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Richter AS, Nägele T, Grimm B, Kaufmann K, Schroda M, Leister D, Kleine T. Retrograde signaling in plants: A critical review focusing on the GUN pathway and beyond. PLANT COMMUNICATIONS 2023; 4:100511. [PMID: 36575799 PMCID: PMC9860301 DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2022.100511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2022] [Revised: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Plastids communicate their developmental and physiological status to the nucleus via retrograde signaling, allowing nuclear gene expression to be adjusted appropriately. Signaling during plastid biogenesis and responses of mature chloroplasts to environmental changes are designated "biogenic" and "operational" controls, respectively. A prominent example of the investigation of biogenic signaling is the screen for gun (genomes uncoupled) mutants. Although the first five gun mutants were identified 30 years ago, the functions of GUN proteins in retrograde signaling remain controversial, and that of GUN1 is hotly disputed. Here, we provide background information and critically discuss recently proposed concepts that address GUN-related signaling and some novel gun mutants. Moreover, considering heme as a candidate in retrograde signaling, we revisit the spatial organization of heme biosynthesis and export from plastids. Although this review focuses on GUN pathways, we also highlight recent progress in the identification and elucidation of chloroplast-derived signals that regulate the acclimation response in green algae and plants. Here, stress-induced accumulation of unfolded/misassembled chloroplast proteins evokes a chloroplast-specific unfolded protein response, which leads to changes in the expression levels of nucleus-encoded chaperones and proteases to restore plastid protein homeostasis. We also address the importance of chloroplast-derived signals for activation of flavonoid biosynthesis leading to production of anthocyanins during stress acclimation through sucrose non-fermenting 1-related protein kinase 1. Finally, a framework for identification and quantification of intercompartmental signaling cascades at the proteomic and metabolomic levels is provided, and we discuss future directions of dissection of organelle-nucleus communication.
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- Andreas S Richter
- Physiology of Plant Metabolism, Institute for Biosciences, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18059 Rostock, Germany
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- Plant Evolutionary Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstr. 13, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Molecular Biotechnology and Systems Biology, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
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Protective Roles of Cytosolic and Plastidal Proteasomes on Abiotic Stress and Pathogen Invasion. PLANTS 2020; 9:plants9070832. [PMID: 32630761 PMCID: PMC7412383 DOI: 10.3390/plants9070832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2020] [Revised: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Protein malfunction is typically caused by abiotic stressors. To ensure cell survival during conditions of stress, it is important for plant cells to maintain proteins in their respective functional conformation. Self-compartmentalizing proteases, such as ATP-dependent Clp proteases and proteasomes are designed to act in the crowded cellular environment, and they are responsible for degradation of misfolded or damaged proteins within the cell. During different types of stress conditions, the levels of misfolded or orphaned proteins that are degraded by the 26S proteasome in the cytosol and nucleus and by the Clp proteases in the mitochondria and chloroplasts increase. This allows cells to uphold feedback regulations to cellular-level signals and adjust to altered environmental conditions. In this review, we summarize recent findings on plant proteolytic complexes with respect to their protective functions against abiotic and biotic stressors.
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Ali MS, Baek KH. Co-Suppression of NbClpC1 and NbClpC2, Encoding Clp Protease Chaperons, Elicits Significant Changes in the Metabolic Profile of Nicotiana benthamiana. PLANTS 2020; 9:plants9020259. [PMID: 32085404 PMCID: PMC7076384 DOI: 10.3390/plants9020259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Revised: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Metabolites in plants are the products of cellular metabolic processes, and their differential amount can be regarded as the final responses of plants to genetic, epigenetic, or environmental stresses. The Clp protease complex, composed of the chaperonic parts and degradation proteases, is the major degradation system for proteins in plastids. ClpC1 and ClpC2 are the two chaperonic proteins for the Clp protease complex and share more than 90% nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities. In this study, we employed virus-induced gene silencing to simultaneously suppress the expression of ClpC1 and ClpC2 in Nicotiana benthamiana (NbClpC1/C2). The co-suppression of NbClpC1/C2 in N. benthamiana resulted in aberrant development, with severely chlorotic leaves and stunted growth. A comparison of the control and NbClpC1/C2 co-suppressed N. benthamiana metabolomes revealed a total of 152 metabolites identified by capillary electrophoresis time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The co-suppression of NbClpC1/C2 significantly altered the levels of metabolites in glycolysis, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the pentose phosphate pathway, and the purine biosynthetic pathway, as well as polyamine and antioxidant metabolites. Our results show that the simultaneous suppression of ClpC1 and ClpC2 leads to aberrant morphological changes in chloroplasts and that these changes are related to changes in the contents of major metabolites acting in cellular metabolism and biosynthetic pathways.
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Jin H, Kim R, Bhaya D. Deciphering proteolysis pathways for the error-prone DNA polymerase in cyanobacteria. Environ Microbiol 2020; 23:559-571. [PMID: 31908125 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Protein quality control pathways require AAA+ proteases, such as Clp and Lon. Lon protease maintains UmuD, an important component of the error-prone DNA repair polymerase (Pol V), at very low levels in E. coli. Most members of the phylum Cyanobacteria lack Lon (including the model cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC6803), so maintenance of UmuD at low levels must employ different proteases. We demonstrate that the first 19 residues from the N-terminus of UmuD (Sug1-19 ) fused to a reporter protein are adequate to trigger complete proteolysis and that mutation of a single leucine residue (L6) to aspartic acid inhibits proteolysis. This process appears to follow the N-end rule and is mediated by ClpA/P protease and the ClpS adaptor. Additionally, mutations of arginine residues in the Sug1-19 tag suggest that the ClpX/P pathway also plays a role in proteolysis. We propose that there is a dual degron at the N-terminus of the UmuD protein in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, which is distinct from the degron required for degradation of UmuD in E. coli. The use of two proteolysis pathways to tune levels of UmuD might reflect how a photosynthetic organism responds to multiple environmental stressors.
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- Haojie Jin
- State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China.,Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA
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Yeom J, Groisman EA. Activator of one protease transforms into inhibitor of another in response to nutritional signals. Genes Dev 2019; 33:1280-1292. [PMID: 31371438 PMCID: PMC6719616 DOI: 10.1101/gad.325241.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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In this study, Yeom et al. address how cells tune protease specificity to nutritional signals. They show that Salmonella enterica increases the specificity of the broadly conserved proteases Lon and ClpSAP by transforming the Lon activator and substrate HspQ into an inhibitor of the N-degron recognin ClpS, the adaptor of the ClpAP protease, thus providing insight into how cells modify the abundance of particular proteins while preserving the quality of their proteomes. All cells use proteases to adjust protein amounts. Proteases maintain protein homeostasis by degrading nonfunctional toxic proteins and play regulatory roles by targeting particular substrates in response to specific signals. Here we address how cells tune protease specificity to nutritional signals. We report that Salmonella enterica increases the specificity of the broadly conserved proteases Lon and ClpSAP by transforming the Lon activator and substrate HspQ into an inhibitor of the N-degron recognin ClpS, the adaptor of the ClpAP protease. We establish that upon acetylation, HspQ stops being a Lon activator and substrate and that the accumulated HspQ binds to ClpS, hindering degradation of ClpSAP substrates. Growth on glucose promotes HspQ acetylation by increasing acetyl-CoA amounts, thereby linking metabolism to proteolysis. By altering protease specificities but continuing to degrade junk proteins, cells modify the abundance of particular proteins while preserving the quality of their proteomes. This rapid response mechanism linking protease specificity to nutritional signals is broadly conserved.
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- Jinki Yeom
- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06536, USA
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06536, USA.,Yale Microbial Sciences Institute, West Haven, Connecticut, 06516, USA
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Hou Z, Yang Y, Hedtke B, Grimm B. Fluorescence in blue light (FLU) is involved in inactivation and localization of glutamyl-tRNA reductase during light exposure. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 97:517-529. [PMID: 30362619 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2018] [Revised: 10/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/18/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Fluorescent in blue light (FLU) is a negative regulator involved in dark repression of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) synthesis and interacts with glutamyl-tRNA reductase (GluTR), the rate-limiting enzyme of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis. In this study, we investigated FLU's regulatory function in light-exposed FLU-overexpressing (FLUOE) Arabidopsis lines and under fluctuating light intensities in wild-type (WT) and flu seedlings. FLUOE lines suppress ALA synthesis in the light, resulting in reduced chlorophyll content, but more strongly in low and high light than in medium growth light. This situation indicates that FLU's impact on chlorophyll biosynthesis depends on light intensity. FLU overexpressors contain strongly increased amounts of mainly membrane-associated GluTR. These findings correlate with FLU-dependent localization of GluTR to plastidic membranes and concomitant inhibition, such that only the soluble GluTR fraction is active. The overaccumulation of membrane-associated GluTR indicates that FLU binding enhances GluTR stability. Interestingly, under fluctuating light, the leaves of flu mutants contain less chlorophyll compared with WT and become necrotic. We propose that FLU is basically required for fine-tuned ALA synthesis. FLU not only mediates dark repression of ALA synthesis, but functions also to control balanced ALA synthesis under variable light intensities to ensure the adequate supply of chlorophyll.
