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First published online September 17, 2008; 10.1104/pp.108.125757 Plant Physiology 148:1721-1733 (2008) © 2008 American Society of Plant Biologists
Subclade of Flavin-Monooxygenases Involved in Aliphatic Glucosinolate Biosynthesis1,[W]Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Plant Biology and Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Centre for Pro-Active Plants, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK–1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark (J.L., B.G.H., B.A.H.); and Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616–8780 (J.A.O., D.J.K.)
Glucosinolates (GSLs) are amino acid-derived secondary metabolites with diverse biological activities dependent on chemical modifications of the side chain. We previously identified the flavin-monooxygenase FMOGS-OX1 as an enzyme in the biosynthesis of aliphatic GSLs in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) that catalyzes the S-oxygenation of methylthioalkyl to methylsulfinylalkyl GSLs. Here, we report the fine mapping of a quantitative trait locus for the S-oxygenating activity in Arabidopsis. In this region, there are three FMOs that, together with FMOGS-OX1 and a fifth FMO, form what appears to be a crucifer-specific subclade. We report the identification of these four uncharacterized FMOs, designated FMOGS-OX2 to FMOGS-OX5. Biochemical characterization of the recombinant protein combined with the analysis of GSL content in knockout mutants and overexpression lines show that FMOGS-OX2, FMOGS-OX3, and FMOGS-OX4 have broad substrate specificity and catalyze the conversion from methylthioalkyl GSL to the corresponding methylsulfinylalkyl GSL independent of chain length. In contrast, FMOGS-OX5 shows substrate specificity toward the long-chain 8-methylthiooctyl GSL. Identification of the FMOGS-OX subclade will generate better understanding of the evolution of biosynthetic activities and specificities in secondary metabolism and provides an important tool for breeding plants with improved cancer prevention characteristics as provided by the methylsulfinylalkyl GSL.
Glucosinolates (GSLs) are amino acid-derived secondary metabolites present in the order Brassicales. Upon disruption of plant tissue by, for example, wounding or mastication, GSLs are hydrolyzed by the thioglucosidases, myrosinases, which produce a range of breakdown products, primarily isothiocyanates and nitriles, with diverse biological activities (Halkier and Gershenzon, 2006  ; Zhang et al., 2006b). GSLs (typically their hydrolysis products) act as antimicrobials against pathogens, feeding deterrents toward generalist herbivores, and as attractants for specialist herbivores (Kliebenstein et al., 2001a; Tierens et al., 2001). For humans, the well-studied sulforaphane, which is derived from 4-methylsulfinylbutyl (4-MSB) GSL and the isothiocyanates derived from 7-methylsulfinylheptyl (7-MSH) GSL and 8-methylsulfinyloctyl (8-MSO) GSL, are considered very potent cancer-preventive agents because of their strong induction of xenobiotic phase II detoxification enzymes in animals (Zhang et al., 1992; Rose et al., 2000). These isothiocyanates can decrease the risk of developing different cancers, such as breast cancer (Rose et al., 2005), gastric cancer (Fahey et al., 2002), and skin cancer (Talalay et al., 2007). The potent cancer-preventive property of the hydrolysis product of methylsulfinylalkyl (MS) GSLs makes it desirable to characterize the genes that encode for the enzymes that catalyze the S-oxygenation reaction from methylthioalkyl (MT) to MS GSLs.
Biosynthesis of MS GSLs can be divided into three separate phases (i.e. Met chain elongation, GSL core structure formation [Halkier and Gershenzon 2006
The conversion of MT to MS GSLs was originally studied via genetic means using natural variation in Arabidopsis and Brassica napus as defined by the GSL S-oxygenation (GS-OX) quantitative trait loci (QTLs; Giamoustaris and Mithen, 1996 ; Kliebenstein et al., 2001a, 2001b, 2002). These studies identified several independent GS-OX loci that mapped near FMOGS-OX1, although they did not overlap with the physical position of FMOGS-OX1. These GS-OX loci even showed structural specificity such that some affected all aliphatic GSLs, whereas others were specific to subsets of substrates. The QTL study suggests that the GS-OX loci near the physical position of FMOGS-OX1 may contain the candidate genes for the additional MT to MS S-oxygenating enzyme activity previously suggested (Hansen et al., 2007). In this article, we identify four FMOGS-OX1-related genes encoding for enzymes that catalyze the MT to MS S-oxygenation reaction. By fine genetic mapping analysis, we found that three FMOGS-OX1 homologs, At1g62540, At1g62570, and At1g62560, mapped to a 0.2-Mb area containing a GS-OX QTL in multiple Arabidopsis populations. The five FMO genes At1g65860 (FMOGS-OX1), At1g62540 (FMOGS-OX2), At1g62560 (FMOGS-OX3), At1g62570 (FMOGS-OX4), and At1g12140 (FMOGS-OX5) were found within a subclade of the FMO phylogeny that (at least presently) consists of genes from only cruciferous species. Furthermore, we characterize the Arabidopsis enzymes in this subclade and show that FMOGS-OX2 to FMOGS-OX4 are able to catalyze the S-oxygenation independent of chain length, as was observed for FMOGS-OX1, and that FMOGS-OX5 is specific for 8-methylthiooctyl (8-MTO) GSL.
