Plant Physiol. (1999) 119: 1387-1398
Acclimation of Arabidopsis Leaves Developing at Low Temperatures.
Increasing Cytoplasmic Volume Accompanies Increased Activities of
Enzymes in the Calvin Cycle and in the Sucrose-Biosynthesis
Pathway1
Åsa Strand*,
Vaughan Hurry,
Stefan Henkes,
Norman Huner,
Petter Gustafsson,
Per Gardeström, and
Mark Stitt
Department of Plant Physiology, University of Umeå, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden (Å.S., V.H., P. Gustafsson, P. Gardeström); Botanisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, D-69120
Heidelberg, Germany (V.H., S.H., M.S.); and Department of Plant
Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (N.H.)
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ABSTRACT |
Photosynthetic and metabolic
acclimation to low growth temperatures were studied in Arabidopsis
(Heynh.). Plants were grown at 23°C and then shifted to 5°C. We
compared the leaves shifted to 5°C for 10 d and the new leaves
developed at 5°C with the control leaves on plants that had been left
at 23°C. Leaf development at 5°C resulted in the recovery of
photosynthesis to rates comparable with those achieved by control
leaves at 23°C. There was a shift in the partitioning of carbon from
starch and toward sucrose (Suc) in leaves that developed at 5°C. The
recovery of photosynthetic capacity and the redirection of carbon to
Suc in these leaves were associated with coordinated increases in the
activity of several Calvin-cycle enzymes, even larger increases in the
activity of key enzymes for Suc biosynthesis, and an increase in the
phosphate available for metabolism. Development of leaves at 5°C also
led to an increase in cytoplasmic volume and a decrease in vacuolar volume, which may provide an important mechanism for increasing the
enzymes and metabolites in cold-acclimated leaves. Understanding the
mechanisms underlying such structural changes during leaf development
in the cold could result in novel approaches to increasing plant yield.
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INTRODUCTION |
A rapid shift from warm growth conditions to chilling temperatures
(typically between 5°C and 10°C) leads to a pronounced inhibition
of photosynthetic carbon fixation. In chilling-sensitive C3 plants such as tomato and bean, this
inhibition is associated with the inactivation of regulatory
thioredoxin-activated enzymes of the Calvin cycle (Sassenrath and Ort,
1990
; Sassenrath et al., 1991; Holaday et al., 1992; Brüggemann
et al., 1994). Because the shift to low temperature is also associated
with a strong activation of NADP-malate dehydrogenase in bean (Holaday
et al., 1992), it is not due to a chill-induced lack of stromal
reducing equivalents. In tomato the chill-induced reduction in
photosynthesis is also associated with irreversible inactivation of
Rubisco and loss of Rubisco protein (Brüggemann et al., 1992).
Low temperature leads to a selective inhibition of end-product
synthesis. This results in an accumulation of phosphorylated
metabolites and a short-term phosphate limitation of photosynthesis
(Leegood and Furbank, 1986; Sharkey et al., 1986) that may be partly
due to the temperature-dependent changes in the affinity of cFBPase for its effectors, especially AMP (Stitt and Grosse, 1988).
Chilling inhibits phloem export, leading to a rapid accumulation of
soluble sugars and repressing photosynthetic gene expression (Krapp and
Stitt, 1995); Strand et al. (1997) showed this effect recently for
Arabidopsis during short-term exposure to low temperatures. The
inhibition of carbon fixation by low temperature may be followed by
photoinhibition (Somersalo and Krause, 1989; Hurry and Huner, 1992).
Chilling also interrupts the circadian-regulated transcription of
several nuclear-encoded photosynthetic genes in both chilling-sensitive tomato (Martino-Catt and Ort, 1992) and chilling-tolerant Arabidopsis (Kreps and Simon, 1997). These data show that short-term exposure of
chilling-sensitive and -tolerant species to low temperatures results in
feedback-mediated down-regulation of photosynthesis and photosynthetic
gene expression, perturbations to circadian-regulated processes, and,
in some instances, irreversible damage to photosynthetic proteins.
In contrast, when leaves of cold-hardy herbaceous plants develop at low
growth temperatures (5°C), they show a remarkable recovery of
photosynthetic capacity. Even in the short term, low temperatures lead
to an increase in the activation state of the Calvin-cycle enzymes in
chilling-tolerant C3 plants such as spinach, winter rye, and winter oilseed rape (Holaday et al., 1992; Hurry et
al., 1994, 1995b), which is the opposite of the response in cold-sensitive species (see above). When Arabidopsis leaves develop at
low temperature, they no longer show the suppression of transcript levels for photosynthetic proteins that is found after shifting warm-grown leaves to low temperatures (Strand et al., 1997). As a
result, leaves that have developed at low temperature contain higher
activities of selected enzymes of the photosynthetic carbon-reduction cycle (Hurry et al., 1994, 1995b). This reversal of the sink regulation of photosynthetic gene expression (Jang and Sheen, 1994; Jang et al.,
1997) occurs even though these leaves produce and maintain large pools
of soluble sugars.
