期刊
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
卷 67, 期 15, 页码 4639-4646出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw238
关键词
Arsenic; arsenic toxicity; chlorophyll biosynthesis; chlorophyll precursors; subcellular distribution of arsenic; synchrotron micro-X-ray fluorescence
资金
- Alexander von Humboldt foundation
- Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi (DST-SERB) [SB/YS/LS-381/2013]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [KU 1495/7, KU 1495/8]
- University of Konstanz
- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Czech Science Foundation [P501/12/G055]
- National Programme of Sustainability [LO1416]
At sublethal toxic concentrations, arsenic is predominantly localized in the nucleus but is already able to inhibit chlorophyll biosynthesis upstream of coproporphyrinogen III.Arsenic (As) pollution is a serious concern worldwide. Recent studies under environmentally relevant conditions revealed that, in the aquatic plant Ceratophyllum demersum, pigments are the first observable target of toxicity, prior to any effect on photosynthetic parameters or to oxidative stress. Lethal toxicity was initiated by a change of As species and their distribution pattern in various tissues. Here, the localization of As was investigated at the subcellular level through X-ray fluorescence using a submicron beam and a Maia detector. Further, it was possible to obtain useful tissue structural information from the ratio of the tomogram of photon flux behind the sample to the tomogram of Compton scattering. The micro-X-ray fluorescence tomograms showed that As predominantly accumulated in the nucleus of the epidermal cells in young mature leaves exposed to sublethal 1 A mu M As. This suggests that As may exert toxic effects in the nucleus, for example, by interfering with nucleic acid synthesis by replacing phosphorous with As. At higher cellular concentrations, As was mainly stored in the vacuole, particularly in mature leaves. An analysis of precursors of chlorophyll and degradation metabolites revealed that the observed decrease in chlorophyll concentration was associated with hindered biosynthesis, and was not due to degradation. Coproporphyrinogen III could not be detected after exposure to only 0.5 A mu M As. Levels of subsequent precursors, for example, protoporphyrin IX, Mg-protoporphyrin, Mg-protoporphyrin methyl ester, and divinyl protochlorophyllide, were significantly decreased at this concentration as well, indicating that the pathway was blocked upstream of tetrapyrrole synthesis.
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