Phylogenetic Tree of Plant FMOs in Proposed Clade III
Previous phylogenetic analysis had shown three plant FMO clades from the genomic sequence of rice (Oryza sativa), Arabidopsis, and poplar (Populus tremuloides; Hansen et al., 2007
Fine-Scale Mapping of GS-OX
Previous quantitative genetics analysis mapped a GS-OX locus on Arabidopsis chromosome I in crude proximity to the characterized FMOGS-OX1 (Kliebenstein et al., 2001b
To better resolve the molecular genetic basis of the originally identified GS-OX locus, we generated a F2 population by crossing the Ler and Wei-0 accessions, which have a strong difference in the GS-OX phenotype, but have the same allelic status at the epistatic GS-Elong and GS-AOP QTLs (Kliebenstein et al., 2001b ; Wentzell et al., 2007). This population thereby allowed us to focus on GS-OX variation. We genotyped and HPLC phenotyped 400 F2 individuals and fine-scale mapped the GS-OX QTL in this population to a 200-kb region between 23.1 and 23.3 Mb on Arabidopsis chromosome I. This is in the same position as the original GS-OX locus from the Ler x Col-0 population, as well as proximal to the nga128 and HH375 markers from the Ler x Cvi and Bay-0 x Sha populations (Fig. 3; Loudet et al., 2002). This fine-scale map position did not include the FMOGS-OX1 gene, but did include three tandem duplicates that are the closest homologs of FMOGS-OX1, At1g62540, At1g62560, and At1g62570 (Fig. 2). Additionally, all three genes had cis-expression QTLs in the available Bay x Sha QTL data, suggesting that gene expression rather than enzyme activity variation in this tandem gene family underlies the GS-OX QTL linked to the nga128 and HH375 markers in multiple Arabidopsis populations (West et al., 2007). No recombination events between these genes could be identified. The phylogenetic relationship of these FMOs to a gene encoding an enzyme that converts MT to MS GSLs, their physical proximity to a locus controlling the conversion of MT to MS GSLs, as well as the presence of expression diversity, led us to hypothesize that these genes are FMOGS-OXs within Arabidopsis. We then proceeded to directly test this biochemical hypothesis on these FMOs and on At1g12140, which belongs to the proposed FMOGS-OX clade (Fig. 2).
We previously showed that FMOGS-OX1 S-oxygenates desulfo and intact MT GSLs, but not other precursors in the Met-derived GSL biosynthesis pathway in Arabidopsis (Hansen et al., 2007
The aliphatic, Met-derived GSLs are divided into classes of different side chain lengths: short chain, propyl (C3) and butyl (C4); middle chain, pentyl (C5) and hexyl (C6); and long chain, heptyl (C7) and octyl (C8). Because 4-MTB is the only commercially available MT GSL, we extracted desulfo GSLs from seeds of the Arabidopsis accession Col-0 to use as substrates in the FMOGS-OX enzyme assay. 4-MTB and 8-MTO GSLs are the dominant GSLs in these seeds. This allowed us to test whether any of the FMOGS-OXs catalyzes the S-oxygenation of MT GSLs with chain lengths other than 4-MTB. Spheroplasts of E. coli expressing FMOGS-OX1, FMOGS-OX2, FMOGS-OX3, FMOGS-OX4, and FMOGS-OX5 were incubated with the desulfo GSLs derived from seeds, followed by HPLC analyses. Consistent with the previous work, FMOGS-OX1, FMOGS-OX2, FMOGS-OX3, and FMOGS-OX4, but not FMOGS-OX5, catalyzed the conversion of 4-MTB to 4-MSB (Fig. 5, B–F ). Interestingly, all five recombinant proteins converted 8-MTO to 8-MSO (Fig. 5, B–F). Thus, FMOGS-OX1, FMOGS-OX2, FMOGS-OX3, and FMOGS-OX4 catalyze the S-oxygenating reaction for both short-chain and long-chain MT GSL, whereas FMOGS-OX5 has a more limited substrate specificity as indicated by its specificity for 8-MTO. This suggests that this cluster of FMOs is involved in GSL biosynthesis and that the enzymes have evolved different substrate specificities.
