scholarly journals A workflow for mathematical modeling of subcellular metabolic pathways in leaf metabolism of Arabidopsis thaliana

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Nägele ◽  
Wolfram Weckwerth
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Coleto ◽  
Izargi Vega-Mas ◽  
Gaetan Glauser ◽  
María González-Moro ◽  
Daniel Marino ◽  
...  

Nitrogen is an essential element for plant nutrition. Nitrate and ammonium are the two major inorganic nitrogen forms available for plant growth. Plant preference for one or the other form depends on the interplay between plant genetic background and environmental variables. Ammonium-based fertilization has been shown less environmentally harmful compared to nitrate fertilization, because of reducing, among others, nitrate leaching and nitrous oxide emissions. However, ammonium nutrition may become a stressful situation for a wide range of plant species when the ion is present at high concentrations. Although studied for long time, there is still an important lack of knowledge to explain plant tolerance or sensitivity towards ammonium nutrition. In this context, we performed a comparative proteomic study in roots of Arabidopsis thaliana plants grown under exclusive ammonium or nitrate supply. We identified and quantified 68 proteins with differential abundance between both conditions. These proteins revealed new potential important players on root response to ammonium nutrition, such as H+-consuming metabolic pathways to regulate pH homeostasis and specific secondary metabolic pathways like brassinosteroid and glucosinolate biosynthetic pathways.


2020 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 114886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhipeng Cheng ◽  
Hongwen Sun ◽  
Harmanpreet S. Sidhu ◽  
Nathan Darlucio Sy ◽  
Jay Gan

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 774-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.-R. Yang ◽  
B. E. Shapiro ◽  
E. D. Mjolsness ◽  
G. W. Hatfield

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Selles ◽  
Tiphaine Dhalleine ◽  
Mathilde Hériché ◽  
Nicolas Rouhier ◽  
Jérémy Couturier

ABSTRACTThe biosynthesis of many sulfur-containing biomolecules depends on cysteine as a sulfur source. Cysteine desulfurase (CD) and rhodanese (Rhd) domain-containing protein families participate in the trafficking of sulfur for various metabolic pathways in bacteria and human. However, their connection is not yet described in plants even though the existence of natural chimeric proteins containing both CD and Rhd domains in specific bacterial genera suggests that the interaction between both proteins should be universal. We report here the biochemical relationships between two cytosolic proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana, a Rhd domain containing protein, the sulfurtransferase 18 (STR18), and a CD isoform, ABA3, and compare these biochemical features to those of a natural CD-Rhd fusion protein from the bacterium Pseudorhodoferax sp.. We found that the bacterial enzyme is bifunctional exhibiting both CD and STR activities using L-cysteine and thiosulfate as sulfur donors. In vitro activity assays and mass spectrometry analyses revealed that STR18 stimulates the CD activity of ABA3 by recovering the intermediate persulfide on its catalytic cysteine. The ability of STR18 to catalyze trans-persulfidation reactions from ABA3 to a reduced roGFP2 used as a model acceptor protein reveals that the ABA3-STR18 couple may represent an uncharacterized pathway of sulfur trafficking in the cytosol of plant cells, independent of ABA3 function in molybdenum cofactor maturation.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Widemann ◽  
Kristie Bruinsma ◽  
Brendan Walshe-Roussel ◽  
Repon Kumer Saha ◽  
David Letwin ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTArabidopsis defenses against herbivores are regulated by the jasmonate hormonal signaling pathway, which leads to the production of a plethora of defense compounds, including tryptophan-derived metabolites produced through CYP79B2/CYP79B3. Jasmonate signaling and CYP79B2/CYP79B3 limit Arabidopsis infestation by the generalist herbivore two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae. However, the phytochemicals responsible for Arabidopsis protection against T. urticae are unknown. Here, using Arabidopsis mutants that disrupt metabolic pathways downstream of CYP79B2/CYP79B3, and synthetic indole glucosinolates, we identified phytochemicals involved in the defense against T. urticae. We show that Trp-derived metabolites depending on CYP71A12 and CYP71A13 are not affecting mite herbivory. Instead, the supplementation of cyp79b2 cyp79b3 mutant leaves with the 3-indolylmethyl glucosinolate and its derived metabolites demonstrated that the indole glucosinolate pathway is sufficient to assure CYP79B2/CYP79B3-mediated defenses against T. urticae. We demonstrate that three indole glucosinolates can limit T. urticae herbivory, but that they have to be processed by the myrosinases to hinder T. urticae oviposition. Finally, the supplementation of the mutant myc2 myc3 myc4 with indole glucosinolates indicated that the transcription factors MYC2/MYC3/MYC4 induce additional indole glucosinolate-independent defenses that control T. urticae herbivory. Together, these results reveal the complexity of Arabidopsis defenses against T. urticae that rely on multiple indole glucosinolates, specific myrosinases, and additional MYC2/MYC3/MYC4-dependent defenses.One sentence summaryThree indole glucosinolates and the myrosinases TGG1/TGG2 help protect Arabidopsis thaliana against the herbivory of the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae.


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