Leaves of Arabidopsis that develop at 5°C greatly increase their
expression of SPS and cFBPase in the Suc-synthesis pathway in the
cytosol but not in the starch-synthesis pathway in the plastid (Strand
et al., 1997). Marked increases in the SPS activity have also been
reported for spinach (Guy et al., 1992; Holaday et al., 1992), for
winter cultivars of oilseed rape and wheat (Hurry et al., 1995b), and
rye (Hurry et al., 1994) after prolonged exposure to cold. The
increased expression and activity of Suc-synthesis enzymes correlates
with an accumulation of sugars in leaves at low temperature. It has
been proposed that high sugar levels might be important for
cryoprotection (Santarius, 1982; Anchordoguy et al., 1987; Carpenter
and Crowe, 1988). However, there is no direct evidence that the
increased sugar levels are due to increased synthesis and not just to a
passive response to the inhibition of growth and phloem transport. It
is also not clear whether the increased activities of the enzymes
leading to Suc merely counteract the direct inhibitory effect of low
temperature (see above) or whether they actually lead to increased Suc
synthesis.
Another marked short-term effect found after shifting warm-grown plants
to low temperatures is the accumulation of large pools of
phosphorylated intermediates (Labate and Leegood, 1988; Hurry et al.,
1994; Strand et al., 1997), thought to reflect the inhibition of
end-product synthesis at low temperatures (see above). It has been
suggested that this accumulation of phosphorylated intermediates contributes to the feedback down-regulation of photosynthesis, because
the cytosolic and chloroplastic pools of Pi become depleted to the
point where photophosphorylation is Pi limited (Herold, 1980;
Mächler et al., 1984; Leegood and Furbank, 1986; Labate and
Leegood, 1988; Stitt and Grosse, 1988). Although this may be true for
leaves exposed to short-term (minutes to hours) drops in temperature,
it is unclear whether Pi limitation persists in the long term (days) in
plants acclimating to low temperature. The subcellular compartmentation
of Pi is tightly regulated, and 85% to 95% of the Pi may be located
in the vacuole in well-fertilized plants (Bieleski and Ferguson, 1983).
Prolonged exposure to low-temperature-induced Pi deficiency might
therefore be buffered by the release of Pi from the vacuole (Woodrow et
al., 1984; Mimura et al., 1990), as occurs when choline feeding
depletes Pi in the cytosol (Bligny et al., 1990). Reports that
cold-acclimated plants show damping of oscillations in
O2 evolution under conditions of light- and CO2-saturated photosynthesis (Hurry et al., 1993)
indicate a repoising of the cytosolic Pi pool after cold development of
leaves. This conclusion is supported by data showing an increase,
rather than a decrease, in the ATP/ADP ratio in cold-developed leaves
(Sobczyk et al., 1985; Hurry et al., 1995c; Strand et al., 1997). The
role of Pi in acclimation to the cold and in the shift from starch to
soluble carbohydrate accumulation therefore remains unclear.
Studies of Arabidopsis and other cold-tolerant herbaceous plants
indicate that growth at low temperature leads to a developmental reprogramming of carbon metabolism that involves changes in gene expression and enzyme activity and possibly also changes of phosphate compartmentation. The resulting recovery of the photosynthetic rate and
the preferential accumulation of soluble sugars could be an essential
element for acclimation to low growth temperatures. Most previous
studies have concentrated on a single or a small number of enzymes,
however, and have not demonstrated that the changes in expression and
activity actually lead to significant increases in the rate of
photosynthesis and Suc synthesis. Furthermore, investigations of
metabolism have not yet been integrated with other effects of low
temperature on leaf development. Older studies of winter rye leaf
development at low growth temperatures reported increases in cell size
and cytoplasmic content, smaller vacuoles, and multivacuolated cells
(Huner et al., 1981, 1984; Griffith et al., 1985). Ristic and Ashworth
(1993) have shown that Arabidopsis parenchyma cells also undergo
ultrastructural changes after transfer to low temperatures in
continuous light, leading to multiple invaginations of the plasma
membrane, and the accumulation of microvesicles associated with the
plasma membrane, tonoplast, chloroplast envelope, and mitochondrial
outer membrane.
In this study we investigated whether (a) the recovery of
photosynthesis in the cold is associated with coordinate changes in the
activity of several Calvin-cycle enzymes; (b) these changes plus the
up-regulation of the cytosolic pathway for Suc synthesis reported
previously for Arabidopsis after growth and development at low
temperature (Strand et al., 1997) result in an increased flux into Suc;
and (c) the Pi status in the cytoplasm is also adjusted during
acclimation to low growth temperatures. Finally, we assessed whether
there is a link between metabolic adaptations and anatomical changes
after leaf development at low temperatures.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
Plant Material
Arabidopsis (Heynh.) ecotype Colombia seeds were sown in 5-cm
square plastic pots containing a mixture of peat moss:washed river
sand:perlite (2:1:1, v/v) and germinated under controlled-environment conditions: 150 µmol photons m
2
s1, supplied by a mixture of incandescent and
cool-white fluorescent lights; a day/night temperature regime of
23°C/18°C; and an 8-h photoperiod. Approximately 21 d after
sowing, seedlings were transplanted to a final density of one seedling
per pot and given one-half-strength nutrient solution twice weekly and
water as required (Hurry et al., 1994). Approximately 28 d later,
when the leaves had developed into fully mature source leaves, the
plants were shifted to 150 µmol photons m2
s1, a day/night temperature regime of
5°C/5°C, and an 8-h photoperiod. Leaves were sampled after 10 d at 5°C, and again approximately 40 d after the shift, when a
new rosette of leaves had fully developed.
