First published online May 27, 2005; 10.1104/pp.104.057794
Plant Physiology 138:1058-1070 (2005)
© 2005 American Society of Plant Biologists
BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AND MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURES
Structural Complexity, Differential Response to Infection, and Tissue Specificity of Indolic and Phenylpropanoid Secondary Metabolism in Arabidopsis Roots1,[w]
Pawe Bednarek*,
Bernd Schneider,
Ale Svato,
Neil J. Oldham2 and
Klaus Hahlbrock
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D–50829 Cologne, Germany (P.B., K.H.); and Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Beutenberg Campus, D–07745 Jena, Germany (B.S., A.S., N.J.O.)
Levels of indolic and phenylpropanoid secondary metabolites in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) leaves undergo rapid and drastic changes during pathogen defense, yet little is known about this process in roots. Using Arabidopsis wild-type and mutant root cultures as an experimental system, and the root-pathogenic oomycete, Pythium sylvaticum, for infections, we analyzed the aromatic metabolite profiles in soluble extracts from uninfected and infected roots, as well as from the surrounding medium. A total of 16 indolic, one heterocyclic, and three phenylpropanoid compounds were structurally identified by mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance analyses. Most of the indolics increased strongly upon infection, whereas the three phenylpropanoids decreased. Concomitant increases in both indolic and phenylpropanoid biosynthetic mRNAs suggested that phenylpropanoids other than those examined here in "soluble extracts" were coinduced with the indolics. These and previous results indicate that roots differ greatly from leaves with regard to the nature and relative abundance of all major soluble phenylpropanoid constituents. For indolics, by contrast, our data reveal far-reaching similarities between roots and leaves and, beyond this comparative aspect, provide an insight into this highly diversified yet under-explored metabolic realm. The data point to metabolic interconnections among the compounds identified and suggest a partial revision of the previously proposed camalexin pathway.
1 This work was supported by the Fonds der chemischen Industrie.
2 Present address: Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK.
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* Corresponding author; e-mail bednarek{at}mpiz-koeln.mpg.de; fax 49–221–5062–315.
Received December 13, 2004;
returned for revision February 21, 2005;
accepted March 15, 2005.
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