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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 62, Issue 15, Pages 5485-5495Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err225
Keywords
Enzyme phosphorylation; metabolic control; monoubiquitination; phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase; post-translational modification; protein: protein interactions; tissue-specific gene expression
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- NSERC
- Queen's Research Chairs program
- Queen's-Province of Ontario Post-doctoral Fellowship
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This study employs transcript profiling together with immunoblotting and co-immunopurification to assess the tissue-specific expression, protein: protein interactions, and post-translational modifications (PTMs) of plant-and bacterial-type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) isozymes (PTPC and BTPC, respectively) in the castor plant, Ricinus communis. Previous studies established that the Class-1 PEPC (PTPC homotetramer) of castor oil seeds (COS) is activated by phosphorylation at Ser-11 and inhibited by monoubiquitination at Lys-628 during endosperm development and germination, respectively. Elimination of photosynthate supply to developing COS by depodding caused the PTPC of the endosperm and cotyledon to be dephosphorylated, and then subsequently monoubiquitinated in vivo. PTPC monoubiquitination rather than phosphorylation is widespread throughout the castor plant and appears to be the predominant PTM of Class-1 PEPC that occurs in planta. The distinctive developmental patterns of PTPC phosphorylation versus monoubiquitination indicates that these two PTMs are mutually exclusive. By contrast, the BTPC: (i) is abundant in the inner integument, cotyledon, and endosperm of developing COS, but occurs at low levels in roots and cotyledons of germinated COS, (ii) shows a unique developmental pattern in leaves such that it is present in leaf buds and young expanding leaves, but undetectable in fully expanded leaves, and (iii) tightly interacts with co-expressed PTPC to form the novel and allosterically-desensitized Class-2 PEPC heteromeric complex. BTPC and thus Class-2 PEPC up-regulation appears to be a distinctive feature of rapidly growing and/or biosynthetically active tissues that require a large anaplerotic flux from phosphoenolpyruvate to replenish tricarboxylic acid cycle C-skeletons being withdrawn for anabolism.
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