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WHIRLY1 of Barley and Maize Share a PRAPP Motif Conferring Nucleoid Compaction

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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 63, 期 2, 页码 234-247

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcab164

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Barley; Chloroplasts; Hordeum vulgare; Nucleoid compaction; WHIRLY1

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  1. German Research Foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [KR1350/19-1]

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WHIRLY1 proteins in barley and maize compact plastid nucleoids in Escherichia coli cells, while WHIRLY1 proteins in Arabidopsis and potato, as well as WHIRLY2 proteins, do not have the same impact. Mutagenesis of HvWHIRLY1 revealed that a specific motif is responsible for the nucleoid compacting activity in bacteria. This suggests that WHIRLY1 proteins in different plant species can have diverse functions in nucleoid compaction due to sequence variation.
WHIRLY1 in barley was shown to be a major architect of plastid nucleoids. Its accumulation in cells of Escherichia coli coincided with an induction of nucleoid compaction and growth retardation. While WHIRLY1 of maize had similar effects on E. coli cells, WHIRLY1 proteins of Arabidopsis and potato as well as WHIRLY2 proteins had no impact on nucleoid compaction in E. coli. By mutagenesis of HvWHIRLY1 the PRAPP motif at the N-terminus preceding the highly conserved WHIRLY domain was identified to be responsible for the nucleoid compacting activity of HvWHIRLY1 in bacteria. This motif is found in WHIRLY1 proteins of most members of the Poaceae family, but neither in the WHIRLY2 proteins of the family nor in any WHIRLY protein of eudicot species such as Arabidopsis thaliana. This finding indicates that a subset of the monocot WHIRLY1 proteins has acquired a specific function as nucleoid compacters by sequence variation in the N-terminal part preceding the conserved WHIRLY domain and that in different groups of higher plants the compaction of nucleoids is mediated by other proteins.

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