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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue 7, Pages 381-387Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2011.03.012
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [WI3411/1-2]
- German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
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The enzymatic route of purine ring catabolism has recently been completed by the discovery of several novel enzymes identified through comparative genome analyses. Here, we review these recent discoveries and present an overview of purine ring catabolism in plants. Xanthine is oxidized to urate in the cytosol, followed by three enzymatic steps taking place in the peroxisome and four reactions in the endoplasmic reticulum releasing the four ring nitrogen as ammonia. Although the main physiological function of purine degradation might lie in the remobilization of nitrogen resources, it has also emerged that catabolic intermediates, the ureides allantoin and allantoate, are likely to be involved in protecting plants against abiotic stress. Conserved alternative splicing mediating the peroxisonnal as well as cytosolic localization of allantoin synthase potentially links purine ring catabolism to brassinosteroid signaling.
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