期刊
PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 54, 期 6, 页码 990-1004出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct053
关键词
Arabidopsis thaliana; Polyamines; Metabolism; Ornithine; Putrescine
资金
- United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service
- New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
- College of Life Sciences and Agriculture
- University of New Hampshire Graduate School
We overexpressed a mouse ornithine decarboxylase gene under the control of a constitutive and an estradiol-inducible promoter in Arabidopsis thaliana to increase our understanding of the regulation of polyamine metabolism. Of particular interest was the role of the substrate ornithine not only in the regulation of polyamine biosynthesis, but also in the accumulation of related amino acids in response to short-term induction of this enzyme. We hypothesized that the inducible expression of the transgene would mimic the natural responses of plants to changing conditions, e.g. under stress conditions and during rapid growth. Our results reveal that ornithine, even though present in relatively small quantities (compared with other amino acids of the glutamate-arginine-proline pathway), may not only be the key regulator of polyamine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis, but it may also regulate the entire subset of pathways for glutamate to arginine and to proline. Indirectly, it could also regulate putrescine catabolism, therefore contributing to the gamma-aminobutyric acid content of the cells. Furthermore, the induction of mouse ornithine decarboxylase resulted in up- and down-regulation of several amino acids in the transgenic plants. It was learned that the turnover of putrescine in both the wild type and the transgenic plants occurs rapidly, with a half-life of 6-8 h.
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