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Published on March 18, 2009; 10.1104/pp.109.136648

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Received February 3, 2009
Accepted March 13, 2009

Rice Virescent-3 and Stripe-1 Encoding the Large and Small Subunits of Ribonucleotide Reductase Are Required for Chloroplast Biogenesis during Early Leaf Development

Soo-Cheul Yoo , Sung-Hwan Cho , Hiroki Sugimoto , Jinjie Li , Kensuke Kusumi , Hee-Jong Koh , Koh Iba , and Nam-Chon Paek *

Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea; and Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan

* Corresponding author; email: ncpaek{at}snu.ac.kr.

virescent-3 (v3) and stripe-1 (st1) mutants in rice (Oryza sativa) produce chlorotic leaves in a growth stage-dependent manner under field conditions. They are temperature-conditional mutants that produce bleached leaves at a constant 20°C or 30°C, but almost green leaves under diurnal 30°C/20°C conditions. Here we show V3 and St1 which encode the large and small subunits of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), RNRL1 and RNRS1, respectively. RNR regulates the rate of deoxyribonucleotide production for DNA synthesis and repair. RNRL1 and RNRS1 are highly expressed in the shoot base and in young leaves, and the expression of the genes that function in the plastid transcription/translation and in photosynthesis is altered in v3 and st1 mutants, indicating that a threshold activity of RNR is required for chloroplast biogenesis in developing leaves. There are additional RNR homologs in rice, RNRL2 and RNRS2, and eukaryotic RNRs comprise {alpha}2{beta}2 heterodimers. In yeasts, RNRL1 interacts with RNRS1 (RNRL1:RNRS1) and RNRL2:RNRS2, but no interaction occurs between other combinations of the large or small subunits. The interacting activities are RNRL1:RNRS1 > RNRL1:rnrs1(st1) > rnrl1(v3):RNRS1 > rnrl1(v3):rnrs1(st1), which correlate with the degree of chlorosis for each genotype. It suggests that missense mutations in rnrl1(v3) and rnrs1(st1) attenuate the first {alpha}{beta} dimerization. Moreover, wild-type plants exposed to a low concentration of an RNR inhibitor, hydroxyurea, produce chlorotic leaves without growth retardation, reminiscent of v3 and st1 mutants. We thus propose that upon insufficient activity of RNR, plastid DNA synthesis is preferentially arrested to allow nuclear genome replication in developing leaves, leading to continuous plant growth.






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