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Wittmann DT, Peter FE, Strätker SM, Ortega-Rodés P, Grimm B, Hedtke B. Dual plastid targeting of protoporphyrinogen oxidase 2 in Amaranthaceae promotes herbicide tolerance. Plant Physiol 2024; 195:713-727. [PMID: 38330186 PMCID: PMC11060682 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiae062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 01/02/2024] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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Plant tetrapyrrole biosynthesis (TPB) takes place in plastids and provides the chlorophyll and heme required for photosynthesis and many redox processes throughout plant development. TPB is strictly regulated, since accumulation of several intermediates causes photodynamic damage and cell death. Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) catalyzes the last common step before TPB diverges into chlorophyll and heme branches. Land plants possess two PPO isoforms. PPO1 is encoded as a precursor protein with a transit peptide, but in most dicotyledonous plants PPO2 does not possess a cleavable N-terminal extension. Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) PPO1 and PPO2 localize in chloroplast thylakoids and envelope membranes, respectively. Interestingly, PPO2 proteins in Amaranthaceae contain an N-terminal extension that mediates their import into chloroplasts. Here, we present multiple lines of evidence for dual targeting of PPO2 to thylakoid and envelope membranes in this clade and demonstrate that PPO2 is not found in mitochondria. Transcript analyses revealed that dual targeting in chloroplasts involves the use of two transcription start sites and initiation of translation at different AUG codons. Among eudicots, the parallel accumulation of PPO1 and PPO2 in thylakoid membranes is specific for the Amaranthaceae and underlies PPO2-based herbicide resistance in Amaranthus species.
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- Daniel T Wittmann
- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13 (Building 12), 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13 (Building 12), 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13 (Building 12), 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13 (Building 12), 10115 Berlin, Germany
- Lab. Fisiología Vegetal, Dpto. Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de La Habana, 10400 La Habana, Cuba
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- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13 (Building 12), 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13 (Building 12), 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Reddy Ramireddy VS, Kurakula R, Velayudhaperumal Chellam P, James A, van Hullebusch ED. Systematic computational toxicity analysis of the ozonolytic degraded compounds of azo dyes: Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) and adverse outcome pathway (AOP) based approach. Environ Res 2023; 231:116142. [PMID: 37217122 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Revised: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The present study identifies and analyses the degraded products of three azo dyes (Reactive Orange 16, Reactive Red 120, and Direct Red 80) and proffers their in silico toxicity predictions. In our previously published work, the synthetic dye effluents were degraded using an ozonolysis-based Advanced Oxidation Process. In the present study, the degraded products of the three dyes were analysed using GC-MS at endpoint strategy and further subjected to in silico toxicity analysis using Toxicity Estimation Software Tool (TEST), Prediction Of TOXicity of chemicals (ProTox-II), and Estimation Programs Interface Suite (EPI Suite). Several physiological toxicity endpoints, such as hepatotoxicity, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, cellular and molecular interactions, were considered to assess the Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSAR) and adverse outcome pathways. The environmental fate of the by-products in terms of their biodegradability and possible bioaccumulation was also assessed. Results of ProTox-II suggested that the azo dye degradation products are carcinogenic, immunotoxic, and cytotoxic and displayed toxicity towards Androgen Receptor and Mitochondrial Membrane Potential. TEST results predicted LC50 and IGC50 values for three organisms Tetrahymena pyriformis, Daphnia magna, and Pimephales promelas. EPISUITE software via the BCFBAF module surmises that the degradation products' bioaccumulation (BAF) and bioconcentration factors (BCF) are high. The cumulative inference of the results suggests that most degradation by-products are toxic and need further remediation strategies. The study aims to complement existing tests to predict toxicity and prioritise the elimination/reduction of harmful degradation products of primary treatment procedures. The novelty of this study is that it streamlines in silico approaches to predict the nature of toxicity of degradation by-products of toxic industrial affluents like azo dyes. These approaches can assist the first phase of toxicology assessments for any pollutant for regulatory decision-making bodies to chalk out appropriate action plans for their remediation.
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- Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Department of Zoology, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, New Delhi, India.
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Hedtke B, Strätker SM, Pulido ACC, Grimm B. Two isoforms of Arabidopsis protoporphyrinogen oxidase localize in different plastidal membranes. Plant Physiol 2023; 192:871-885. [PMID: 36806676 PMCID: PMC10231370 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Revised: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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All land plants encode 2 isoforms of protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO). While PPO1 is predominantly expressed in green tissues and its loss is seedling-lethal in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), the effects of PPO2 deficiency have not been investigated in detail. We identified 2 ppo2 T-DNA insertion mutants from publicly available collections, one of which (ppo2-2) is a knock-out mutant. While the loss of PPO2 did not result in any obvious phenotype, substantial changes in PPO activity were measured in etiolated and root tissues. However, ppo1 ppo2 double mutants were embryo-lethal. To shed light on possible functional differences between the 2 isoforms, PPO2 was overexpressed in the ppo1 background. Although the ppo1 phenotype was partially complemented, even strong overexpression of PPO2 was unable to fully compensate for the loss of PPO1. Analysis of subcellular localization revealed that PPO2 is found exclusively in chloroplast envelopes, while PPO1 accumulates in thylakoid membranes. Mitochondrial localization of PPO2 in Arabidopsis was ruled out. Since Arabidopsis PPO2 does not encode a cleavable transit peptide, integration of the protein into the chloroplast envelope must make use of a noncanonical import route. However, when a chloroplast transit peptide was fused to the N-terminus of PPO2, the enzyme was detected predominantly in thylakoid membranes and was able to fully complement ppo1. Thus, the 2 PPO isoforms in Arabidopsis are functionally equivalent but spatially separated. Their distinctive localizations within plastids thus enable the synthesis of discrete subpools of the PPO product protoporphyrin IX, which may serve different cellular needs.
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- Boris Hedtke
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Philippstraße 13 (Building 12), Berlin 10115, Germany
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Philippstraße 13 (Building 12), Berlin 10115, Germany
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Philippstraße 13 (Building 12), Berlin 10115, Germany
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Philippstraße 13 (Building 12), Berlin 10115, Germany
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Kohata R, Lim H, Kanamoto Y, Murakami A, Fujita Y, Tanaka A, Swingley W, Ito H, Tanaka R. Heterologous complementation systems verify the mosaic distribution of three distinct protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase in the cyanobacterial phylum. J Plant Res 2023; 136:107-115. [PMID: 36357749 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-022-01423-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The pathways for synthesizing tetrapyrroles, including heme and chlorophyll, are well-conserved among organisms, despite the divergence of several enzymes in these pathways. Protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPOX), which catalyzes the last common step of the heme and chlorophyll biosynthesis pathways, is encoded by three phylogenetically-unrelated genes, hemY, hemG and hemJ. All three types of homologues are present in the cyanobacterial phylum, showing a mosaic phylogenetic distribution. Moreover, a few cyanobacteria appear to contain two types of PPOX homologues. Among the three types of cyanobacterial PPOX homologues, only a hemJ homologue has been experimentally verified for its functionality. An objective of this study is to provide experimental evidence for the functionality of the cyanobacterial PPOX homologues by using two heterologous complementation systems. First, we introduced hemY and hemJ homologues from Gloeobacter violaceus PCC7421, hemY homologue from Trichodesmium erythraeum, and hemG homologue from Prochlorococcus marinus MIT9515 into a ΔhemG strain of E. coli. hemY homologues from G. violaceus and T. erythraeum, and the hemG homologue of P. marinus complimented the E. coli strain. Subsequently, we attempted to replace the endogenous hemJ gene of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 with the four PPOX homologues mentioned above. Except for hemG from P. marinus, the other PPOX homologues substituted the function of hemJ in Synechocystis. These results show that all four homologues encode functional PPOX. The transformation of Synechocystis with G. violaceus hemY homologue rendered the cells sensitive to an inhibitor of the HemY-type PPOX, acifluorfen, indicating that the hemY homologue is sensitive to this inhibitor, while the wild-type G. violaceus was tolerant to it, most likely due to the presence of HemJ protein. These results provide an additional level of evidence that G. violaceus contains two types of functional PPOX.
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- Ryoya Kohata
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, N19W8, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 060-0819, Japan
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, N19W8, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 060-0819, Japan
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- Research Center of Inland Seas, Kobe University, Awaji, 656-2401, Japan
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- Research Center of Inland Seas, Kobe University, Awaji, 656-2401, Japan
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, N19W8, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 060-0819, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 60115, USA
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, N19W8, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 060-0819, Japan
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, N19W8, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 060-0819, Japan.
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Rachmale M, Rajput N, Jadav T, Sahu AK, Sharma S, Sengupta P. High resolution mass spectrometry-driven metabolite profiling of baricitinib to report its unknown metabolites and step-by-step reaction mechanism of metabolism. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 2022; 36:e9385. [PMID: 36018833 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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RATIONALE Metabolite profiling is an integral part of the drug development process for selecting candidates with high therapeutic efficacy and low risk. Baricitinib (BARI) was approved in 2018 by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat rheumatoid arthritis. According to the available literature, no systematic study has been reported on the metabolite profiling of BARI. The biotransformation pathway of the drug has also not been established until recently. This study aims to identify BARI metabolites generated in in vitro matrices. METHODS The in vitro metabolism study was carried out using rat liver microsome, human liver microsomes, and human S9 fraction. Ultra high-performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry (U-HPLC-Q/TOF) and ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography/linear ion trap-Orbitrap mass spectrometry (U-HPLC/LTQ-Orbitrap-MS/MS) were used to identify and characterize the metabolites of BARI. The in silico toxicity of BARI and its metabolite was studied using ProTox-II toxicity predictor software. RESULTS A total of five new metabolites have been identified amongst which two (M1 and M2) were detected on both U-HPLC/LTQ-Orbitrap-MS/MS and U-HPLC-Q/TOF and two additional metabolites (M4 and M5) were detected on U-HPLC/LTQ-Orbitrap-MS/MS. Moreover, one metabolite (M3) was only detected on LC-QTOF. CONCLUSIONS The major metabolic changes were found to be N-dealkylation, demethylation, hydroxylation, and hydrolysis. Metabolites M3 and M4 were found to have the potential for carcinogenicity. The novelty of the study can be justified by the unavailability of any previous research on in vitro metabolite profiling of BARI. Furthermore, this is the first time the biotransformation pathway of BARI and the toxicity potential of its metabolites have been reported.
