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Apodiakou A, Alseekh S, Hoefgen R, Whitcomb SJ. Overexpression of SLIM1 transcription factor accelerates vegetative development in Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1327152. [PMID: 38571711 PMCID: PMC10988502 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1327152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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The transcription factor Sulfur Limitation 1 (SLIM1) belongs to the plant-specific Ethylene Insenstive3-Like transcription factor family and is known to coordinate gene expression in response to sulfur deficiency. However, the roles of SLIM1 in nutrient-sufficient conditions have not been characterized. Employing constitutive SLIM1 overexpression (35S::SLIM1) and CRISPR/Cas9 mutant plants (slim1-cr), we identified several distinct phenotypes in nutrient-sufficient conditions in Arabidopsis thaliana. Overexpression of SLIM1 results in plants with approximately twofold greater rosette area throughout vegetative development. 35S::SLIM1 plants also bolt earlier and exhibit earlier downregulation of photosynthesis-associated genes and earlier upregulation of senescence-associated genes than Col-0 and slim1-cr plants. This suggests that overexpression of SLIM1 accelerates development in A. thaliana. Genome-wide differential gene expression analysis relative to Col-0 at three time points with slim1-cr and two 35S::SLIM1 lines allowed us to identify 1,731 genes regulated directly or indirectly by SLIM1 in vivo.
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- Anastasia Apodiakou
- Department of Molecular Physiology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Physiology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Physiology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Physiology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
- Cereal Crops Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Madison, WI, United States
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Bhattacharya O, Ortiz I, Hendricks N, Walling LL. The tomato chloroplast stromal proteome compendium elucidated by leveraging a plastid protein-localization prediction Atlas. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1020275. [PMID: 37701797 PMCID: PMC10493611 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1020275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023]
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Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a model species for studying fruit development, wounding, herbivory, and pathogen attack. Despite tomato's world-wide economic importance and the role of chloroplasts as metabolic hubs and integrators of environmental cues, little is known about the stromal proteome of tomato. Using a high-yielding protocol for chloroplast and stromal protein isolation, MudPIT nano-LC-MS/MS analyses, a robust in-house protein database (the Atlas) for predicting the plastid localization of tomato proteins, and rigorous selection criteria for inclusion/exclusion in the stromal proteome, we identified 1,278 proteins of the tomato stromal proteome. We provide one of the most robust stromal proteomes available to date with empirical evidence for 545 and 92 proteins not previously described for tomato plastids and the Arabidopsis stroma, respectively. The relative abundance of tomato stromal proteins was determined using the exponentially modified protein abundance index (emPAI). Comparison of the abundance of tomato and Arabidopsis stromal proteomes provided evidence for the species-specific nature of stromal protein homeostasis. The manual curation of the tomato stromal proteome classified proteins into ten functional categories resulting in an accessible compendium of tomato chloroplast proteins. After curation, only 91 proteins remained as unknown, uncharacterized or as enzymes with unknown functions. The curation of the tomato stromal proteins also indicated that tomato has a number of paralogous proteins, not present in Arabidopsis, which accumulated to different levels in chloroplasts. As some of these proteins function in key metabolic pathways or in perceiving or transmitting signals critical for plant adaptation to biotic and abiotic stress, these data suggest that tomato may modulate the bidirectional communication between chloroplasts and nuclei in a novel manner. The stromal proteome provides a fertile ground for future mechanistic studies in the field of tomato chloroplast-nuclear signaling and are foundational for our goal of elucidating the dynamics of the stromal proteome controlled by the solanaceous-specific, stromal, and wound-inducible leucine aminopeptidase A of tomato.
