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The Arabidopsis Plastidic Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase B Proteins. Sequence and Activity Characteristics, Comparison of the Expression with Plastidic Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase A, and Induction by Photooxidative Stress

Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/Cadarache, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Département d'Ecophysiologie Végétale et de Microbiologie, Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie de la Photosynthèse, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance cedex, France (C.V.D.S., S.C., P.R.); and IFR110, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1136, Interaction Arbres Microorganismes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Nancy I Henri Poincaré, 54506 Vandoeuvre cedex, France (N.R.)

Two types of methionine (Met) sulfoxide reductases (Msr) catalyze the reduction of Met sulfoxide (MetSO) back to Met. MsrA, well characterized in plants, exhibits an activity restricted to the Met-S-SO-enantiomer. Recently, a new type of Msr enzyme, called MsrB, has been identified in various organisms and shown to catalytically reduce the R-enantiomer of MetSO. In plants, very little information is available about MsrB and we focused our attention on Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) MsrB proteins. Searching Arabidopsis genome databases, we have identified nine open reading frames encoding proteins closely related to MsrB proteins from bacteria and animal cells. We then analyzed the activity and abundance of the two chloroplastic MsrB proteins, MsrB1 and MsrB2. Both enzymes exhibit an absolute R-stereospecificity for MetSO and a higher catalytic efficiency when using protein-bound MetSO as a substrate than when using free MetSO. Interestingly, we observed that MsrB2 is reduced by thioredoxin, whereas MsrB1 is not. This feature of MsrB1 could result from the lack of the catalytical cysteine (Cys) corresponding to Cys-63 in Escherichia coli MsrB that is involved in the regeneration of Cys-117 through the formation of an intramolecular disulfide bridge followed by thioredoxin reduction. We investigated the abundance of plastidial MsrA and B in response to abiotic (water stress, photooxidative treatment) and biotic (rust fungus) stresses and we observed that MsrA and B protein levels increase in response to the photooxidative treatment. The possible role of plastidic MsrB in the tolerance to oxidative damage is discussed.

^* Corresponding author; e-mail pascal.rey{at}cea.fr; fax 33–4–42–25–62–65.

Received March 8, 2005; returned for revision April 13, 2005; accepted April 13, 2005.

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