Journal
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 186, Issue 3, Pages 1507-1525Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab172
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [SPP1710, ME1567/9-1/2, SCHW1719/7-1, HE1848/16-1]
- Emmy Noether program [SCHW1719/1-1, ME1567/12-1, 2064]
- Doctoral Training Program of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- BBSRC [BB/P012523/1, BB/P012574/1]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- John Innes Foundation
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are essential in various biological processes, and mutations in the mitochondrial homolog protein GRXS15 can lead to metabolic changes, particularly accumulation of TCA cycle intermediates and amino acids. This highlights the crucial role of GRXS15 in maintaining normal metabolic processes in plants.
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are ubiquitous cofactors in all life and are used in a wide array of diverse biological processes, including electron transfer chains and several metabolic pathways. Biosynthesis machineries for Fe-S clusters exist in plastids, the cytosol, and mitochondria. A single monothiol glutaredoxin (GRX) is involved in Fe-S cluster assembly in mitochondria of yeast and mammals. In plants, the role of the mitochondrial homolog GRXS15 has only partially been characterized. Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) grxs15 null mutants are not viable, but mutants complemented with the variant GRXS15 K83A develop with a dwarf phenotype similar to the knockdown line GRXS15(amiR). In an in-depth metabolic analysis of the variant and knockdown GRXS15 lines, we show that most Fe-S cluster-dependent processes are not affected, including biotin biosynthesis, molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis, the electron transport chain, and aconitase in the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. Instead, we observed an increase in most TCA cycle intermediates and amino acids, especially pyruvate, glycine, and branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs). Additionally, we found an accumulation of branched-chain alpha-keto acids (BCKAs), the first degradation products resulting from transamination of BCAAs. In wild-type plants, pyruvate, glycine, and BCKAs are all metabolized through decarboxylation by mitochondrial lipoyl cofactor (LC)-dependent dehydrogenase complexes. These enzyme complexes are very abundant, comprising a major sink for LC. Because biosynthesis of LC depends on continuous Fe-S cluster supply to lipoyl synthase, this could explain why LC-dependent processes are most sensitive to restricted Fe-S supply in grxs15 mutants.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available