Journal
PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue -, Pages 95-102Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/plb.12898
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Alternative myo-inostiol pathway; ascorbic acid; glucuronic acid; mammalian-like pathway; myo-inositol
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- Austrian Science Fund [P25339]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P25339] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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Ascorbic acid (AsA) biosynthesis in plants predominantly occurs via a pathway with d-mannose and l-galactose as intermediates. One alternative pathway for AsA synthesis, which is similar to the biosynthesis route in mammals, is controversially discussed for plants. Here, myo-inositol is cleaved to glucuronic acid and then converted via l-gulonate to AsA. In contrast to animals, plants have an effective recycling pathway for glucuronic acid, being a competitor for the metabolic rate. Recycling involves a phosphorylation at C1 by the enzyme glucuronokinase. Two previously described T-DNA insertion lines in the gene coding for glucuronokinase1 show wild type-like expression levels of the mRNA in our experiments and do not accumulate glucuronic acid in labelling experiments disproving that these lines are true knockouts. As suitable T-DNA insertion lines were not available, we generated frameshift mutations in the major expressed isoform glucuronokinase1 (At3g01640) to potentially redirect metabolites to AsA. However, radiotracer experiments with H-3-myo-inositol revealed that the mutants in glucuronokinase1 accumulate only glucuronic acid and incorporate less metabolite into cell wall polymers. AsA was not labelled, suggesting that Arabidopsis cannot efficiently use glucuronic acid for AsA biosynthesis. All four mutants in glucuronokinase as well as the wild type have the same level of AsA in leaves.
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