Journal
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 14, Issue 16, Pages 5555-5561Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2006.04.025
Keywords
abscisic acid (ABA); biosynthesis; inhibitor; 9-cis-epoxy-carotenoid dioxygenase (NCED); carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase (CCD)
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The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) accumulates in response to drought stress and confers stress tolerance to plants. 9-cis-Epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED), the key regulatory enzyme in the ABA biosynthesis pathway, plays an important role in ABA accumulation. Treatment of plants with abamine, the first NCED inhibitor identified, inhibits ABA accumulation. On the basis of structure-activity relationship studies of abamine, we identified an inhibitor of ABA accumulation more potent than abamine and named it abamineSG. An important structural feature of abamineSG is a three-carbon linker between the methyl ester and the nitrogen atom. Treatment of osmotically stressed plants with 100 mu M abamineSG inhibited ABA accumulation by 77% as compared to the control, whereas abamine inhibited the accumulation by 35%. The expression of AB A-responsive genes and ABA catabolic genes was strongly inhibited in abamineSG-treated plants under osmotic stress. AbamineSG is a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme NCED, with a Ki of 18.5 mu M. Although the growth of Arabidopsis seedlings was inhibited by abamine at high concentrations (> 50 mu M), an effect that was unrelated to the inhibition of ABA biosynthesis, seedling growth was not affected by 100 mu M abamineSG. These results suggest that abamineSG is a more potent and specific inhibitor of ABA biosynthesis than abamine. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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