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- Megha Rachmale
- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad, An Institute of National Importance, Government of India, Opp. Airforce Station, Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad, An Institute of National Importance, Government of India, Opp. Airforce Station, Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad, An Institute of National Importance, Government of India, Opp. Airforce Station, Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad, An Institute of National Importance, Government of India, Opp. Airforce Station, Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Natural Products, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad, An Institute of National Importance, Government of India, Opp. Airforce Station, Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad, An Institute of National Importance, Government of India, Opp. Airforce Station, Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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Sitarek P, Kowalczyk T, Synowiec E, Merecz-Sadowska A, Bangay G, Princiotto S, Śliwiński T, Rijo P. An Evaluation of the Novel Biological Properties of Diterpenes Isolated from Plectranthus ornatus Codd. In Vitro and In Silico. Cells 2022; 11:cells11203243. [PMID: 36291112 PMCID: PMC9600095 DOI: 10.3390/cells11203243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Revised: 10/09/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Plectranthus ornatus Codd, the genus Plectranthus of the Lamiaceae family, has been used as traditional medicine in Africa, India and Australia. Pharmacological studies show the use of this plant to treat digestive problems. In turn, leaves were used for their antibiotic properties in some regions of Brazil to treat skin infections. The present study examines the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and cytotoxic effects of the halimane and labdane diterpenes (11R*,13E)-11-acetoxyhalima-5,13-dien-15-oic acid (HAL) and 1α,6β-diacetoxy-8α,13R*-epoxy-14-labden-11-one (PLEC) and the forskolin-like 1:1 mixture of 1,6-di-O-acetylforskolin and 1,6-di-O-acetyl-9-deoxyforskolin (MRC) isolated from P. ornatus on lung (A549) and leukemia (CCRF-CEM) cancer cell lines, and on normal human retinal pigment epithelial (ARPE-19) cell line in vitro. Additionally, molecular docking and computational approaches were used. ADMET properties were analysed through SwissADME and proTox-II—Prediction. The results indicate that all tested compounds significantly reduced the viability of the cancer cells and demonstrated no cytotoxic effects against the non-neoplastic cell line. The apoptosis indicators showed increased ROS levels for both the tested A549 and CCRF-CEM cancer cell lines after treatment. Furthermore, computational studies found HAL to exhibit moderate antioxidant activity. In addition, selected compounds changed mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP), and increased DNA damage and mitochondrial copy number for the CCRF-CEM cancer cell line; they also demonstrated anti-inflammatory effects on the ARPE-19 normal cell line upon lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment, which was associated with the modulation of IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α and GM-CSF genes expression. Docking studies gave indication about the lowest binding energy for 1,6-di-O-acetylforskolin docked into IL-6, TNF-α and GM-CSF, and 1,6-di-O-acetyl-9-deoxyforskolin docked into IL-8. The ADMET studies showed drug-likeness properties for the studied compounds. Thus, halimane and labdane diterpenes isolated from P. ornatus appear to offer biological potential; however, further research is necessary to understand their interactions and beneficial properties.
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- Przemysław Sitarek
- Department of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany, Medical University of Lodz, ul. Muszyńskiego 1, 90-151 Lodz, Poland
- Correspondence: (P.S.); (P.R.)
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- Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
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- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Pomorska 141/143, 90-236 Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Computer Science in Economics, University of Lodz, 90-214 Lodz, Poland
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- CBIOS—Lusófona University’s Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal
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- CBIOS—Lusófona University’s Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal
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- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Pomorska 141/143, 90-236 Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
- CBIOS—Lusófona University’s Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal
- Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento (iMed.ULisboa), Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal
- Correspondence: (P.S.); (P.R.)
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Liu X, Deng XJ, Li CY, Xiao YK, Zhao K, Guo J, Yang XR, Zhang HS, Chen CP, Luo YT, Tang YL, Yang B, Sun CH, Wang PR. Mutation of Protoporphyrinogen IX Oxidase Gene Causes Spotted and Rolled Leaf and Its Overexpression Generates Herbicide Resistance in Rice. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23105781. [PMID: 35628595 PMCID: PMC9146718 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23105781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Protoporphyrinogen IX (Protogen IX) oxidase (PPO) catalyzes the oxidation of Protogen IX to Proto IX. PPO is also the target site for diphenyl ether-type herbicides. In plants, there are two PPO encoding genes, PPO1 and PPO2. To date, no PPO gene or mutant has been characterized in monocotyledonous plants. In this study, we isolated a spotted and rolled leaf (sprl1) mutant in rice (Oryza sativa). The spotted leaf phenotype was sensitive to high light intensity and low temperature, but the rolled leaf phenotype was insensitive. We confirmed that the sprl1 phenotypes were caused by a single nucleotide substitution in the OsPPO1 (LOC_Os01g18320) gene. This gene is constitutively expressed, and its encoded product is localized to the chloroplast. The sprl1 mutant accumulated excess Proto(gen) IX and reactive oxygen species (ROS), resulting in necrotic lesions. The expressions of 26 genes associated with tetrapyrrole biosynthesis, photosynthesis, ROS accumulation, and rolled leaf were significantly altered in sprl1, demonstrating that these expression changes were coincident with the mutant phenotypes. Importantly, OsPPO1-overexpression transgenic plants were resistant to the herbicides oxyfluorfen and acifluorfen under field conditions, while having no distinct influence on plant growth and grain yield. These finding indicate that the OsPPO1 gene has the potential to engineer herbicide resistance in rice.
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- Xin Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (X.L.); (C.-H.S.)
- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (X.L.); (C.-H.S.)
- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
- Correspondence: (X.-J.D.); (P.-R.W.)
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- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (X.L.); (C.-H.S.)
- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (X.L.); (C.-H.S.)
- Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (C.-Y.L.); (Y.-K.X.); (K.Z.); (J.G.); (X.-R.Y.); (H.-S.Z.); (C.-P.C.); (Y.-T.L.); (Y.-L.T.); (B.Y.)
- Correspondence: (X.-J.D.); (P.-R.W.)
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Clough CA, Pangallo J, Sarchi M, Ilagan JO, North K, Bergantinos R, Stolla MC, Naru J, Nugent P, Kim E, Stirewalt DL, Subramaniam AR, Abdel-Wahab O, Abkowitz JL, Bradley RK, Doulatov S. Coordinated missplicing of TMEM14C and ABCB7 causes ring sideroblast formation in SF3B1-mutant myelodysplastic syndrome. Blood 2022; 139:2038-2049. [PMID: 34861039 PMCID: PMC8972092 DOI: 10.1182/blood.2021012652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
SF3B1 splicing factor mutations are near-universally found in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) with ring sideroblasts (RS), a clonal hematopoietic disorder characterized by abnormal erythroid cells with iron-loaded mitochondria. Despite this remarkably strong genotype-to-phenotype correlation, the mechanism by which mutant SF3B1 dysregulates iron metabolism to cause RS remains unclear due to an absence of physiological models of RS formation. Here, we report an induced pluripotent stem cell model of SF3B1-mutant MDS that for the first time recapitulates robust RS formation during in vitro erythroid differentiation. Mutant SF3B1 induces missplicing of ∼100 genes throughout erythroid differentiation, including proposed RS driver genes TMEM14C, PPOX, and ABCB7. All 3 missplicing events reduce protein expression, notably occurring via 5' UTR alteration, and reduced translation efficiency for TMEM14C. Functional rescue of TMEM14C and ABCB7, but not the non-rate-limiting enzyme PPOX, markedly decreased RS, and their combined rescue nearly abolished RS formation. Our study demonstrates that coordinated missplicing of mitochondrial transporters TMEM14C and ABCB7 by mutant SF3B1 sequesters iron in mitochondria, causing RS formation.
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- Courtnee A Clough
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and
- Computational Biology Program, Public Health Sciences Division and
- Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Computational Biology Program, Public Health Sciences Division and
- Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Computational Biology Program, Public Health Sciences Division and
- Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA
- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and
- Computational Biology Program, Public Health Sciences Division and
- Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Information-Bio Convergence Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
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- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA
- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Computational Biology Program, Public Health Sciences Division and
- Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; and
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle WA
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- Computational Biology Program, Public Health Sciences Division and
- Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle WA
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Zhao LX, Peng JF, Liu FY, Zou YL, Gao S, Fu Y, Ye F. Design, Synthesis, and Herbicidal Activity of Diphenyl Ether Derivatives Containing a Five-Membered Heterocycle. J Agric Food Chem 2022; 70:1003-1018. [PMID: 35040327 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c05210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO, EC 1.3.3.4) is an important target for discovering novel herbicides, and it causes bleaching symptoms by inhibiting the synthesis of chlorophyll and heme. In this study, the active fragments of several commercial herbicides were joined by substructure splicing and bioisosterism, and a series of novel diphenyl ether derivatives containing five-membered heterocycles were synthesized. The greenhouse herbicidal activity and the PPO inhibitory activity in vitro were discussed in detail. The results showed that most compounds had good PPO inhibitory activity, and target compounds containing trifluoromethyl groups tended to have higher activity. Among them, compound G4 showed the best inhibitory activity, with a half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 0.0468 μmol/L, which was approximately 3 times better than that of oxyfluorfen (IC50 = 0.150 μmol/L). In addition, molecular docking indicated that compound G4 formed obvious π-π stacking interactions and hydrogen bond interactions with PHE-392 and ARG-98, respectively. Remarkably, compound G4 had good safety for corn, wheat, rice, and soybean, and the cumulative concentration in crops was lower than that of oxyfluorfen. Therefore, compound G4 can be used to develop potential lead compounds for novel PPO inhibitors.