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- Zhiwei Hou
- Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Biologie, AG Pflanzenphysiologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Biologie, AG Pflanzenphysiologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Biologie, AG Pflanzenphysiologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Biologie, AG Pflanzenphysiologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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Wu GZ, Chalvin C, Hoelscher M, Meyer EH, Wu XN, Bock R. Control of Retrograde Signaling by Rapid Turnover of GENOMES UNCOUPLED1. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 176:2472-2495. [PMID: 29367233 PMCID: PMC5841721 DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Accepted: 01/17/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The exchange of signals between cellular compartments coordinates development and differentiation, modulates metabolic pathways, and triggers responses to environmental conditions. The proposed central regulator of plastid-to-nucleus retrograde signaling, GENOMES UNCOUPLED1 (GUN1), is present at very low levels, which has hampered the discovery of its precise molecular function. Here, we show that the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) GUN1 protein accumulates to detectable levels only at very early stages of leaf development, where it functions in the regulation of chloroplast biogenesis. GUN1 mRNA is present at high levels in all tissues, but GUN1 protein undergoes rapid degradation (with an estimated half-life of ∼4 h) in all tissues where chloroplast biogenesis has been completed. The rapid turnover of GUN1 is controlled mainly by the chaperone ClpC1, suggesting degradation of GUN1 by the Clp protease. Degradation of GUN1 slows under stress conditions that alter retrograde signaling, thus ensuring that the plant has sufficient GUN1 protein. We also find that the pentatricopeptide repeat motifs of GUN1 are important determinants of GUN1 stability. Moreover, overexpression of GUN1 causes an early flowering phenotype, suggesting a function of GUN1 in developmental phase transitions beyond chloroplast biogenesis. Taken together, our results provide new insight into the regulation of GUN1 by proteolytic degradation, uncover its function in early chloroplast biogenesis, and suggest a role in developmental phase transitions.
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- Guo-Zhang Wu
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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Moreno JC, Martínez-Jaime S, Schwartzmann J, Karcher D, Tillich M, Graf A, Bock R. Temporal Proteomics of Inducible RNAi Lines of Clp Protease Subunits Identifies Putative Protease Substrates. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 176:1485-1508. [PMID: 29229697 PMCID: PMC5813558 DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.01635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The Clp protease in the chloroplasts of plant cells is a large complex composed of at least 13 nucleus-encoded subunits and one plastid-encoded subunit, which are arranged in several ring-like structures. The proteolytic P-ring and the structurally similar R-ring form the core complex that contains the proteolytic chamber. Chaperones of the HSP100 family help with substrate unfolding, and additional accessory proteins are believed to assist with Clp complex assembly and/or to promote complex stability. Although the structure and function of the Clp protease have been studied in great detail in both bacteria and chloroplasts, the identification of bona fide protease substrates has been very challenging. Knockout mutants of genes for protease subunits are of limited value, due to their often pleiotropic phenotypes and the difficulties with distinguishing primary effects (i.e. overaccumulation of proteins that represent genuine protease substrates) from secondary effects (proteins overaccumulating for other reasons). Here, we have developed a new strategy for the identification of candidate substrates of plant proteases. By combining ethanol-inducible knockdown of protease subunits with time-resolved analysis of changes in the proteome, proteins that respond immediately to reduced protease activity can be identified. In this way, secondary effects are minimized and putative protease substrates can be identified. We have applied this strategy to the Clp protease complex of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) and identified a set of chloroplast proteins that are likely degraded by Clp. These include several metabolic enzymes but also a small number of proteins involved in photosynthesis.
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- Juan C Moreno
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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Moreno JC, Tiller N, Diez M, Karcher D, Tillich M, Schöttler MA, Bock R. Generation and characterization of a collection of knock-down lines for the chloroplast Clp protease complex in tobacco. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:2199-2218. [PMID: 28369470 PMCID: PMC5447895 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Protein degradation in chloroplasts is carried out by a set of proteases that eliminate misfolded, damaged, or superfluous proteins. The ATP-dependent caseinolytic protease (Clp) is the most complex protease in plastids and has been implicated mainly in stromal protein degradation. In contrast, FtsH, a thylakoid membrane-associated metalloprotease, is believed to participate mainly in the degradation of thylakoidal proteins. To determine the role of specific Clp and FtsH subunits in plant growth and development, RNAi lines targeting at least one subunit of each Clp ring and FtsH were generated in tobacco. In addition, mutation of the translation initiation codon was employed to down-regulate expression of the plastid-encoded ClpP1 subunit. These protease lines cover a broad range of reductions at the transcript and protein levels of the targeted genes. A wide spectrum of phenotypes was obtained, including pigment deficiency, alterations in leaf development, leaf variegations, and impaired photosynthesis. When knock-down lines for the different protease subunits were compared, both common and specific phenotypes were observed, suggesting distinct functions of at least some subunits. Our work provides a well-characterized collection of knock-down lines for plastid proteases in tobacco and reveals the importance of the Clp protease in physiology and plant development.
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- Juan C Moreno
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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Flores-Pérez Ú, Bédard J, Tanabe N, Lymperopoulos P, Clarke AK, Jarvis P. Functional Analysis of the Hsp93/ClpC Chaperone at the Chloroplast Envelope. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 170:147-62. [PMID: 26586836 PMCID: PMC4704595 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The Hsp100-type chaperone Hsp93/ClpC has crucial roles in chloroplast biogenesis. In addition to its role in proteolysis in the stroma, biochemical and genetic evidence led to the hypothesis that this chaperone collaborates with the inner envelope TIC complex to power preprotein import. Recently, it was suggested that Hsp93, working together with the Clp proteolytic core, can confer a protein quality control mechanism at the envelope. Thus, the role of envelope-localized Hsp93, and the mechanism by which it participates in protein import, remain unclear. To analyze the function of Hsp93 in protein import independently of its ClpP association, we created a mutant of Hsp93 affecting its ClpP-binding motif (PBM) (Hsp93[P-]), which is essential for the chaperone's interaction with the Clp proteolytic core. The Hsp93[P-] construct was ineffective at complementing the pale-yellow phenotype of hsp93 Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) mutants, indicating that the PBM is essential for Hsp93 function. As expected, the PBM mutation negatively affected the degradation activity of the stromal Clp protease. The mutation also disrupted association of Hsp93 with the Clp proteolytic core at the envelope, without affecting the envelope localization of Hsp93 itself or its association with the TIC machinery, which we demonstrate to be mediated by a direct interaction with Tic110. Nonetheless, Hsp93[P-] expression did not detectably improve the protein import efficiency of hsp93 mutant chloroplasts. Thus, our results do not support the proposed function of Hsp93 in protein import propulsion, but are more consistent with the notion of Hsp93 performing a quality control role at the point of import.
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- Úrsula Flores-Pérez
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom (U.F.-P., J.B., P.J.) and Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden (N.T., P.L., A.K.C.)
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom (U.F.-P., J.B., P.J.) and Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden (N.T., P.L., A.K.C.)
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom (U.F.-P., J.B., P.J.) and Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden (N.T., P.L., A.K.C.)
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom (U.F.-P., J.B., P.J.) and Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden (N.T., P.L., A.K.C.)
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom (U.F.-P., J.B., P.J.) and Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden (N.T., P.L., A.K.C.)
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom (U.F.-P., J.B., P.J.) and Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden (N.T., P.L., A.K.C.)
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Ali MS, Kim KW, Dhakal R, Choi D, Baek KH. Accumulation of high contents of free amino acids in the leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana by the co-suppression of NbClpC1 and NbClpC2 genes. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2015; 34:355-65. [PMID: 25433858 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-014-1714-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2014] [Revised: 10/29/2014] [Accepted: 11/20/2014] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE We report the significant increase of the content of free amino acids in Nicotiana benthamiana by the co-suppression of the ClpC1 and ClpC2 genes, which are translated to be the chaperonic part in the Clp protease at plastids. Clp protease with ClpC1 and ClpC2 proteins as the chaperonic part degrades denatured or improperly folded protein in plastids. Nicotiana benthamiana ClpC1 and ClpC2 genes (NbClpC1 and NbClpC2: NbClpC1/C2) share 93% similarities; therefore, co-suppression of the NbClpC1/C2 was possible using a single virus-induced silencing vector. Co-suppression of NbClpC1/C2 resulted in a pleiotropic phenotype including disappearance of apical dominance and formation of chlorotic leaves. NbClpC1/C2 co-suppressed leaves accumulated 11.9-fold more free amino acids than the GFP-silenced leaves. The co-suppression of NbClpC1/C2 did not change the expression levels of some selected genes in the biosynthetic pathways for the free amino acids, but reduced the total protein amounts to 32.5%, indicating that co-suppression affected the incorporation of free amino acids in proteins during translation. The loosely packed mesophyll cells and abnormal vascular bundles in the leaves suggested structural problems associated with translocation of free amino acids to sink tissues. NbClpC1/C2 co-suppression can offer a novel strategy for accumulation of free amino acids though it results in stunted growth.
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- Md Sarafat Ali
- School of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, 712-749, Korea
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Chotewutmontri P, Bruce BD. Non-native, N-terminal Hsp70 molecular motor recognition elements in transit peptides support plastid protein translocation. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:7602-21. [PMID: 25645915 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.633586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Previously, we identified the N-terminal domain of transit peptides (TPs) as a major determinant for the translocation step in plastid protein import. Analysis of Arabidopsis TP dataset revealed that this domain has two overlapping characteristics, highly uncharged and Hsp70-interacting. To investigate these two properties, we replaced the N-terminal domains of the TP of the small subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase and its reverse peptide with a series of unrelated peptides whose affinities to the chloroplast stromal Hsp70 have been determined. Bioinformatic analysis indicated that eight out of nine peptides in this series are not similar to the TP N terminus. Using in vivo and in vitro protein import assays, the majority of the precursors containing Hsp70-binding elements were targeted to plastids, whereas none of the chimeric precursors lacking an N-terminal Hsp70-binding element were targeted to the plastids. Moreover, a pulse-chase assay showed that two chimeric precursors with the most uncharged peptides failed to translocate into the stroma. The ability of multiple unrelated Hsp70-binding elements to support protein import verified that the majority of TPs utilize an N-terminal Hsp70-binding domain during translocation and expand the mechanistic view of the import process. This work also indicates that synthetic biology may be utilized to create de novo TPs that exceed the targeting activity of naturally occurring sequences.