Chlorophyll and Protein Content and Specific Leaf Weight
Chlorophyll was determined in 80% buffered acetone (Porra et al.,
1989) and total protein according to the method of Bradford (1976). We
determined the specific leaf fresh weight, specific leaf dry weight,
and water content by drying leaf discs to a constant weight at 80°C.
Enzyme Activities
Two hours into the photoperiod, leaf material was frozen in light
at the temperature of liquid N2 and ground to a
fine powder. To assay the activity of SPS and cFBPase, 200 to 300 mg of
powdered, frozen leaf tissue was homogenized in 2 volumes of buffer (50 mM Mops-KOH, pH 7.4, 12 mM
MgCl2, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM
EGTA, 1 mM PMSF, 1 mM benzamidine, 1 mM 
-aminocaproic acid, 1 mM DTT, 0.1%
[v/v] Triton X-100, and 10 mg of polyvinylpolypyrrolidone and then
centrifuged at 11,000g for 5 min. The supernatant was then
collected and 500 µL was spin-desalted on a mini- column filled with
5 mL of Sephadex G-25 (Pharmacia), pre-equilibrated with 50 mM Mops-KOH, pH 7.4, 12 mM
MgCl2, and 1 mM DTT. We
immediately assayed the SPS activity (Hill et al., 1996) and quantified
the Suc produced using the anthrone reagent (Huber et al., 1989). The
remaining desalted extract was frozen in liquid
N2 and later used to assay for cFBPase activity
(Hurry et al., 1995a).
To assay the activity of the Calvin-cycle enzymes, 25 mg of frozen
tissue was homogenized in 500 µL of extraction buffer (50 Hepes-KOH,
pH 7.4, 12 mM MgCl2, 10 mM KCl, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM EGTA, 0.5 mM PMSF, 1 mM -aminocapronic acid, 10 µM leupeptin, 2 mM DTT, 0.1% [v/v] Triton
X-100, 10 mg of polyvinylpolypyrrolidone, 5 mM
KHCO3 [for Rubisco only], 1 mM
Fru-1,6-bisP [for stromal FBPase only], and 10% [v/v] glycerol)
and then centrifuged at 11,000g for 5 min. We collected the
supernatant and immediately assayed enzymatic activity (Haake et al.,
1998).
Photosynthetic Carbon Flux
We cut leaf discs from the leaves 2 h into the photoperiod
and determined photosynthetic carbon flux at both 23°C and 5°C by
incubating the leaf discs in a cuvette (model LD-2, Hansatech, Kings
Lynn, Norfolk, UK) at a saturating irradiance of 650 µmol m2 s1 at 5%
CO2, containing 4 µCi
14CO2. The pulse times were
20 min at 23°C and 40 min at 5°C. We analyzed the incorporation of
14C into the soluble fractions and starch as
described in Kruckenberg et al. (1989). The short incubation was to
avoid complications due to photoinhibition.
Soluble Sugars and Starch
At various times during the photoperiod, leaf material was frozen
in the light in liquid N2. We measured Suc, Glc,
Fru, and starch in the soluble and residual fractions of ethanol-water extracts. Samples were ground to powder in liquid
N2 and extracted in 80% ethanol containing 4 mM Hepes-KOH, pH 7.5, at 80°C for 30 min. Samples were
then centrifuged for 15 min at 11,000g; the supernatant was
decanted and stored on ice; the pellet was resuspended in 80%
ethanol-Hepes, pH 7.5, and put on the heat block again for 30 min. We
repeated this hot extraction twice, once with 50% ethanol-Hepes, pH
7.5, and once with only 4 mM Hepes, pH 7.5; the
supernatants were then combined and assayed for soluble sugars (Stitt
et al., 1989).
For starch extraction, we added 0.5 mL of distilled water to resuspend
the pellet and autoclaved the samples for 3 h. For starch cleavage
we added a 50-µL aliquot of the autoclaved suspension to 450 µL of
50 mM sodium-acetate incubation buffer, pH 4.8, containing 28 units of amyloglucosidase and 36 units of 
-amylase, and we incubated the samples at 37°C for 16 h. We then centrifuged the samples for 15 min at 11,000g and assayed the supernatant
for Glc (Stitt et al., 1989).
Pi Determination
Two hours into the photoperiod, we collected the leaf samples by
freezing them in the light at the temperature of liquid
N2. The frozen material was ground to a fine
powder at the same temperature and extracted in 3% (v/v)
HClO4. We centrifuged the samples for 5 min at
11,000g and used the supernatant to assay total leaf Pi
(Tausky and Shorr, 1953). The "metabolic" Pi pool was estimated by
feeding 200 mM Glc into the leaf through the
petiole at 23°C with 150 µmol photons m2
s1 for 30 min (Morcuende et al., 1998). We
measured the increases in Glc-6-P and Fru-6-P spectrophotometrically
(Stitt et al., 1989) and then determined their chlorophyll content as
pheophytin (Vernon, 1960).
