Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 582, Issue 7, Pages 1061-1066Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.02.056
Keywords
Arabidopsis; AtGLB1 gene; chloroplasts; NO2- uptake; PII protein; T-DNA insertion mutant
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In higher plants, the PII protein is a nuclear-encoded plastid protein that regulates the activity of a key enzyme of arginine biosynthesis. We have previously observed that Arabidopsis PII mutants are more sensitive to nitrite toxicity. Using intact chloroplasts isolated from Arabidopsis leaves and N-15-labelled nitrite we show that a light-dependent nitrite uptake into chloroplasts is increased in PII knock-out mutants when compared to the wild-type. This leads to a higher incorporation of N-15 into ammonium and amino acids in the mutant chloroplasts. However, the uptake differences do not depend on GS/GOGAT activities. Our observations suggest that PII is involved in the regulation of nitrite uptake into higher plant chloroplasts. (C) 2008 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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