classes may be derived from the two ancestral genomes from which the allotetraploid soybean was derived.
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- Kevin J Morey
- Graduate Program in Molecular Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
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Regulation of Carbon and Nitrogen Assimilation Through Gene Expression. ADVANCES IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND RESPIRATION 2002. [DOI: 10.1007/0-306-48138-3_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Moran JF, Sun Z, Sarath G, Arredondo-Peter R, James EK, Becana M, Klucas RV. Molecular cloning, functional characterization, and subcellular localization of soybean nodule dihydrolipoamide reductase. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 128:300-13. [PMID: 11788775 PMCID: PMC149001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2001] [Revised: 08/17/2001] [Accepted: 10/17/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Nodule ferric leghemoglobin reductase (FLbR) and leaf dihydrolipoamide reductase (DLDH) belong to the same family of pyridine nucleotide-disulfide oxidoreductases. We report here the cloning, expression, and characterization of a second protein with FLbR activity, FLbR-2, from soybean (Glycine max) nodules. The cDNA is 1,779 bp in length and codes for a precursor protein comprising a 30-residue mitochondrial transit peptide and a 470-residue mature protein of 50 kD. The derived protein has considerable homology with soybean nodule FLbR-1 (93% identity) and pea (Pisum sativum) leaf mitochondria DLDH (89% identity). The cDNA encoding the mature protein was overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant enzyme showed Km and kcat values for ferric leghemoglobin that were very similar to those of DLDH. The transcripts of FLbR-2 were more abundant in stems and roots than in nodules and leaves. Immunoblots of nodule fractions revealed that an antibody raised against pea leaf DLDH cross-reacted with recombinant FLbR-2, native FLbR-2 of soybean nodule mitochondria, DLDH from bacteroids, and an unknown protein of approximately 70 kD localized in the nodule cytosol. Immunogold labeling was also observed in the mitochondria, cytosol, and bacteroids of soybean nodules. The similar biochemical, kinetic, and immunological properties, as well as the high amino acid sequence identity and mitochondrial localization, draw us to conclude that FLbR-2 is soybean DLDH.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase/genetics
- Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase/isolation & purification
- Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase/metabolism
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Mass Spectrometry
- Microscopy, Immunoelectron
- Molecular Sequence Data
- NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases/genetics
- NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases/isolation & purification
- NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases/metabolism
- Pisum sativum/enzymology
- Pisum sativum/genetics
- Pisum sativum/ultrastructure
- Plant Roots/enzymology
- Plant Roots/genetics
- Plant Roots/growth & development
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Soybean Proteins/genetics
- Soybean Proteins/isolation & purification
- Soybean Proteins/metabolism
- Glycine max/enzymology
- Glycine max/genetics
- Glycine max/ultrastructure
- Symbiosis
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Affiliation(s)
- Jose F Moran
- Departmento de Nutrición Vegetal, Estación Experimental de Aula Dei, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 50080 Zaragoza, Spain.
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Morey KJ, Ortega JL, Sengupta-Gopalan C. Cytosolic glutamine synthetase in soybean is encoded by a multigene family, and the members are regulated in an organ-specific and developmental manner. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 128:182-193. [PMID: 11788764 DOI: 10.1104/pp.010380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Gln synthetase (GS) is the key enzyme in N metabolism and it catalyzes the synthesis of Gln from glutamic acid, ATP, and NH4+. There are two major isoforms of GS in plants, a cytosolic form (GS1) and a chloroplastic form (GS2). In leaves, GS2 functions to assimilate ammonia produced by nitrate reduction and photorespiration, and GS1 is the major isoform assimilating NH3 produced by all other metabolic processes, including symbiotic N2 fixation in the nodules. GS1 is encoded by a small multigene family in soybean (Glycine max), and cDNA clones for the different members have been isolated. Based on sequence divergence in the 3'-untranslated region, three distinct classes of GS1 genes have been identified (alpha, beta, and gamma). Genomic Southern analysis and analysis of hybrid-select translation products suggest that each class has two distinct members. The alpha forms are the major isoforms in the cotyledons and young roots. The beta forms, although constitutive in their expression pattern, are ammonia inducible and show high expression in N2-fixing nodules. The gamma1 gene appears to be more nodule specific, whereas the gamma2 gene member, although nodule enhanced, is also expressed in the cotyledons and flowers. The two members of the alpha and beta class of GS1 genes show subtle differences in the expression pattern. Analysis of the promoter regions of the gamma1 and gamma2 genes show sequence conservation around the TATA box but complete divergence in the rest of the promoter region. We postulate that each member of the three GS1 gene classes may be derived from the two ancestral genomes from which the allotetraploid soybean was derived.
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- Kevin J Morey
- Graduate Program in Molecular Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
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Ortega JL, Temple SJ, Sengupta-Gopalan C. Constitutive overexpression of cytosolic glutamine synthetase (GS1) gene in transgenic alfalfa demonstrates that GS1 may be regulated at the level of RNA stability and protein turnover. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 126:109-21. [PMID: 11351075 PMCID: PMC102286 DOI: 10.1104/pp.126.1.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2000] [Revised: 01/08/2001] [Accepted: 01/30/2001] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Glutamine synthetase (GS) catalyzes the ATP-dependent condensation of NH4+ with glutanate to yield glutamine. Gene constructs consisting of the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter driving a cytosolic isoform of GS (GS1) gene have been introduced into alfalfa (Medicago sativa). Although transcripts for the transgene were shown to accumulate to high levels in the leaves, they were undetectable in the nodules. However, significant amounts of beta-glucuronidase activity could be detected in nodules of plants containing the CaMV 35S promoter-beta-glucuronidase gene construct, suggesting that the transcript for the GS1 transgene is not stable in the root nodules. Leaves of alfalfa plants with the CaMV 35S promoter-GS1 gene showed high levels of accumulation of the transcript for the transgene when grown under low-nitrogen conditions and showed a significant drop in the level of GS1 transcripts when fed with high levels of NO3-. However, no increase in GS activity or polypeptide level was detected in the leaves of transgenic plants. The results suggest that GS1 is regulated at the level of RNA stability and protein turnover.