Transmission Electron Microscopy
We harvested the control 23°C leaves, the 23°C/5°C leaves,
and the 5°C leaves 2 h into the photoperiod and submerged them in 20 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, containing 0.3 M Suc (for the 23°C and 23°C/5°C leaves) or 0.6 M Suc (for the 5°C leaves). We cut samples (about 1 mm2) with a new scalpel blade and fixed them with
4% glutaraldehyde in the buffer/Suc solutions for 2 h at room
temperature and then postfixed them in 2% osmium tetroxide in the same
buffers for another 1 h at room temperature. The samples were rinsed
twice in 20 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, and then
dehydrated using 20- to 30-min steps in a graded series of acetone
(10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, and two changes
of 100%). We transferred the dehydrated samples to a mixture of
Spurr's embedding medium (Spurr, 1969) and 100% acetone (1:1, v/v)
for 12 h at room temperature, with the sample vials clipped onto a
rotating mixing wheel. We replaced the acetone/Spurr's medium mixture
with pure Spurr's medium and incubated the samples in the mixer for
48 h at room temperature. We transferred the samples to 65°C for
8 to 10 h to complete the embedding. Silver-gold thin
sections of the tissue were cut with a diamond knife on an
ultramicrotome (model MT2-B, Sorvall) and collected on either 400-mesh
nickel grids or carbon-coated Formvar 200-mesh hexose high-transmission
grids. The sections were stained with 2% aqueous uranyl acetate and
lead citrate before we viewed them through an electron microscope
(model CM10, Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands), operating at 80 kV.
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RESULTS |
Calvin-Cycle Enzymes
Arabidopsis plants were grown at 23°C for approximately 49 d and then transferred to 5°C. We examined Calvin-cycle enzyme activities in leaves from plants at 23°C; after 10 d at 5°C;
in leaves that had already matured before the plants were transferred to low temperature (23°C/5°C); and in new leaves after about
40 d of development at 5°C. In Figure
1 enzyme activities are shown in relation
to chlorophyll. Chlorophyll increased by 35% on a fresh-weight basis
and by 80% on a leaf-area basis in leaves that had developed at low
temperature (see below). The following increases in enzyme activities
in cold-acclimated leaves would therefore be even larger if they had
been expressed on a fresh-weight or leaf-area basis.
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| Figure 1.
Activity of the Calvin-cycle enzymes, Rubisco,
PGK, GAPDH, aldolase, transketolase, stromal FBPase (sFBPase), and PRK,
per unit of chlorophyll (Chl) in 23°C leaves (open bars),
23°C/5°C leaves (shaded bars), and 5°C leaves (black bars).
Leaves were collected 2 h into the photoperiod and frozen at the
temperature of liquid N2. Each value represents the
mean ± SD of three different leaves from three
different plants.
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Of the seven Calvin-cycle enzymes measured, only Rubisco (Fig. 1A),
GAPDH (Fig. 1C), aldolase (Fig. 1D), and possibly stromal FBPase (Fig.
1F) showed substantial increases in total extractable activity in the
23°C/5°C leaves. In contrast, 5°C leaves showed significant
increases in the extractable activity of all seven enzymes, with
Rubisco (2.5-fold), aldolase (2.1-fold), and, to a lesser degree, GAPDH
(1.8-fold) and stromal FBPase (1.9-fold) showing the largest increases.
The remaining enzymes, PGK (Fig. 1B), transketolase (Fig. 1E), and PRK
(Fig. 1G), all showed approximately 1.5-fold increases in activity per
unit of chlorophyll when 5°C leaves were compared with control 23°C
leaves. Although increases in Rubisco and stromal FBPase activity at
5°C have been reported previously for spinach (Holaday et al., 1992),
winter rye (Hurry et al., 1994), and winter oilseed rape (Hurry et al.,
1995b), our data demonstrate that the activities of all of the
Calvin-cycle enzymes, including nonregulated enzymes such as aldolase,
increased significantly in the cold.
Cytosolic Enzyme Activities
We previously documented a gradual up-regulation of the
transcripts for SPS and cFBPase, the two cytosolic enzymes that are needed for Suc synthesis when Arabidopsis plants are shifted to 5°C
(Strand et al., 1997). The present experiments show that there is an
accompanying increase in activity, with both cFBPase and SPS activity
increasing by 3- to 4-fold in 5°C leaves (Fig.
2). The increases were larger in 5°C
leaves than in 23°C/5°C leaves. The increases were also larger than
for any of the Calvin-cycle enzymes (compare Figs. 1 and 2).
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| Figure 2.
Activity per unit of chlorophyll (Chl) of two
cytosolic enzymes, SPS (A) and cFBPase (B), for 23°C leaves (open
bars), 23°C/5°C leaves (shaded bars), and 5°C leaves (black
bars). Leaves were collected 2 h into the photoperiod and frozen
at the temperature of liquid N2. Each value represents the
mean ± SD of three different leaves from three
different plants.
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Calvin-Cycle Enzyme Activities Increased Because of a General
Increase of Protein
Compared with the control 23°C leaves, the 23°C/5°C leaves
showed a slight decrease in water content (see also Lång et al., 1994), a slight increase in the specific leaf fresh weight and the
specific leaf dry weight, a small (12%) increase in leaf protein, and
no change in chlorophyll (Table I). In contrast, leaf development at
5°C resulted in a marked reduction of leaf water content from 91% to
78%, a 40% increase in the specific leaf fresh weight, a 3-fold
increase in the specific leaf dry weight, a 2.5-fold increase in total
leaf protein, and a 35% increase in chlorophyll, relative to the
control 23°C leaves (Table I). When chlorophyll and protein were
expressed on a leaf-area basis, 5°C leaves contained 80% more
chlorophyll than 23°C leaves (0.054 compared with 0.029 mg
chlorophyll cm2) and about 4-fold more protein
(0.57 compared with 0.15 mg protein cm2), calculated from Table
I. The increase in protein is a major contributor to the increase in specific leaf dry weight.
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Table I.