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- Oindrila Bhattacharya
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
- Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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Chen W, Huang J, Chen S, Zhang L, Rochaix JD, Peng L, Xin Q. Stromal Protein Chloroplast Development and Biogenesis1 Is Essential for Chloroplast Development and Biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:815859. [PMID: 35222475 PMCID: PMC8866770 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.815859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Although numerous studies have been carried out on chloroplast development and biogenesis, the underlying regulatory mechanisms are still largely elusive. Here, we characterized a chloroplast stromal protein Chloroplast Development and Biogenesis1 (CDB1). The knockout cdb1 mutant exhibits a seedling-lethal and ivory leaf phenotype. Immunoblot and RNA blot analyses show that accumulation of chloroplast ribosomes is compromised in cdb1, resulting in an almost complete loss of plastid-encoded proteins including the core subunits of the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP) RpoB and RpoC2, and therefore in impaired PEP activity. Orthologs of CDB1 are found in green algae and land plants. Moreover, a protein shows high similarity with CDB1, designated as CDB1-Like (CDB1L), is present in angiosperms. Absence of CDB1L results in impaired embryo development. While CDB1 is specifically located in the chloroplast stroma, CDB1L is localized in both chloroplasts and mitochondria in Arabidopsis. Thus, our results demonstrate that CDB1 is indispensable for chloroplast development and biogenesis through its involvement in chloroplast ribosome assembly whereas CDB1L may fulfill a similar function in both mitochondria and chloroplasts.
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- Weijie Chen
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Departments of Molecular Biology and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Jiang D, Tang R, Shi Y, Ke X, Wang Y, Che Y, Luan S, Hou X. Arabidopsis Seedling Lethal 1 Interacting With Plastid-Encoded RNA Polymerase Complex Proteins Is Essential for Chloroplast Development. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:602782. [PMID: 33391315 PMCID: PMC7772139 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.602782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Mitochondrial transcription termination factors (mTERFs) are highly conserved proteins in metazoans. Plants have many more mTERF proteins than animals. The functions and the underlying mechanisms of plants' mTERFs remain largely unknown. In plants, mTERF family proteins are present in both mitochondria and plastids and are involved in gene expression in these organelles through different mechanisms. In this study, we screened Arabidopsis mutants with pigment-defective phenotypes and isolated a T-DNA insertion mutant exhibiting seedling-lethal and albino phenotypes [seedling lethal 1 (sl1)]. The SL1 gene encodes an mTERF protein localized in the chloroplast stroma. The sl1 mutant showed severe defects in chloroplast development, photosystem assembly, and the accumulation of photosynthetic proteins. Furthermore, the transcript levels of some plastid-encoded proteins were significantly reduced in the mutant, suggesting that SL1/mTERF3 may function in the chloroplast gene expression. Indeed, SL1/mTERF3 interacted with PAP12/PTAC7, PAP5/PTAC12, and PAP7/PTAC14 in the subgroup of DNA/RNA metabolism in the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP) complex. Taken together, the characterization of the plant chloroplast mTERF protein, SL1/mTERF3, that associated with PEP complex proteins provided new insights into RNA transcription in the chloroplast.
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- Deyuan Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Sheng Luan,
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- *Correspondence: Xin Hou,
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Zhang J, Wang S, Song S, Xu F, Pan Y, Wang H. Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses reveal new insight into chlorophyll synthesis and chloroplast structure of maize leaves under zinc deficiency stress. J Proteomics 2019; 199:123-134. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2019.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2019] [Revised: 02/23/2019] [Accepted: 03/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Zhang S, Zhang H, Xia Y, Xiong L. The caseinolytic protease complex component CLPC1 in Arabidopsis maintains proteome and RNA homeostasis in chloroplasts. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 18:192. [PMID: 30208840 PMCID: PMC6136230 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-018-1396-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Homeostasis of the proteome is critical to the development of chloroplasts and also affects the expression of certain nuclear genes. CLPC1 facilitates the translocation of chloroplast pre-proteins and mediates protein degradation. RESULTS We found that proteins involved in photosynthesis are dramatically decreased in their abundance in the clpc1 mutant, whereas many proteins involved in chloroplast transcription and translation were increased in the mutant. Expression of the full-length CLPC1 protein, but not of the N-terminus-deleted CLPC1 (ΔN), in the clpc1 mutant background restored the normal levels of most of these proteins. Interestingly, the ΔN complementation line could also restore some proteins affected by the mutation to normal levels. We also found that that the clpc1 mutation profoundly affects transcript levels of chloroplast genes. Sense transcripts of many chloroplast genes are up-regulated in the clpc1 mutant. The level of SVR7, a PPR protein, was affected by the clpc1 mutation. We showed that SVR7 might be a target of CLPC1 as CLPC1-SVR7 interaction was detected through co-immunoprecipitation. CONCLUSION Our study indicates that in addition to its role in maintaining proteome homeostasis, CLPC1 and likely the CLP proteasome complex also play a role in transcriptome homeostasis through its functions in maintaining proteome homeostasis.