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- From the Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
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Sjögren LLE, Tanabe N, Lymperopoulos P, Khan NZ, Rodermel SR, Aronsson H, Clarke AK. Quantitative analysis of the chloroplast molecular chaperone ClpC/Hsp93 in Arabidopsis reveals new insights into its localization, interaction with the Clp proteolytic core, and functional importance. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:11318-11330. [PMID: 24599948 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.534552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The molecular chaperone ClpC/Hsp93 is essential for chloroplast function in vascular plants. ClpC has long been held to act both independently and as the regulatory partner for the ATP-dependent Clp protease, and yet this and many other important characteristics remain unclear. In this study, we reveal that of the two near-identical ClpC paralogs (ClpC1 and ClpC2) in Arabidopsis chloroplasts, along with the closely related ClpD, it is ClpC1 that is the most abundant throughout leaf maturation. An unexpectedly large proportion of both chloroplast ClpC proteins (30% of total ClpC content) associates to envelope membranes in addition to their stromal localization. The Clp proteolytic core is also bound to envelope membranes, the amount of which is sufficient to bind to all the similarly localized ClpC. The role of such an envelope membrane Clp protease remains unclear although it appears uninvolved in preprotein processing or Tic subunit protein turnover. Within the stroma, the amount of oligomeric ClpC protein is less than that of the Clp proteolytic core, suggesting most if not all stromal ClpC functions as part of the Clp protease; a proposal supported by the near abolition of Clp degradation activity in the clpC1 knock-out mutant. Overall, ClpC appears to function primarily within the Clp protease, as the principle stromal protease responsible for maintaining homeostasis, and also on the envelope membrane where it possibly confers a novel protein quality control mechanism for chloroplast preprotein import.
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- Lars L E Sjögren
- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and
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- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and
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- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and
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- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and
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- the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
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- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and
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- From the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden and.
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Liu L, McNeilage RT, Shi LX, Theg SM. ATP requirement for chloroplast protein import is set by the Km for ATP hydrolysis of stromal Hsp70 in Physcomitrella patens. THE PLANT CELL 2014; 26:1246-55. [PMID: 24596240 PMCID: PMC4001381 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.121822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2013] [Revised: 12/12/2013] [Accepted: 02/09/2014] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The 70-kD family of heat shock proteins (Hsp70s) is involved in a number of seemingly disparate cellular functions, including folding of nascent proteins, breakup of misfolded protein aggregates, and translocation of proteins across membranes. They act through the binding and release of substrate proteins, accompanied by hydrolysis of ATP. Chloroplast stromal Hsp70 plays a crucial role in the import of proteins into plastids. Mutations of an ATP binding domain Thr were previously reported to result in an increase in the Km for ATP and a decrease in the enzyme's kcat. To ask which chloroplast stromal chaperone, Hsp70 or Hsp93, both of which are ATPases, dominates the energetics of the motor responsible for protein import, we made transgenic moss (Physcomitrella patens) harboring the Km-altering mutation in the essential stromal Hsp70-2 and measured the effect on the amount of ATP required for protein import into chloroplasts. Here, we report that increasing the Km for ATP hydrolysis of Hsp70 translated into an increased Km for ATP usage by chloroplasts for protein import. This thus directly demonstrates that the ATP-derived energy long known to be required for chloroplast protein import is delivered via the Hsp70 chaperones and that the chaperone's ATPase activity dominates the energetics of the reaction.
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Dong H, Fei GL, Wu CY, Wu FQ, Sun YY, Chen MJ, Ren YL, Zhou KN, Cheng ZJ, Wang JL, Jiang L, Zhang X, Guo XP, Lei CL, Su N, Wang H, Wan JM. A rice virescent-yellow leaf mutant reveals new insights into the role and assembly of plastid caseinolytic protease in higher plants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2013; 162:1867-80. [PMID: 23803583 PMCID: PMC3729767 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.217604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The plastidic caseinolytic protease (Clp) of higher plants is an evolutionarily conserved protein degradation apparatus composed of a proteolytic core complex (the P and R rings) and a set of accessory proteins (ClpT, ClpC, and ClpS). The role and molecular composition of Clps in higher plants has just begun to be unraveled, mostly from studies with the model dicotyledonous plant Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). In this work, we isolated a virescent yellow leaf (vyl) mutant in rice (Oryza sativa), which produces chlorotic leaves throughout the entire growth period. The young chlorotic leaves turn green in later developmental stages, accompanied by alterations in chlorophyll accumulation, chloroplast ultrastructure, and the expression of chloroplast development- and photosynthesis-related genes. Positional cloning revealed that the VYL gene encodes a protein homologous to the Arabidopsis ClpP6 subunit and that it is targeted to the chloroplast. VYL expression is constitutive in most tissues examined but most abundant in leaf sections containing chloroplasts in early stages of development. The mutation in vyl causes premature termination of the predicted gene product and loss of the conserved catalytic triad (serine-histidine-aspartate) and the polypeptide-binding site of VYL. Using a tandem affinity purification approach and mass spectrometry analysis, we identified OsClpP4 as a VYL-associated protein in vivo. In addition, yeast two-hybrid assays demonstrated that VYL directly interacts with OsClpP3 and OsClpP4. Furthermore, we found that OsClpP3 directly interacts with OsClpT, that OsClpP4 directly interacts with OsClpP5 and OsClpT, and that both OsClpP4 and OsClpT can homodimerize. Together, our data provide new insights into the function, assembly, and regulation of Clps in higher plants.
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Chu CC, Li HM. The amino-terminal domain of chloroplast Hsp93 is important for its membrane association and functions in vivo. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 158:1656-65. [PMID: 22353577 PMCID: PMC3320176 DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.193300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2012] [Accepted: 02/16/2012] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Chloroplast 93-kD heat shock protein (Hsp93/ClpC), an Hsp100 family member, is suggested to have various functions in chloroplasts, including serving as the regulatory chaperone for the ClpP protease in the stroma and acting as a motor component of the protein translocon at the envelope. Indeed, although Hsp93 is a soluble stromal protein, a portion of it is associated with the inner envelope membrane. The mechanism and functional significance of this Hsp93 membrane association have not been determined. Here, we mapped the region important for Hsp93 membrane association by creating various deletion constructs and found that only the construct with the amino-terminal domain deleted, Hsp93-ΔN, had reduced membrane association. When transformed into Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), most atHsp93V-ΔN proteins did not associate with membranes and atHsp93V-ΔΝ failed to complement the pale-green and protein import-defective phenotypes of an hsp93V knockout mutant. The residual atHsp93V-ΔN at the membranes had further reduced association with the central protein translocon component Tic110. However, the degradation of chloroplast glutamine synthetase, a potential substrate for the ClpP protease, was not affected in the hsp93V mutant or in the atHSP93V-ΔN transgenic plants. Hsp93-ΔN also had the same ATPase activity as that of full-length Hsp93. These data suggest that the association of Hsp93 with the inner envelope membrane through its amino-terminal domain is important for the functions of Hsp93 in vivo.
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- Chiung-Chih Chu
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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Ajjawi I, Coku A, Froehlich JE, Yang Y, Osteryoung KW, Benning C, Last RL. A J-like protein influences fatty acid composition of chloroplast lipids in Arabidopsis. PLoS One 2011; 6:e25368. [PMID: 22028775 PMCID: PMC3196505 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2010] [Accepted: 09/01/2011] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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A comprehensive understanding of the lipid and fatty acid metabolic machinery is needed for optimizing production of oils and fatty acids for fuel, industrial feedstocks and nutritional improvement in plants. T-DNA mutants in the poorly annotated Arabidopsis thaliana gene At1g08640 were identified as containing moderately high levels (50–100%) of 16∶1Δ7 and 18∶1Δ9 leaf fatty acids and subtle decreases (5–30%) of 16∶3 and 18∶3 (http://www.plastid.msu.edu/). TLC separation of fatty acids in the leaf polar lipids revealed that the chloroplastic galactolipids monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) and digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG) were the main lipid types affected by this mutation. Analysis of the inferred amino acid sequence of At1g08640 predicted the presence of a transit peptide, three transmembrane domains and an N-terminal J-like domain, and the gene was named CJD1 for Chloroplast J-like Domain 1. GFP reporter experiments and in vitro chloroplast import assays demonstrated CJD1 is a chloroplast membrane protein. Screening of an Arabidopsis cDNA library by yeast-2-hybrid (Y2H) using the J-like domain of CJD1 as bait identified a plastidial inner envelope protein (Accumulation and Replication of Chloroplasts 6, ARC6) as the primary interacting partner in the Y2H assay. ARC6 plays a central role in chloroplast division and binds CJD1 via its own J-like domain along with an adjacent conserved region whose function is not fully known. These results provide a starting point for future investigations of how mutations in CJD1 affect lipid composition.
