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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 174, Issue 3, Pages 1449-1475Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.00085
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- Academy of Finland [251390, 256174, 283245]
- Research Funds of the University of Helsinki
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- Hame Regional Fund
- Trees and Crops for the Future project
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Norway spruce genome project
- Ghent University [174PZA05, 01MRB510W]
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [256174, 251390, 283245, 283245, 256174, 251390] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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Apoplastic events such as monolignol oxidation and lignin polymerization are difficult to study in intact trees. To investigate the role of apoplastic hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in gymnosperm phenolic metabolism, an extracellular lignin-forming cell culture of Norway spruce (Picea abies) was used as a research model. Scavenging of apoplastic H2O2 by potassium iodide repressed lignin formation, in line with peroxidases activating monolignols for lignin polymerization. Time-course analyses coupled to candidate substrate-product pair network propagation revealed differential accumulation of low-molecular-weight phenolics, including (glycosylated) oligolignols, (glycosylated) flavonoids, and proanthocyanidins, in lignin-forming and H2O2-scavenging cultures and supported that monolignols are oxidatively coupled not only in the cell wall but also in the cytoplasm, where they are coupled to other monolignols and proanthocyanidins. Dilignol glycoconjugates with reduced structures were found in the culture medium, suggesting that cells are able to transport glycosylated dilignols to the apoplast. Transcriptomic analyses revealed that scavenging of apoplastic H2O2 resulted in remodulation of the transcriptome, with reduced carbon flux into the shikimate pathway propagating down to monolignol biosynthesis. Aggregated coexpression network analysis identified candidate enzymes and transcription factors for monolignol oxidation and apoplastic H2O2 production in addition to potential H2O2 receptors. The results presented indicate that the redox state of the apoplast has a profound influence on cellular metabolism.
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