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- Li-Xia Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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Zhao LX, Wang ZX, Peng JF, Zou YL, Hui YZ, Chen YZ, Gao S, Fu Y, Ye F. Design, synthesis, and herbicidal activity of novel phenoxypyridine derivatives containing natural product coumarin. Pest Manag Sci 2021; 77:4785-4798. [PMID: 34161678 DOI: 10.1002/ps.6523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND In recent years, protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO, EC 1.3.3.4) inhibitors have been widely studied as important agricultural herbicides. Our research focused on the design and synthesis of novel PPO inhibitor herbicides, through linking of a diphenylether pyridine bioisostere structure to substituted coumarins, which aims to enhance environmental and crop safety while retaining high efficacy. RESULTS A total of 21 compounds were synthesized via acylation reactions and all compounds were characterized using infrared, 1 H NMR, 13 C NMR, and high-resolution mass spectra. The respective configurations of compounds IV-6 and IV-12 were also confirmed using single crystal X-ray diffraction. The bioassay results showed that the title compounds displayed notable herbicidal activity, particularly compound IV-6 which displayed better herbicidal activity in greenhouse and field experiments, crop selectivity and safety for cotton and soybean compared with the commercial herbicide oxyfluorfen. CONCLUSION The work revealed that compound IV-6 deserves further attention as a candidate structure for a novel and safe herbicide. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Li-Xia Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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Wang B, Zhang Z, Zhu H, Niu C, Wen X, Xi Z. The hydrogen bonding network involved Arg59 in human protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase is essential for enzyme activity. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2021; 557:20-25. [PMID: 33857841 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.03.124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPO) is the last common enzyme in chlorophyll and heme biosynthesis pathways. In human, point mutations on PPO are responsible for the dominantly inherited disorder disease, Variegate Porphyria (VP). Of the VP-causing mutation site, the Arg59 is by far the most prevalent VP mutation residue identified. Multiple sequences alignment of PPOs shows that the Arg59 of human PPO (hPPO) is not conserved, and experiments have shown that the equivalent residues in PPO from various species are essential for enzymatic activity. In this work, it was proposed that the Arg59 performs its function by forming a hydrogen-bonding (HB) network around it in hPPO, and we investigated the role of the HB network via site-directed mutagenesis, enzymatic kinetics and computational studies. We found the integrity of the HB network around Arg59 is important for enzyme activity. The HB network maintains the substrate binding chamber by holding the side chain of Arg59, while it stabilizes the micro-environment of the isoalloxazine ring of FAD, which is favorable for the substrate-FAD interaction. Our result provides a new insight to understanding the relationship between the structure and function for hPPO that non-conserved residues can form a conserved element to maintain the function of protein.
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- Baifan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center (Tianjin), Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center (Tianjin), Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center (Tianjin), Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center (Tianjin), Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center (Tianjin), Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center (Tianjin), Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, China.
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Bergmann A, Floyd K, Key M, Dameron C, Rees KC, Thornton LB, Whitehead DC, Hamza I, Dou Z. Toxoplasma gondii requires its plant-like heme biosynthesis pathway for infection. PLoS Pathog 2020; 16:e1008499. [PMID: 32407406 PMCID: PMC7252677 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2019] [Revised: 05/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Heme, an iron-containing organic ring, is essential for virtually all living organisms by serving as a prosthetic group in proteins that function in diverse cellular activities ranging from diatomic gas transport and sensing, to mitochondrial respiration, to detoxification. Cellular heme levels in microbial pathogens can be a composite of endogenous de novo synthesis or exogenous uptake of heme or heme synthesis intermediates. Intracellular pathogenic microbes switch routes for heme supply when heme availability fluctuates in their replicative environment throughout infection. Here, we show that Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular human pathogen, encodes a functional heme biosynthesis pathway. A chloroplast-derived organelle, termed apicoplast, is involved in heme production. Genetic and chemical manipulation revealed that de novo heme production is essential for T. gondii intracellular growth and pathogenesis. Surprisingly, the herbicide oxadiazon significantly impaired Toxoplasma growth, consistent with phylogenetic analyses that show T. gondii protoporphyrinogen oxidase is more closely related to plants than mammals. This inhibition can be enhanced by 15- to 25-fold with two oxadiazon derivatives, lending therapeutic proof that Toxoplasma heme biosynthesis is a druggable target. As T. gondii has been used to model other apicomplexan parasites, our study underscores the utility of targeting heme biosynthesis in other pathogenic apicomplexans, such as Plasmodium spp., Cystoisospora, Eimeria, Neospora, and Sarcocystis.
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- Amy Bergmann
- Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
- Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
- Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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Yoon J, Han Y, Ahn YO, Hong MK, Sung SK. Characterization of HemY-type protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase genes from cyanobacteria and their functioning in transgenic Arabidopsis. Plant Mol Biol 2019; 101:561-574. [PMID: 31621006 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-019-00925-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We investigated the functions of two cyanobacterial HemY protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPO) genes with in vitro and in vivo assays and evaluated their applicability as resistance traits to PPO-inhibiting herbicides. We isolated HemY-type protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPO) genes from cyanobacteria, OnPPO gene from Oscillatoria nigro-viridis PCC7112 and HaPPO gene from Halothece sp. PCC7418. The alignment of amino acid sequences as well as phylogenetic analyses conducted showed that OnPPO and HaPPO are classified as HemY-type PPO and are more closely related to plastidic PPOs than to mitochondrial PPOs. The PPO-deficient Escherichia coli BT3 strain, which requires heme supplementation, could obtain normal growth in the absence of heme supplementation when complemented with OnPPO and HaPPO. The enzyme assays of OnPPO, HaPPO, and Arabidopsis thaliana PPO1 (AtPPO1) proteins each revealed different kinetic properties in terms of catalytic efficiency, substrate affinity, and the degree of inhibition by PPO inhibitors. In particular, the catalytic efficiencies (kcat/Km) of OnPPO and HaPPO were approximately twofold higher than that of AtPPO1. The elution profiles of all three PPOs, acquired by size-exclusion chromatography, showed only a single peak with a molecular weight of approximately 52-54 kDa, which corresponds to a monomeric form. Moreover, functional complementation with OnPPO and HaPPO in AtPPO1-silenced Arabidopsis resulted in restored growth, whereas AtPPO1-silenced wild type Arabidopsis suffered necrotic death. In addition, we observed that overexpression of OnPPO and HaPPO in Arabidopsis conferred resistance to the PPO-inhibiting herbicides tiafenacil and saflufenacil. These results suggest that two HemY-type PPOs of cyanobacteria can functionally substitute for plastidic PPO activity in Arabidopsis and can enhance resistance to tiafenacil and saflufenacil.
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- Joonseon Yoon
- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, 07320, Republic of Korea
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- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, 07320, Republic of Korea
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- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, 07320, Republic of Korea
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- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, 07320, Republic of Korea
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- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, 07320, Republic of Korea.
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Gao W, Li X, Ren D, Sun S, Huo J, Wang Y, Chen L, Zhang J. Design and Synthesis of N-phenyl Phthalimides as Potent Protoporphyrinogen Oxidase Inhibitors. Molecules 2019; 24:molecules24234363. [PMID: 31795340 PMCID: PMC6930678 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24234363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2019] [Revised: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 11/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) has been identified as one of the most promising targets for herbicide discovery. A series of novel phthalimide derivatives were designed by molecular docking studies targeting the crystal structure of mitochondrial PPO from tobacco (mtPPO, PDB: 1SEZ) by using Flumioxazin as a lead, after which the derivatives were synthesized and characterized, and their herbicidal activities were subsequently evaluated. The herbicidal bioassay results showed that compounds such as 3a (2-(4-bromo-2,6-difluorophenyl) isoindoline-1,3-dione), 3d (methyl 2-(4-chloro-1,3-dioxoisoindolin-2-yl)-5-fluorobenzoate), 3g (4-chloro-2-(5-methylisoxazol-3-yl) isoindoline-1,3-dione), 3j (4-chloro-2-(thiophen-2-ylmethyl) isoindoline-1,3-dione) and 3r (2-(4-bromo-2,6-difluorophenyl)-4-fluoroisoindoline-1,3-dione) had good herbicidal activities; among them, 3a showed excellent herbicidal efficacy against A. retroflexus and B. campestris via the small cup method and via pre-emergence and post-emergence spray treatments. The efficacy was comparable to that of the commercial herbicides Flumioxazin, Atrazine, and Chlortoluron. Further, the enzyme activity assay results suggest that the mode of action of compound 3a involves the inhibition of the PPO enzyme, and 3a showed better inhibitory activity against PPO than did Flumioxazin. These results indicate that our molecular design strategy contributes to the development of novel promising PPO inhibitors.
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Wang DW, Zhang RB, Yu SY, Liang L, Ismail I, Li YH, Xu H, Wen X, Xi Z. Discovery of Novel N-Isoxazolinylphenyltriazinones as Promising Protoporphyrinogen IX Oxidase Inhibitors. J Agric Food Chem 2019; 67:12382-12392. [PMID: 31635461 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b04844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO, EC 1.3.3.4) is a promising target for herbicide discovery. Search for new compounds with novel chemotypes is a key objective for agrochemists. Here, we describe the discovery and systematic SAR-based structure optimization of novel N-isoxazolinylphenyltriazinones 5-9 as PPO inhibitors. The in vivo herbicidal activity and in vitro Nicotiana tabacum PPO (NtPPO) inhibitory activity were explored in detail. A number of the new synthetic compounds displayed strong PPO inhibitory activity with Ki values in the nanomolar range. Some compounds exhibited excellent and broad-spectrum weed control at the rate of 9.375-37.5 g ai/ha by postemergence application and showed improved monocotyledonous weed control compared to saflufenacil. Most promisingly, ethyl 3-(2-chloro-5-(3,5-dimethyl-2,6-dioxo-4-thioxo-1,3,5-triazinan-1-yl)-4-fluorophenyl)-5-methyl-4,5-dihydroisoxazole-5-carboxylate, 5a, with a Ki value of 4.9 nM, displayed over 2- and 6-fold higher potency than saflufenacil (Ki = 10 nM) and trifludimoxazin (Ki = 31 nM), respectively. Moreover, 5a showed excellent and broad-spectrum weed control against 32 kinds of weeds at 37.5-75 g ai/ha. Rice exhibited relative tolerance to 5a at 150 g ai/ha by postemergence application, indicating that 5a could be a potential herbicide candidate for weed control in paddy fields.