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- Imad Ajjawi
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
- Michigan State University (MSU)–Department of Engineering (DOE) Plant Research Laboratories, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
- Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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Sung MS, Hsu YT, Ho KL, Lee TM. Implications of the up-regulation of genes encoding protein degradation enzymes and heat shock protein 90 for intertidal green macroalga Ulva fasciata against hypersalinity-induced protein oxidation. MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2011; 13:684-694. [PMID: 20957402 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-010-9330-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2010] [Accepted: 09/23/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The molecular acclimation of intertidal green macroalga Ulva fasciata Delile to high salinity stress were examined by the construction of a forward cDNA library via the suppressive subtractive hybridization between 30‰ and 90‰ (24 h) and by the time course dynamics of several abundantly expressed genes. Among the genes with known sequences, the expressed sequence tags are abundant in the function of protein synthesis (ribosomal protein) and destination. The cDNAs of ATP-dependent Clp protease (UfClpC), 20S proteasome β-subunit type 1 domain (UfPbf1), ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2 I (UfUbc9), and heat shock protein 90A (UfHsp90A) were cloned. UfClpC transcript increased 3 h after 90‰ treatment, followed by a decrease, while UfPbf1 and UfUbc9 transcripts increased after 12 h and decreased at 48 h. The transcripts of UfHsp90A increased 1 h after 90‰ treatment, followed by a drop and to the control level at 48 h. Protease activity increased 3 h after 90‰ treatment and decreased to the control level at 48 h. H₂O₂ contents increased 1 h after 90‰ treatment and then remained unchanged, but protein carbonyl group contents increased after 48 h. The treatments of reactive oxygen species scavengers partially alleviated 90‰ damage (partial growth rescue) and suppressed the increases in H₂O₂ content, protein carbonyl group content, protease activity, and UfClpC, UfPbf1, UfUbc9, and UfHsp90A transcripts by 90‰. The induction of specific chaperones and proteases at the molecular level for protein quality control can be considered as one of the molecular mechanisms of hypersalinity acclimation in U. fasciata.
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- Ming-Shiuan Sung
- Institute of Marine Biology, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Sjögren LL, Clarke AK. Assembly of the chloroplast ATP-dependent Clp protease in Arabidopsis is regulated by the ClpT accessory proteins. THE PLANT CELL 2011; 23:322-32. [PMID: 21266658 PMCID: PMC3051245 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.082321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2010] [Revised: 12/15/2010] [Accepted: 01/09/2011] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The ATP-dependent caseinolytic protease (Clp) is an essential housekeeping enzyme in plant chloroplasts. It is by far the most complex of all known Clp proteases, with a proteolytic core consisting of multiple catalytic ClpP and noncatalytic ClpR subunits. It also includes a unique form of Clp protein of unknown function designated ClpT, two of which exist in the model species Arabidopsis thaliana. Inactivation of ClpT1 or ClpT2 significantly reduces the amount of Clp proteolytic core, whereas loss of both proves seedling lethal under autotrophic conditions. During assembly of the Clp proteolytic core, ClpT1 first binds to the P-ring (consisting of ClpP3-6 subunits) followed by ClpT2, and only then does the P-ring combine with the R-ring (ClpP1, ClpR1-4 subunits). Most of the ClpT proteins in chloroplasts exist in vivo as homodimers, which then apparently monomerize prior to association with the P-ring. Despite their relative abundance, however, the availability of both ClpT proteins is rate limiting for the core assembly, with the addition of recombinant ClpT1 and ClpT2 increasing core content up to fourfold. Overall, ClpT appears to regulate the assembly of the chloroplast Clp protease, revealing a new and sophisticated control mechanism on the activity of this vital protease in plants.
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El Bakkouri M, Pow A, Mulichak A, Cheung KLY, Artz JD, Amani M, Fell S, de Koning-Ward TF, Goodman CD, McFadden GI, Ortega J, Hui R, Houry WA. The Clp chaperones and proteases of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. J Mol Biol 2010; 404:456-77. [PMID: 20887733 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.09.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2010] [Revised: 09/08/2010] [Accepted: 09/22/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The Clp chaperones and proteases play an important role in protein homeostasis in the cell. They are highly conserved across prokaryotes and found also in the mitochondria of eukaryotes and the chloroplasts of plants. They function mainly in the disaggregation, unfolding and degradation of native as well as misfolded proteins. Here, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the Clp chaperones and proteases in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The parasite contains four Clp ATPases, which we term PfClpB1, PfClpB2, PfClpC and PfClpM. One PfClpP, the proteolytic subunit, and one PfClpR, which is an inactive version of the protease, were also identified. Expression of all Clp chaperones and proteases was confirmed in blood-stage parasites. The proteins were localized to the apicoplast, a non-photosynthetic organelle that accommodates several important metabolic pathways in P. falciparum, with the exception of PfClpB2 (also known as Hsp101), which was found in the parasitophorous vacuole. Both PfClpP and PfClpR form mostly homoheptameric rings as observed by size-exclusion chromatography, analytical ultracentrifugation and electron microscopy. The X-ray structure of PfClpP showed the protein as a compacted tetradecamer similar to that observed for Streptococcus pneumoniae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis ClpPs. Our data suggest the presence of a ClpCRP complex in the apicoplast of P. falciparum.
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- Majida El Bakkouri
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8
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Apel W, Schulze WX, Bock R. Identification of protein stability determinants in chloroplasts. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2010; 63:636-50. [PMID: 20545891 PMCID: PMC2988409 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2010.04268.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2010] [Revised: 05/05/2010] [Accepted: 05/27/2010] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Although chloroplast protein stability has long been recognised as a major level of post-translational regulation in photosynthesis and gene expression, the factors determining protein stability in plastids are largely unknown. Here, we have identified stability determinants in vivo by producing plants with transgenic chloroplasts that express a reporter protein whose N- and C-termini were systematically modified. We found that major stability determinants are located in the N-terminus. Moreover, testing of all 20 amino acids in the position after the initiator methionine revealed strong differences in protein stability and indicated an important role of the penultimate N-terminal amino acid residue in determining the protein half life. We propose that the stability of plastid proteins is largely determined by three factors: (i) the action of methionine aminopeptidase (the enzyme that removes the initiator methionine and exposes the penultimate N-terminal amino acid residue), (ii) an N-end rule-like protein degradation pathway, and (iii) additional sequence determinants in the N-terminal region.
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- Wiebke Apel
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare PflanzenphysiologieAm Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare PflanzenphysiologieAm Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare PflanzenphysiologieAm Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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Wu H, Ji Y, Du J, Kong D, Liang H, Ling HQ. ClpC1, an ATP-dependent Clp protease in plastids, is involved in iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis leaves. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2010; 105:823-33. [PMID: 20382967 PMCID: PMC2859920 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Iron (Fe) is necessary for plant growth and development. Although it is well known that Fe deficiency causes chlorosis in plants, it remains unclear how the Fe homeostasis is regulated in mesophyll cells. The aim of this work was to identify a gene related to Fe homeostasis in leaves. METHODS A spontaneous mutant irm1, which revealed typical Fe-deficiency chlorosis, was found from Arabidopsis thaliana. Using map-based cloning, the gene responsible for the altered phenotype of irm1 was cloned. The expression of genes was analysed using northern blot hybridization and multiplex RT-PCR analysis. Further, GUS staining with transgenic promoter-GUS lines and transient expression of the fusion protein with GFP were used for detecting the expression pattern of the gene in different tissues and at different developmental stages, and for the subcelluar localization of the gene product. KEY RESULTS A point mutation from G to A at nucleotide 2317 of ClpC1 on chromosome V of Arabidopsis is responsible for the irm1 phenotype. The leaf chlorosis of the mutant irm1 and clpc1 (a T-DNA-inserted null mutant of ClpC1) could be converted to green by watering the soil with Fe solution. The expression intensity of ferric reductase FRO8 in irm1 and clpc1 was disordered (significantly higher than that of wild type). CONCLUSIONS The glycine residue at amino acid 773 of ClpC1 is essential for its functions. In addition to its known functions reported previously, ClpC1 is involved in leaf Fe homeostasis, presumably via chloroplast translocation of some nuclear-encoded proteins which function in Fe transport.
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- Huilan Wu
- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
- Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
- Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
- For correspondence. E-mail
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Singh A, Singh U, Mittal D, Grover A. Genome-wide analysis of rice ClpB/HSP100, ClpC and ClpD genes. BMC Genomics 2010; 11:95. [PMID: 20141629 DOI: 10.1186/1471-216411-95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2009] [Accepted: 02/08/2010] [Indexed: 05/21/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND ClpB-cyt/HSP100 protein acts as chaperone, mediating disaggregation of denatured proteins. Previous studies have shown that ClpB-cyt/HSP100 gene belongs to the group class I Clp ATPase proteins and ClpB-cyt/HSP100 transcript is regulated by heat stress and developmental cues. RESULTS Nine ORFs were noted to constitute rice class I Clp ATPases in the following manner: 3 ClpB proteins (ClpB-cyt, Os05g44340; ClpB-m, Os02g08490; ClpB-c, Os03g31300), 4 ClpC proteins (ClpC1, Os04g32560; ClpC2, Os12g12580; ClpC3, Os11g16590; ClpC4, Os11g16770) and 2 ClpD proteins (ClpD1, Os02g32520; ClpD2, Os04g33210). Using the respective signal sequences cloned upstream to GFP/CFP reporter proteins and transient expression studies with onion epidermal cells, evidence is provided that rice ClpB-m and Clp-c proteins are indeed localized to their respective cell locations mitochondria and chloroplasts, respectively. Associated with their diverse cell locations, domain structures of OsClpB-c, OsClpB-m and OsClpB-cyt proteins are noted to possess a high-level conservation. OsClpB-cyt transcript is shown to be enriched at milk and dough stages of seed development. While expression of OsClpB-m was significantly less as compared to its cytoplasmic and chloroplastic counterparts in different tissues, this transcript showed highest heat-induced expression amongst the 3 ClpB proteins. OsClpC1 and OsClpC2 are predicted to be chloroplast-localized as is the case with all known plant ClpC proteins. However, the fact that OsClpC3 protein appears mitochondrial/chloroplastic with equal probability and OsClpC4 a plasma membrane protein reflects functional diversity of this class. Different class I Clp ATPase transcripts were noted to be cross-induced by a host of different abiotic stress conditions. Complementation assays of Deltahsp104 mutant yeast cells showed that OsClpB-cyt, OsClpB-m, OsClpC1 and OsClpD1 have significantly positive effects. Remarkably, OsClpD1 gene imparted appreciably high level tolerance to the mutant yeast cells. CONCLUSIONS Rice class I Clp ATPase gene family is constituted of 9 members. Of these 9, only 3 belonging to ClpB group are heat stress regulated. Distribution of ClpB proteins to different cell organelles indicates that their functioning might be critical in different cell locations. From the complementation assays, OsClpD1 appears to be more effective than OsClpB-cyt protein in rescuing the thermosensitive defect of the yeast ScDeltahsp104 mutant cells.