GSL Analyses of FMOGS-OX Knockout Mutants To validate the S-oxygenation activities of these FMOs in planta, we obtained two independent T-DNA knockout mutants for, respectively, FMOGS-OX2 and FMOGS-OX4, and one T-DNA knockout mutant for, respectively, FMOGS-OX3 and FMOGS-OX5. These T-DNA mutants were confirmed as having no detectable transcript for the corresponding FMOGS-OX by reverse transcription (RT)-PCR (Supplemental Fig. S1). For each FMOGS-OX knockout mutant, we measured GSL content in leaves and seeds of segregating progeny obtained from a heterozygous parent (Supplemental Table S4). By analyzing the GSL content in wild-type and homozygous knockout plants in a segregating population derived from a single heterozygous parent, we minimize the influence of potential maternal effects. From the HPLC data, the ratio of MT GSL to the sum of MT and MS GSL, which represents the S-oxygenation activity for the conversion from MT GSL to MS GSL, was calculated for each chain length. For FMOGS-OX2 and FMOGS-OX4, there was no statistically significant difference between the MT:(MT + MS) ratios of the two independent T-DNA knockout mutants of the same gene, and the data from the mutants were pooled. In agreement with predicted biochemistry for FMOGS-OX2, its homozygous knockout mutants showed an increased ratio of MT:(MT + MS) for the butyl, pentyl, heptyl, and octyl Met-derived GSLs in both leaves and seeds in comparison with wild-type plants (Table I ). A homozygous knockout mutant in the proposed long-chain-specific FMOGS-OX5 had an increased MT:(MT + MS) for C8 GSLs in seeds, but also for other chain lengths (Table II ). This agrees with the observation that only 8-MTO was found to be a substrate for recombinant FMOGS-OX5. The observed changes in the knockout mutants are likely not absolute due to compensatory function present in the other functioning FMOGS-OXs. In contrast, the T-DNA knockout mutant of FMOGS-OX4 did not show an increase in MT:(MT + MS) in either leaves or seeds (Table III ). This may be due to low expression or low in planta activity in the Col-0 accession, in which case a mutant phenotype will be hidden by functional redundancy with the other FMOGS-OXs.
The only available T-DNA knockout mutant for FMOGS-OX3 is in the Ler accession. In contrast to the Col-0 accession, Ler has predominantly propyl C3 instead of butyl C4 Met-derived GSLs (Kliebenstein et al., 2001b ). Another difference between the two ecotypes is that Ler expresses a functional AOP3 (2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase; Kliebenstein et al., 2001c), which catalyzes the conversion from MS GSL to hydroxyalkyl (OH) GSL (Fig. 1). This results in accumulation of OH GSL instead of MS GSL in Ler. Therefore, the ratio of MT GSL to the sum of MT and OH GSLs was used as a measure for GS-OX activity in Ler. Significant increase of 3-MT:(3-MT + 3-OH) was observed in both leaves and seeds in homozygous knockout mutants compared to wild-type plants (Table IV
). No significant difference was found for other MT GSLs in this knockout mutant, which suggests a preference of FMOGS-OX3 for short-chain MT GSLs in Ler. In our data, there is agreement between the in vitro and in planta activities for the majority of FMOGS-OXs.
Ratio of MT:(MT + MS) Decreased in FMOGS-OX Overexpressers To further complement the in vitro data, we individually overexpressed all four FMOs in Col-0. For each 35S::FMOGS-OX construct, two independent T1 lines were identified, segregants from these lines were genotyped, and GSLs measured from leaves and seeds of homozygotes and wild-type offspring (Supplemental Table S5). The ratio of MT:(MT + MS) was calculated for each chain length to estimate the GS-OX activity. There was no statistically significant difference between the two independent transgenic lines for any 35S::FMOGS-OX construct, and therefore data from the two lines were pooled. In leaves, MT GSLs were extensively converted into MS GSLs in the 35S::FMOGS-OX2 and 35S::FMOGS-OX3 lines, resulting in a significant decrease of the MT:(MT + MS) ratio in comparison to the wild type (Tables V and VI ). In seeds of the 35S::FMOGS-OX3, all MT GSLs were converted to MS GSLs, whereas only the short-chain butyl C4 Met-derived GSL showed a slight decrease in MT:(MT + MS) ratio in the seeds of 35S::FMOGS-OX2 (Tables V and VI). These data, combined with the T-DNA and in vitro analysis, suggest that, whereas these two genes are both FMOGS-OX enzymes, they have slightly different specificities.
