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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 62, Issue 12, Pages 4391-4398Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err158
Keywords
Arsenic; boron; NIP aquaporins; selectivity; silicon; substrate
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [22119002]
- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan [IPG-0006]
- BBSRC [BB/H006303/1]
- Royal Society
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H006303/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/H006303/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Nodulin-26-like intrinsic proteins (NIPs) of the aquaporin family are involved in the transport of diverse solutes, but the mechanisms controlling the selectivity of transport substrates are poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the aromatic/arginine (ar/R) selectivity filter influences the substrate selectivity of two NIP aquaporins; the silicic acid (Si) transporter OsLsi1 (OsNIP2;1) from rice and the boric acid (B) transporter AtNIP5;1 from Arabidopsis; both proteins are also permeable to arsenite. Native and site-directed mutagenized variants of the two genes were expressed in Xenopus oocytes and the transport activities for Si, B, arsenite, and water were assayed. Substitution of the amino acid at the ar/R second helix (H2) position of OsLsi1 did not affect the transport activities for Si, B, and arsenite, but that at the H5 position resulted in a total loss of Si and B transport activities and a partial loss of arsenite transport activity. Conversely, changes of the AtNIP5;1 ar/R selectivity filter and the NPA motifs to the OsLsi1 type did not result in a gain of Si transport activity. B transport activity was partially lost in the H5 mutant but unaffected in the H2 mutant of AtNIP5;1. In contrast, both the single and double mutations at the H2 and/or H5 positions of AtNIP5;1 did not affect arsenite transport activity. The results reveal that the residue at the H5 position of the ar/R filter of both OsLsi1 and AtNIP5;1 plays a key role in the permeability to Si and B, but there is a relatively low selectivity for arsenite.
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