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- Amanjot Singh
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi-110021, India
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Singh A, Singh U, Mittal D, Grover A. Genome-wide analysis of rice ClpB/HSP100, ClpC and ClpD genes. BMC Genomics 2010; 11:95. [PMID: 20141629 PMCID: PMC2829514 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2009] [Accepted: 02/08/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Background ClpB-cyt/HSP100 protein acts as chaperone, mediating disaggregation of denatured proteins. Previous studies have shown that ClpB-cyt/HSP100 gene belongs to the group class I Clp ATPase proteins and ClpB-cyt/HSP100 transcript is regulated by heat stress and developmental cues. Results Nine ORFs were noted to constitute rice class I Clp ATPases in the following manner: 3 ClpB proteins (ClpB-cyt, Os05g44340; ClpB-m, Os02g08490; ClpB-c, Os03g31300), 4 ClpC proteins (ClpC1, Os04g32560; ClpC2, Os12g12580; ClpC3, Os11g16590; ClpC4, Os11g16770) and 2 ClpD proteins (ClpD1, Os02g32520; ClpD2, Os04g33210). Using the respective signal sequences cloned upstream to GFP/CFP reporter proteins and transient expression studies with onion epidermal cells, evidence is provided that rice ClpB-m and Clp-c proteins are indeed localized to their respective cell locations mitochondria and chloroplasts, respectively. Associated with their diverse cell locations, domain structures of OsClpB-c, OsClpB-m and OsClpB-cyt proteins are noted to possess a high-level conservation. OsClpB-cyt transcript is shown to be enriched at milk and dough stages of seed development. While expression of OsClpB-m was significantly less as compared to its cytoplasmic and chloroplastic counterparts in different tissues, this transcript showed highest heat-induced expression amongst the 3 ClpB proteins. OsClpC1 and OsClpC2 are predicted to be chloroplast-localized as is the case with all known plant ClpC proteins. However, the fact that OsClpC3 protein appears mitochondrial/chloroplastic with equal probability and OsClpC4 a plasma membrane protein reflects functional diversity of this class. Different class I Clp ATPase transcripts were noted to be cross-induced by a host of different abiotic stress conditions. Complementation assays of Δhsp104 mutant yeast cells showed that OsClpB-cyt, OsClpB-m, OsClpC1 and OsClpD1 have significantly positive effects. Remarkably, OsClpD1 gene imparted appreciably high level tolerance to the mutant yeast cells. Conclusions Rice class I Clp ATPase gene family is constituted of 9 members. Of these 9, only 3 belonging to ClpB group are heat stress regulated. Distribution of ClpB proteins to different cell organelles indicates that their functioning might be critical in different cell locations. From the complementation assays, OsClpD1 appears to be more effective than OsClpB-cyt protein in rescuing the thermosensitive defect of the yeast ScΔhsp104 mutant cells.
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- Amanjot Singh
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi-110021, India
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Shi LX, Theg SM. A stromal heat shock protein 70 system functions in protein import into chloroplasts in the moss Physcomitrella patens. THE PLANT CELL 2010; 22:205-20. [PMID: 20061551 PMCID: PMC2828695 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.071464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Heat shock protein 70s (Hsp70s) are encoded by a multigene family and are located in different cellular compartments. They have broad-ranging functions, including involvement in protein trafficking, prevention of protein aggregation, and assistance in protein folding. Hsp70s work together with their cochaperones, J domain proteins and nucleotide exchange factors (e.g., GrpEs), in a functional cycle of substrate binding and release accompanied by ATP hydrolysis. We have taken advantage of the gene targeting capability of the moss Physcomitrella patens to investigate the functions of chloroplast Hsp70s. We identified four Hsp70 genes and two GrpE cochaperone homolog genes (CGE) in moss that encode chloroplast proteins. Disruption of one of the Hsp70 genes, that for Hsp70-2, caused lethality, and protein import into heat-shocked chloroplasts isolated from temperature-sensitive hsp70-2 mutants was appreciably impaired. Whereas the double cge null mutant was not viable, we recovered a cge1 null/cge2 knock down mutant in which Hsp70-2 was upregulated. Chloroplasts isolated from this mutant demonstrated a defect in protein import. In addition, two different precursors staged as early import intermediates could be immunoprecipitated with an Hsp70-2-specific antibody. This immunoprecipitate also contained Hsp93 and Tic40, indicating that it represents a precursor still in the Toc/Tic translocon. Together, these data indicate that a stromal Hsp70 system plays a crucial role in protein import into chloroplasts.
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Ahsan N, Lee DG, Kim KH, Alam I, Lee SH, Lee KW, Lee H, Lee BH. Analysis of arsenic stress-induced differentially expressed proteins in rice leaves by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry. CHEMOSPHERE 2010; 78:224-231. [PMID: 19948354 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2009] [Revised: 10/28/2009] [Accepted: 11/03/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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In the present study, we have investigated the protein expression profile of rice leaves under arsenic (As) stress. Two-week-old rice seedlings were exposed to two concentrations of arsenate (50 or 100 microM), and leaf samples were collected 4d after treatment. To elucidate the As stress-induced differentially expressed proteins in rice leaves, proteins were extracted from the control and treated samples, separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE), and visualized by staining with Coomassie Brilliant Blue (CBB). A total of 14 protein spots showed reproducible changes in expression of at least 1.5-fold when compared to the control and showed a similar expression pattern in both treatments. Of these 14 spots, 8 were up-regulated and 6 were down-regulated following exposure to As. These proteins were identified using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS). The increased expression of several proteins associated with energy production and metabolism suggests that higher energy is required for activation of the metabolic processes in leaves exposed to As. On the other hand, results from the 2-DE analysis, combined with immunoblotting, clearly revealed that the ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) large subunit was significantly decreased under As stress. Thus, the down-regulation of RuBisCO and chloroplast 29 kDa ribonucleoproteins might be the possible causes of the decreased photosynthesis rate under As stress.
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- Nagib Ahsan
- Division of Applied Life Science, PMBBRC, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea
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Benz JP, Soll J, Bölter B. Protein transport in organelles: The composition, function and regulation of the Tic complex in chloroplast protein import. FEBS J 2009; 276:1166-76. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.06874.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Batra G, Chauhan VS, Singh A, Sarkar NK, Grover A. Complexity of rice Hsp100 gene family: lessons from rice genome sequence data. J Biosci 2007; 32:611-9. [PMID: 17536180 DOI: 10.1007/s12038-007-0060-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Elucidation of genome sequence provides an excellent platform to understand detailed complexity of the various gene families. Hsp100 is an important family of chaperones in diverse living systems. There are eight putative gene loci encoding for Hsp100 proteins in Arabidopsis genome. In rice, two full-length Hsp100 cDNAs have been isolated and sequenced so far. Analysis of rice genomic sequence by in silico approach showed that two isolated rice Hsp100 cDNAs correspond to Os05g44340 and Os02g32520 genes in the rice genome database. There appears to be three additional proteins (encoded by Os03g31300, Os04g32560 and Os04g33210 gene loci) that are variably homologous to Os05g44340 and Os02g32520 throughout the entire amino acid sequence. The above five rice Hsp100 genes show significant similarities in the signature sequences known to be conserved among Hsp100 proteins. While Os05g44340 encodes cytoplasmic Hsp100 protein, those encoded by the other four genes are predicted to have chloroplast transit peptides.
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- Gaurav Batra
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi 110 021, India
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Zhang LF, Rui Q, Zhang P, Wang XY, Xu LL. A novel 51-kDa fragment of the large subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase formed in the stroma of chloroplasts in dark-induced senescing wheat leaves. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2007; 131:64-71. [PMID: 18251925 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2007.00928.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The degradation of large subunit (LSU) of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) in wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Yangmai 158) leaves was studied. A novel 51-kDa fragment was detected in leaf crude extracts and in chloroplast lysates from leaves with dark-induced senescence. Further studies showed that the 51-kDa fragment was found in the reaction solution with stroma fraction but not in that with the chloroplast membrane fraction and in the chloroplast lysates from mature wheat leaves. The reaction of producing the 51-kDa fragment was inhibited by 4-(2-aminoethyl) benzenesulfonyl fluoride hydrochloride (AEBSF), 1,10-phenanthroline and EDTA. The N-terminal sequence analysis indicated that the LSU was cleaved at the peptide bond between Lys-14 and Ala-15. In addition, a 50-kDa fragment of LSU formed obviously at pH 6.0-6.5 was detected in the crude extracts of leaves with dark-induced senescence but was not found in lysates of chloroplasts. The degradation was prevented by AEBSF, leupeptin and transepoxysuccinyl-l-leucylamido (4-guanidino) butane (E-64). The results obtained in this study imply that the appearance of the 51-kDa fragment could be because of the involvement of a new senescence-associated protease that is located in the stroma of chloroplasts in senescing wheat leaves.
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- Lie-Feng Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, 210095 Nanjing, China
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Meinnel T, Serero A, Giglione C. Impact of the N-terminal amino acid on targeted protein degradation. Biol Chem 2006; 387:839-51. [PMID: 16913833 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2006.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The N-terminus of any protein may be used as a destabilization signal for targeted protein degradation. In the eukaryotic cytosol, the signal - the so-called N-degron--is recognized for degradation by (i) the N-end rule, a well-described degradation process involving epsilon-ubiquitination; or (ii) N-terminal ubiquitination, a more recently described pathway. Dedicated E3 ubiquitin ligases known as N-recognins then act on the protein. The proteolytic pathways involve ATP-dependent chambered proteases, such as the 26S proteasome in the cytosol, which generate short oligopeptides. The N-terminus of the polypeptide chain is also important for post-proteasome degradation by specific aminopeptidases, which complete peptide cleavage to generate free amino acids. Finally, in each compartment of the eukaryotic cell, N-terminal methionine excision creates a variety of N-termini for mature proteins. It has recently been shown that the N-terminal methionine excision pathway has a major impact early in targeted protein degradation.