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- Shoudong Zhang
- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
- Centre for Soybean Research, Partner State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region China
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- Core labs, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Partner State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Hong Kong Baptist University, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Partner State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, SAR, China
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- Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
- Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center, Dallas, TX 75252 USA
- Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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Inomata T, Baslam M, Masui T, Koshu T, Takamatsu T, Kaneko K, Pozueta-Romero J, Mitsui T. Proteomics Analysis Reveals Non-Controlled Activation of Photosynthesis and Protein Synthesis in a Rice npp1 Mutant under High Temperature and Elevated CO₂ Conditions. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19092655. [PMID: 30205448 PMCID: PMC6165220 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19092655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2018] [Revised: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Rice nucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase 1 (NPP1) catalyzes the hydrolytic breakdown of the pyrophosphate and phosphodiester bonds of a number of nucleotides including ADP-glucose and ATP. Under high temperature and elevated CO2 conditions (HT + ECO2), the npp1 knockout rice mutant displayed rapid growth and high starch content phenotypes, indicating that NPP1 exerts a negative effect on starch accumulation and growth. To gain further insight into the mechanisms involved in the NPP1 downregulation induced starch overaccumulation, in this study we conducted photosynthesis, leaf proteomic, and chloroplast phosphoproteomic analyses of wild-type (WT) and npp1 plants cultured under HT + ECO2. Photosynthesis in npp1 leaves was significantly higher than in WT. Additionally, npp1 leaves accumulated higher levels of sucrose than WT. The proteomic analyses revealed upregulation of proteins related to carbohydrate metabolism and the protein synthesis system in npp1 plants. Further, our data indicate the induction of 14-3-3 proteins in npp1 plants. Our finding demonstrates a higher level of protein phosphorylation in npp1 chloroplasts, which may play an important role in carbohydrate accumulation. Together, these results offer novel targets and provide additional insights into carbohydrate metabolism regulation under ambient and adverse conditions.
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- Takuya Inomata
- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 2-8050 Ikarashi, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Niigata University, Niigata 950-218, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 2-8050 Ikarashi, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 2-8050 Ikarashi, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 2-8050 Ikarashi, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.
- Department of Biochemistry, Niigata University, Niigata 950-218, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 2-8050 Ikarashi, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (CSIC, UPNA, Gobierno de Navarra), Mutiloako Etorbidea Zenbaki Gabe, 31192 Mutiloabeti, Nafarroa, Spain.
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 2-8050 Ikarashi, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.
- Department of Biochemistry, Niigata University, Niigata 950-218, Japan.
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Grübler B, Merendino L, Twardziok SO, Mininno M, Allorent G, Chevalier F, Liebers M, Blanvillain R, Mayer KFX, Lerbs-Mache S, Ravanel S, Pfannschmidt T. Light and Plastid Signals Regulate Different Sets of Genes in the Albino Mutant Pap7-1. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 175:1203-1219. [PMID: 28935841 PMCID: PMC5664474 DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.00982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2017] [Accepted: 09/20/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Plants possessing dysfunctional plastids due to defects in pigment biosynthesis or translation are known to repress photosynthesis-associated nuclear genes via retrograde signals from the disturbed organelles toward the nucleus. These signals are thought to be essential for proper biogenesis and function of the plastid. Mutants lacking plastid-encoded RNA polymerase-associated proteins (PAPs) display a genetic arrest in eoplast-chloroplast transition leading to an albino phenotype in the light. Retrograde signaling in these mutants, therefore, could be expected to be similar as under conditions inducing plastid dysfunction. To answer this question, we performed plastome- and genomewide array analyses in the pap7-1 mutant of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). In parallel, we determined the potential overlap with light-regulated expression networks. To this end, we performed a comparative expression profiling approach using light- and dark-grown wild-type plants as relative control for the expression profiles obtained from light-grown pap7-1 mutants. Our data indicate a specific impact of retrograde signals on metabolism-related genes in pap7-1 mutants reflecting the starvation situation of the albino seedlings. In contrast, light regulation of PhANGs and other nuclear gene groups appears to be fully functional in this mutant, indicating that a block in chloroplast biogenesis per se does not repress expression of them as suggested by earlier studies. Only genes for light harvesting complex proteins displayed a significant repression indicating an exclusive retrograde impact on this gene family. Our results indicate that chloroplasts and arrested plastids each emit specific signals that control different target gene modules both in positive and negative manner.