35S::FMOGS-OX4 did not show a decrease in the ratio of MT:(MT + MS) either in leaves or in seeds (Table VII). For C4 GSLs, a very slight, but statistically significant, increase of MT:(MT + MS) was detected, indicating a possible repression of the conversion from 4-MTB to 4-MSB. As with the other FMOGS-OX overexpresser data, the 35S::FMOGS-OX4 data were derived from two independent, segregating T1 transgenic overexpression lines that exhibited a significant decrease of the MT:(MT + MS) ratio in comparison to wild-type plants (Supplemental Fig. S2; Supplemental Table S6). This suggests that FMOGS-OX4 catalyzes the S-oxygenation reaction and that the 35S::FMOGS-OX4 transgene was silenced in the T2 generation. In agreement with its predicted substrate specificity, 35S::FMOGS-OX5 lines had a significant decrease of MT:(MT + MS) for only octyl C8 GSL in seeds compared to wild type (Table VIII ). Interestingly, 7-methylthioheptyl (7-MTH) GSL, another long-chain MT GSL, had a similar concentration as 8-MTO in seeds of the wild-type plant, but we did not detect any 7-MSH GSL, indicating that no significant conversion from 7-MTH to 7-MSH occurred in 35S::FMOGS-OX5 (Supplemental Table S5). This confirmed that FMOGS-OX5 is specific for the 8-MTO GSL substrate.
Modifications of the GSL side chain are of particular importance because the biological activity of the GSL hydrolysis products is determined to a large extent by the structure of the side chain. We identified four new FMO genes encoding for enzymes capable of S-oxygenating aliphatic GSLs. Three of these FMOs, FMOGS-OX2 to FMOGS-OX4, were identified by fine mapping of a 200-kb region containing a GS-OX QTL on chromosome I in a Ler x Wei-0 F2 population. The three FMOs clustered together with FMOGS-OX5 and the previously characterized FMOGS-OX1 in a subclade that appears to be crucifer specific. FMOGS-OX2, FMOGS-OX3, and FMOGS-OX4 S-oxygenated all available MT GSLs as did FMOGS-OX1, whereas FMOGS-OX5 showed high substrate specificity to 8-MTO GSL.
In animals, there are five functionally expressed FMO genes that detoxify a vast spectrum of xenobiotics. This vast spectrum is due to broad substrate specificity that makes the mammalian FMOs capable of oxidizing thousands of plant natural products as well as thousands of synthetic therapeutic drugs (Krueger and Williams, 2005
It is reported that when there is no available substrate, the FMO proteins exist as 4
The phylogenetic tree of plant FMOs in rice, poplar, and Arabidopsis contains three clades (Hansen et al., 2007
We have shown that the biochemical function of the FMOGS-OXs is to catalyze the S-oxygenation of the endogenous substrate MT GSL to MS GSL. The physiological function of FMOGS-OXs depends on the biological activity of the hydrolysis products of the MS GSLs and of further modified GSLs. For humans, the isothiocyanate hydrolysis products of 4-MSB, 7-MSH, and 8-MSO GSLs have been shown to be strong inducers of phase II enzymes and thereby function as cancer-preventing agents (Rose et al., 2000
The Arabidopsis FMOGS-OXs are present in three gene clusters that appear to have evolved through a combination of local tandem duplication, whole-genome duplications, and a distal duplication (Fig. 2; Vision et al., 2000
The association of the duplicated FMOGS-OXs with independent QTLs for the S-oxygenation reaction in Arabidopsis raises another possible role for duplicated gene families (Fig. 2). Duplicated gene families, while providing redundancy to a system, may also enhance the potential for quantitative variation within a trait. This is illustrated by the fact that each of the FMOGS-OXs has a large expression polymorphism, yet there is only quantitative variation for this trait rather than qualitative. As such, the large polymorphisms in each independent gene are dampened by the presence of the other genes. While duplicated genes do show enhanced levels of genetic variation as would be expected under this model (Gu et al., 2004 In summary, identification of S-oxygenating activity of the FMOGS-OXs may impact both applied and basic research fields. These genes can potentially be applied in genetic engineering for the production of 4-MSB, 7-MSH, and 8-MSO GSLs, or removal of 2-hydroxy-but-3-enyl GSL. In addition, the characterization of the FMOGS-OXs will help to gain more biochemical insight into plant FMO proteins, which we have just begun to learn about, and it may also bring clues for the functions of the noncharacterized plant FMOs. Finally, this well-defined gene family may provide an optimal model for studying neo- versus subfunctionalization following gene duplication.