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- Thierry Meinnel
- Protein Maturation, Cell Fate and Therapeutics, Institut des Sciences du Végétal, UPR2355, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Bâtiment 23, 1 avenue de la Terrasse, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
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Sjögren LLE, Stanne TM, Zheng B, Sutinen S, Clarke AK. Structural and functional insights into the chloroplast ATP-dependent Clp protease in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2006; 18:2635-49. [PMID: 16980539 PMCID: PMC1626633 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.106.044594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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In contrast with the model Escherichia coli Clp protease, the ATP-dependent Clp protease in higher plants has a remarkably diverse proteolytic core consisting of multiple ClpP and ClpR paralogs, presumably arranged within a dual heptameric ring structure. Using antisense lines for the nucleus-encoded ClpP subunit, ClpP6, we show that the Arabidopsis thaliana Clp protease is vital for chloroplast development and function. Repression of ClpP6 produced a proportional decrease in the Clp proteolytic core, causing a chlorotic phenotype in young leaves that lessened upon maturity. Structural analysis of the proteolytic core revealed two distinct subcomplexes that likely correspond to single heptameric rings, one containing the ClpP1 and ClpR1-4 proteins, the other containing ClpP3-6. Proteomic analysis revealed several stromal proteins more abundant in clpP6 antisense lines, suggesting that some are substrates for the Clp protease. A proteolytic assay developed for intact chloroplasts identified potential substrates for the stromal Clp protease in higher plants, most of which were more abundant in young Arabidopsis leaves, consistent with the severity of the chlorotic phenotype observed in the clpP6 antisense lines. The identified substrates all function in more general housekeeping roles such as plastid protein synthesis, folding, and quality control, rather than in metabolic activities such as photosynthesis.
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- Lars L E Sjögren
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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Zheng B, MacDonald TM, Sutinen S, Hurry V, Clarke AK. A nuclear-encoded ClpP subunit of the chloroplast ATP-dependent Clp protease is essential for early development in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANTA 2006; 224:1103-15. [PMID: 16705403 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-006-0292-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2005] [Accepted: 04/11/2006] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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ClpP4 is a nuclear-encoded plastid protein that functions as a proteolytic subunit of the ATP-dependent Clp protease of higher plants. Given the lack of viable clpP4 knockout mutants, antisense clpP4 repression lines were prepared to study the functional importance of ClpP4 in Arabidopsis thaliana. Screening of transformants revealed viable lines with up to 90% loss of wild type levels of ClpP4 protein, while those with > 90% were severely bleached and strongly retarded in vegetative growth, failing to reach reproductive maturity. Of the viable antisense plants, repression of clpP4 expression produced a pleiotropic phenotype, of which slow growth and leaf variegation were most prominent. Chlorosis was most severe in younger leaves, with the affected regions localized around the mid-vein and exhibiting impaired chloroplast development and mesophyll cell differentiation. Chlorosis lessened during leaf expansion until all had regained the wild type appearance upon maturity. This change in phenotype correlated with the developmental expression of ClpP4 in the wild type, in which ClpP4 was less abundant in mature leaves due to post-transcriptional/translational regulation. Repression of ClpP4 caused a concomitant down-regulation of other nuclear-encoded ClpP paralogs in the antisense lines, but no change in other chloroplast-localized Clp proteins. Greening of the young chlorotic antisense plants upon maturation was accelerated by increased light, either by longer photoperiod or by higher growth irradiance; conditions that both raised levels of ClpP4 in wild type leaves. In contrast, shift to low growth irradiance decreased the relative amount of ClpP4 in wild type leaves, and caused newly developed leaves of fully greened antisense lines to regain the chlorotic phenotype.
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- Bo Zheng
- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umea, Sweden
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Kahlau S, Aspinall S, Gray JC, Bock R. Sequence of the tomato chloroplast DNA and evolutionary comparison of solanaceous plastid genomes. J Mol Evol 2006. [PMID: 16830097 DOI: 10.1007/s00239‐005‐0254‐5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Tomato, Solanum lycopersicum (formerly Lycopersicon esculentum), has long been one of the classical model species of plant genetics. More recently, solanaceous species have become a model of evolutionary genomics, with several EST projects and a tomato genome project having been initiated. As a first contribution toward deciphering the genetic information of tomato, we present here the complete sequence of the tomato chloroplast genome (plastome). The size of this circular genome is 155,461 base pairs (bp), with an average AT content of 62.14%. It contains 114 genes and conserved open reading frames (ycfs). Comparison with the previously sequenced plastid DNAs of Nicotiana tabacum and Atropa belladonna reveals patterns of plastid genome evolution in the Solanaceae family and identifies varying degrees of conservation of individual plastid genes. In addition, we discovered several new sites of RNA editing by cytidine-to-uridine conversion. A detailed comparison of editing patterns in the three solanaceous species highlights the dynamics of RNA editing site evolution in chloroplasts. To assess the level of intraspecific plastome variation in tomato, the plastome of a second tomato cultivar was sequenced. Comparison of the two genotypes (IPA-6, bred in South America, and Ailsa Craig, bred in Europe) revealed no nucleotide differences, suggesting that the plastomes of modern tomato cultivars display very little, if any, sequence variation.
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- Sabine Kahlau
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm, D-14476, Germany
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Rudella A, Friso G, Alonso JM, Ecker JR, van Wijk KJ. Downregulation of ClpR2 leads to reduced accumulation of the ClpPRS protease complex and defects in chloroplast biogenesis in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2006; 18:1704-21. [PMID: 16766689 PMCID: PMC1488914 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.106.042861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Plastids contain tetradecameric Clp protease core complexes, with five ClpP Ser-type proteases, four nonproteolytic ClpR, and two associated ClpS proteins. Accumulation of total ClpPRS complex decreased twofold to threefold in an Arabidopsis thaliana T-DNA insertion mutant in CLPR2 designated clpr2-1. Differential stable isotope labeling of the ClpPRS complex with iTRAQ revealed a fivefold reduction in assembled ClpR2 accumulation and twofold to fivefold reductions in the other subunits. A ClpR2:(his)(6) fusion protein that incorporated into the chloroplast ClpPRS complex fully complemented clpr2-1. The reduced accumulation of the ClpPRS protease complex led to a pale-green phenotype with delayed shoot development, smaller chloroplasts, decreased thylakoid accumulation, and increased plastoglobule accumulation. Stromal ClpC1 and 2 were both recruited to the thylakoid surface in clpr2-1. The thylakoid membrane of clpr2-1 showed increased carotenoid content, partial inactivation of photosystem II, and upregulated thylakoid proteases and stromal chaperones, suggesting an imbalance in chloroplast protein homeostasis and a well-coordinated network of proteolysis and chaperone activities. Interestingly, a subpopulation of PsaF and several light-harvesting complex II proteins accumulated in the thylakoid with unprocessed chloroplast transit peptides. We conclude that ClpR2 cannot be functionally replaced by other ClpP/R homologues and that the ClpPRS complex is central to chloroplast biogenesis, thylakoid protein homeostasis, and plant development.
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- Andrea Rudella
- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Adam Z, Rudella A, van Wijk KJ. Recent advances in the study of Clp, FtsH and other proteases located in chloroplasts. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2006; 9:234-40. [PMID: 16603408 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2006.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2005] [Accepted: 03/22/2006] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Several chloroplast proteases have been characterized in recent years. The ATP-dependent chloroplast proteases Clp and FtsH stand out because they form multi-subunit complexes consisting of different gene products. Surprisingly, both green and non-green plastids appear to contain a similar soluble Clp core proteolytic complex, consisting of five ClpP proteases, their non-catalytic ClpR homologs, and two ClpS homologs that have unknown function. Analyses of single and double FtsH1, FtsH2, FtsH5 and FtsH8 mutants, and overexpression of FtsH proteins in these Arabidopsis thaliana mutants show partial redundancies within pairs of closely related FtsH thylakoid proteins. The presence of at least one member of each pair is essential for functional accumulation. Other chloroplast proteases have also been identified recently. Future challenges include the identification of substrate recognition mechanisms and elucidating the role of proteases in chloroplast biogenesis and function.
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- Zach Adam
- Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
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Rumpho ME, Summer EJ, Green BJ, Fox TC, Manhart JR. Mollusc/algal chloroplast symbiosis: how can isolated chloroplasts continue to function for months in the cytosol of a sea slug in the absence of an algal nucleus? ZOOLOGY 2006; 104:303-12. [PMID: 16351845 DOI: 10.1078/0944-2006-00036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A marine sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, has acquired the ability to carry out photosynthesis as a result of forming an intracellular symbiotic association with chloroplasts of the chromophytic alga, Vaucheria litorea. The symbiont chloroplasts (kleptoplasts) are functional, i.e. they evolve oxygen and fix CO(2) and actively transcribe and translate proteins for several months in the sea slug cytosol. Considering the dependency of plastid function on nuclear genes, the level of kleptoplast activity observed in the animal cell is quite remarkable. Possible factors contributing to this long-lasting functional association that are considered here include: the presence of an algal nuclear genome in the sea slug, autonomous chloroplasts, unusual chloroplast/protein stability, re-directing of animal proteins to the kleptoplast, and lateral gene transfer. Based on our current understanding, the acquisition and incorporation of intact algal plastids by E. chlorotica is aided by the robustness of the plastids and the long-term functional activity of the kleptoplasts appears to be supported by both plastid and protein stability and contributions from the sea slug.