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- Björn Grübler
- LPCV, CNRS, CEA, INRA, Université Grenoble-Alpes, BIG, 38000, Grenoble, France and
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- LPCV, CNRS, CEA, INRA, Université Grenoble-Alpes, BIG, 38000, Grenoble, France and
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- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- LPCV, CNRS, CEA, INRA, Université Grenoble-Alpes, BIG, 38000, Grenoble, France and
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- LPCV, CNRS, CEA, INRA, Université Grenoble-Alpes, BIG, 38000, Grenoble, France and
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- LPCV, CNRS, CEA, INRA, Université Grenoble-Alpes, BIG, 38000, Grenoble, France and
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- LPCV, CNRS, CEA, INRA, Université Grenoble-Alpes, BIG, 38000, Grenoble, France and
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- LPCV, CNRS, CEA, INRA, Université Grenoble-Alpes, BIG, 38000, Grenoble, France and
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- Plant Genome and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- LPCV, CNRS, CEA, INRA, Université Grenoble-Alpes, BIG, 38000, Grenoble, France and
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- LPCV, CNRS, CEA, INRA, Université Grenoble-Alpes, BIG, 38000, Grenoble, France and
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- LPCV, CNRS, CEA, INRA, Université Grenoble-Alpes, BIG, 38000, Grenoble, France and
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Lehniger MK, Finster S, Melonek J, Oetke S, Krupinska K, Schmitz-Linneweber C. Global RNA association with the transcriptionally active chromosome of chloroplasts. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 95:303-311. [PMID: 28887777 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-017-0649-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2017] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Processed chloroplast RNAs are co-enriched with preparations of the chloroplast transcriptionally active chromosome. Chloroplast genomes are organized as a polyploid DNA-protein structure called the nucleoid. Transcriptionally active chloroplast DNA together with tightly bound protein factors can be purified by gel filtration as a functional entity called the transcriptionally active chromosome (TAC). Previous proteomics analyses of nucleoids and of TACs demonstrated a considerable overlap in protein composition including RNA binding proteins. Therefore the RNA content of TAC preparations from Nicotiana tabacum was determined using whole genome tiling arrays. A large number of chloroplast RNAs was found to be associated with the TAC. The pattern of RNAs attached to the TAC consists of RNAs produced by different chloroplast RNA polymerases and differs from the pattern of RNA found in input controls. An analysis of RNA splicing and RNA editing of selected RNA species demonstrated that TAC-associated RNAs are processed to a similar extent as the RNA in input controls. Thus, TAC fractions contain a specific subset of the processed chloroplast transcriptome.
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- Marie-Kristin Lehniger
- Institute of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Philippstr. 11-13, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Philippstr. 11-13, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Botany, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany.
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Du L, Zhang J, Qu S, Zhao Y, Su B, Lv X, Li R, Wan Y, Xiao J. The Pentratricopeptide Repeat Protein Pigment-Defective Mutant2 is Involved in the Regulation of Chloroplast Development and Chloroplast Gene Expression in Arabidopsis. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 58:747-759. [PMID: 28158776 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcx004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2016] [Accepted: 01/08/2017] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The development of functional chloroplasts, which is assisted by a series of nuclear-encoded auxiliary protein factors, is essential for plant autotrophic growth and development. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying chloroplast development, we isolated and characterized a pigment-defective mutant, pdm2, and its corresponding variegated RNA interference (RNAi) lines in Arabidopsis. Sequence analysis revealed that PDM2 encodes a pentatricopeptide repeat protein that belongs to the P subgroup. Confocal microscopic analysis and immunoblotting of the chloroplast protein fraction showed that PDM2 was located in the stroma. In RNAi plants, protein-related photosynthesis was severely compromised. Furthermore, analysis of the transcript profile of chloroplast genes revealed that plastid-encoded polymerase-dependent transcript levels were markedly reduced, while nuclear-encoded polymerase-dependent transcript levels were increased, in RNAi plants. In addition, PDM2 affects plastid RNA editing efficiency in most editing sites, apparently by directly interacting with multiple organellar RNA editing factor 2 (MORF2) and MORF9. Thus, our results demonstrate that PDM2 is probably involved in the regulation of plastid gene expression required for normal chloroplast development.