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- J L Ortega
- Agronomy and Horticulture Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
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Li Z, Jayasankar S, Gray DJ. Expression of a bifunctional green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion marker under the control of three constitutive promoters and enhanced derivatives in transgenic grape (Vitis vinifera). PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2001; 160:877-887. [PMID: 11297784 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-9452(01)00336-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Activity of three constitutive promoters and enhanced derivatives in transgenic grape (Vitis vinifera L. cv. Thompson Seedless) was characterized using a bifunctional fusion marker containing the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) and neomycin phosphotransferase (NPTII) genes. Relative differences in transient GFP expression and stable transformation efficiencies were used to compare promoter activity. Expression patterns in transformed somatic embryos revealed that the ACT2 promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana, previously shown to be a strong constitutive promoter in A. thaliana and other species, failed to promote strong expression in grape. In contrast, a promoter isolated from cassava vein mosaic virus (CsVMV) supported high levels of transgene expression equivalent to those achieved using an enhanced double cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter. Duplication of the 5'-upstream enhancer region of the CsVMV promoter further enhanced its ability to increase transgene expression. However, the pattern of transgene expression driven by these two viral promoters was significantly different at the whole plant level. The enhanced double CaMV 35S promoter was highly active in most tissues and organs including roots, mature leaves, shoot apices and lateral buds. In contrast, the CsVMV promoter and its double enhancer derivative induced relatively weak expression in these tissues. Our results suggest that activity of the CsVMV promoter, in contrast to the CaMV 35S promoter, was under developmental regulation in transgenic grape plants as compared with the CaMV 35S promoter.
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- Z Li
- Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, 2725 Binion Road, 32703, Apopka, FL, USA
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Carvalho H, Lima L, Lescure N, Camut S, Salema R, Cullimore J. Differential expression of the two cytosolic glutamine synthetase genes in various organs of Medicago truncatula. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2000; 159:301-312. [PMID: 11074283 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-9452(00)00360-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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In order to clarify the physiological roles of the cytosolic forms of glutamine synthetase (GS) in Medicago truncatula, we have performed a detailed analysis of the expression of the two functional cytosolic GS genes, MtGSa and MtGSb in several organs of the plant. Transcriptional fusions were made between the 2.6 or 3.1 kbp 5' upstream regions of MtGSa or MtGSb, respectively, and the reporter gene gusA encoding beta-glucuronidase and introduced into the homologous transgenic system. MtGSa and MtGSb were found to be differentially expressed in most of the organs, both temporally and spatially. The presence of GS proteins at the sites where the promoters were active was confirmed by immunocytochemistry, providing the means to correlate gene expression with the protein products. These studies have shown that the putative MtGSa and MtGSb promoter fragments were sufficient to drive GUS expression in all the tissues and cell types where cytosolic GS proteins were located. This result indicates that the cis acting regulatory elements responsible for conferring the contrasting expression patterns are located within the region upstream of the coding sequences. MtGSa was preferentially expressed in the vascular tissues of almost all the organs examined, whereas MtGSb was preferentially expressed in the root cortex and in leaf pulvini. The location and high abundance of GS in the vascular tissues of almost all the organs analysed suggest that the enzyme encoded by MtGSa plays an important role in the production of nitrogen transport compounds. The enzyme synthesised by MtGSb appears to have more ubiquitous functions for ammonium assimilation and detoxification in a variety of organs.
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- H Carvalho
- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150-, Porto, Portugal
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Denby KJ, Last RL. Diverse regulatory mechanisms of amino acid biosynthesis in plants. GENETIC ENGINEERING 2000; 21:173-89. [PMID: 10822497 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4707-5_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- K J Denby
- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Carvalho H, Lescure N, de Billy F, Chabaud M, Lima L, Salema R, Cullimore J. Cellular expression and regulation of the Medicago truncatula cytosolic glutamine synthetase genes in root nodules. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2000; 42:741-56. [PMID: 10809446 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006304003770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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In this paper we have studied the localisation of expression of the two functional cytosolic glutamine synthetase (GS) genes, MtGSa and MtGSb, in root nodules of the model legume Medicago truncatula. We have used a combination of different techniques, including immunocytochemistry, in situ hybridisation and promoter beta-glucuronidase (GUS) fusions in transgenic plants, to provide the means of correlating gene expression with protein localisation. These studies revealed that transcriptional regulation (mRNA synthesis) plays an important part in controlling GS protein levels in nodules of M. truncatula. The major locations of cytosolic GS mRNA and protein are the central tissue, the parenchyma and the pericycle of the vascular bundles. These findings indicate that in nodules, GS might be involved in other physiological processes in addition to the primary assimilation of ammonia released by the bacterial nitrogenase. The two genes show different but overlapping patterns of expression with MtGSa being the major gene expressed in the infected cells of the nodule. Promoter fragments of 2.6 kb and 3.1 kb of MtGSa and MtGSb, respectively, have been sequenced and primer extension revealed that the MtGSb promoter is expressed in nodules from an additional start site that is not used in roots. Generally these fragments in the homologous transgenic system were sufficient to drive GUS expression in almost all the tissues and cell types where GS proteins and transcripts are located except that the MtGSa promoter fragment did not express GUS highly in the nodule infected cells. These results indicate that the cis-acting regulatory elements responsible for infected-cell expression are missing from the MtGSa promoter fragment.
