Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 69, Issue 9, Pages 2333-2343Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ery092
Keywords
Bioassay; bioisosterism; chemical space; docking; luciferase; perception; plant hormones; strigolactones; strigolactone-D-lactams
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- Cost Association [STREAM FA1206]
- Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation
- Lagrange Project CRT Foundation/ISI
- Italian Ministry of University and Research
- Regione Piemonte
- Spanish MINECO
- Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness [BIO2014-57011-R]
- European Union [727929]
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Strigolactones (SLs) are plant hormones with various functions in development, responses to stress, and interactions with (micro)organisms in the rhizosphere, including with seeds of parasitic plants. Their perception for hormonal functions requires an alpha,beta-hydrolase belonging to the D14 clade in higher plants; perception of host-produced SLs by parasitic seeds relies on similar but phylogenetically distinct proteins (D14-like). D14 and D14-like proteins are peculiar receptors, because they cleave SLs before undergoing a conformational change that elicits downstream events. Structure-activity relationship data show that the butenolide D-ring is crucial for bioactivity. We applied a bioisosteric approach to the structure of SLs by synthetizing analogues and mimics of natural SLs in which the D-ring was changed from a butenolide to a lactam and then evaluating their bioactivity. This was done by using a novel bioassay based on Arabidopsis transgenic lines expressing AtD14 fused to firefly luciferase, in parallel with the quantification of germination-inducing activity on parasitic seeds. The results obtained showed that the in planta bioassay is robust and quantitative, and thus can be confidently added to the SL-survey toolbox. The results also showed that modification of the butenolide ring into a lactam one significantly hampers the biological activity exhibited by SLs possessing a canonical lactonic D-ring.
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