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- Da-Wei Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry , Nankai University , Tianjin 300071 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry , Nankai University , Tianjin 300071 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry , Nankai University , Tianjin 300071 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry , Nankai University , Tianjin 300071 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry , Nankai University , Tianjin 300071 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry , Nankai University , Tianjin 300071 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry , Nankai University , Tianjin 300071 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry , Nankai University , Tianjin 300071 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and Department of Chemical Biology, National Pesticide Engineering Research Center, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry , Nankai University , Tianjin 300071 , P. R. China
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Brzezowski P, Ksas B, Havaux M, Grimm B, Chazaux M, Peltier G, Johnson X, Alric J. The function of PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN IX OXIDASE in chlorophyll biosynthesis requires oxidised plastoquinone in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Commun Biol 2019; 2:159. [PMID: 31069268 PMCID: PMC6499784 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0395-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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In the last common enzymatic step of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis, prior to the branching point leading to the biosynthesis of heme and chlorophyll, protoporphyrinogen IX (Protogen) is oxidised to protoporphyrin IX (Proto) by protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPX). The absence of thylakoid-localised plastid terminal oxidase 2 (PTOX2) and cytochrome b6f complex in the ptox2 petB mutant, results in almost complete reduction of the plastoquinone pool (PQ pool) in light. Here we show that the lack of oxidised PQ impairs PPX function, leading to accumulation and subsequently uncontrolled oxidation of Protogen to non-metabolised Proto. Addition of 3(3,4-Dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) prevents the over-reduction of the PQ pool in ptox2 petB and decreases Proto accumulation. This observation strongly indicates the need of oxidised PQ as the electron acceptor for the PPX reaction in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The PPX-PQ pool interaction is proposed to function as a feedback loop between photosynthetic electron transport and chlorophyll biosynthesis.
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- Pawel Brzezowski
- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CEA, Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies Aix-Marseille, Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Biotechnologie des Bactéries et Microalgues, CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie/Pflanzenphysiologie, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CEA, Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies Aix-Marseille, Laboratoire d’Ecophysiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CEA, Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies Aix-Marseille, Laboratoire d’Ecophysiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie/Pflanzenphysiologie, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CEA, Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies Aix-Marseille, Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Biotechnologie des Bactéries et Microalgues, CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CEA, Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies Aix-Marseille, Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Biotechnologie des Bactéries et Microalgues, CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CEA, Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies Aix-Marseille, Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Biotechnologie des Bactéries et Microalgues, CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CEA, Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies Aix-Marseille, Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Biotechnologie des Bactéries et Microalgues, CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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Park J, Ahn YO, Nam JW, Hong MK, Song N, Kim T, Yu GH, Sung SK. Biochemical and physiological mode of action of tiafenacil, a new protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase-inhibiting herbicide. Pestic Biochem Physiol 2018; 152:38-44. [PMID: 30497709 DOI: 10.1016/j.pestbp.2018.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2018] [Revised: 08/05/2018] [Accepted: 08/17/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We conducted biochemical and physiological experiments to investigate the mode of action of tiafenacil (Terrad'or™), a new protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPO)-inhibiting pyrimidinedione herbicide. Analysis of the half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) against recombinant PPO enzymes from various plant species, including amaranth (Amaranthus tuberculatus), soybean (Glycine max), arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), and rapeseed (Brassica napus), showed that tiafenacil had an IC50 of 22 to 28 nM, similar to the pyrimidinedione herbicides butafenacil and saflufenacil and the N-phenylphthalimide herbicide flumioxazin. By contrast, tiafenacil exhibited 3- to 134-fold lower IC50 values than the diphenyl ether herbicides fomesafen, oxyfluorfen, and acifluorfen. Tiafenacil is non-selective and is herbicidal to both dicots and monocots, such as the weeds velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti), amaranth, and barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) as well as the crops soybean, rapeseed, rice (Oryza sativa), and maize (Zea mays) at concentrations ranging from 1 to 50 μM. Treatment of plant tissue with tiafenacil in darkness resulted in the accumulation of protoporphyrin IX. Subsequent exposure to light increased the content of malondialdehyde and significantly decreased the Fv/Fm values of chlorophyll fluorescence. The results suggest that tiafenacil is a new PPO-inhibiting pyrimidinedione herbicide.
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- Joonghyuk Park
- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07320, Republic of Korea
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- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07320, Republic of Korea
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- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07320, Republic of Korea
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- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07320, Republic of Korea
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- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07320, Republic of Korea
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- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07320, Republic of Korea
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- Korean Agency for Technology and Standards, Isu-ro 93, Maengdong-myeon, Eumseong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do 27737, Republic of Korea
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- FarmHannong Co., Ltd., Yeoui-daero 24, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07320, Republic of Korea.
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Dayan FE, Barker A, Tranel PJ. Origins and structure of chloroplastic and mitochondrial plant protoporphyrinogen oxidases: implications for the evolution of herbicide resistance. Pest Manag Sci 2018; 74:2226-2234. [PMID: 28967179 DOI: 10.1002/ps.4744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Revised: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 09/23/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPO)-inhibiting herbicides are effective tools to control a broad spectrum of weeds, including those that have evolved resistance to glyphosate. Their utility is being threatened by the appearance of biotypes that are resistant to PPO inhibitors. While the chloroplastic PPO1 isoform is thought to be the primary target of PPO herbicides, evolved resistance mechanisms elucidated to date are associated with changes to the mitochondrial PPO2 isoform, suggesting that the importance of PPO2 has been underestimated. Our investigation of the evolutionary and structural biology of plant PPOs provides some insight into the potential reasons why PPO2 is the preferred target for evolution of resistance. The most common target-site mutation imparting resistance involved the deletion of a key glycine codon. The genetic environment that facilitates this deletion is apparently only present in the gene encoding PPO2 in a few species. Additionally, both species with this mutation (Amaranthus tuberculatus and Amaranthus palmeri) have dual targeting of PPO2 to both the chloroplast and the mitochondria, which might be a prerequisite to impart herbicide resistance. The most recent target-site mutations have substituted a key arginine residue involved in stabilizing the substrate in the catalytic domain of PPO2. This arginine is highly conserved across all plant PPOs, suggesting that its substitution could be equally likely on PPO1 and PPO2, yet it has only occurred on PPO2, underscoring the importance of this isoform for the evolution of herbicide resistance. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Franck E Dayan
- Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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Hao GF, Zuo Y, Yang SG, Chen Q, Zhang Y, Yin CY, Niu CW, Xi Z, Yang GF. Computational Discovery of Potent and Bioselective Protoporphyrinogen IX Oxidase Inhibitor via Fragment Deconstruction Analysis. J Agric Food Chem 2017; 65:5581-5588. [PMID: 28654285 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b01557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Tuning the binding selectivity through appropriate ways is a primary goal in the design and optimization of a lead toward agrochemical discovery. However, how to achieve rational design of selectivity is still a big challenge. Herein, we developed a novel computational fragment generation and coupling (CFGC) strategy that led to a series of highly potent and bioselective inhibitors targeting protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase. This enzyme plays a vital role in heme and chlorophyll biosynthesis, which has been proven to be associated with many drugs and agrochemicals. However, existing agrochemicals are nonbioselective, resulting in a great threat to nontargeted organisms. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first bioselective inhibitor targeting the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis pathway. In addition, the candidate showed excellent in vivo bioactivity and much better safety toward humans.
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- Ge-Fei Hao
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry Nankai University , Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry Nankai University , Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering , Tianjing 300072, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering , Tianjing 300072, People's Republic of China
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Chen L, Zhang Y, Yu H, Cui D, Li B. Tetrahydrophthalimidobenzoates as protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase inhibiting herbicides. Pestic Biochem Physiol 2017; 139:40-45. [PMID: 28595920 DOI: 10.1016/j.pestbp.2017.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Revised: 03/24/2017] [Accepted: 04/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Tetrahydrophthalimidobenzoates are a class of protoporphyrinogen oxidase herbicides acting on the protoporphyrinogen oxidase enzyme. After the discovery of compound 1, a series of novel tetrahydrophthalimidobenzoate derivatives were designed and synthesized, and some synthesized compounds exhibited good herbicidal activity in controlling broadleaf weeds. The structure activity relationship of the synthesized compounds was also determined. Substitution of a fluorine atom at the 4-position of benzene ring resulted in better herbicidal activity than that with non-substitution. Among the conjunctional groups, methylene group with more methyl substitutions was the best. Consequently, compound 9 was found as the best of all in the synthesized compounds, and it is worthy of being developed not only because of its good herbicidal activity against broadleaf weeds with selectivity for maize, but also for its low toxicity to mammals.
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- Lin Chen
- State Key Laboratory of the Discovery and Development of Novel Pesticide, Shenyang Sinochem Agrochemicals R&D Co., Ltd, Shenyang 110021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of the Discovery and Development of Novel Pesticide, Shenyang Sinochem Agrochemicals R&D Co., Ltd, Shenyang 110021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of the Discovery and Development of Novel Pesticide, Shenyang Sinochem Agrochemicals R&D Co., Ltd, Shenyang 110021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of the Discovery and Development of Novel Pesticide, Shenyang Sinochem Agrochemicals R&D Co., Ltd, Shenyang 110021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of the Discovery and Development of Novel Pesticide, Shenyang Sinochem Agrochemicals R&D Co., Ltd, Shenyang 110021, China.
