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Published on March 10, 2006; 10.1104/pp.106.079855
Received February 28, 2006
Returned for revision March 5, 2006
Accepted March 5, 2006
Plastid cues post-transcriptionally regulate the accumulation of key enzymes of the methylerythritol phosphate pathway in Arabidopsis
Susanna Sauret-Güeto , Patricia Botella-Pavía , Úrsula Flores-Pérez , Jaime F. Martínez-García , Carolina San Román , Patricia León , Albert Boronat , and Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción *
Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats - Consorci CSIC-IRTA, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62271, México
* Corresponding author; email: mrodrigu{at}sun.bq.ub.es.
Plastid isoprenoids (including hormones and photosynthetic pigments) are essential for plant growth and development, but relatively little is known on how the production of their metabolic precursors via the recently elucidated methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway is regulated. We have identified an Arabidopsis thaliana mutant that survives an otherwise lethal block of the MEP pathway with fosmidomycin (FSM). In rif10 (resistant to inhibition with FSM 10) plants, the accumulation of flux-controlling enzymes of the pathway is post-transcriptionally up-regulated. Strikingly, this phenotype is linked to a lower accumulation of plastidial isoprenoid pigments such as chlorophylls and carotenoids, resulting in mutant plants that are paler and smaller than the wild-type. The rif10 mutant is impaired in plastid RNA processing due to a T-DNA insertion in the coding region of the At3g03710 gene encoding the chloroplast-targeted exoribonuclease polyribonucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase). FSM resistance and other rif10-like phenotypes were also observed in wild-type Arabidopsis, tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) and rice (Oryza sativa) seedlings grown in the presence of sublethal concentrations of chloramphenicol (an inhibitor of protein synthesis in plastids). By contrast, treatment with norflurazon (an inhibitor of carotenoid biosynthesis causing a similar pale cotyledon phenotype) did not result in FSM resistance. Together, the results support that plastome-encoded proteins are involved in negatively regulating the post-transcriptional accumulation of specific nuclear-encoded MEP pathway enzymes in chloroplasts. Regulation of the MEP pathway by a mechanism dependent on plastid cues might function under physiological conditions to finely adjust plastidial isoprenoid biosynthesis to the metabolic capabilities or requirements of plastids.
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