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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 163, Issue 2, Pages 672-681Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.224261
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG WI3411/1-2]
- German Academic Exchange Service from German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
- German-Chinese Research Groups program
- Chinese Scholarship Council [[2007]3020]
- Centre for International Collaboration of the Freie Universitat Berlin
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Several ureides are intermediates of purine base catabolism, releasing nitrogen from the purine nucleotides for reassimilation into amino acids. In some legumes like soybean (Glycine max), ureides are used for nodule-to-shoot translocation of fixed nitrogen. Four enzymes of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), (1) allantoinase, (2) allantoate amidohydrolase (AAH), (3) ureidoglycine aminohydrolase, and (4) ureidoglycolate amidohydrolase (UAH), catalyze the complete hydrolysis of the ureide allantoin in vitro. However, the metabolic route in vivo remains controversial. Here, in growth and metabolite analyses of Arabidopsis mutants, we demonstrate that these enzymes are required for allantoin degradation in vivo. Orthologous enzymes are present in soybean, encoded by one to four gene copies. All isoenzymes are active in vitro, while some may be inefficiently translated in vivo. Surprisingly, transcript and protein amounts are not significantly regulated by nitrogen fixation or leaf ureide content. A requirement for soybean AAH and UAH for ureide catabolism in leaves has been demonstrated by the use of virus-induced gene silencing. Functional AAH, ureidoglycine aminohydrolase, and UAH are also present in rice (Oryza sativa), and orthologous genes occur in all other plant genomes sequenced to date, indicating that the amidohydrolase route of ureide degradation is universal in plants, including mosses (e. g. Physcomitrella patens) and algae (e. g. Chlamydomomas reinhardtii).
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