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- M E Rumpho
- Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of Maine, Orono 04469-5735, USA.
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Plastids undergo drastic morphological and physiological changes under different developmental stages and in response to environmental conditions. A key to accomplishing these transitions and maintaining homeostasis is the quality and quantity control of many plastid proteins by proteases and chaperones. Although a limited number of plastid proteases have been identified by biochemical approaches, recent progress in genome information revealed various plant proteases that are of prokaryotic origin and that are localized in chloroplasts. Of these, ATP-dependent proteases such as Clp, FtsH, and Lon are considered the major enzymes involved in processive degradation (gradual degradation to oligopeptides and amino acids). The basic architecture of plant ATP-dependent proteases is very similar to the architechture of bacterial enzymes, such as those in Escherichia coli, but plastid enzymes apparently have extraordinary numbers of isomers. Recent molecular genetic characterization in Arabidopsis has identified differential roles of these isomers. This review covers what is currently known about the types and function of plastid proteases together with our new observations.
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- Wataru Sakamoto
- Research Institute for Bioresources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Okayama 710-0046, Japan.
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Bédard J, Jarvis P. Recognition and envelope translocation of chloroplast preproteins. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2005; 56:2287-320. [PMID: 16087701 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eri243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Plastids are a diverse group of plant organelles that perform essential functions including important steps in many biosynthetic pathways. Chloroplasts are the best characterized type of plastid, and constitute the site of oxygenic photosynthesis in plants, a process essential to all higher life forms. It is well established that the majority (>90%) of chloroplast proteins are nucleus-encoded and must be post-translationally imported into these envelope-bound compartments. Most nucleus-encoded chloroplast proteins are translated in precursor form on cytosolic ribosomes, targeted to the chloroplast surface, and then imported across the double-membrane envelope by translocons in the outer and inner envelope membranes of the chloroplast, termed TOC and TIC, respectively. Recently, significant progress has been made in our understanding of how proteins are targeted to the chloroplast surface and translocated across the chloroplast envelope into the stroma. Evidence suggesting the existence of multiple import pathways at the outer envelope membrane for different classes of precursor proteins has been presented. These pathways appear to utilize similar TOC complexes equipped with different combinations of homologous GTPase receptors, providing preprotein recognition specificity.
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- Jocelyn Bédard
- Department of Biology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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Sjögren LLE, MacDonald TM, Sutinen S, Clarke AK. Inactivation of the clpC1 gene encoding a chloroplast Hsp100 molecular chaperone causes growth retardation, leaf chlorosis, lower photosynthetic activity, and a specific reduction in photosystem content. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 136:4114-26. [PMID: 15563614 PMCID: PMC535842 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.053835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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ClpC is a molecular chaperone of the Hsp100 family. In higher plants there are two chloroplast-localized paralogs (ClpC1 and ClpC2) that are approximately 93% similar in primary sequence. In this study, we have characterized two independent Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) clpC1 T-DNA insertion mutants lacking on average 65% of total ClpC content. Both mutants display a retarded-growth phenotype, leaves with a homogenous chlorotic appearance throughout all developmental stages, and more perpendicular secondary influorescences. Photosynthetic performance was also impaired in both knockout lines, with relatively fewer photosystem I and photosystem II complexes, but no changes in ATPase and Rubisco content. However, despite the specific drop in photosystem I and photosystem II content, no changes in leaf cell anatomy or chloroplast ultrastructure were observed in the mutants compared to the wild type. Previously proposed functions for envelope-associated ClpC in chloroplast protein import and degradation of mistargeted precursors were examined and shown not to be significantly impaired in the clpC1 mutants. In the stroma, where the majority of ClpC protein is localized, marked increases of all ClpP paralogs were observed in the clpC1 mutants but less variation for the ClpR paralogs and a corresponding decrease in the other chloroplast-localized Hsp100 protein, ClpD. Increased amounts of other stromal molecular chaperones (Cpn60, Hsp70, and Hsp90) and several RNA-binding proteins were also observed. Our data suggest that overall ClpC as a stromal molecular chaperone plays a vital role in chloroplast function and leaf development and is likely involved in photosystem biogenesis.
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- Lars L E Sjögren
- Botanical Institute, Göteborg University, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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Constan D, Froehlich JE, Rangarajan S, Keegstra K. A stromal Hsp100 protein is required for normal chloroplast development and function in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 136:3605-15. [PMID: 15516497 PMCID: PMC527159 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.052928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2004] [Revised: 09/22/2004] [Accepted: 09/22/2004] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Molecular chaperones are required for the translocation of many proteins across organellar membranes, presumably by providing energy in the form of ATP hydrolysis for protein movement. In the chloroplast protein import system, a heat shock protein 100 (Hsp100), known as Hsp93, is hypothesized to be the chaperone providing energy for precursor translocation, although there is little direct evidence for this hypothesis. To learn more about the possible function of Hsp93 during protein import into chloroplasts, we isolated knockout mutant lines that contain T-DNA disruptions in either atHSP93-V or atHSP93-III, which encode the two Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) homologs of Hsp93. atHsp93-V mutant plants are much smaller and paler than wild-type plants. In addition, mutant chloroplasts contain less thylakoid membrane when compared to the wild type. Plastid protein composition, however, seems to be largely unaffected in atHsp93-V knockout plants. Chloroplasts isolated from the atHsp93-V knockout mutant line are still able to import a variety of precursor proteins, but the rate of import of some of these precursors is significantly reduced. These results indicate that atHsp93-V has an important, but not essential, role in the biogenesis of Arabidopsis chloroplasts. In contrast, knockout mutant plants for atHsp93-III, the second Arabidopsis Hsp93 homolog, had a visible phenotype identical to the wild type, suggesting that atHsp93-III may not play as important a role as atHsp93-V in chloroplast development and/or function.
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- Diane Constan
- Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory , Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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Park S, Rodermel SR. Mutations in ClpC2/Hsp100 suppress the requirement for FtsH in thylakoid membrane biogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:12765-70. [PMID: 15304652 PMCID: PMC515127 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0402764101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The Arabidopsis var2 variegation mutant defines a nuclear gene for a chloroplast FtsH metalloprotease. Leaf variegation is expressed only in homozygous recessive plants. The cells in the green leaf sectors of this mutant contain morphologically normal chloroplasts, whereas cells in the white sectors contain abnormal plastids lacking organized lamellar structures. var2 mutants are hypersusceptible to photoinhibition, and VAR2 degrades unassembled polypeptides and is involved in the D1 repair cycle of photosystem II, likely by affecting turnover of the photodamaged D1 polypeptide. A second-site suppressor screen of var2 yielded a normal-appearing, nonvariegated line. Map-based cloning revealed that the suppression of variegation in this line is due to a splice site mutation in ClpC2, a chloroplast Hsp100 chaperone, that results in sharply reduced ClpC2 protein accumulation. Isolation of clpC2 single mutants showed that clpC2 is epistatic to var2, and that a lack of ClpC2 does not markedly alter the composition of the thylakoid membrane. Suppression by clpC2 is not allele-specific. Our results suggest that clpC2 is a suppressor of thylakoid biogenesis and maintenance and that ClpC2 might act by accelerating photooxidative stress. Arabidopsis has two ClpC genes (ClpC1 and ClpC2), and mutants with down-regulated expression of both genes have a phenotype different from clpC2, suggesting that ClpC1 and ClpC2 act synergistically and/or that they are only partially redundant. The isolation of a clpC2 mutant represents an important advance in the generation of tools to understand Hsp100 function and insight into the mechanisms of protein quality control in plants.
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- Sungsoon Park
- Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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Levy M, Bachmair A, Adam Z. A single recessive mutation in the proteolytic machinery of Arabidopsis chloroplasts impairs photoprotection and photosynthesis upon cold stress. PLANTA 2004; 218:396-405. [PMID: 14579155 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-003-1120-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2003] [Accepted: 09/06/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Intracellular proteases, together with molecular chaperones, are components of the cellular protein quality control system. Although the identity of chloroplast proteases has been revealed in recent years, little is known about their regulation. As a first step towards identifying unknown functional or regulatory components of the chloroplast proteolytic machinery, a genetic screen was devised with the aim of generating Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. mutants impaired in chloroplast protein degradation. A streptomycin-resistance gene was fused to a cDNA construct that encodes an unstable mutant of the OE33 protein. This chimeric gene was used for transforming Arabidopsis plants. Analysis of transgenic plants revealed a correlation between streptomycin resistance and accumulation of the recombinant fusion protein. Seeds from transgenic plants that were sensitive to streptomycin were chemically mutagenized and screened for resistance to streptomycin. Such resistance could be due to stabilization of the protein caused by a mutation in the chloroplast proteolytic machinery. Genetic analysis of one of the mutants showed the mutation to be recessive, in a single nuclear gene. Further characterization of the mutant revealed that it was not a result of increased transcription of the transgene. Moreover, chloroplast lysates from the mutant plant showed decreased ATP-dependent degradation of a chloroplast protein substrate, consistent with the conclusion that the mutation impaired the proteolytic machinery. Physiological analysis revealed that upon cold stress, photoprotection and photosynthesis in the mutant was inhibited, suggesting that the chloroplast proteolytic machinery is involved in repairing damage incurred to the photosynthetic machinery upon exposure to cold temperatures.
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- Maggie Levy
- The Robert H Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 76100 Rehovot, Israel.
