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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS
Volume 1721, Issue 1-3, Pages 27-36Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2004.09.008
Keywords
plant; Arabidopsis thaliana; amino acid metabolism; lysine; diaminopimelate; dihydrodipicolinate
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM069264] Funding Source: Medline
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With the aim of elucidating how plants synthesize lysine, extracts prepared from corn, tobacco, Chlamlydomonas and soybean were tested and found to lack detectable amounts of N-alpha-acyl-L,L-diaminopimelate deacylase or N-succinyl-alpha-amino-epsilon-ketopimelate-glutamate aminotransaminase, two key enzymes in the central part of the bacterial pathway for lysine biosynthesis. Corn extracts missing two key enzymes still carried out the overall synthesis of lysine when provided with dihydrodipicolinate. An analysis of available plant DNA sequences was performed to test the veracity of the negative biochemical findings. Orthologs of dihydrodipicolinate reductase and diaminopimelate epimerase (enzymes on each side of the central pathway) were readily found in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Orthologs of the known enzymes needed to convert tetrahydrodipicolinate to diaminopimelic acid (DAP) were not detected in Arabidopsis or in the plant DNA sequence databases. The biochemical and reinforcing bioinformatics results provide evidence that plants may use a novel variant of the bacterial pathways for lysine biosynthesis. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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