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Kawamura S, Yoshioka T, Mito N, Kishimoto N, Nakaoka M, Fantel AG. Mechanism of Developmental Effects in Rats Caused by an N-Phenylimide Herbicide: Transient Fetal Anemia and Sequelae during Mid-to-Late Gestation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 107:45-59. [PMID: 26865470 DOI: 10.1002/bdrb.21172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2015] [Accepted: 01/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Rat developmental toxicity including embryolethality and teratogenicity (mainly ventricular septal defects [VSDs] and wavy ribs) was produced by an N-phenylimide herbicide that inhibits protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) common to chlorophyll and heme biosynthesis. Major characteristics of the developmental toxicity included species difference between rats and rabbits, compound-specific difference among structurally similar herbicides, and sensitive period. Protoporphyrin accumulation in treated fetuses closely correlated with the major characteristics. Iron deposits in erythroblastic mitochondria and degeneration of erythroblasts were observed in treated rat fetuses. In this study we investigated fetal anemia and subsequent developmental effects in rats, and inhibition of PPO in rats, rabbits, and humans by the herbicides in vitro. METHODS Fetuses were treated on gestational day (GD) 12 and removed on GDs 13 through 20. All litters were examined externally. One half of litters were examined for blood and skeletal development, and the other half for interventricular foramen closure. Effects on PPO were determined in mitochondria from embryos and adult livers. RESULTS Fetal anemia in rats was evident on GDs 13 through 16. Subsequently, enlarged heart, delayed closure of the foramen, reduced serum protein, and retarded rib ossification were observed. In vitro PPO inhibition exhibited species- and compound-specific differences corresponding to the developmental toxicity. CONCLUSION We propose that developmental toxicity results from PPO inhibition in primitive erythroblasts, causing transient fetal anemia followed by death. Compensatory enlargement of the fetal heart results in failure of interventricular foramen closure and VSD. Reduced serum protein leads to delayed ossification and wavy ribs.
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- Satoshi Kawamura
- Environmental Health Science Laboratory, Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd, Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Environmental Health Science Laboratory, Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd, Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Intellectual Property Department, Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Environmental Health Science Laboratory, Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd, Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Environmental Health Science Laboratory, Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd, Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Nagai T, Taya K, Yoda I. Comparative toxicity of 20 herbicides to 5 periphytic algae and the relationship with mode of action. Environ Toxicol Chem 2016; 35:368-375. [PMID: 26174500 DOI: 10.1002/etc.3150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2014] [Revised: 02/24/2015] [Accepted: 07/05/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The authors used 5 species of periphytic algae to conduct toxicity assays of 20 herbicides. The 5 tested species represent riverine primary producers most likely to be affected by herbicides. A fluorescence microplate toxicity assay was used as an efficient and economical high-throughput assay. Toxicity characteristics were analyzed, focusing on their relationship to herbicide mode of action. The relative differences between 50% and 10% effect concentrations depended on herbicide mode of action, rather than tested species. Moreover, a clear relationship between sensitive species and herbicide mode of action was also observed. Green alga was most sensitive to herbicides of 2 mode of action groups: inhibitors of protoporphyrinogen oxidase and very long-chain fatty acid synthesis. Diatoms were most sensitive to herbicides of 1 mode of action group: 4-hydroxyphenyl-pyruvate-dioxygenase inhibitors. Cyanobacterium was most sensitive to herbicides of 1 mode of action group: inhibitors of acetolactate synthase. The species sensitivity distribution based on obtained data was also analyzed. The slopes of the species sensitivity distribution significantly differed among modes of action, suggesting that difference in species sensitivity is specific to the mode of action. In particular, differences in species sensitivity were markedly large for inhibitors of acetolactate synthase, protoporphyrinogen oxidase, and very long-chain fatty acid synthesis. The results clearly showed that a single algal species cannot represent the sensitivity of an algal assemblage. Therefore, multispecies algal toxicity data are essential for substances with specific modes of action.
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- Takashi Nagai
- National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Zuo Y, Wu Q, Su SW, Niu CW, Xi Z, Yang GF. Synthesis, Herbicidal Activity, and QSAR of Novel N-Benzothiazolyl- pyrimidine-2,4-diones as Protoporphyrinogen Oxidase Inhibitors. J Agric Food Chem 2016; 64:552-62. [PMID: 26728549 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b05378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO, E.C. 1.3.3.4) is known as a key action target for several structurally diverse herbicides. As a continuation of our research work on the development of new PPO-inhibiting herbicides, a series of novel 3-(2'-halo-5'-substituted-benzothiazol-1'-yl)-1-methyl-6-(trifluoromethyl)pyrimidine-2,4-diones 9 were designed and synthesized. The bioassay results indicated that a number of the newly synthesized compounds exhibited higher inhibition activity against tobacco PPO (mtPPO) than the controls, saflufenacil and sulfentrazone. Compound 9F-5 was identified as the most potent inhibitor with a Ki value of 0.0072 μM against mtPPO, showing about 4.2-fold and 1.4-fold higher potency than sulfentrazone (Ki = 0.03 μM) and saflufenacil (Ki = 0.01 μM), respectively. An additional green house assay demonstrated that compound 9F-6 (Ki = 0.012 μM) displayed the most promising postemergence herbicidal activity with a broad spectrum even at a concentration as low as 37.5 g of active ingredient (ai)/ha. Maize exhibits relative tolerance against compound 9F-6 at the dosage of 150 g ai/ha, but it is susceptible to saflufenacil even at 75 g ai/ha. Thus, compound 9F-6 exhibits the potential to be a new herbicide for weed control in maize fields.
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- Yang Zuo
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University , Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University , Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University , Wuhan 430079, P. R. China
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Medlock AE, Shiferaw MT, Marcero JR, Vashisht AA, Wohlschlegel JA, Phillips JD, Dailey HA. Identification of the Mitochondrial Heme Metabolism Complex. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0135896. [PMID: 26287972 PMCID: PMC4545792 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2015] [Accepted: 07/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Heme is an essential cofactor for most organisms and all metazoans. While the individual enzymes involved in synthesis and utilization of heme are fairly well known, less is known about the intracellular trafficking of porphyrins and heme, or regulation of heme biosynthesis via protein complexes. To better understand this process we have undertaken a study of macromolecular assemblies associated with heme synthesis. Herein we have utilized mass spectrometry with coimmunoprecipitation of tagged enzymes of the heme biosynthetic pathway in a developing erythroid cell culture model to identify putative protein partners. The validity of these data obtained in the tagged protein system is confirmed by normal porphyrin/heme production by the engineered cells. Data obtained are consistent with the presence of a mitochondrial heme metabolism complex which minimally consists of ferrochelatase, protoporphyrinogen oxidase and aminolevulinic acid synthase-2. Additional proteins involved in iron and intermediary metabolism as well as mitochondrial transporters were identified as potential partners in this complex. The data are consistent with the known location of protein components and support a model of transient protein-protein interactions within a dynamic protein complex.
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- Amy E. Medlock
- Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- GRU-UGA Medical Partnership, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- GRU-UGA Medical Partnership, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and the Institute of Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and the Institute of Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
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- Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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Jiao L, Wang L, Qiu Z, Wang Q, Zhou Q, Huang X. Effects of bisphenol A on chlorophyll synthesis in soybean seedlings. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2015; 22:5877-86. [PMID: 25352395 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3764-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Bisphenol A (BPA), as an emerging environmental pollutant, is potentially harmful to plant growth. Chlorophyll (Chl) is critical in photosynthesis that provides matter and energy for plant growth. How BPA affects the chlorophyll content remains largely unknown. Here, the effects of BPA on Chl synthesis in soybean seedlings were investigated. Exposure to 1.5 mg/L BPA decreased the 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) content and increased protoporphyrin IX (Proto IX), magnesium protoporphyrin, and protochlorophyll contents and 5-aminolaevulinic acid dehydratase, porphobilinogen deaminase, uroporphyrinogen III synthase, uroporphyrinogen III decarboxylase, and protoporphyrinogen oxidase activities. Exposure to 17.2 and 50.0 mg/L BPA exerted the opposite effects on these four intermediates and five enzymes. Following the withdrawal of BPA exposure, the aforementioned parameters gradually recovered, except magnesium protoporphyrin content in exposure to 50.0 mg/L BPA. Our findings revealed that exposure to low-concentration BPA increased the Chl content in soybean seedlings through improving Chl synthesis, especially the conversion from ALA to Proto IX, whereas exposure to high-concentration BPA decreased the Chl content through inhibiting Chl synthesis, especially the conversion from ALA to Proto IX. The dual effects of BPA were largely reversed following the withdrawal of BPA exposure.
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- Liya Jiao
- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, College of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China
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Wu QY, Jiang LL, Zuo Y, Wang ZF, Xi Z, Yang GF. Synthesis, in vitro protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibition, and herbicidal activity of N-(benzothiazol-5-yl)hexahydro-1H-isoindole-1,3-diones and N-(benzothiazol-5-yl)hexahydro-1H-isoindol-1-ones. Chem Biol Drug Des 2014; 84:431-42. [PMID: 24803371 DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.12331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2014] [Revised: 03/15/2014] [Accepted: 03/20/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (EC 1.3.3.4) is one of the most significant targets for a large family of herbicides. As part of our continuous efforts to search for novel protoporphyrinogen oxidase-inhibiting herbicides, N-(benzothiazol-5-yl)tetrahydroisoindole-1,3-dione was selected as a lead compound for structural optimization, leading to the syntheses of a series of novel N-(benzothiazol-5-yl)hexahydro-1H-isoindole-1,3-diones (1a-o) and N-(benzothiazol-5-yl)hexahydro-1H-isoindol-1-ones (2a-i). These newly prepared compounds were characterized by elemental analyses, (1) H NMR, and ESI-MS, and the structures of 1h and 2h were further confirmed by X-ray diffraction analyses. The bioassays indicated that some compounds displayed comparable or higher protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibition activities in comparison with the commercial control. Very promising, compound 2a, ethyl 2-((6-fluoro-5-(4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1-oxo-1H-isoindol-2(3H)-yl)benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)-sulfanyl)acetate, was recognized as the most potent candidate with K(i) value of 0.0091 μm. Further greenhouse screening results demonstrated that some compounds exhibited good herbicidal activity against Chenopodium album at the dosage of 150 g/ha.
