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Hernández L, Menéndez C, Pérez ER, Martínez D, Alfonso D, Trujillo LE, Ramírez R, Sobrino A, Mazola Y, Musacchio A, Pimentel E. Fructooligosaccharides production by Schedonorus arundinaceus sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase constitutively expressed to high levels in Pichia pastoris. J Biotechnol 2018; 266:59-71. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2017.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2017] [Revised: 12/01/2017] [Accepted: 12/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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del Viso F, Puebla AF, Fusari CM, Casabuono AC, Couto AS, Pontis HG, Hopp HE, Heinz RA. Molecular Characterization of a Putative Sucrose:Fructan 6-Fructosyltransferase (6-SFT) of the Cold-Resistant Patagonian Grass Bromus pictus Associated With Fructan Accumulation Under Low Temperatures. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 50:489-503. [DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Morcuende R, Kostadinova S, Pérez P, Del Molino IMM, Martínez-Carrasco R. Nitrate is a negative signal for fructan synthesis, and the fructosyltransferase-inducing trehalose inhibits nitrogen and carbon assimilation in excised barley leaves. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2004; 161:749-759. [PMID: 33873721 DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2004.00990.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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• Fructan biosynthesis in barley (Hordeum vulgare) has been shown to be upregulated by sugar signalling and downregulated by nitrogen. The relationship between these two regulations is investigated. • Excised third-leaves of barley were fed nitrate or glutamine under two light intensities. Other leaf blades were supplied in the dark for 24 h with nitrate and trehalose in the presence of validamycin A, a trehalase inhibitor. • In the light, nitrate, but not glutamine, decreased fructan contents and sucrose:fructan 6-fructosyltransferase protein without affecting the levels of sucrose and other carbohydrates. In darkened leaves, trehalose increased and nitrate decreased the fructan contents and total sucrose:fructosyltransferase activity without altering the concentration of sucrose. The effect on fructan contents of trehalose disappeared, whereas that of nitrate remained in subsequent incubations in water under light. Trehalose decreased and nitrate increased the light- and CO2 -saturated rate of photosynthesis without significantly affecting the initial Rubisco (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase) activity. Trehalose feeding decreased the activation of nitrate reductase and amino acid levels, and blocked the positive effect of nitrate on the maximal activity of this enzyme. • The results indicate that nitrate, and not a downstream metabolite, is a negative signal for fructan synthesis, independent from the positive sugar signalling and overriding it. Trehalose signalling inhibits nitrogen and carbon assimilation, at the same time, inducing fructosyltransferase activity.
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- R Morcuende
- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca, CSIC, Apartado 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca, CSIC, Apartado 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
- Present address: Department of Agrochemistry and Soil Science, Agricultural University, 12 Mendeleev Street, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca, CSIC, Apartado 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca, CSIC, Apartado 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca, CSIC, Apartado 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
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Chalmers J, Johnson X, Lidgett A, Spangenberg G. Isolation and characterisation of a sucrose: sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase gene from perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne). JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 160:1385-91. [PMID: 14658392 DOI: 10.1078/0176-1617-01107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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A sucrose: sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SST) gene and cDNA (Lp 1-SST) from perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) were isolated. The Lp 1-SST gene was fully sequenced and shown to contain three exons and two introns. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the 4824 bp Lp 1-SST genomic sequence revealed 1618 bp of 5' UTR and an open reading frame of 1962 bp encoding a protein of 653 amino acids. Lp 1-SST is 95% identical to the tall fescue 1-SST and contains plant fructosyltransferase functional domains. Lp 1-SST corresponds to a single copy gene in perennial ryegrass, and is expressed in young leaf bases and mature leaf sheaths. The recombinant Lp 1-SST protein from corresponding cDNA expression in Pichia pastoris showed 1-SST activity.
