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First published online April 2, 2004; 10.1104/pp.103.038133

Plant Physiology 134:1401-1413 (2004)
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BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AND MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURES

Functional Analysis of the Final Steps of the 1-Deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) Pathway to Isoprenoids in Plants Using Virus-Induced Gene Silencing1

Jonathan E. Page2,*, Gerd Hause, Maja Raschke, Wenyun Gao3, Jürgen Schmidt, Meinhart H. Zenk and Toni M. Kutchan

Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (J.E.P., J.S., T.M.K.), 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany; and Biozentrum der Universität Halle, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (G.H., W.G., M.R., M.H.Z.)

Isoprenoid biosynthesis in plant plastids occurs via the 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) pathway. We used tobacco rattle virus (TRV) to posttranscriptionally silence the expression of the last two enzymes of this pathway, the IspG-encoded (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate synthase (HDS) and the IspH-encoded isopentenyl/dimethylallyl diphosphate synthase (IDDS), as well as isopentenyl/dimethylallyl diphosphate isomerase (IDI), the enzyme that interconverts IPP and DMAPP. TRV-IspG and TRV-IspH infected Nicotiana benthamiana plants had albino leaves that contained less than 4% of the chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments of control leaves. We applied [13C]DXP and [14C]DXP to silenced leaves and found that 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate accumulated in plants blocked at HDS while DXP, (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl phosphate and (E)-2-methylbut-2-ene-1,4-diol accumulated in IDDS-blocked plants. Albino leaves from IspG- and IspH-silenced plants displayed a disorganized palisade mesophyll, reduced cuticle, fewer plastids, and disrupted thylakoid membranes. These findings demonstrate the participation of HDS and IDDS in the DXP pathway in plants, and support the view that plastid isoprenoid biosynthesis is metabolically and physically segregated from the mevalonate pathway. IDI-silenced plants had mottled white-pale green leaves with disrupted tissue and plastid structure, and showed an 80% reduction in pigments compared to controls. IPP pyrophosphatase activity was higher in chloroplasts isolated from IDI-silenced plants than in control plant chloroplasts. We suggest that a low level of isoprenoid biosynthesis via the DXP pathway can occur without IDI but that this enzyme is required for full function of the DXP pathway.

1 This work was supported in part by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (to M.H.Z.) and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, Frankfurt (to T.M.K. and M.H.Z.).

2 Present address: Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council Canada, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 0W9.

3 Present address: Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.

Article, publication date, and citation information can be found at www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.103.038133.

* Corresponding author; e-mail jon.page{at}nrc-cnrc.gc.ca; fax 1–306–975–4839.

Received December 21, 2003; returned for revision January 28, 2004; accepted January 28, 2004.




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