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Published on February 19, 2004; 10.1104/pp.103.035832
Received November 5, 2003
Returned for revision November 29, 2003
Accepted December 9, 2003
Plastid Lysophosphatidyl Acyltransferase Is Essential for Embryo Development in Arabidopsis
Hyun Uk Kim and Anthony H.C. Huang *
Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
* Corresponding author; email: Anthony.Huang{at}ucr.edu.
Lysophosphatidyl acyltransferase (LPAAT) is a pivotal enzyme controlling the metabolic flow of lysophosphatidic acid into different phosphatidic acids in diverse tissues. A search of the Arabidopsis genome database revealed five genes that could encode LPAAT-like proteins. We identified one of them, LPAAT1, to be the lone gene that encodes the plastid LPAAT. LPAAT1 could functionally complement a bacterial mutant that has defective LPAAT. Bacteria transformed with LPAAT1 produced LPAAT that had in vitro enzyme activity much higher on 16:0-coenzyme A than on 18:1-coenzyme A in the presence of 18:1-lysophosphatidic acid. LPAAT1 transcript was present in diverse organs, with the highest level in green leaves. A mutant having a T-DNA inserted into LPAAT1 was identified. The heterozygous mutant has no overt phenotype, and its leaf acyl composition is similar to that of the wild type. Selfing of a heterozygous mutant produced normal-sized and shrunken seeds in the Mendelian ratio of 3:1, and the shrunken seeds could not germinate. The shrunken seeds apparently were homozygous of the T-DNA-inserted LPAAT1, and development of the embryo within them was arrested at the heart- torpedo stage. This embryo lethality could be rescued by transformation of the heterozygous mutant with a 35S:LPAAT1 construct. The current findings of embryo death in the homozygous knockout mutant of the plastid LPAAT contrasts with earlier findings of a normal phenotype in the homozygous mutant deficient of the plastid glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase; both mutations block the synthesis of plastid phosphatidic acid. Reasons for the discrepancy between the contrasting phenotypes of the two mutants are discussed.
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