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- Jaye Chalmers
- Plant Biotechnology Centre, Agriculture Victoria, Department of Primary Industries, CRC for Molecular Plant Breeding, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia
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Haab CI, Keller F. Purification and characterization of the raffinose oligosaccharide chain elongation enzyme, galactan : galactan galactosyltransferase (GGT), from Ajuga reptans leaves. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2002; 114:361-371. [PMID: 12060258 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2002.1140305.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Galactan: galactan galactosyltransferase (GGT), an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of the long-chain raffinose family of oligosaccharides (RFOs) in Ajuga reptans, catalyses the transfer of an alpha-galactosyl residue from one molecule of RFO to another one resulting in the next higher RFO oligomer. This novel galactinol (alpha-galactosyl-myo-inositol)-independent alpha-galactosyltransferase is responsible for the accumulation of long-chain RFOs in vivo. Warm treatment (20 degrees C) of excised leaves resulted in a 34-fold increase of RFO concentration and a 200-fold increase of GGT activity after 28 days. Cold treatment (10 degrees C/3 degrees C day/night) resulted in a 26- and 130-fold increase, respectively. These data support the role of GGT as a key enzyme in the synthesis and accumulation of long-chain RFOs. GGT was purified from leaves in a 4-step procedure which involved fractionated precipitation with ammonium sulphate as well as lectin affinity, anion exchange, and size-exclusion chromatography and resulted in a 200-fold purification. Purified GGT had an isoelectric point of 4.7, a pH optimum around 5, and its transferase reaction displayed saturable concentration dependence for both raffinose (Km = 42 mM) and stachyose (Km = 58 mM). GGT is a glycoprotein with a 10% glycan portion. The native molecular mass was 212 kDa as determined by size-exclusion chromatography. Purified GGT showed one single active band after native PAGE or IEF separation, respectively, which separated into three bands on SDS-PAGE at 48 kDa, 66 kDa, and 60 kDa. The amino acid sequence of four tryptic peptides obtained from the major 48-kDa band showed a high homology to plant alpha-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.22) sequences. GGT differed, however, in its substrate specificity from alpha-galactosidases; it neither hydrolysed nor transferred alpha-galactosyl-groups from melibiose, galactinol, UDP-galactose, manninotriose, and manninotetrose. Galactinol, sucrose, and galactose inhibited the GGT reaction considerably at 10-50 mM.
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- Canan Inan Haab
- Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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Lüscher M, Hochstrasser U, Vogel G, Aeschbacher R, Galati V, Nelson CJ, Boller T, Wiemken A. Cloning and functional analysis of sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase from tall fescue. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2000; 124:1217-28. [PMID: 11080298 PMCID: PMC59220 DOI: 10.1104/pp.124.3.1217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2000] [Accepted: 07/10/2000] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Enzymes of grasses involved in fructan synthesis are of interest since they play a major role in assimilate partitioning and allocation, for instance in the leaf growth zone. Several fructosyltransferases from tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) have previously been purified (Lüscher and Nelson, 1995). It is surprising that all of these enzyme preparations appeared to act both as sucrose (Suc):Suc 1-fructosyl transferases (1-SST) and as fructan:fructan 6(G)-fructosyl transferases. Here we report the cloning of a cDNA corresponding to the predominant protein in one of the fructosyl transferase preparations, its transient expression in tobacco protoplasts, and its functional analysis in the methylotrophic yeast, Pichia pastoris. When the cDNA was transiently expressed in tobacco protoplasts, the corresponding enzyme preparations produced 1-kestose from Suc, showing that the cDNA encodes a 1-SST. When the cDNA was expressed in P. pastoris, the recombinant protein had all the properties of known 1-SSTs, namely 1-kestose production, moderate nystose production, lack of 6-kestose production, and fructan exohydrolase activity with 1-kestose as the substrate. The physical properties were similar to those of the previously purified enzyme, except for its apparent lack of fructan:fructan 6(G)-fructosyl transferase activity. The expression pattern of the corresponding mRNA was studied in different zones of the growing leaves, and it was shown that transcript levels matched the 1-SST activity and fructan content.
