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Oxaloacetate Transport into Plant Mitochondria1
Iris Hanning,
Katharina Baumgarten2,
Karin Schott, and
Hans W. Heldt*
Abteilung für Biochemie der Pflanze,
Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften der
Universität Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, D-37073
Göttingen, Germany
The
properties of oxaloacetate (OA) transport into mitochondria from potato
(Solanum tuberosum) tuber and pea (Pisum
sativum) leaves were studied by measuring the uptake of
14C-labeled OA into liposomes with incorporated
mitochondrial membrane proteins preloaded with various dicarboxylates
or citrate. OA was found to be transported in an obligatory
counterexchange with malate, 2-oxoglutarate, succinate, citrate, or
aspartate. Phtalonate inhibited all of these countertransports.
OA-malate countertransport was inhibited by
4,4 -dithiocyanostilbene-2,2 -disulfonate and pyridoxal phosphate, and
also by p-chloromercuribenzene sulfonate and mersalyl,
indicating that a lysine and a cysteine residue of the translocator
protein are involved in the transport. From these and other inhibition
studies, we concluded that plant mitochondria contain an OA
translocator that differs from all other known mitochondrial translocators. Major functions of this translocator are the export of
reducing equivalents from the mitochondria via the malate-OA shuttle
and the export of citrate via the citrate-OA shuttle. In the cytosol,
citrate can then be converted either into 2-oxoglutarate for use as a
carbon skeleton for nitrate assimilation or into acetyl-coenzyme A for
use as a precursor for fatty acid elongation or isoprenoid
biosynthesis.
1
H.W.H. was supported by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft.
2
Present address: Anatomisches Institut,
Koellikerstr 6, 97070 Würzburg, Germany.
*
Corresponding author; e-mail hhelddt{at}gwdg.de; fax
49-551-395749.
Plant Physiol. (1999) 119: 1025-1032
Copyright Clearance Center: 0032-0889/99/119//08
© 1999 American Society of Plant Physiologists
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