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- H Carvalho
- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal
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Foyer CH, Ferrario-Méry S, Huber SC. Regulation of Carbon Fluxes in the Cytosol: Coordination of Sucrose Synthesis, Nitrate Reduction and Organic Acid and Amino Acid Biosynthesis. PHOTOSYNTHESIS 2000. [DOI: 10.1007/0-306-48137-5_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Kavroulakis N, Flemetakis E, Aivalakis G, Katinakis P. Carbon metabolism in developing soybean root nodules: the role of carbonic anhydrase. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2000; 13:14-22. [PMID: 10656581 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.2000.13.1.14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A full-length cDNA clone encoding carbonic anhydrase (CA) was isolated from a soybean nodule cDNA library. In situ hybridization and immunolocalization were performed in order to assess the location of CA transcripts and protein in developing soybean nodules. CA transcripts and protein were present at high levels in all cell types of young nodules, whereas in mature nodules they were absent from the central tissue and were concentrated in cortical cells. The results suggested that, in the earlier stages of nodule development, CA might facilitate the recycling of CO2 while at later stages it may facilitate the diffusion of CO2 out of the nodule system. In parallel, sucrose metabolism was investigated by examination of the temporal and spatial transcript accumulation of sucrose synthase (SS) and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) genes, with in situ hybridization. In young nodules, high levels of SS gene transcripts were found in the central tissue as well as in the parenchymateous cells and the vascular bundles, while in mature nodules the levels of SS gene transcripts were much lower, with the majority of the transcripts located in the parenchyma and the pericycle cells of the vascular bundles. High levels of expression of PEPC gene transcripts were found in mature nodules, in almost all cell types, while in young nodules lower levels of transcripts were detected, with the majority of them located in parenchymateous cells as well as in the vascular bundles. These data suggest that breakdown of sucrose may take place in different sites during nodule development.
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- N Kavroulakis
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
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Ortega JL, Roche D, Sengupta-Gopalan C. Oxidative turnover of soybean root glutamine synthetase. In vitro and in vivo studies. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 119:1483-96. [PMID: 10198108 PMCID: PMC32034 DOI: 10.1104/pp.119.4.1483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/1998] [Accepted: 12/23/1998] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Glutamine synthetase (GS) is the key enzyme in ammonia assimilation and catalyzes the ATP-dependent condensation of NH3 with glutamate to produce glutamine. GS in plants is an octameric enzyme. Recent work from our laboratory suggests that GS activity in plants may be regulated at the level of protein turnover (S.J. Temple, T.J. Knight, P.J. Unkefer, C. Sengupta-Gopalan [1993] Mol Gen Genet 236: 315-325; S.J. Temple, S. Kunjibettu, D. Roche, C. Sengupta-Gopalan [1996] Plant Physiol 112: 1723-1733; S.J. Temple, C. Sengupta-Gopalan [1997] In C.H. Foyer, W.P. Quick, eds, A Molecular Approach to Primary Metabolism in Higher Plants. Taylor & Francis, London, pp 155-177). Oxidative modification of GS has been implicated as the first step in the turnover of GS in bacteria. By incubating soybean (Glycine max) root extract enriched in GS in a metal-catalyzed oxidation system to produce the.OH radical, we have shown that GS is oxidized and that oxidized GS is inactive and more susceptible to degradation than nonoxidized GS. Histidine and cysteine protect GS from metal-catalyzed inactivation, indicating that oxidation modifies the GS active site and that cysteine and histidine residues are the site of modification. Similarly, ATP and particularly ATP/glutamate give the enzyme the greatest protection against oxidative inactivation. The roots of plants fed ammonium nitrate showed a 3-fold increase in the level of GS polypeptides and activity compared with plants not fed ammonium nitrate but without a corresponding increase in the GS transcript level. This would suggest either translational or posttranslational control of GS levels.
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Affiliation(s)
- JL Ortega
- Agronomy and Horticulture Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
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Tercé-Laforgue T, Carrayol E, Cren M, Desbrosses G, Hecht V, Hirel B. A strong constitutive positive element is essential for the ammonium-regulated expression of a soybean gene encoding cytosolic glutamine synthetase. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 39:551-64. [PMID: 10092182 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006169018296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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In order to identify important promoter elements controlling the ammonium-regulated expression of the soybean gene GS15 encoding cytosolic glutamine synthetase, a series of 5' promoter deletions were fused to the GUS reporter gene. To allow the detection of positive and negative regulatory elements, a series of 3' deletions were fused to a -90 CaMV 35S promoter fragment placed upstream of the GUS gene. Both types of construct were introduced into Lotus corniculatus plants and soybean roots via Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transformation. Both spectrophotometric enzymatic analysis and histochemical localization of GUS activity in roots, root nodules and shoots of transgenic plants revealed that a strong constitutive positive element (SCPE) of 400 bp, located in the promoter distal region is indispensable for the ammonium-regulated expression of GS15. Interestingly, this SCPE was able to direct constitutive expression in both a legume and non-legume background to a level similar to that driven by the CaMV 35S full-length promoter. In addition, results showed that separate proximal elements, located in the first 727 bp relative to the transcription start site, are essential for root- and root nodule-specific expression. This proximal region contains an AAAGAT and two TATTTAT consensus sequences characteristic of nodulin or nodule-enhanced gene promoters. A putative silencer region containing the same TATTTAT consensus sequence was identified between the SCPE and the organ-specific elements. The presence of positive, negative and organ-specific elements together with the three TATTTAT consensus sequences within the promoter strongly suggest that these multiple promoter fragments act in a cooperative manner, depending on the spatial conformation of the DNA for trans-acting factor accessibility.