Generation of Phylogenetic Tree
The entire FMO complement from the genomic sequence for Medicago truncatula, grape (Vitis vinifera), Physcomitrella patens, rice (Oryza sativa), Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), and poplar (Populus tremuloides) were obtained and translated into their corresponding amino acid sequence. Gene abbreviations are per genome consortium convention or previous publication (Hansen et al., 2007
The accessions Ler and Wei-0 of Arabidopsis were crossed and the resulting F1 selfed to generate an F2 mapping population. These accessions were chosen because they have the same alleles at the AOP and Elong loci and thereby the only aliphatic GSL structural polymorphism between these accessions is a GS-OX polymorphism (Kliebenstein et al., 2001b
Previous HPLC data on GSL accumulation in the leaves and seeds of the Ler x Cvi RILs was reanalyzed to measure the GS-OX phenotype for the short-chain aliphatic GSLs (Supplemental Tables S2 and S3; Kliebenstein et al., 2001a
The coding sequences of the four FMOGS-OXs were amplified by RT-PCR. Total plant RNA was isolated with TRIzol (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's recommendations. First-strand cDNA was synthesized using the iScript cDNA synthesis kit (Bio-Rad). The coding sequence of FMOGS-OX2 (At1g62540) was amplified from first-strand cDNA with the following primers: 5'-ATGGCACCAGCTCAAAACCC-3' and 5'-GAGGATATGGGAAGGATG GAAACTAAT-3'. The coding sequence of FMOGS-OX3 (At1g62560) was amplified with the following primers: 5'-ATGGCACCAGCTCAAAACCAAATC-3' and 5'-TCTTCCATTTTCGAGGTAATAAG-3'. The coding sequence of FMOGS-OX4 (At1g62570) was amplified with the following primers: 5'-ATGGCACCAGCTCCTAGTCCAAT-3' and 5'-TCTTCCGGATTCGAGAAAACGA-3'. The coding sequence of FMOGS-OX5 (At1g12140) was amplified with the following primers: 5'-ATGGCACCAGCACGAACCCGA-3' and 5'-AGATTCCAATAACTGAGAAGGAAG-3'. The amplified PCR products were cloned into pBAD-TOPO vector using pBAD-TOPO TA expression kit (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's protocol, resulting in Ara-inducible expression constructs for His-tagged FMOGS-OX proteins. The constructs were confirmed by sequencing. Constructs expressing FMOGS-OX proteins and a negative control (empty pBAD-TOPO vector) were transformed into the E. coli strain TOP10 (Invitrogen). Expression of FMOGS-OXs was performed according to the manufacturer's recommendation with 0.02% Ara followed by growth at 28°C, 250 rpm for 2 h. E. coli spheroplasts were isolated as previously described (Hansen et al., 2007
The enzymatic activity of the four FMOGS-OXs was analyzed by spheroplast enzymatic assays. A 100-µL volume of assay solution contained spheroplasts corresponding to 50 µg of total E. coli protein, substrate, 0.1 M Tricine (pH 7.9), and 0.25 mM NADPH. The reaction mixture was incubated for 1 h at 30°C followed by the addition of 100 µL methanol and centrifugation at 5,000g for 2 min. Supernatant (200 µL) was lyophilized and dissolved in 50 µL water. In the assays using desulfo 4-MTB GSL as substrate, final substrate concentration was 0.25 mM. In the assays using desulfo GSL extracts from Arabidopsis seeds as substrate, final concentration was 2 mM total GSLs.
Plants were grown in a growth chamber at a photosynthetic flux of 100 µE at 20°C and 70% relative humidity with a 16/8-h photoperiod.
Two T-DNA insertion mutants for each of FMOGS-OX2 and FMOGS-OX4 and one T-DNA insertion mutant for FMOGS-OX5 in Col-0 background were obtained. One T-DNA insertion mutant in ecotype Ler background was obtained for FMOGS-OX3.