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- Liang Du
- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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Friso G, van Wijk KJ. Posttranslational Protein Modifications in Plant Metabolism. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 169:1469-87. [PMID: 26338952 PMCID: PMC4634103 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2015] [Accepted: 09/02/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) of proteins greatly expand proteome diversity, increase functionality, and allow for rapid responses, all at relatively low costs for the cell. PTMs play key roles in plants through their impact on signaling, gene expression, protein stability and interactions, and enzyme kinetics. Following a brief discussion of the experimental and bioinformatics challenges of PTM identification, localization, and quantification (occupancy), a concise overview is provided of the major PTMs and their (potential) functional consequences in plants, with emphasis on plant metabolism. Classic examples that illustrate the regulation of plant metabolic enzymes and pathways by PTMs and their cross talk are summarized. Recent large-scale proteomics studies mapped many PTMs to a wide range of metabolic functions. Unraveling of the PTM code, i.e. a predictive understanding of the (combinatorial) consequences of PTMs, is needed to convert this growing wealth of data into an understanding of plant metabolic regulation.
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- Giulia Friso
- School for Integrative Plant Sciences, Section Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- School for Integrative Plant Sciences, Section Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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Robles P, Micol JL, Quesada V. Mutations in the plant-conserved MTERF9 alter chloroplast gene expression, development and tolerance to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2015; 154:297-313. [PMID: 25393651 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2014] [Revised: 10/27/2014] [Accepted: 11/04/2014] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The control of organelle gene expression in plants is far from fully understood. The characterization of mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana is assigning an increasingly prominent role to the mitochondrial transcription termination factors (mTERFs) in this process. To gain insight into the function of mTERF genes in plants, we took a reverse genetics approach to identify and characterize A. thaliana mTERF-defective mutants. Here we report the characterization of the mterf9 mutant, affected in an mTERF protein functionally conserved in plants and targeted to chloroplasts. Loss of MTERF9 results in defective chloroplast development, which is likely to cause paleness, stunted growth and reduced mesophyll cell numbers. Expression analysis of different plastid genes revealed reduced levels of plastid-encoded polymerase (PEP)-dependent transcripts and increased levels of transcripts dependent of nucleus-encoded polymerase. mterf9 plants exhibited altered responses to sugars, abscisic acid (ABA), salt and osmotic stresses, and the microarray data analysis showed modifications in MTERF9 expression after salt or mannitol treatments. Our genetic interactions results indicate a functional relationship between MTERF9 and the previously characterized MDA1 gene, and between MDA1 and some plastid ribosomal genes. MDA1 and MTERF9 were upregulated in the mterf9 and mda1 mutants, respectively. Moreover, 21 of 50 genes were commonly co-expressed with MDA1 and MTERF9. The analysis of the MDA1 and MTERF9 promoters showed that both were rich in stress-related cis-regulatory elements. Our results highlight the role of the MTERF9 gene in plant biology and deepens the understanding of the functional relationship of plant mTERF genes.