Physical characteristics of 23°C leaves,
23°C/5°C leaves, and 5°C leaves
Values represent the means ± SD for three leaves collected
from three different plants.
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We recalculated the enzyme activities shown in Figures 1 and 2 on a
protein basis (Table II). There were only
minor changes in the activities of Rubisco, PGK, GAPDH, aldolase,
stromal FBPase, transketolase, and PRK among 23°C leaves,
23°C/5°C leaves, and 5°C leaves when the activity was related to
total leaf protein. The increased activity of the Calvin-cycle enzymes
on a chlorophyll, fresh-weight, or leaf-area basis was therefore mainly
due to the general increase in leaf protein.
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Table II.
Changes in Calvin-cycle and Suc-biosynthesis enzyme
activities expressed on a protein basis in 23°C leaves, 23°C/5°C
leaves, and 5°C leaves
These activities were recalculated from the data shown in Figures 1 and
2 and Table I.
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SPS activity still showed a 1.8-fold increase in activity on a protein
basis, which was already evident in the 23°C/5°C leaves (Table II).
cFBPase showed a 1.2-fold increase in the 23°C/5°C leaves, but the
biggest increase was in the 5°C leaves (1.7-fold). The increased
activity of the Suc-biosynthesis enzymes at low temperatures is
therefore attributable to two processes: (a) a selective increase in
the expression and activity of the enzymes for Suc synthesis that also
occurs when preformed leaves are transferred to low temperature and (b)
a further increase, linked to a general increase in protein, in the
leaves that developed at low temperature.
Photosynthetic Carbon Flux
Although higher enzyme activities were observed in the 5°C
leaves under optimal assay conditions at 25°C, this does not provide direct evidence for enhanced carbon fixation at low temperature. To
provide this evidence, photosynthetic carbon flux was investigated as
14C incorporation by leaf discs provided with
CO2 from labeled bicarbonate solutions in a leaf
disc electrode. We determined the flux at both 23°C and 5°C, using
incubation times of 20 and 40 min, respectively.
When photosynthesis was measured at 23°C, no differences were found
in 14C incorporation between the control 23°C
and the 23°C/5°C leaves; the 5°C leaves showed a 1.5-fold higher
rate of 14CO2 incorporation
at 23°C (Fig. 3A). When similar
measurements were made at 5°C, the control 23°C leaves had very low
rates of C incorporation, the 23°C/5°C
leaves showed a slight enhancement of 14C
incorporation, and the 5°C leaves showed a dramatic 5-fold increase in photosynthetic carbon fixation (Fig. 3B). The rate of
14C incorporation in the 5°C leaves at 5°C
was similar to that in the 23°C or the 23°C/5°C leaves at 23°C.
These data demonstrate that the enhancements in enzymatic
capacity translated into an almost complete recovery of photosynthetic
carbon flux at the lower growth temperature.
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| Figure 3.
Photosynthetic carbon flux measured as
14C incorporation after illumination in a leaf disc
electrode for 20 and 40 min at 23°C (A) and 5°C (B), respectively.
The carbon flux was measured for 23°C leaves (open bars),
23°C/5°C leaves (shaded bars), and 5°C leaves (black bars).
Leaves were collected 2 h into the photoperiod. Each bar
represents the mean ± SD of at least three different
incubations. Insoluble, Starch; Neutral, sugars; Cationic, amino acids;
Anionic, organic acids and phosphorylated intermediates.
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These experiments also provided an opportunity to assess whether leaf
development at 5°C alters the partitioning of newly fixed carbon.
When photosynthesis was carried out at 23°C, the control 23°C
leaves allocated slightly more than 50% of their newly fixed carbon
into starch (Fig. 3A). This proportion remained at a similarly high
level (approximately 45%) in the 23°C/5°C leaves but decreased to
less than 30% in the 5°C leaves (Fig. 3B). This was not simply an
effect of treatment temperature because the reduced partitioning into
starch on a percentage basis was similar irrespective of when the
5°C-labeling experiment was carried out. Of the three soluble
fractions, the newly fixed carbon was primarily partitioned into the
neutral fraction, representing soluble carbohydrates. In the control
(23°C) leaves, approximately 30% of the labeled carbon went into the
neutral fraction, whereas in the 5°C leaves it increased to 40%
(Fig. 3). There was also a small relative increase in partitioning into
the cationic (amino acid) fraction in the 5°C leaves (18% versus
11% for the 23°C leaves) and a relatively larger increase of flux
into the anionic fraction (phosphorylated intermediates and organic
acids) in the 5°C leaves (14% versus 5% for the 23°C leaves).
Therefore, the primary effect of leaf development at 5°C is to
restore a high overall rate of photosynthesis, but there is also a
shift of emphasis in partitioning, away from starch and toward soluble
compounds including sugars.