The insertion mutants for FMOGS-OX2 were the Salk_080561 line (FMOGS-OX2-a) and Salk_098896 line (FMOGS-OX2-b; Alonso et al., 2003
The insertion mutant for FMOGS-OX3 was GT13906 line (Martienssen, 1998
The insertion mutants for FMOGS-OX4 were Salk-059185 line (FMOGS-OX4-a) and Salk_078861 line (FMOGS-OX4-b; Alonso et al., 2003
The insertion mutants for FMOGS-OX5 were WiscDsLox361H10 line (Woody et al., 2007 Leaves from homozygous FMOGS-OX2-a, FMOGS-OX2-b, FMOGS-OX3, FMOGS-OX4-a, FMOGS-OX4-b, and FMOGS-OX5 were harvested 20 to 25 d after germination. RNA was extracted with TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's instructions. First-strand cDNA was synthesized using the iScript cDNA synthesis kit (Bio-Rad). The primers used in cloning of each gene for heterologous expression in E. coli were used as RT-PCR primers.
GSL extraction was performed as previously described (Hansen et al., 2007
For each FMOGS-OX T-DNA insertion mutant line, a single heterozygous plant was allowed to self-pollinate. Plants from segregating seeds were grown in two independent replicates. At 20 to 25 d, individual leaves from each plant were harvested for GSL analysis and for PCR genotyping. GSL contents in wild-type, heterozygous, and homozygous plants were compared. Nested ANOVA was used to test the impact of the T-DNA insertion within each of FMOGS-OX genes on all individual GSLs and resultant variables as described previously (Hansen et al., 2007
The coding sequences of the four FMOGS-OXs were amplified from the constructs for the heterologous expression in E. coli (described above) with Pfu Turbo CX Hotstart DNA polymerase (Stratagene). The overexpression constructs driven by the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter were created by cloning the above PCR product into pCAMBIA230035Su using the USER method as described (Nour-Eldin et al., 2006 Primers for amplification of FMOGS-OX2 were 5'-GCTTAAUATGGCACCAGCTCAAAACC-3' and 5'-GGTTTAAUTTAGAGGATATGGGAAGG-3'. Primers for FMOGS-OX3 were 5'-GGCTTAAUATGGCACCAGCTCAAAACCA-3' and 5'-GGTTTAAUCATCTTCCATTTTCGAGGTAATAA-3'. Primers for FMOGS-OX4 were 5'-GGCTTAAUATGGCACCAGCTC-3' and 5'-GGTTTAAUCGTAGTCAAACTTCATCTTCCG-3'. Primers for FMOGS-OX5 were 5'-GGCTTAAUATGGCACCAGCACGAACCCGA-3' and 5'-GGTTTAAUTCAAGATTCCAATAACTGAGAAGG-3'.
The overexpression constructs with FMOGS-OXs driven by the 35S promoter were transformed into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain C58 (Zambryski et al., 1983
For each FMOGS-OX gene, two independent T1 transgenic lines with high FMOGS-OX activity were selected for further analysis. Plants from each transgenic line were grown in two independent biological replicates. Leaf material from each plant was harvested for GSL analysis and for genotyping for the presence or absence of the NptII transgene using the primers 5'-CAGCAATATCACGGGTAGCCA-3' and 5'-GGCTATTCGGCTATGACTGGG-3'. GSL contents in transgenic and wild-type Arabidopsis plants were compared. Nested ANOVA was used to test the impact of FMOGS-OX overexpression on all individual GSLs and resultant variables as previously described (Hansen et al., 2007
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Received July 7, 2008; accepted September 14, 2008; published September 17, 2008.
1 This work was supported by the Villum Kann Rasmussen (VKR) Foundation (grant to VKR Research Centre for Pro-Active Plants); the National Science Foundation (grant nos. DBI–0642481 and MCB–0323759 to D.J.K.); Research School for Biotechnology graduate school (Ph.D. stipend to B.G.H.); and a Marie Curie IIF fellowship (contract no. MIF1–CT–2006–022344 to J.L.). 
2 These authors contributed equally to the article.
3 Present address: Center for Microbial Biotechnology, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, DK–2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark. The author responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantphysiol.org) is: Barbara Ann Halkier (bah{at}life.ku.dk).
[W] The online version of this article contains Web-only data. www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.108.125757 * Corresponding author; e-mail bah{at}life.ku.dk.
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-hydroperoxy flavin, which is a precharged complex containing a reduced form of fatty acid dehydrogenase and NADPH that is ready to act on substrates (Eswaramoorthy et al., 2006