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- M Lüscher
- Botanisches Institut, University of Basel, Hebelstrasse 1, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Enzymology of fructan polymerization and depolymerization in grasses. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s0378-519x(00)80014-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Gupta AK, Kaur N. Fructan metabolism in jerusalem artichoke and chicory. DEVELOPMENTS IN CROP SCIENCE 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s0378-519x(00)80012-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Itaya NM, Figueiredo-Ribeiro RC, Buckeridge MS. Synthesis of fructans by fructosyltransferase from the tuberous roots of Viguiera discolor (Asteraceae). Braz J Med Biol Res 1999; 32:435-42. [PMID: 10347807 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x1999000400010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Sucrose:sucrose fructosyltransferase (SST) and fructan:fructan fructosyl-transferase (FFT) activities from crude extracts of tuberous roots of Viguiera discolor growing in a preserved area of cerrado were analyzed in 1995-1996. SST activity was characterized by the synthesis of 1-kestose from sucrose and FFT activity by the production of nystose from 1-kestose. The highest fructan-synthesizing activity was observed during early dormancy (autumn), when both (SST and FFT) activities were high. The increase in synthetic activity seemed to start during the fruiting phase in the summer, when SST activity was higher than in spring. During winter and at the beginning of sprouting, both activities declined. The in vitro synthesis of high molecular mass fructans from sucrose by enzymatic preparations from tuberous roots collected in summer showed that long incubations of up to 288 h produced consistently longer polymers which resembled those found in vivo with respect to chromatographic profiles.
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- N M Itaya
- Seção de Fisiologia e Bioquímica de Plantas, Instituto de Botânica, Secretaria do Meio Ambiente do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil
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Wang N, Nobel PS. Phloem Transport of Fructans in the Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Species Agave deserti. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 116:709-14. [PMID: 9490769 PMCID: PMC35130 DOI: 10.1104/pp.116.2.709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/1997] [Accepted: 10/30/1997] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Four oligofructans (neokestose, 1-kestose, nystose, and an un-identified pentofructan) occurred in the vascular tissues and phloem sap of mature leaves of Agave deserti. Fructosyltransferases (responsible for fructan biosynthesis) also occurred in the vascular tissues. In contrast, oligofructans and fructosyltransferases were virtually absent from the chlorenchyma, suggesting that fructan biosynthesis was restricted to the vascular tissues. On a molar basis, these oligofructans accounted for 46% of the total soluble sugars in the vascular tissues (sucrose [Suc] for 26%) and for 19% in the phloem sap (fructose for 24% and Suc for 53%). The Suc concentration was 1.8 times higher in the cytosol of the chlorenchyma cells than in the phloem sap; the nystose concentration was 4.9 times higher and that of pentofructan was 3.2 times higher in the vascular tissues than in the phloem sap. To our knowledge, these results provide the first evidence that oligofructans are synthesized and transported in the phloem of higher plants. The polymer-trapping mechanism proposed for dicotyledonous C3 species may also be valid for oligofructan transport in monocotyledonous species, such as A. deserti, which may use a symplastic pathway for phloem loading of photosynthates in its mature leaves.
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- N Wang
- Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1606
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Lüscher M, Erdin C, Sprenger N, Hochstrasser U, Boller T, Wiemken A. Inulin synthesis by a combination of purified fructosyltransferases from tubers of Helianthus tuberosus. FEBS Lett 1996; 385:39-42. [PMID: 8641462 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00343-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Sucrose-sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SST) was purified 100-fold from tubers of Helianthus tuberosus L. The purified enzyme was essentially devoid of invertase activity and could be separated by isoelectric focusing into five isoforms which all were composed of two subunits (59 and 26 kDa). Fructan-fructan 1-fructosyltransferase (1-FFT) was purified from the same source [M. Lüscher et al. (1993) New Phytologist 123, 437-442). When incubated individually with sucrose, 1-FFT was inactive while 1-SST formed isokestose (trimer) and, upon prolonged incubation, some nystose (tetramer). When a combination of the two enzymes was incubated with sucrose, a series of oligofructosides with a degree of polymerization of up to 20 was formed. Amino acid sequences of tryptic peptide fragments from both 1-SST and 1-FFT indicate that these enzymes are highly homologous with plant invertases.
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- M Lüscher
- Department of Botany, University of Basel, Switzerland
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