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- Qiong-You Wu
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China
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Hao GF, Tan Y, Yang SG, Wang ZF, Zhan CG, Xi Z, Yang GF. Computational and experimental insights into the mechanism of substrate recognition and feedback inhibition of protoporphyrinogen oxidase. PLoS One 2013; 8:e69198. [PMID: 23935953 PMCID: PMC3720618 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2013] [Accepted: 06/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPO; EC 1.3.3.4) is an essential enzyme catalyzing the last common step in the pathway leading to heme and chlorophyll biosynthesis. Great interest in PPO inhibitors arises from both its significance to agriculture and medicine. However, the discovery of PPO inhibitors with ultrahigh potency and selectivity is hampered due to lack of structural and mechanistic understanding about the substrate recognition, which remains a longstanding question central in porphyrin biology. To understand the mechanism, a novel binding model of protogen (protoporphyrinogen IX, the substrate) was developed through extensive computational simulations. Subsequently, amino acid residues that are critical for protogen binding identified by computational simulations were substituted by mutagenesis. Kinetic analyses of these mutants indicated that these residues were critical for protogen binding. In addition, the calculated free energies of protogen binding with these mutants correlated well with the experimental data, indicating the reasonability of the binding model. On the basis of this novel model, the fundamental mechanism of substrate recognition was investigated by performing potential of mean force (PMF) calculations, which provided an atomic level description of conformational changes and pathway intermediates. The free energy profile revealed a feedback inhibition mechanism of proto (protoporphyrin IX, the product), which was also in agreement with experimental evidence. The novel mechanistic insights obtained from this study present a new starting point for future rational design of more efficient PPO inhibitors based on the product-bound PPO structure.
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- Ge-Fei Hao
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, P. R. China
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Zuo Y, Yang SG, Luo YP, Tan Y, Hao GF, Wu QY, Xi Z, Yang GF. Design and synthesis of 1-(benzothiazol-5-yl)-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5-ones as protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors. Bioorg Med Chem 2013; 21:3245-55. [PMID: 23623257 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2013.03.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2013] [Revised: 03/07/2013] [Accepted: 03/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO, E.C. 1.3.3.4) is the action target for several structurally diverse herbicides. A series of novel 4-(difluoromethyl)-1-(6-halo-2-substituted-benzothiazol-5-yl)-3-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5(4H)-ones 2a-z were designed and synthesized via the ring-closure of two ortho-substituents. The in vitro bioassay results indicated that the 26 newly synthesized compounds exhibited good PPO inhibition effects with K(i) values ranging from 0.06 to 17.79 μM. Compound 2e, ethyl 2-{[5-(4-(difluoromethyl)-3-methyl-5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-6-fluorobenzo-thiazol-2-yl]thio}acetate, was the most potent inhibitor with K(i) value of 0.06 μM against mtPPO, comparable to (K(i)=0.03 μM) sulfentrazone. Further green house assays showed that compound 2f (K(i)=0.24 μM, mtPPO), ethyl 2-{[5-(4-(difluoromethyl)-3-methyl-5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-6-fluorobenzothiazol-2-yl]thio}propanoate, showed the most promising post-emergence herbicidal activity with broad spectrum even at concentrations as low as 37.5 gai/ha. Soybean exhibited tolerance to compound 2f at the dosages of 150 gai/ha, whereas they are susceptible to sulfentrazone even at 75 gai/ha. Thus, compound 2f might be a potential candidate as a new herbicide for soybean fields.
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- Yang Zuo
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, PR China
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Hamza I, Dailey HA. One ring to rule them all: trafficking of heme and heme synthesis intermediates in the metazoans. Biochim Biophys Acta 2012; 1823:1617-32. [PMID: 22575458 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2012.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2012] [Revised: 04/15/2012] [Accepted: 04/19/2012] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The appearance of heme, an organic ring surrounding an iron atom, in evolution forever changed the efficiency with which organisms were able to generate energy, utilize gasses and catalyze numerous reactions. Because of this, heme has become a near ubiquitous compound among living organisms. In this review we have attempted to assess the current state of heme synthesis and trafficking with a goal of identifying crucial missing information, and propose hypotheses related to trafficking that may generate discussion and research. The possibilities of spatially organized supramolecular enzyme complexes and organelle structures that facilitate efficient heme synthesis and subsequent trafficking are discussed and evaluated. Recently identified players in heme transport and trafficking are reviewed and placed in an organismal context. Additionally, older, well established data are reexamined in light of more recent studies on cellular organization and data available from newer model organisms. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Cell Biology of Metals.
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- Iqbal Hamza
- Department of Animal & Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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Phung TH, Jung HI, Park JH, Kim JG, Back K, Jung S. Porphyrin biosynthesis control under water stress: sustained porphyrin status correlates with drought tolerance in transgenic rice. Plant Physiol 2011; 157:1746-64. [PMID: 22021420 PMCID: PMC3327219 DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.188276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2011] [Accepted: 10/19/2011] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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A controlled flow of porphyrin metabolites is critical for organisms, but little is known about the control of porphyrin biosynthesis under environmental stress. We monitored transgenic rice (Oryza sativa) plants expressing Myxococcus xanthus protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) for their response to drought stress. Transgenic plants showed significantly improved drought tolerance, as indicated by a higher shoot water potential, less oxidative damage, and a more favorable redox balance compared with wild-type plants. Both transgenic and wild-type plants responded to the onset of drought stress, even prior to changes in shoot water potential and oxidative metabolism, by drastically scavenging porphyrin intermediates in leaves, which was crucial for alleviating reactive oxygen species-induced stress. Protoporphyrin IX, protochlorophyllide, magnesium-protoporphyrin IX, and its methyl ester were absent or hardly detected with the intensification of water stress (-3.1 MPa) in the wild type, whereas transgenic plants retained these intermediates to some extent. Additionally, the expression and activity of most enzymes involved in porphyrin biosynthesis, particularly in the chlorophyll branch, were primarily down-regulated under dehydrating conditions, with stronger repression in the wild type than in transgenic plants. There was up-regulation of Glutamate 1-Semialdehyde Aminotransferase, PPO1, and Fe Chelatase2 transcripts in drought-stressed transgenic plants, enabling the transgenic plants to make larger pools of 5-aminolevulinic acid and protoporphyrin IX available for subsequent steps in the heme branch. Overexpression of PPO ultimately protected the transgenic plants from drought-induced cytotoxicity, demonstrating clearly that manipulation of porphyrin biosynthesis can produce drought-tolerant plants. Our results support a possible role for tetrapyrroles in signaling their metabolic state and in plant protection under drought stress conditions.
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- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702–701, Korea (T.-H.P., J.-H.P., J.-G.K., S.J.); Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (H.-i.J.); Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500–757, Korea (K.B.)
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- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702–701, Korea (T.-H.P., J.-H.P., J.-G.K., S.J.); Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (H.-i.J.); Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500–757, Korea (K.B.)
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- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702–701, Korea (T.-H.P., J.-H.P., J.-G.K., S.J.); Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (H.-i.J.); Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500–757, Korea (K.B.)
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- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702–701, Korea (T.-H.P., J.-H.P., J.-G.K., S.J.); Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (H.-i.J.); Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500–757, Korea (K.B.)
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Boynton TO, Gerdes S, Craven SH, Neidle EL, Phillips JD, Dailey HA. Discovery of a gene involved in a third bacterial protoporphyrinogen oxidase activity through comparative genomic analysis and functional complementation. Appl Environ Microbiol 2011; 77:4795-801. [PMID: 21642412 PMCID: PMC3147383 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00171-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2011] [Accepted: 05/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Tetrapyrroles are ubiquitous molecules in nearly all living organisms. Heme, an iron-containing tetrapyrrole, is widely distributed in nature, including most characterized aerobic and facultative bacteria. A large majority of bacteria that contain heme possess the ability to synthesize it. Despite this capability and the fact that the biosynthetic pathway has been well studied, enzymes catalyzing at least three steps have remained "missing" in many bacteria. In the current work, we have employed comparative genomics via the SEED genomic platform, coupled with experimental verification utilizing Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1, to identify one of the missing enzymes, a new protoporphyrinogen oxidase, the penultimate enzyme in heme biosynthesis. COG1981 was identified by genomic analysis as a candidate protein family for the missing enzyme in bacteria that lacked HemG or HemY, two known protoporphyrinogen oxidases. The predicted amino acid sequence of COG1981 is unlike those of the known enzymes HemG and HemY, but in some genomes, the gene encoding it is found neighboring other heme biosynthetic genes. When the COG1981 gene was deleted from the genome of A. baylyi, a bacterium that lacks both hemG and hemY, the organism became auxotrophic for heme. Cultures accumulated porphyrin intermediates, and crude cell extracts lacked protoporphyrinogen oxidase activity. The heme auxotrophy was rescued by the presence of a plasmid-borne protoporphyrinogen oxidase gene from a number of different organisms, such as hemG from Escherichia coli, hemY from Myxococcus xanthus, or the human gene for protoporphyrinogen oxidase.