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MESH Headings
- Base Sequence
- Cytosol/enzymology
- DNA, Plant/chemistry
- DNA, Plant/genetics
- Fabaceae/enzymology
- Fabaceae/genetics
- Gene Expression/drug effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant/genetics
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/genetics
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/metabolism
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Plants, Medicinal
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Quaternary Ammonium Compounds/pharmacology
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Deletion
- Glycine max/chemistry
- Glycine max/enzymology
- Glycine max/genetics
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- T Tercé-Laforgue
- Laboratoire du Métabolisme et de la Nutrition des Plantes, INRA, Centre de Versailles, France
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Temple SJ, Bagga S, Sengupta-Gopalan C. Down-regulation of specific members of the glutamine synthetase gene family in alfalfa by antisense RNA technology. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 37:535-547. [PMID: 9617820 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006099512706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Glutamine synthetase (GS) catalyzes the ATP-dependent condensation of NH3 with glutamate to produce glutamine. In plants GS is an octameric enzyme and is located either in the cytoplasm (GS1) or in the chloroplast (GS2). Two distinct classes of GS1 genes with unique 3'-untranslated region (3'UTR) have been identified in alfalfa. We have demonstrated that the two classes exhibit differential expression pattern in the different plant organs suggesting different functional roles for the different isozymes. To determine the functional significance of the two classes of GS1 genes in alfalfa, we have utilized antisense gene constructs aimed specifically at the 3'UTR of the two GS1 genes and introduced them individually into alfalfa. Our data show that the gene constructs are effective in lowering the corresponding transcript level very effectively though there were organ-specific differences in the level of reduction. No transcript corresponding to the antisense gene construct was detected in any of the alfalfa transformants though they accumulated to significant levels in transgenic tobacco containing the same construct. This suggests that the antisense transcript was not stable in the presence of the homologous target sequence. Transgenic alfalfa with up to 80% reduction in the transcript level corresponding to each gene class, however, showed no reduction in GS activity or GS1 polypeptide level. The results suggest that GS1 mRNA levels are not rate-limiting for GS1 polypeptide synthesis and that GS levels are controlled both at the transcriptional and translational/post-translational level.
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- S J Temple
- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 88003, USA
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- C Guan
- Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Verma DP. Developmental and metabolic adaptations during symbiosis between legume hosts and rhizobia. Subcell Biochem 1998; 29:1-28. [PMID: 9594643 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1707-2_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- D P Verma
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Plant Biotechnology Center, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA
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Shi L, Twary SN, Yoshioka H, Gregerson RG, Miller SS, Samac DA, Gantt JS, Unkefer PJ, Vance CP. Nitrogen assimilation in alfalfa: isolation and characterization of an asparagine synthetase gene showing enhanced expression in root nodules and dark-adapted leaves. THE PLANT CELL 1997; 9:1339-56. [PMID: 9286111 PMCID: PMC157002 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.8.1339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Asparagine, the primary assimilation product from N2 fixation in temperate legumes and the predominant nitrogen transport product in many plant species, is synthesized via asparagine synthetase (AS; EC 6.3.5.4). Here, we report the isolation and characterization of a cDNA and a gene encoding the nodule-enhanced form of AS from alfalfa. The AS gene is comprised of 13 exons separated by 12 introns. The 5' flanking region of the AS gene confers nodule-enhanced reporter gene activity in transformed alfalfa. This region also confers enhanced reporter gene activity in dark-treated leaves. These results indicate that the 5' upstream region of the AS gene contains elements that affect expression in root nodules and leaves. Both AS mRNA and enzyme activity increased approximately 10- to 20-fold during the development of effective nodules. Ineffective nodules have strikingly reduced amounts of AS transcript. Alfalfa leaves have quite low levels of AS mRNA and protein; however, exposure to darkness resulted in a considerable increase in both. In situ hybridization with effective nodules and beta-glucuronidase staining of nodules from transgenic plants showed that AS is expressed in both infected and uninfected cells of the nodule symbiotic zone and in the nodule parenchyma. RNA gel blot analysis and in situ hybridization results are consistent with the hypothesis that initial AS expression in nodules is independent of nitrogenase activity.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Asparagine/biosynthesis
- Aspartate-Ammonia Ligase/genetics
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Plant/genetics
- Darkness
- Gene Expression/radiation effects
- Genes, Plant/radiation effects
- Genes, Reporter
- Glucuronidase/genetics
- In Situ Hybridization
- Medicago sativa/genetics
- Medicago sativa/metabolism
- Medicago sativa/radiation effects
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nitrogen/metabolism
- Nitrogen Fixation/genetics
- Nitrogen Fixation/physiology
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Plant/genetics
- RNA, Plant/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Tissue Distribution
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- L Shi
- U.S. Department of Agnculture, Agricultural Research Service, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108, USA
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Hirel B, Phillipson B, Murchie E, Suzuki A, Kunz C, Ferrario S, Limami A, Chaillou S, Deleens E, Brugière N, Chaumont-Bonnet M, Foyer C, Morot-Gaudry JF. Manipulating the pathway of ammonia assimilation in transgenic non-legumes and legumes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1002/jpln.19971600223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Temple SJ, Kunjibettu S, Roche D, Sengupta-Gopalan C. Total Glutamine Synthetase Activity during Soybean Nodule Development Is Controlled at the Level of Transcription and Holoprotein Turnover. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1996; 112:1723-1733. [PMID: 12226474 PMCID: PMC158106 DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.4.1723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Gln synthetase (GS) catalyzes the ATP-dependent condensation of ammonia with glutamate to yield Gln. In higher plants GS is an octameric enzyme and the subunits are encoded by members of a small multigene family. In soybeans (Glycine max), following the onset of N2 fixation there is a dramatic increase in GS activity in the root nodules. GS activity staining of native polyacrylamide gels containing nodule and root extracts showed a common band of activity (GSrs). The nodules also contained a slower-migrating, broad band of enzyme activity (GSns). The GSns activity band is a complex of many isozymes made up of different proportions of two kinds of GS subunits: GSr and GSn. Root nodules formed following inoculation with an Nif- strain of Bradyrhizobium japonicum showed the presence of GS isoenzymes (GSns1) with low enzyme activity, which migrated more slowly than GSns. Gsns1 is most likely made up predominantly of GSn subunits. Our data suggest that, whereas the class I GS genes encoding the GSr subunits are regulated by the availability of NH3, the class II GS genes coding for the GSn subunits are developmentally regulated. Furthermore, we have demonstrated that the GSns1 isozymes in the Nif- nodules are relatively more labile. Our overall conclusion is that GSns activity in soybean nodules is regulated by N2 fixation both at the level of transcription and at the level of holoprotein stability.