Starch and Soluble Sugar Content
To provide more evidence for the increased synthesis of sugars in
low-temperature-acclimated leaves, we investigated the diurnal turnover
of leaf carbohydrates. Under warm growth conditions Arabidopsis leaves
preferentially accumulated large amounts of starch during the light
period (Fig. 4A) and contained a
relatively small pool of Suc (Fig. 4B) and minimal pools of the
reducing sugars Glc (Fig. 4C) and Fru (Fig. 4D). After 10 d at
5°C, the 23°C/5°C leaves contained large, relatively stable pools
of all three soluble carbohydrates, particularly Glc and Fru. They also
maintained a large and stable starch pool, which was not remobilized
during the night. These data indicate that, although the 23°C/5°C
leaves contained high carbohydrate pools at 5°C, there was actually
little synthesis during the day and little remobilization from these pools during the long (16-h), dark period. This correlates with the
lack of any substantive recovery of photosynthesis in these leaves at
5°C (Fig. 3) and with the continued suppression of photosynthetic gene expression (Strand et al., 1997). The high levels of sugars and
starch in these 23°C/5°C leaves may be due at least partly to
decreased export, but this remains to be investigated.
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| Figure 4.
Carbohydrate content for 23°C leaves ( ),
23°C/5°C leaves ( ), and 5°C leaves ( ). Samples were frozen
in the light at various times during the photoperiod at the temperature
of liquid N2. Each point represents the mean ± SD of three different leaves from three different plants.
The bar at the top of the graphs indicates the times when the lights
were off (black bars) or on (white bars). Chl, Chlorophyll; hex,
hexose.
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In contrast, the 5°C leaves contained a large Suc pool that showed
marked diurnal changes. Large amounts of Suc accumulated throughout the
day and a substantial amount was mobilized after the end of the day. A
significant pool was nevertheless maintained throughout the dark
period. The cold-developed 5°C leaves also contained substantial
pools of reducing sugars, although it is noteworthy that they were
smaller than in the 23°C/5°C leaves and that they were relatively
stable throughout the photoperiod. The starch pool in the 5°C leaves
built up during the day, although to a lesser extent than in the
control 23°C leaves, and was remobilized during the dark period.
These data support the conclusions drawn from Figure 3 that development
at 5°C enabled Arabidopsis leaves to recover significant
photosynthetic capacity and simultaneously allowed a marked shift
toward partitioning into a large and active Suc pool.
Total Pi Pools and Available Pi
We determined the amount of Pi readily available for metabolism
and the total Pi pools in the cytoplasm in samples collected 2 h
into the photoperiod. Total Pi in the whole-leaf extracts did not
change substantially in either the 23°C/5°C leaves or the 5°C
leaves (Fig. 5A). The values reported
here correspond with previous reports of Arabidopsis leaves grown under
warm conditions (Poirier et al., 1991). We determined the metabolically
accessible Pi pool by providing the leaves with 200 mM Glc
for 30 min and then measuring the overall level of phosphorylated
hexoses (Morcuende et al., 1998). This approach provided only a
qualitative picture of the changes in Pi in the cytoplasm, because (a)
Pi is also incorporated into other compounds and (b) even in this time
frame we cannot exclude the possibility that some Pi was drawn back from the vacuole. The level of hexose phosphates found after a short
pulse with 200 mM Glc increased 1.3-fold in the
23°C/5°C leaves and 3-fold in the 5°C leaves compared with the
23°C leaves. Thus, even though phosphorylated intermediates increased
at low temperatures (Strand et al., 1997), Pi availability increased rather than decreased. This indicates that Pi was not likely to inhibit
photophosphorylation and photosynthesis after long-term exposure to low
temperature, in contrast to the effects of short-term exposure (see the
introduction).
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| Figure 5.
Total Pi content (A) and available Pi pools (B) in
Arabidopsis leaves. Leaf samples for the determination of total Pi were
collected 2 h into the photoperiod by freezing in light at the
temperature of liquid N2. To determine available Pi, 200 mM Glc was fed through the petiole in ambient light for 30 min. The increase in hexose-P was then determined. The figures show the
results for 23°C leaves (open bars, ), 23°C/5°C leaves (shaded
bars, ), and 5°C leaves (black bars, ). Each value represents
the mean ± SD of at least three different leaves.
Chl, Chlorophyll.
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Leaf Anatomy
The control 23°C leaves of Arabidopsis contained mesophyll cells
that exhibited a typical, large central vacuole surrounded by a thin
layer of cytoplasm (arrow) (Fig. 6A).
Figure 6B illustrates that control leaves also exhibited a normal
tonoplast membrane and chloroplast morphology. Shifting plants to low
temperature led to minimal changes in the amounts of cytoplasm observed
in cross-sections (Fig. 6C, arrows) relative to controls, although enhanced staining of the tonoplast membranes was observed (Fig. 6D). In
contrast, mesophyll cells in 5°C leaves showed an increase in both
cytoplasmic volume and density (Fig. 6E, arrows). The increase in
cytoplasmic volume was accompanied by a decrease in the relative
contribution of the vacuole to total cell volume. Development at low
temperature did not appear to affect either the staining of the
tonoplast membranes or the chloroplast morphology (Fig. 6F).
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| Figure 6.
Electron micrographs of Arabidopsis mesophyll
cells. A and B, 23°C leaves; C and D, 23°C/5°C leaves; E and F,
5°C leaves. Bars in A, C, and E = 1 µm; bars in B, D, and
F = 0.1 µm. T, Tonoplast membrane.
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This interpretation of the electron micrographs is supported by the
large decrease in the water content of the leaves and by the
observation that this decrease was accompanied by a marked increase of
protein (Table I) but not of starch (Fig. 4).
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DISCUSSION |
Increased Photosynthetic Capacity and Reprogramming of Allocation
in Cold-Acclimated Leaves
In the short-term, a rapid drop in leaf temperature leads to an
inhibition of photosynthesis and Suc biosynthesis. For herbaceous plants a reversal of this inhibition is likely to constitute an essential response for their acclimation to low temperatures and consequently for their winter survival.