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- Tye O. Boynton
- Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
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- Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
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- Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
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- Division of Hematology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132
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- Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
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Jiang LL, Zuo Y, Wang ZF, Tan Y, Wu QY, Xi Z, Yang GF. Design and syntheses of novel N-(benzothiazol-5-yl)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)-dione and N-(benzothiazol-5-yl)isoindoline-1,3-dione as potent protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors. J Agric Food Chem 2011; 59:6172-6179. [PMID: 21517076 DOI: 10.1021/jf200616y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Discovery of protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO, EC 1.3.3.4) inhibitors has been one of the hottest research areas in the field of herbicide development for many years. As a continuation of our research work on the development of new PPO-inhibiting herbicides, a series of novel N-(benzothiazol-5-yl)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)-diones (1a-p) and N-(benzothiazol-5-yl)isoindoline-1,3-diones (2a-h) were designed and synthesized according to the ring-closing strategy of two ortho-substituents. The bioassay results indicated that some newly synthesized compounds exhibited higher PPO inhibition activity than the control of sulfentrazone. Compound 1a, S-(5-(1,3-dioxo-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-isoindol-2(3H)-yl)-6-fluorobenzothiazol-2-yl) O-methyl carbonothioate, was identified as the most potent inhibitor with k(i) value of 0.08 μM, about 9 times higher than that of sulfentrazone (k(i) = 0.72 μM). Further green house assay showed that compound 1b, methyl 2-((5-(1,3-dioxo-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-isoindol-2(3H)-yl)-6-fluorobenzothiazol-2-yl)thio)acetate, exhibited herbicidal activity comparable to that of sulfentrazone even at a concentration of 37.5 g ai/ha. In addition, among six tested crops, wheat exhibited high tolerance to compound 1b even at a dosage of 300 g ai/ha. These results indicated that compound 1b might have the potential to be developed as a new herbicide for weed control of wheat field.
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- Li-Li Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, P. R. China
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Nagaraj VA, Arumugam R, Prasad D, Rangarajan PN, Padmanaban G. Protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase from Plasmodium falciparum is anaerobic and is localized to the mitochondrion. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2010; 174:44-52. [PMID: 20603160 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2010] [Revised: 05/21/2010] [Accepted: 06/24/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Earlier studies in this laboratory had shown that the malarial parasite can synthesize heme de novo and inhibition of the pathway leads to death of the parasite. It has been proposed that the pathway for the biosynthesis of heme in Plasmodium falciparum is unique involving three different cellular compartments, namely mitochondrion, apicoplast and cytosol. Experimental evidences are now available for the functionality and localization of all the enzymes of this pathway, except protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PfPPO), the penultimate enzyme. In the present study, PfPPO has been cloned, expressed and shown to be localized to the mitochondrion by immunofluorescence microscopy. Interestingly, the enzyme has been found to be active only under anaerobic conditions and is dependent on electron transport chain (ETC) acceptors for its activity. The native enzyme present in the parasite is inhibited by the ETC inhibitors, atovaquone and antimycin. Atovaquone, a well known inhibitor of parasite dihydroorotate dehydrogenase, dependent on the ETC, inhibits synthesis of heme as well in P. falciparum culture. A model is proposed to explain the ETC dependence of both the pyrimidine and heme-biosynthetic pathways in P. falciparum.
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Porphyrias are a group of inherited and acquired metabolic disorders due to a defect in haem biosynthesis. An enzymatic defect at different steps of haem synthesis leads to tissue accumulation and excessive excretion of porphyrins and/or their toxic precursors. The specific patterns of accumulation determine the variety of clinical manifestations, ranging from acute neurovisceral attacks to skin lesions and liver disease. Most enzyme defects represent partial deficiencies, while familial cases are linked to autosomal or recessive traits. The incomplete penetrance of the genetic defects often requires the triggering or aggravating effect of host-related or environmental factors. While genetics has a role in confirming clinical suspicion and in family screening, biochemical and clinical studies are still central in the diagnosis.
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- Antonello Pietrangelo
- Division of Internal Medicine, Center for Hereditary Liver Diseases, Mario Coppo Liver Research Center, University Hospital of Modena, Via del Pozzo 71, 41100, Modena, Italy.
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Richter A, Peter E, Pörs Y, Lorenzen S, Grimm B, Czarnecki O. Rapid dark repression of 5-aminolevulinic acid synthesis in green barley leaves. Plant Cell Physiol 2010; 51:670-81. [PMID: 20375109 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcq047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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In photosynthetic organisms chlorophyll and heme biosynthesis is tightly regulated at various levels in response to environmental adaptation and plant development. The formation of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is the key regulatory step and provides adequate amounts of the common precursor molecule for the Mg and Fe branches of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis. Pathway control prevents accumulation of metabolic intermediates and avoids photo-oxidative damage. In angiosperms reduction of protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) to chlorophyllide is catalyzed by the light-dependent NADPH:Pchlide oxidoreductase (POR). Although a correlation between down-regulated ALA synthesis and accumulation of Pchlide in the dark was proposed a long time ago, the time-resolved mutual dependency has never been analyzed. Taking advantage of the high metabolic activity of young barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) seedlings, in planta ALA synthesis could be determined with high time-resolution. ALA formation declined immediately after transition from light to dark and correlated with an immediate accumulation of POR-bound Pchlide within the first 60 min in darkness. The flu homologous barley mutant tigrina d(12) uncouples ALA synthesis from dark-suppression and continued to form ALA in darkness without a significant change in synthesis rate in this time interval. Similarly, inhibition of protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase by acifluorfen resulted in a delayed accumulation of Pchlide during the entire dark period and a weak repression of ALA synthesis in darkness. Moreover, it is demonstrated that dark repression of ALA formation relies rather on rapid post-translational regulation in response to accumulating Pchlide than on changes in nuclear gene expression.
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- Andreas Richter
- Humboldt University Berlin, Institute of Biology, Department of Plant Physiology, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
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Corrigall AV, Campbell JAH, Siziba K, Kirsch RE, Meissner PN. The expression of protoporphyrinogen oxidase in human tissues. Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 2009; 55:89-95. [PMID: 19656456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2009] [Accepted: 05/04/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Protoporphyrinogen oxidase is the penultimate enzyme in the haem biosynthetic pathway. In this study, the expression of protoporphyrinogen oxidase in a variety of human organs has been documented by immunohistochemical means at the light microscopy level in order to shed light on its inter- and intra-organ distribution. The expression varied amongst organs and the various cell types within an organ. The pattern of staining generally reflected presumed metabolic functionality and haem demand. Strongest staining was noted in hepatocytes, proximal convoluted tubules of the kidney, serous cells of the peribronchial gland in the lung, parietal cells of the stomach, tips of the villi in the small intestine and interstitial cells of the testis. Our results suggest that there are some significant sites of haem synthesis in addition to the liver and bone marrow, and should be borne in mind in studies related to haem or porphyrin dynamics and flux.
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- A V Corrigall
- Lennox Eales Porphyria Laboratories, MRC/UCT Liver Research Centre, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town Medical School, South Africa
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Di Pierro E, Ventura P, Brancaleoni V, Moriondo V, Marchini S, Tavazzi D, Nascimbeni F, Ferrari MC, Rocchi E, Cappellini MD. Clinical, biochemical and genetic characteristics of Variegate Porphyria in Italy. Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 2009; 55:79-88. [PMID: 19656455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2009] [Accepted: 05/15/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Variegate Porphyria (VP) is an autosomal dominant disorder found worldwide but is rare in Italy. In this study we provide an overview of clinical, biochemical and genetic background of 33 Italian VP patients diagnosed in the last fifteen years. About 70% of patients had experienced clinical symptoms: 43.4% had photosensivity, 8.7% acute attacks and 47.8% both. Among the 33 patients, 14 different mutations were identified. Of these only 6 defects have been previously described in other countries and 8 are unique having been identified for the first time in Italy. Two of these, the c.851G>T and the c.1013C>G, were found in two and four unrelated families respectively. No mutation has been found in homozygosis and no significant correlation has been observed between specific clinical and biochemical manifestations and the type of mutation. In contrast, normal faecal protoporphyrin excretion was high predictive of silent phenotype. Normal urinary excretion of PBG and ALA, predicted absence of neurovisceral symptoms. This paper represents the first compilation of data on genotype-phenotype relation in Italian patients with VP.
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- E Di Pierro
- Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, Università degli Studi di Milano - Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Mangiagalli e Regina Elena IRCCS Milano, Italy.
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Sun L, Wen X, Tan Y, Li H, Yang X, Zhao Y, Wang B, Cao Q, Niu C, Xi Z. Site-directed mutagenesis and computational study of the Y366 active site in Bacillus subtilis protoporphyrinogen oxidase. Amino Acids 2009; 37:523-30. [PMID: 19266155 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-009-0256-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2008] [Accepted: 02/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPO), the last common enzyme of heme and chlorophyll biosynthesis, catalyses the oxidation of protoporphyrinogen IX to protoporphyrin IX, with FAD as cofactor. Among PPO, Bacillus subtilis PPO (bsPPO) is unique because of its broad substrate specificity and resistance to inhibition by diphenylethers. Identification of the activity of bsPPO would help us to understand the catalysis and resistance mechanisms. Based on the modeling and docking studies, we found that Y366 site in bsPPO was adjacent to substrate and FAD. In order to evaluate the functional role of this site, three mutants Y366A Y366E and Y366H were cloned and kinetically characterized. The efficiency of catalysis for Y366A and Y366H reduced to 10% of the wild-type enzyme's activity, while Y366E just retained 1%. Y366E shows large resistance (K (i) = 153.94 microM) to acifluorfen. Molecular docking was carried out to understand the structure and functional relationship of PPO. The experimental results from the site-directed mutagenesis are consistent with the computational studies. The residue at position 366 is seemed to be responsible for substrate binding and catalysis and involved in herbicide resistance of bsPPO.
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- Lu Sun
- Department of Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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Shepherd M, Dailey HA. Peroxidase activity of cytochrome C facilitates the protoporphyrinogen oxidase reaction. Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 2009; 55:6-14. [PMID: 19267995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2008] [Accepted: 01/17/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) catalyzes the penultimate reaction in heme biosynthesis. The 'oxygen dependent' form of this enzyme can utilize three molecules of oxygen as electron acceptors in the reaction. In the current study, the ability of cytochrome c to serve as an electron acceptor for PPO was examined. Cytochrome c was found to enhance the catalytic rate of Drosophila melanogaster PPO under reduced oxygen conditions, and cytochrome c became reduced during PPO catalysis. Further kinetic analysis under anaerobic conditions revealed that hydrogen peroxide, a byproduct of the PPO reaction, is required for this rate enhancement to occur. This suggests that the generation of free radicals via the peroxidase activity of cytochrome c plays a part in this rate enhancement, rather than cytochrome c acting as an electron acceptor for the PPO reaction. Given the abundance of cytochrome c in the intermembrane space of mitochondria, the cellular location of PPO, this process may potentially impact on the synthesis of heme in vivo particularly in conditions of low oxygen or hypoxia.