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- Pedro Robles
- Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche 03202, Spain
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- Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche 03202, Spain
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- Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche 03202, Spain
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Belcher S, Williams-Carrier R, Stiffler N, Barkan A. Large-scale genetic analysis of chloroplast biogenesis in maize. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2015; 1847:1004-16. [PMID: 25725436 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2015.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2015] [Accepted: 02/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Chloroplast biogenesis involves a collaboration between several thousand nuclear genes and ~100 genes in the chloroplast. Many of the nuclear genes are of cyanobacterial ancestry and continue to perform their ancestral function. However, many others evolved subsequently and comprise a diverse set of proteins found specifically in photosynthetic eucaryotes. Genetic approaches have been key to the discovery of nuclear genes that participate in chloroplast biogenesis, especially those lacking close homologs outside the plant kingdom. SCOPE OF REVIEW This article summarizes contributions from a genetic resource in maize, the Photosynthetic Mutant Library (PML). The PML collection consists of ~2000 non-photosynthetic mutants induced by Mu transposons. We include a summary of mutant phenotypes for 20 previously unstudied maize genes, including genes encoding chloroplast ribosomal proteins, a PPR protein, tRNA synthetases, proteins involved in plastid transcription, a putative ribosome assembly factor, a chaperonin 60 isoform, and a NifU-domain protein required for Photosystem I biogenesis. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS Insertions in 94 maize genes have been linked thus far to visible and molecular phenotypes with the PML collection. The spectrum of chloroplast biogenesis genes that have been genetically characterized in maize is discussed in the context of related efforts in other organisms. This comparison shows how distinct organismal attributes facilitate the discovery of different gene classes, and reveals examples of functional divergence between monocot and dicot plants. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE These findings elucidate the biology of an organelle whose activities are fundamental to agriculture and the biosphere. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Chloroplast Biogenesis.
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- Susan Belcher
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
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Williams-Carrier R, Zoschke R, Belcher S, Pfalz J, Barkan A. A major role for the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase complex in the expression of plastid transfer RNAs. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 164:239-48. [PMID: 24246379 PMCID: PMC3875804 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.228726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2013] [Accepted: 11/16/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Chloroplast transcription in land plants relies on collaboration between a plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP) of cyanobacterial ancestry and a nucleus-encoded RNA polymerase of phage ancestry. PEP associates with additional proteins that are unrelated to bacterial transcription factors, many of which have been shown to be important for PEP activity in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). However, the biochemical roles of these PEP-associated proteins are not known. We describe phenotypes conditioned by transposon insertions in genes encoding the maize (Zea mays) orthologs of five such proteins: ZmPTAC2, ZmMurE, ZmPTAC10, ZmPTAC12, and ZmPRIN2. These mutants have similar ivory/virescent pigmentation and similar reductions in plastid ribosomes and photosynthetic complexes. RNA gel-blot and microarray hybridizations revealed numerous changes in plastid transcript populations, many of which resemble those reported for the orthologous mutants in Arabidopsis. However, unanticipated reductions in the abundance of numerous transfer RNAs (tRNAs) dominated the microarray data and were validated on RNA gel blots. The magnitude of the deficiencies for several tRNAs was similar to that of the most severely affected messenger RNAs, with the loss of trnL-UAA being particularly severe. These findings suggest that PEP and its associated proteins are critical for the robust transcription of numerous plastid tRNAs and that this function is essential for the prodigious translation of plastid-encoded proteins that is required during the installation of the photosynthetic apparatus.
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Williams-Carrier R, Zoschke R, Belcher S, Pfalz J, Barkan A. A major role for the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase complex in the expression of plastid transfer RNAs. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014. [PMID: 24246379 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Chloroplast transcription in land plants relies on collaboration between a plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP) of cyanobacterial ancestry and a nucleus-encoded RNA polymerase of phage ancestry. PEP associates with additional proteins that are unrelated to bacterial transcription factors, many of which have been shown to be important for PEP activity in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). However, the biochemical roles of these PEP-associated proteins are not known. We describe phenotypes conditioned by transposon insertions in genes encoding the maize (Zea mays) orthologs of five such proteins: ZmPTAC2, ZmMurE, ZmPTAC10, ZmPTAC12, and ZmPRIN2. These mutants have similar ivory/virescent pigmentation and similar reductions in plastid ribosomes and photosynthetic complexes. RNA gel-blot and microarray hybridizations revealed numerous changes in plastid transcript populations, many of which resemble those reported for the orthologous mutants in Arabidopsis. However, unanticipated reductions in the abundance of numerous transfer RNAs (tRNAs) dominated the microarray data and were validated on RNA gel blots. The magnitude of the deficiencies for several tRNAs was similar to that of the most severely affected messenger RNAs, with the loss of trnL-UAA being particularly severe. These findings suggest that PEP and its associated proteins are critical for the robust transcription of numerous plastid tRNAs and that this function is essential for the prodigious translation of plastid-encoded proteins that is required during the installation of the photosynthetic apparatus.
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