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Katiyar-Agarwal S, Agarwal M, Grover A. Heat-tolerant basmati rice engineered by over-expression of hsp101. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2003; 51:677-86. [PMID: 12678556 DOI: 10.1023/a:1022561926676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Rice is sensitive to high-temperature stress at almost all the stages of its growth and development. Considering the crucial role of heat shock protein 101 (Hsp 101) in imparting thermotolerance to cells, we introduced Arabidopsis thaliana hsp101 (Athsp101) cDNA into the Pusa basmati 1 cultivar of rice (Oryza sativa L.) by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Stable integration and expression of the transgene into the rice genome was demonstrated by Southern, northern and western blot analyses. There appeared no adverse effect of over-expression of the transgene on overall growth and development of transformants. The genetic analysis of tested T1 lines showed that the transgene segregated in a Mendelian fashion. We compared the survival of T2 transgenic lines after exposure to different levels of high-temperature stress with the untransformed control plants. The transgenic rice lines showed significantly better growth performance in the recovery phase following the stress. This thermotolerance advantage appeared to be solely due to over-expression of Hsp101 as neither the expression of low-molecular-weight heat shock proteins (HSPs) nor of other members of Clp family proteins was altered in the transgenic rice. The production of high temperature tolerant transgenic rice cultivars would provide a stability advantage under supra-optimal temperature regime thereby improving its overall performance.
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- Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi 110021, India
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Chloroplasts have a dynamic protein environment and, although proteases are presumably major contributors, the identities of these crucial regulatory proteins have only recently been revealed. There are defined proteases within each of the major chloroplast compartments: the ATP-dependent Clp and FtsH proteases in the stroma and stroma-exposed thylakoid membranes, respectively, the ATP-independent DegP proteases within the thylakoid lumen and on both sides of thylakoid membranes, and the SppA protease on the stromal side of the thylakoid. All four types are homologous to proteases characterized in bacteria, but most have many isomers in higher plants. With such diversity, the challenge is to link the mode of action of each protease to the chloroplast enzymes and regulatory proteins that it targets.
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- Zach Adam
- Institute of Plant Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
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Chassin Y, Kapri-Pardes E, Sinvany G, Arad T, Adam Z. Expression and characterization of the thylakoid lumen protease DegP1 from Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 130:857-64. [PMID: 12376650 PMCID: PMC166612 DOI: 10.1104/pp.007922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2002] [Revised: 05/28/2002] [Accepted: 06/20/2002] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The Arabidopsis genome contains 14 genes encoding the serine protease DegP. Products of four of these genes are located in the chloroplast: three in the thylakoid lumen and one on the stromal side of the membrane. We expressed the gene encoding DegP1 as a His-tagged fusion protein in Escherichia coli, purified the protein by affinity chromatography, and characterized it biochemically. Size-exclusion chromatography suggested that DegP1 eluted from the column as a mixture of monomers and hexamers. Proteolytic activity was characterized using beta-casein as a model substrate. DegP1 demonstrated concentration-dependent activity, a pH optimum of 6.0 and increasing activity at elevated temperatures. DegP1 was capable of degrading two lumenal proteins, plastocyanin and OE33, suggesting a role as a general-purpose protease in the thylakoid lumen. The results of this work are discussed in the context of the recent elucidation of the structure of the E. coli homolog and the possible physiological role of the protease in the chloroplast lumen.
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- Yael Chassin
- Institute of Plant Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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Agarwal M, Katiyar-Agarwal S, Grover A. Plant Hsp100 proteins: structure, function and regulation. PLANT SCIENCE 2002; 163:397-405. [PMID: 0 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-9452(02)00209-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Hörtensteiner S, Feller U. Nitrogen metabolism and remobilization during senescence. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2002; 53:927-37. [PMID: 11912235 DOI: 10.1093/jexbot/53.370.927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 318] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Senescence is a highly organized and well-regulated process. As much as 75% of total cellular nitrogen may be located in mesophyll chloroplasts of C(3)-plants. Proteolysis of chloroplast proteins begins in an early phase of senescence and the liberated amino acids can be exported to growing parts of the plant (e.g. maturing fruits). Rubisco and other stromal enzymes can be degraded in isolated chloroplasts, implying the involvement of plastidial peptide hydrolases. Whether or not ATP is required and if stromal proteins are modified (e.g. by reactive oxygen species) prior to their degradation are questions still under debate. Several proteins, in particular cysteine proteases, have been demonstrated to be specifically expressed during senescence. Their contribution to the general degradation of chloroplast proteins is unclear. The accumulation in intact cells of peptide fragments and inhibitor studies suggest that multiple degradation pathways may exist for stromal proteins and that vacuolar endopeptidases might also be involved under certain conditions. The breakdown of chlorophyll-binding proteins associated with the thylakoid membrane is less well investigated. The degradation of these proteins requires the simultaneous catabolism of chlorophylls. The breakdown of chlorophylls has been elucidated during the last decade. Interestingly, nitrogen present in chlorophyll is not exported from senescencing leaves, but remains within the cells in the form of linear tetrapyrrolic catabolites that accumulate in the vacuole. The degradation pathways for chlorophylls and chloroplast proteins are partially interconnected.
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- Stefan Hörtensteiner
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, CH-3013 Bern, Switzerland
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Wiśniewski K, Zagdańska B. Genotype-dependent proteolytic response of spring wheat to water deficiency. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2001; 52:1455-1463. [PMID: 11457905 DOI: 10.1093/jexbot/52.360.1455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Changes in proteolytic activities in response to water deficiency have been investigated in ten genotypes of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) differing in response to water deficit stress and ability to acclimate. To determine subcellular localization and the type of proteases, mesophyll protoplasts isolated from wheat leaves were purified. Proteolytic activities were assayed using azocasein in the case of vacuolar proteinases at pH 5.0 and 125I-lysozyme in the case of extravacuolar ATP-dependent proteinases at pH 8.2. ATP-dependent proteolytic activity was found to be confined to the extravacuolar fraction while the azocaseinolytic activity to vacuoles. Dehydration increased vacuolar azocaseinolytic activity at both stages of plant development (shooting and heading), but the increase was significantly lower in more tolerant genotypes. The extravacuolar energy-dependent 125I-lysozyme degradation was low at the shooting stage but it was higher in the genotypes with a greater critical water saturation deficit. At the heading phase in the non-acclimated flag leaves ATP-dependent 125I-lysozyme degradation decreased in a genotype-dependent manner, but was enhanced upon acclimation to the same extent irrespective to the genotype ability to acquire dehydration tolerance during acclimation. The results presented indicate that both pathways of protein degradation are interlinked upon dehydration and are genotype dependent.
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- K Wiśniewski
- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Department, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Radzików, POB 1019, 00-950 Warszawa, Poland
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Adam Z, Adamska I, Nakabayashi K, Ostersetzer O, Haussuhl K, Manuell A, Zheng B, Vallon O, Rodermel SR, Shinozaki K, Clarke AK. Chloroplast and mitochondrial proteases in Arabidopsis. A proposed nomenclature. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 125:1912-8. [PMID: 11299370 PMCID: PMC88846 DOI: 10.1104/pp.125.4.1912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2000] [Revised: 10/23/2000] [Accepted: 11/21/2000] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The identity and scope of chloroplast and mitochondrial proteases in higher plants has only started to become apparent in recent years. Biochemical and molecular studies suggested the existence of Clp, FtsH, and DegP proteases in chloroplasts, and a Lon protease in mitochondria, although currently the full extent of their role in organellar biogenesis and function remains poorly understood. Rapidly accumulating DNA sequence data, especially from Arabidopsis, has revealed that these proteolytic enzymes are found in plant cells in multiple isomeric forms. As a consequence, a systematic approach was taken to catalog all these isomers, to predict their intracellular location and putative processing sites, and to propose a standard nomenclature to avoid confusion and facilitate scientific communication. For the Clp protease most of the ClpP isomers are found in chloroplasts, whereas one is mitochondrial. Of the ATPase subunits, the one ClpD and two ClpC isomers are located in chloroplasts, whereas both ClpX isomers are present in mitochondria. Isomers of the Lon protease are predicted in both compartments, as are the different forms of FtsH protease. DegP, the least characterized protease in plant cells, has the most number of isomers and they are predicted to localize in several cell compartments. These predictions, along with the proposed nomenclature, will serve as a framework for future studies of all four families of proteases and their individual isomers.
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- Z Adam
- Department of Agricultural Botany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
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Halperin T, Zheng B, Itzhaki H, Clarke AK, Adam Z. Plant mitochondria contain proteolytic and regulatory subunits of the ATP-dependent Clp protease. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2001; 45:461-8. [PMID: 11352464 DOI: 10.1023/a:1010677220323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The proteolytic machinery of plant organelles is largely unknown, although indications so far point to several proteases of bacterial origin. In this study an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA was isolated that encodes a homologue of bacterial ClpX, a molecular chaperone and regulatory subunit of the ATP-dependent, serine-type Clp protease. Computer analysis of the predicted plant ClpX revealed a putative mitochondrial transit peptide at the N-terminus, as well as overall sequence similarity to other eukaryotic ClpX homologues. Specific polyclonal antibodies were made to the Arabidopsis ClpX protein and used to confirm its localization in plant mitochondria. In addition to ClpX, a ClpP protein located in mitochondria was also identified from the numerous ClpP isomers in Arabidopsis. Localization of this nuclear-encoded protein, termed ClpP2, was determined first by its close sequence similarity to mitochondrial ClpP human, and later experimentally using ClpP2-specific antibodies with isolated plant organellar fractions. In Arabidopsis, transcripts for both clpX and clpP2 genes were detected in various tissues and under different growth conditions, with no significant variation in mRNA level (i.e. 2-fold) for each gene between samples. Using beta-casein as a substrate, plant mitochondria were found to possess an ATP-stimulated, serine-type proteolytic activity that could be strongly inhibited by antibodies specific for ClpX or ClpP2, suggesting an active ClpXP protease. The recent discovery of homologous mitochondrial ClpX and ClpP proteins in mammals suggests that this type of protease may be common to multicellular eukaryotes.
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- T Halperin
- Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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