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- S. J. Temple
- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture (S.J.T., C.S.-G.) and Graduate Program in Molecular Biology (S.K., D.R.), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003
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Guan C, Ribeiro A, Akkermans AD, Jing Y, van Kammen A, Bisseling T, Pawlowski K. Nitrogen metabolism in actinorhizal nodules of Alnus glutinosa: expression of glutamine synthetase and acetylornithine transaminase. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1996; 32:1177-84. [PMID: 9002618 DOI: 10.1007/bf00041403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Two nodule cDNA clones representing genes involved in Alnus glutinosa nitrogen metabolism were analysed. ag11 encoded glutamine synthetase (GS), the enzyme responsible for ammonium assimilation, while ag118 encoded acetylornithine transaminase (AOTA), an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of citrulline, the nitrogen transport form in Alnus. GS mRNA was found at highest levels in root nodules, where it was present in the infected cells as well as in the cells of the pericycle of the vascular system. AOTA transcripts were found at high levels in nodules, confined to the infected cells, suggesting that in nodules of A. glutinosa, citrulline biosynthesis takes place mainly in the infected cells.
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- C Guan
- Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Schnorr KM, Laloue M, Hirel B. Isolation of cDNAs encoding two purine biosynthetic enzymes of soybean and expression of the corresponding transcripts in roots and root nodules. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1996; 32:751-7. [PMID: 8980527 DOI: 10.1007/bf00020216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Soybean nodule cDNA clones encoding glycinamide ribonucleotide (GAR) synthetase (GMpurD) and GAR transformylase (GMpurN) were isolated by complementation of corresponding Escherichia coli mutants. GAR synthetase and GAR transformylase catalyse the second and the third steps in the de novo purine biosynthesis pathway, respectively. One class of GAR synthetase and three classes of GAR transformylase cDNA clones were identified. Northern blot analysis clearly shows that these purine biosynthetic genes are highly expressed in young and mature nodules but weakly expressed in roots and leaves. Expression levels of GMpurD and GMpurN mRNAs were not enhanced when ammonia was provided to non-nodulated roots.
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- K M Schnorr
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA, Centre de Versailles, Versailles, France
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Peat LJ, Tobin AK. The Effect of Nitrogen Nutrition on the Cellular Localization of Glutamine Synthetase Isoforms in Barley Roots. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1996; 111:1109-1117. [PMID: 12226350 PMCID: PMC160986 DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.4.1109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Glutamine synthetase (GS) was detected by immunogold localization in the cytosol and plastids of roots of 7-d-old barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv Klaxon) seedlings grown in the presence or absence of NO3- (15 mM) or NH4+ (30 mM). The number of GS polypeptides changed during root development, and this was affected by N nutrition. There was no evidence of a NO3--inducible root plastid GS.In apical 5- to 10-mm regions of the root the concentration of immunogold labeling of cytosolic GS was higher in the cortical parenchyma than in the vascular cells of the stele, irrespective of N nutrition. This labeling was at least 50% higher in both cell types in N-free compared with N-grown (either NO3- or NH4+) seedlings. In contrast, GS specific activity was highest in roots of NO3--grown seedlings. It is suggested that this indicates the presence of inactive GS in roots grown without N. This study has identified both cell- and development-specific responses of GS to N nutrition.
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- L. J. Peat
- Plant Sciences Laboratory, Sir Harold Mitchell Building, School of Biological and Medical Sciences, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom KY16 9TH
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Dubois F, Brugière N, Sangwan RS, Hirel B. Localization of tobacco cytosolic glutamine synthetase enzymes and the corresponding transcripts shows organ- and cell-specific patterns of protein synthesis and gene expression. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1996; 31:803-17. [PMID: 8806411 DOI: 10.1007/bf00019468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The subcellular localization of glutamine synthetase in tobacco and the differential expression of two genes encoding cytosolic enzyme was investigated using both immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization. Two full length cDNA clones each encoding cytosolic GS (Gln 1-3 and Gln 1-5) were isolated from a tobacco seeding cDNA library. A strong homology was found in the coding region of the two clones whereas the 3'- and 5'-untranslated sequences were dissimilar. In order to determine the levels of transcription, specific sequences from Gln1-3 and Gln1-5 were used in an RNAse protection assay. This experiment clearly showed that the gene encoding Gln1-3 is expressed in roots and flowers whereas the gene encoding Gln1-5 is transcribed at a high level in stems and at a lower level in roots and flowers. Immunogold labelling was used to examine the subcellular and cellular distribution of glutamine synthetase in vegetative and reproductive organs of tobacco plants. In mature leaf tissue or petals and sepals, plastidic GS was visualised only in the stroma matrix of chloroplasts and plastids. Cytosolic GS was detected in a number of vegetative or reproductive organs including leaves and flowers. In leaves cytosolic GS was preferentially located in the vascular tissue. In situ hybridization was performed using sections of tobacco organs and specific antisense RNA probes to the genes encoding Gln1-3 and Gln1-5. Gln1-5 transcripts were localised in the vascular tissues of stems and roots whereas Gln1-3 transcripts were detected in all root cells and floral organs including petals, sepals and anthers.
