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First published online November 10, 2006; 10.1104/pp.106.089003 Plant Physiology 143:188-198 (2007) © 2007 American Society of Plant Biologists OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
Arabidopsis Sucrose Transporter AtSUC9. High-Affinity Transport Activity, Intragenic Control of Expression, and Early Flowering Mutant Phenotype1,[OA]Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108 (A.B.S., A.R., M.E.J., A.D.K., J.M.W.); Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Plant Industry, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, St. Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia (C.P.L.G., J.M.P.); and Cooperative Research Centre for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia (C.P.L.G., J.M.P.)
AtSUC9 (At5g06170), a sucrose (Suc) transporter from Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) L. Heynh., was expressed in Xenopus (Xenopus laevis) oocytes, and transport activity was analyzed. Compared to all other Suc transporters, AtSUC9 had an ultrahigh affinity for Suc (K0.5 = 0.066 ± 0.025 mM). AtSUC9 showed low substrate specificity, similar to AtSUC2 (At1g22710), and transported a wide range of glucosides, including helicin, salicin, arbutin, maltose, fraxin, esculin, turanose, and
1 This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (grant no. DE–FG02–03ER15414 to J.M.W.), by the Bernard and Jean Phinney Graduate Fellowship in Plant Molecular Biology (to A.B.S.), and by the Australian Academy of Science through the International Science and Technology Collaboration Programme (the visit of C.P.L.G. to the Ward laboratory). 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: John M. Ward (jward{at}tc.umn.edu). [OA] Open Access articles can be viewed online without a subscription. www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.106.089003 * Corresponding author; e-mail jward{at}tc.umn.edu; fax 612–625–1738. Received August 29, 2006; accepted November 1, 2006; published November 10, 2006. This article has been cited by other articles:
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-methyl-D-glucose. The ability of AtSUC9 to transport 10 glucosides was compared directly with that of AtSUC2, HvSUT1 (from barley [Hordeum vulgare]), and ShSUT1 (from sugarcane [Saccharum hybrid]), and results indicate that type I and type II Suc transporters have different substrate specificities. AtSUC9 protein was localized to the plasma membrane by transient expression in onion (Allium cepa) epidermis. Using a whole-gene translational fusion to 
-glucuronidase, AtSUC9 expression was found in sink tissues throughout the shoots and in flowers. AtSUC9 expression in Arabidopsis was dependent on intragenic sequence, and this was found to also be true for AtSUC1 (At1g71880) but not AtSUC2. Plants containing mutations in Suc transporter gene AtSUC9 were found to have an early flowering phenotype under short-day conditions. The transport properties of AtSUC9 indicate that it is uniquely suited to provide cellular uptake of Suc at very low extracellular Suc concentrations. The mutant phenotype of atsuc9 alleles indicates that AtSUC9 activity leads to a delay in floral transition. 