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- M Shepherd
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Firth Court, Western Bank, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, USA
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Li HB, Zhu YQ, Song XW, Hu FZ, Liu B, Li YH, Niu ZX, Liu P, Wang ZH, Song HB, Zou XM, Yang HZ. Novel protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors: 3H-pyrazolo[3,4-d][1,2,3]triazin-4-one derivatives. J Agric Food Chem 2008; 56:9535-9542. [PMID: 18808144 DOI: 10.1021/jf801774k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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A series of 3 H-pyrazolo[3,4-d][1,2,3]triazin-4-one derivatives were synthesized as candidate herbicides by diazotization of different 5(3)-amino- N-phenyl-1 H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide derivatives prepared by the reaction of substituted 5(3)-amino-pyrazole-4-carbonyl chloride with a substituted aniline. Their structures were identified by (1)H NMR and elemental analyses. The isomers D and E were isolated, and their structures were identified by two-dimensional NMR analyses (heteronuclear single quantum coherence and heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation) and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The bioassay results showed that some of the title compounds exhibited both excellent herbicidal activity at a dose of 93.75 g/ha and strong inhibition against protoporphyrinogen oxidase activity in vitro. The structure-activity relationship showed that D16 possessed the highest activities both in vivo and in vitro when the N-substituted group of the pyrazole ring was allyl and the N-substituted group of benzooxazinone was propargyl.
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- Hua-bin Li
- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
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Heinemann I, Diekmann N, Masoumi A, Koch M, Messerschmidt A, Jahn M, Jahn D. Functional definition of the tobacco protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase substrate-binding site. Biochem J 2007; 402:575-80. [PMID: 17134376 PMCID: PMC1863572 DOI: 10.1042/bj20061321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2006] [Revised: 11/22/2006] [Accepted: 11/30/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PPO (protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase) catalyses the flavin-dependent six-electron oxidation of protogen (protoporphyrinogen IX) to form proto (protoporphyrin IX), a crucial step in haem and chlorophyll biosynthesis. The apparent K(m) value for wild-type tobacco PPO2 (mitochondrial PPO) was 1.17 muM, with a V(max) of 4.27 muM.min(-1).mg(-1) and a catalytic activity k(cat) of 6.0 s(-1). Amino acid residues that appear important for substrate binding in a crystal structure-based model of the substrate docked in the active site were interrogated by site-directed mutagenesis. PPO2 variant F392H did not reveal detectable enzyme activity indicating an important role of Phe(392) in substrate ring A stacking. Mutations of Leu(356), Leu(372) and Arg(98) increased k(cat) values up to 100-fold, indicating that the native residues are not essential for establishing an orientation of the substrate conductive to catalysis. Increased K(m) values of these PPO2 variants from 2- to 100-fold suggest that these residues are involved in, but not essential to, substrate binding via rings B and C. Moreover, one prominent structural constellation of human PPO causing the disease variegate porphyria (N67W/S374D) was successfully transferred into the tobacco PPO2 background. Therefore tobacco PPO2 represents a useful model system for the understanding of the structure-function relationship underlying detrimental human enzyme defects.
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- Ilka U. Heinemann
- *Institute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- *Institute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- *Institute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- †Division of Structural Biology, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, U.K
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- ‡Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- *Institute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- *Institute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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Lermontova I, Grimm B. Reduced activity of plastid protoporphyrinogen oxidase causes attenuated photodynamic damage during high-light compared to low-light exposure. Plant J 2006; 48:499-510. [PMID: 17059408 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2006.02894.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (EC 1.3.3.4, PPOX) is the last enzyme in the branched tetrapyrrole biosynthetic pathway, before its substrate protoporphyrin is directed to the Mg and Fe branches for chlorophyll and haem biosynthesis, respectively. The enzyme exists in many plants in two similar isoforms, which are either exclusively located in plastids (PPOX I) or in mitochondria and plastids (PPOX II). Antisense RNA expression inhibited the formation of PPOX I in transgenic tobacco plants, which showed reduced growth rate and necrotic leaf damage. The cytotoxic effect is attributed to accumulation of photodynamically acting protoporphyrin. The expression levels of PPOX I mRNA and protein and the cellular enzyme activities were reduced to similar extents in transgenic plants grown under low- or high-light conditions (70 and 530 mumol photons m(-2) sec(-1)). More necrotic leaf lesions were surprisingly generated under low- than under high-light exposure. Several reasons were explored to explain this paradox and the intriguing necrotic phenotype of PPOX-deficient plants under both light intensity growth conditions. The same reduction of PPOX expression and activity under both light conditions led to similar initial protoporphyrin, but to faster decrease in protoporphyrin content during high light. It is likely that a light intensity-dependent degradation of reduced and oxidized porphyrins prevents severe photodynamic leaf damage. Moreover, under high-light conditions, elevated contents of reduced and total low-molecular-weight antioxidants contribute to the protection against photosensitizing porphyrins. These reducing conditions stabilize protoporphyrinogen in plastids and allow their redirection into the metabolic pathway.
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- Inna Lermontova
- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt University, Philippstr. 13, Building 12, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Patzoldt WL, Hager AG, McCormick JS, Tranel PJ. A codon deletion confers resistance to herbicides inhibiting protoporphyrinogen oxidase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:12329-34. [PMID: 16894159 PMCID: PMC1567880 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0603137103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Herbicides that act by inhibiting protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) are widely used to control weeds in a variety of crops. The first weed to evolve resistance to PPO-inhibiting herbicides was Amaranthus tuberculatus, a problematic weed in the midwestern United States that previously had evolved multiple resistances to herbicides inhibiting two other target sites. Evaluation of a PPO-inhibitor-resistant A. tuberculatus biotype revealed that resistance was a (incompletely) dominant trait conferred by a single, nuclear gene. Three genes predicted to encode PPO were identified in A. tuberculatus. One gene from the resistant biotype, designated PPX2L, contained a codon deletion that was shown to confer resistance by complementation of a hemG mutant strain of Escherichia coli grown in the presence and absence of the PPO inhibitor lactofen. PPX2L is predicted to encode both plastid- and mitochondria-targeted PPO isoforms, allowing a mutation in a single gene to confer resistance to two herbicide target sites. Unique aspects of the resistance mechanism include an amino acid deletion, rather than a substitution, and the dual-targeting nature of the gene, which may explain why resistance to PPO inhibitors has been rare.
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
- To whom correspondence should be addressed at:
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, 320 ERML, 1201 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801. E-mail:
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Variegate porphyria is an autosomal dominant disorder of heme metabolism resulting from a deficiency in protoporphyrinogen oxidase, an enzyme located on the inner mitochondrial membrane. This study examined the effect of three South African VP-causing mutations (H20P, R59W, R168C) on mitochondrial targeting. Only H20P did not target, and of eight protoporphyrinogen oxidase-GFP chimeric fusion proteins created, N-terminal residues 1-17 were found to be the minimal protoporphyrinogen oxidase sequence required for efficient mitochondrial targeting. Removal of this N-terminal sequence displayed mitochondrial localization, suggesting internal mitochondrial targeting signals. In addition, six constructs were engineered to assess the effect of charge and helicity on mitochondrial targeting of the protein. Of those engineered, only the PPOX20/H20P-GFP construct abolished mitochondrial targeting, presumably through disruption of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase alpha-helix. Based on our results we propose a mechanism for protoporphyrinogen oxidase targeting to the mitochondrion.
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- Lester M Davids
- UCT Department of Medicine, Lennox Eales Porphyria Laboratories, MRC/UCT Liver Research Centre, K-Floor, Old Groote Schuur Building, University of Cape Town Medical School, Observatory, 7925, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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van Lis R, Atteia A, Nogaj LA, Beale SI. Subcellular localization and light-regulated expression of protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase and ferrochelatase in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol 2005; 139:1946-58. [PMID: 16306143 PMCID: PMC1310572 DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.069732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPO) catalyzes the last common step in chlorophyll and heme synthesis, and ferrochelatase (FeC) catalyzes the last step of the heme synthesis pathway. In plants, each of these two enzymes is encoded by two or more genes, and the enzymes have been reported to be located in the chloroplasts or in the mitochondria. We report that in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, PPO and FeC are each encoded by a single gene. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that C. reinhardtii PPO and FeC are most closely related to plant counterparts that are located only in chloroplasts. Immunoblotting results suggest that C. reinhardtii PPO and FeC are targeted exclusively to the chloroplast, where they are associated with membranes. These results indicate that cellular needs for heme in this photosynthetic eukaryote can be met by heme that is synthesized in the chloroplast. It is proposed that the multiplicity of genes for PPO and FeC in higher plants could be related to differential expression in differently developing tissues rather than to targeting of different gene products to different organelles. The FeC content is higher in C. reinhardtii cells growing in continuous light than in cells growing in the dark, whereas the content of PPO does not significantly differ in light- and dark-grown cells. In cells synchronized to a light/dark cycle, the level of neither enzyme varied significantly with the phase of the cycle. These results indicate that heme synthesis is not directly regulated by the levels of PPO and FeC in C. reinhardtii.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii/enzymology
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii/genetics
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii/radiation effects
- DNA, Algal/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Protozoan/genetics
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Ferrochelatase/genetics
- Ferrochelatase/metabolism
- Gene Dosage
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/radiation effects
- Genes, Protozoan
- Light
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Protoporphyrinogen Oxidase/genetics
- Protoporphyrinogen Oxidase/metabolism
- RNA, Algal/genetics
- RNA, Algal/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Protozoan/genetics
- RNA, Protozoan/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Subcellular Fractions/enzymology
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- Robert van Lis
- Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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