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MESH Headings
- Antisense Elements (Genetics)
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cytosol/enzymology
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Plant/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/physiology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant/physiology
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/analysis
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/biosynthesis
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Plant Leaves/chemistry
- Plant Roots/chemistry
- Plant Stems/chemistry
- Plants, Toxic
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Plant/analysis
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Nicotiana/enzymology
- Nicotiana/genetics
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- F Dubois
- Laboratoire d'Androgenèse et Biotechnologie, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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Lam HM, Coschigano KT, Oliveira IC, Melo-Oliveira R, Coruzzi GM. THE MOLECULAR-GENETICS OF NITROGEN ASSIMILATION INTO AMINO ACIDS IN HIGHER PLANTS. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996; 47:569-593. [PMID: 15012301 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.47.1.569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 396] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Nitrogen assimilation is a vital process controlling plant growth and development. Inorganic nitrogen is assimilated into the amino acids glutamine, glutamate, asparagine, and aspartate, which serve as important nitrogen carriers in plants. The enzymes glutamine synthetase (GS), glutamate synthase (GOGAT), glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT), and asparagine synthetase (AS) are responsible for the biosynthesis of these nitrogen-carrying amino acids. Biochemical studies have revealed the existence of multiple isoenzymes for each of these enzymes. Recent molecular analyses demonstrate that each enzyme is encoded by a gene family wherein individual members encode distinct isoenzymes that are differentially regulated by environmental stimuli, metabolic control, developmental control, and tissue/cell-type specificity. We review the recent progress in using molecular-genetic approaches to delineate the regulatory mechanisms controlling nitrogen assimilation into amino acids and to define the physiological role of each isoenzyme involved in this metabolic pathway.
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- H.-M. Lam
- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003
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van Ghelue M, Ribeiro A, Solheim B, Akkermans AD, Bisseling T, Pawlowski K. Sucrose synthase and enolase expression in actinorhizal nodules of Alnus glutinosa: comparison with legume nodules. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1996; 250:437-46. [PMID: 8602161 DOI: 10.1007/bf02174032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Two different types of nitrogen-fixing root nodules are known- actinorhizal nodules induced by Frankia and legume nodules induced by rhizobia. While legume nodules show a stem-like structure with peripheral vascular bundles, actinorhizal nodule lobes resemble modified lateral roots with a central vascular bundle. To compare carbon metabolism in legume and actinorhizal nodules, sucrose synthase and enolase cDNA clones were isolated from a cDNA library, obtained from actinorhizal nodules of Alnus glutinosa. The expression of the corresponding genes was markedly enhanced in nodules compared to roots. in situ hybridization showed that, in nodules, both sucrose synthase and enolase were expressed at high levels in the infected cortical cells as well as in the pericycle of the central vascular bundle of a nodule lobe. Legume sucrose synthase expression was studied in indeterminate nodules from pea and determinate nodules from Phaseolus vulgaris by using in situ hybridization.
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- M van Ghelue
- Institute of Biology and Geology, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway
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Rhizobium, Bradyrhizobium and Azorhizobium can elicit the formation of N2-fixing nodules on the roots or stems of their leguminous host plants. The nodule formation involves several developmental steps determined by different sets of genes from both partners, the gene expression being temporally and spatially coordinated. The plant proteins that are specifically synthesised during the formation and function of the nodule are called nodulins. The nodulins that are expressed before the onset of N2 fixation are termed early nodulins. These proteins are probably involved in the infection process as well as in nodule morphogenesis rather than in nodule function. The nodulins expressed just before or during N2 fixation are termed late nodulins and they participate in the function of the nodule by creating the physiological conditions required for nitrogen fixation, ammonium assimilation and transport. In this review we will describe nodulins, nodulin genes and the relationship between nodulin gene expression and nodule development. The study of nodulin gene expression may provide insight into root-nodule development and the mechanism of communication between bacteria and host plant.
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Nitrogen Fixing Root Nodule Symbioses: Legume Nodules and Actinorhizal Nodules. BIOTECHNOLOGY ANNUAL REVIEW 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s1387-2656(08)70009-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Mylona P, Pawlowski K, Bisseling T. Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation. THE PLANT CELL 1995; 7:869-885. [PMID: 12242391 DOI: 10.2307/3870043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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- P. Mylona
- Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, Dreijenlaan 3, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Mylona P, Pawlowski K, Bisseling T. Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation. THE PLANT CELL 1995; 7:869-885. [PMID: 12242391 PMCID: PMC160880 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.7.7.869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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- P. Mylona
- Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, Dreijenlaan 3, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Mylona P, Pawlowski K, Bisseling T. Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation. THE PLANT CELL 1995. [PMID: 12242391 DOI: 10.1105/2ftpc.7.7.869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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- P. Mylona
- Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, Dreijenlaan 3, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Day DA, Whitehead L, Hendriks JHM, Tyerman SD. Nitrogen and Carbon Exchange Across Symbiotic Membranes from Soybean Nodules. NITROGEN FIXATION: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS 1995. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-0379-4_66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Xu Y, Buchholz WG, DeRose RT, Hall TC. Characterization of a rice gene family encoding root-specific proteins. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 27:237-48. [PMID: 7888615 DOI: 10.1007/bf00020180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Two cDNA clones (RCc2 and RCc3) corresponding to mRNAs highly expressed only in root tissues of rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings were characterized. Respectively, they encode polypeptides of 146 (14.5 kDa) and 133 amino acids (13.4 kDa) that share high (> 70%) sequence similarity with a polypeptide encoded by a cDNA (ZRP3) encoding an mRNA preferentially expressed in young maize roots. Genomic DNA blot analysis revealed that they are members of a small gene family and RCg2, the gene corresponding to RCc2, was isolated. A 1656 bp 5'-upstream sequence of RCg2 was translationally fused to a beta-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene and stable introduction of the chimeric construct into rice was confirmed by PCR and genomic DNA blot analyses. Histochemical analysis of transgenic rice plants containing the full-length chimeric gene showed high levels of GUS activity in mature cells and the elongation and maturation zones of primary and secondary roots, and in the root caps, but no GUS activity was detected in root meristematic regions. Surprisingly, high GUS activity was also detected in leaves of the same plants. This raises the possibility that the RCg2 5'-upstream element may not be sufficient for the proper spatial control of root specificity in transgenic rice.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Plant/analysis