Arabidopsis leaves that developed at 5°C showed a 5-fold increase in
carbon fixation compared with the control 23°C leaves measured at
5°C. When the fluxes were compared at warm temperature (23°C), the
5°C leaves also possessed a higher capacity for photosynthetic carbon
fixation than did the control leaves. Indeed, the fully acclimated
5°C leaves were able to maintain a flux of fixed carbon at 5°C that
was similar to that maintained by the control leaves at 23°C. This
increased capacity for photosynthetic carbon flux required a
reprogramming of carbon metabolism (Strand et al., 1997). As a result,
the Arabidopsis 5°C leaves were able to produce and accumulate large
pools of soluble sugars without any associated suppression of
photosynthetic gene expression or metabolism. As we discuss below, the
metabolic changes resulting from leaf development at 5°C included
changes in Pi allocation and in the activities of Calvin-cycle enzymes
and enzymes for Suc synthesis.
Coordinate Increases in the Activities of Regulated and
Nonregulated Calvin-Cycle Enzymes Stimulated Photosynthetic Carbon
Fixation
Each of the seven Calvin-cycle enzymes that we investigated showed
an increase in total activity in the 5°C leaves. The increase was not
due to a specific increase of the activity of individual enzymes;
rather, there was a general increase in the total leaf protein that
resulted in an increase in the activities of all of the Calvin-cycle
enzymes. These increases in Calvin-cycle enzyme activity and total leaf
protein were very small in the 23°C/5°C leaves and much larger in
the 5°C leaves. Strand et al. (1997) found that transcript levels for
rbcS were low in mature leaves after shifting to low
temperature, whereas in leaves that developed at low temperature, the
transcript levels recovered and resembled those in control leaves at
23°C. This is in agreement with the finding that the 5°C leaves
showed a much more marked acclimation of enzyme activities than did the
23°C/5°C leaves and that acclimation was not only due to a specific
increase in the expression of photosynthetic enzymes.
There were differences in the extent to which individual Calvin-cycle
enzyme activities increased following acclimation to a lower growth
temperature. Whether these differential responses resulted from
variable sensitivities of the enzymes to low temperature or from other
factors remains to be determined. The most pronounced increases in
activity in the 5°C leaves were found for Rubisco (2.5-fold) and for
the "nonregulated" enzyme, aldolase (2.1-fold). Rubisco activity
has frequently been investigated and shown to increase in the cold in
several species of monocots and dicots (Treharne and Eagles, 1970;
Chabot et al., 1972; Holaday et al., 1992; Hurry et al., 1994, 1995b).
Nonregulated enzymes such as aldolase, on the other hand, have been
considered to be expressed in excess and to be unimportant for
regulation processes such as acclimation. This view clearly requires
re-evaluation; Haake et al. (1998) showed that antisense
down-regulation of aldolase in tobacco leaves resulted in a pronounced
reduction in carbon fluxes in the Calvin cycle.
Coordinate Increase of the Activities of Enzymes for Suc
Synthesis and Changes to Pi Compartmentation Stimulated Suc Synthesis
Previous studies have shown that there is a strong
up-regulation of the transcripts and extractable activity for enzymes
of the cytosolic pathway for sugar biosynthesis at low temperature, relative to the pathway for starch synthesis (Strand et al., 1997). The
present study shows that SPS and cFBPase activity also increased more
than Calvin-cycle enzyme activities. The increase probably contains two
components: a specific increase in the activity of the enzymes for Suc
biosynthesis that also occurs when leaves are shifted to 23°C and a
nonspecific increase that is linked to a general increase in leaf
protein and is found only in leaves that have developed at 5°C. In
agreement with this idea, Strand et al. (1997) found that transcript
levels for SPS and cFBPase rose when mature leaves were shifted to
5°C and in leaves that developed in the cold.
It has been suggested that the low rates of Pi release in end-product
synthesis limit photophosphorylation at low temperatures (Leegood and
Furbank, 1986; Sharkey et al., 1986). The increased activities of these
cytosolic enzymes involved in Suc biosynthesis could counteract this
limitation. Our results also indicate that changes in Pi
compartmentation occurred during low-temperature acclimation. Although
the total pool of Pi in the leaf cells did not change after cold
exposure, the availability of Pi increased, indicating that more Pi was
available for metabolism in the cytoplasm, especially in leaves that
developed at low temperature. This may explain why Pi did not become
limiting for photophosphorylation and photosynthesis, even though
phosphorylated intermediates were present at much higher levels in the
cold. This conclusion is supported by earlier studies of the effect of
leaf development at low temperature on ATP-to-ADP ratios and
oscillations in CO2-saturated O2 evolution and room-temperature chlorophyll
fluorescence (Hurry et al., 1993, 1995c). Further studies may reveal
how low temperatures trigger the release of Pi from the vacuole.
