期刊
FEBS JOURNAL
卷 279, 期 20, 页码 3889-3897出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2012.08747.x
关键词
Arabidopsis; deoxyribonucleoside kinase; gene duplication; nucleoside nucleotide metabolism; thymidine kinase
资金
- Swedish Research Council (VR)
- Cancerfonden (Sweden)
- Wenner-Gren Foundation
- Crafoord Foundation
- Sorensen Foundation
- Fysiografen
- Jubi Kinase ApS
Deoxyribonucleotides are the building blocks of DNA and can be synthesized via de novo and salvage pathways. Deoxyribonucleoside kinases (EC 2.7.1.145) salvage deoxyribonucleosides by transfer of a phosphate group to the 5' of a deoxyribonucleoside. This salvage pathway is well characterized in mammals, but in contrast, little is known about how plants salvage deoxyribonucleosides. We show that during salvage, deoxyribonucleosides can be phosphorylated by extracts of Arabidopsis thaliana into corresponding monophosphate compounds with an unexpected preference for purines over pyrimidines. Deoxyribonucleoside kinase activities were present in all tissues during all growth stages. In the A. thaliana genome, we identified two types of genes that could encode enzymes which are involved in the salvage of deoxyribonucleosides. Thymidine kinase activity was encoded by two thymidine kinase 1 (EC 2.7.1.21)-like genes (AtTK1a and AtTK1b). Deoxyadenosine, deoxyguanosine and deoxycytidine kinase activities were encoded by a single AtdNK gene. T-DNA insertion lines of AtTK1a and AtTK1b mutant genes had normal growth, although AtTK1a AtTK1b double mutants died at an early stage, which indicates that AtTK1a and AtTK1b catalyze redundant reactions. The results obtained in the present study suggest a crucial role for the salvage of thymidine during early plant development. Database Sequence data from the present study have been deposited in the EMBL database/GenBank under accession numbers: AT3G07800.1 (AtTK1a), At5G23070.1 (AtTK1b) and AT1G72040.1 (AtdNK).
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