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family/genetics
- Oryza/genetics
- Plant Leaves/chemistry
- Plant Proteins/analysis
- Plant Proteins/genetics
- Plant Roots/chemistry
- Plant Roots/genetics
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- RNA, Plant/analysis
- Restriction Mapping
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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- Y Xu
- Institute of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-3155
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Marsolier MC, Debrosses G, Hirel B. Identification of several soybean cytosolic glutamine synthetase transcripts highly or specifically expressed in nodules: expression studies using one of the corresponding genes in transgenic Lotus corniculatus. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 27:1-15. [PMID: 7865779 DOI: 10.1007/bf00019174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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A DNA fragment containing sequences hybridizing to the 5' region of GS15, a gene encoding soybean cytosolic glutamine synthetase, was isolated from a soybean genomic library. Mapping and partial sequence analysis of the genomic clone revealed that it encodes a cytosolic GS gene, GS21, which is different from GS15. In parallel, a number of cDNA clones encoding cytosolic GS were isolated using the coding region of pGS20 as a probe (pGS20 is a cDNA clone which corresponds to a transcript of the GS15 gene). Two new full-length cDNAs designated pGS34 and pGS38 were isolated and sequenced. In the 5' non-coding region a strong homology was found between the two clones and the GS21 gene. However, none of these sequences were identical, which suggests that there are at least three members in this group of genes. In order to determine their relative levels of transcription, specific sequences from pGS34, pGS38 and GS21 were used in an RNAse protection assay. This experiment clearly showed that GS21 and the gene encoding pGS38 are specifically expressed in young or mature nodules, whereas the gene encoding pGS34 is highly transcribed in nodules and constitutively expressed at a lower level in other soybean organs. In order to further analyse the molecular mechanisms controlling GS21 transcription, different fragments of the promoter region were fused to the Escherichia coli reporter gene encoding beta-glucuronidase (GUS) and the constructs were introduced into Lotus corniculatus via Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transformation. Analysis of GUS activity showed that the GS21 promoter-GUS constructs were expressed in the vasculature of all vegetative organs. This result is discussed in relation to species-specific metabolic and developmental characteristics of soybean and Lotus.
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- M C Marsolier
- Laboratoire du Métabolisme et de la Nutrition des Plantes, INRA, Centre de Versailles, France
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Lin Z, Miao GH, Verma DP. A cDNA sequence encoding glutamine synthetase is preferentially expressed in nodules of Vigna aconitifolia. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1995; 107:279-280. [PMID: 7870822 PMCID: PMC161209 DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.1.279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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- Z Lin
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Center, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210
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Sukanya R, Li MG, Snustad DP. Root- and shoot-specific responses of individual glutamine synthetase genes of maize to nitrate and ammonium. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1994; 26:1935-1946. [PMID: 7858228 DOI: 10.1007/bf00019504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The responses of the five cytosolic-type glutamine synthetase (GS1) genes of maize to treatment of hydroponically grown seedlings with 10 mM KNO3 or 10 mM NH4Cl were analyzed. Non-coding 3' gene-specific hybridization probes and radioanalytic imaging were used to quantitate individual gene transcript levels in excised roots and shoots before treatment and at selected times after treatment. Genes GS1-1 and GS1-2 exhibited distinct organ-specific responses to treatment with either nitrogen source. The GS1-1 transcript level increased over three-fold in roots, but changed little if any in shoots. In contrast, the GS1-2 transcript level increased over two-fold in shoots, but decreased in roots after treatment. Increased transcript levels were evident at 4 h after treatment with either nitrogen source, with maximum accumulations present at 8 h after treatment with ammonium and at 10-12 h after treatment with nitrate. The GS1-3 gene transcript level showed little or no change after treatment with either nitrogen source. The GS1-4 gene transcript level remained constant in shoots of treated seedlings, whereas in roots, it exhibited relatively minor, but complex responses to these two nitrogen sources. The GS1-5 gene transcript is present in very small amounts in seedlings, making it difficult to analyze its response to metabolites in young plants. These results provide support for the possibility that different cytosolic GS genes of maize play distinct roles in nitrogen metabolism during plant growth and differentiation.
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- R Sukanya
- Department of Genetics & Cell Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108-1095
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Watanabe A, Hamada K, Yokoi H, Watanabe A. Biphasic and differential expression of cytosolic glutamine synthetase genes of radish during seed germination and senescence of cotyledons. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1994; 26:1807-1817. [PMID: 7858219 DOI: 10.1007/bf00019494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Three structurally distinct cDNA clones for cytosolic glutamine synthetase (GS1) were isolated from libraries prepared from senescing radish cotyledons. Northern blot analysis showed that transcripts from two of the three genes encoding GS1, Gln1;1 and Gln1;3, accumulated in the cotyledons during both dark-induced and natural senescence. Transcripts from the last gene, Gln1;2, remained at a low level during both processes. Transcripts from all three Gln1 genes accumulated in cotyledons of germinating seeds. We infer from these findings that GS1 enzymes function in both germination and senescence to convert ammonium to glutamine to remobilize nitrogen from source to sink organs. We have also examined the pattern of expression of these genes in different tissues. All three genes are expressed in roots. A large amount of transcripts from Gln1;1 accumulated in hypocotyls. Whereas none were transcribed in flowers. During dark-induced senescence of cotyledons, application of inorganic nitrogen delayed chlorophyll degradation. Inorganic nitrogen enhanced the accumulation of Gln1;1 transcripts, but decreased those of Gln1;3. In contrast, application of glutamine promoted yellowing of cotyledons during the dark treatment, and slightly increased the amounts of transcripts from Gln1;3 but decreased those of Gln1;1. Transcription of the three Gln1 genes appears, therefore, to be differentially regulated in radish cotyledons during senescence and germination.