Previous investigators reported a significant increase in the soluble
sugar-to-starch ratio in several species after leaf development in the
cold (Hurry et al., 1995b; Strand et al., 1997). However, analyses of
carbohydrate pools at a single time do not reveal whether the changes
were due to increased synthesis or to inhibition of export. In this
report we show that cold development of leaves led to a shift in carbon
partitioning toward soluble sugar synthesis. Whereas in the control
23°C leaves, 50% of the incorporated
[14C]CO2 was incorporated
into starch and only 30% into sugars; in the 5°C leaves, only 30%
of the labeled carbon was found in starch and as much as 40% was
converted to sugars. The diurnal changes in leaf carbohydrate levels
provided independent evidence for a change in allocation. The 5°C
leaves accumulated less starch during the photoperiod than did the
control 23°C leaves and instead maintained a large Suc pool that
showed significant turnover during the diurnal period. Suc was not
fully mobilized during the night, which is consistent with the
hypothesis that, in addition to being important for the export of
photosynthate, Suc may play an osmoregulatory or cryoprotective role in
leaves in the cold (Anchordoguy et al., 1987; Carpenter and Crowe,
1988). In contrast, fully developed source leaves that had been shifted
to 5°C (the 23°C/5°C leaves) accumulated large pools of soluble
carbohydrates, including very large pools of free hexoses. These leaves
also contained a large amount of starch that was not remobilized during
the night. The accumulation of carbohydrates in the 23°C/5°C leaves
therefore appears to be due at least partly to limited export and
mobilization.
Development under low-temperature growth conditions allows plants to
acclimate carbon metabolism by shifting partitioning toward
soluble-sugar synthesis. Up-regulation of the cytosolic pathway for Suc
biosynthesis could be of great importance for the recovery of
photosynthesis and the maintenance of the flux of carbon at low
temperatures, as well as for the capacity to grow and develop new
leaves in the cold. The cFBPase and SPS enzymes play key roles in the
cold-acclimation process and molecular modifications of these enzymes
will be of great interest in the future.
Changes in Cytoplasmic and Vacuolar Volume Underlay the 2- to
3-Fold Increases in Protein and Enzyme Activity in Cold-Acclimated
Leaves
The protein content increased 2.5-fold in the 5°C leaves and was
responsible for the increased activities of Rubisco and other Calvin-cycle enzymes; and it played a major role in the increase of
cFBPase and SPS activity. To understand the mechanisms underlying acclimation to low temperatures, we need to investigate how the increased protein was physically accommodated in the leaf cells.
A marked decrease of water in leaves that developed at low temperatures
accompanied the changes in enzyme activities and protein. Electron
micrographs showed that these changes were due to an increase in the
relative volume of the cytoplasm and a decrease in the relative volume
of the vacuole. In the 5°C leaves the cytoplasm occupied a larger
volume of the leaf cell and appeared denser than in the 23°C leaves.
The vacuoles were clearly smaller in the 23°C/5°C leaves and in the
5°C leaves, but these structural changes were most pronounced in the
5°C leaves. Similar increases in cytoplasmic volume have been
reported previously for tree species (Siminovitch et al., 1967) and
winter rye (Huner et al., 1981; Griffith et al., 1985), indicating that
the changes observed for Arabidopsis in the present study represent a
typical response to cold acclimation. However, the functional
significance of these changes in cell structure has not previously been
recognized.
The anatomical changes observed in cold-developed leaves interact with
their metabolic adaptation. On one hand, it appears likely that the
increase in the cytoplasmic volume allows the cells to accommodate the
2- to 3-fold increase in leaf protein and therefore plays an integral
role in the acclimation of metabolism to low temperature, leading to an
increased capacity for photosynthesis and sugar synthesis. But on the
other hand, the increased cytoplasm may give rise to an increased need
for solutes, such as Suc, that are typically restricted to the
cytoplasm. Higher levels of sugars, especially Suc, may be necessary in
the cytoplasm not only to maintain export and provide cryoprotection
but possibly also to help mechanize a selective increase in the
cytoplasmic volume. Investigations of plants with altered levels of
sugars will test these ideas. Insight into the underlying mechanisms of
these structural changes in the cold could result in novel approaches
to increasing plant yield.
In conclusion, we have shown that leaf development at 5°C results in
the recovery of photosynthetic carbon fixation and a shift in the
partitioning of carbon away from starch and toward Suc. This
photosynthetic recovery is supported by coordinated increases in the
activity of several Calvin-cycle enzymes and by marked increases in the
activity of key cytosolic enzymes for Suc synthesis. Furthermore,
despite the large accumulation of hexose phosphates in the cold, Pi is
not limited and probably even increases in the cytosol. Finally, we
show a link between anatomical changes in leaf development at 5°C and
metabolic adjustments to the cold. An increase in the volume of the
cytoplasm may provide an important mechanism for increasing the enzymes
and metabolites in cold-acclimated leaves. It correlates with an
increased flux through the cytosol and Suc synthesis and possibly with
an increased need for solutes in the cytosol.
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FOOTNOTES |
1
This work was supported by grants from the
Swedish Technical Research Council (to P. Gardeström and P. Gustafsson), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (no. SFB 199 to M.S.),
and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (to
N.H.). V.H. acknowledges the generous support of the Alexander von
Humboldt-Stiftung and the Swedish Council for Forestry and Agricultural
Research.
*
Corresponding author; e-mail asa.strand{at}plantphys.umu.se; fax
46-90-786-66-76.
Received September 9, 1998;
accepted December 28, 1998.
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ABBREVIATIONS |
Abbreviations:
cFBPase, cytosolic Fru-1,6-bisphosphatase.
GAPDH, NADP-glyceraldehyde-P dehydrogenase.
PGK, phosphoglycerate
kinase.
PRK, phosphoribulokinase.
SPS, Suc-6-P synthase.
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