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- A Watanabe
- Graduate Division of Biochemical Regulation, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan
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Downs CG, Christey MC, Davies KM, King GA, Seelye JF, Sinclair BK, Stevenson DG. Hairy roots of Brassica napus: II. Glutamine synthetase overexpression alters ammonia assimilation and the response to phosphinothricin. PLANT CELL REPORTS 1994; 14:41-46. [PMID: 24194225 DOI: 10.1007/bf00233296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/1994] [Revised: 06/06/1994] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Hairy roots of Brassica napus (rape cv. Giant) have been produced that contain the cytosolic glutamine synthetase (GS) gene from Glycine max (soybean). Leaf explants were cocultivated with Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4T harbouring the binary vector pLN16. This vector was constructed by inserting a soybean cytosolic GS cDNA into the multiple cloning site of pGA643, placing it under the control of the CaMV promoter. In addition, the T-DNA region of pLN16 contained a NPTII gene for selection of transformed cells. Transgenic hairy roots grew prolifically on hormone-free media containing a selective level of kanamycin. Southern and northern analyses confirmed the presence of soybean GS DNA and transcripts, respectively. These transformed hairy roots also have a greater abundance of the GS polypeptide, approximately 3-6 fold greater GS activity and lower levels of endogenous ammonia. Hairy roots provide a useful system for studying responses to phosphinothricin (PPT). Hairy roots grown in media containing PPT had lower GS activity, greater ammonia accumulation and slower growth than controls. The presence of the soybean GS gene in the hairy roots reduced these PPT-induced effects and resulted in higher GS activity, lower ammonia levels and faster growth than in PPT-treated controls. Greater tolerance of PPT was also seen in shoots regenerated from the hairy roots displaying elevated levels of GS activity.
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- C G Downs
- New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research Limited, Private Bag 4005, Levin, New Zealand
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Suzuki I, Cretin C, Omata T, Sugiyama T. Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Regulation of Nitrogen-Responding Expression of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Gene in Maize. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1994; 105:1223-1229. [PMID: 12232278 PMCID: PMC159452 DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.4.1223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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To study the regulation of gene expression for enzymes in the C4 photosynthetic pathway of maize (Zea mays L.) in response to changing N status in developing photosynthetic cells, we have studied in vitro transcription of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) gene in leaf nuclei isolated from plants during recovery from N starvation. The induction was specific for the C4-type PEPC gene (C4Ppc1), and its transcription was N dependent and increased markedly by supply of an N source, but there was a discrepancy between the steady-state levels of mRNA and the stimulation of in vitro transcription. The results suggest that the N-inducible expression of C4Ppc1 is regulated both transcriptionally and posttranscriptionally by N availability. The in vitro transcription rate of C4Ppc1 was greatly stimulated by incubating detached leaves with zeatin alone, whereas the rate remained essentially unchanged by incubating with an exogenous N source alone. The results, taken together, imply that cytokinins up-regulate the transcription of C4Ppc1 in response to N status, whereas glutamine and/or its metabolite(s) up-regulate the level of the transcript. The transcription was totally inhibited by cycloheximide, indicating that the cytokinin-dependent transcription of C4Ppc1 requires the synthesis of protein.
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- I. Suzuki
- Department of Applied Biological Sciences, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Furo-cho, Nagoya 464-01, Japan (I.S., T.O., T.S.)
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Szczyglowski K, Szabados L, Fujimoto SY, Silver D, de Bruijn FJ. Site-specific mutagenesis of the nodule-infected cell expression (NICE) element and the AT-rich element ATRE-BS2* of the Sesbania rostrata leghemoglobin glb3 promoter. THE PLANT CELL 1994; 6:317-32. [PMID: 8180496 PMCID: PMC160436 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.6.3.317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
Sesbania rostrata leghemoglobin glb3 (Srglb3) promoter sequences responsible for expression in infected cells of transgenic Lotus corniculatus nodules were delimited to a 78-bp Dral-Hinfl fragment. This region, which is located between coordinates -194 to -116 relative to the start codon of the Srglb3 gene, was named the nodule-infected cell expression (NICE) element. Insertion of the NICE element into the truncated nopaline synthase promoter was found to confer a nodule-specific expression pattern on this normally root-enhanced promoter. Within the NICE element, three distinct motifs ([A]AAAGAT, TTGTCTCTT, and CACCC[T]) were identified; they are highly conserved in the promoter regions of a variety of plant (leg)hemoglobin genes. The NICE element and the adjacent AT-rich element (ATRE-BS2*) were subjected to site-directed mutagenesis. The expression patterns of nine selected Srglb3 promoter fragments carrying mutations in ATRE-BS2* and 19 with mutations in the NICE element were examined. Mutations in ATRE-BS2* had varying effects on Srglb3 promoter activity, ranging from a two- to threefold reduction to a slight stimulation of activity. Mutations in the highly conserved (A)AAAGAT motif of the NICE element reduced Srglb3 promoter activity two- to fourfold, whereas mutations in the TCTT portion of the TTGTCTCTT motif virtually abolished promoter activity, demonstrating the essential nature of these motifs for Srglb3 gene expression. An A-to-T substitution in the CACCC(T) motif of the NICE element also abolished Srglb3 promoter activity, while a C-to-T mutation at position 4 resulted in a threefold reduction of promoter strength. The latter phenotypes resemble the effect of similar mutations in the conserved CACCC motif located in the promoter region of mammalian beta-globin genes. The possible analogies between these two systems will be discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- K Szczyglowski
- Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1312
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Molecular regulation of amino acid biosynthesis in plants. Amino Acids 1994; 7:165-74. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00814158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/1993] [Accepted: 12/12/1993] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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