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Evidence That the Pathway of Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Biosynthesis Begins in the Cytosol and Ends in the Chloroplast.
العنوان: | Evidence That the Pathway of Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Biosynthesis Begins in the Cytosol and Ends in the Chloroplast. |
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المؤلفون: | Trossat, C., Nolte, K. D., Hanson, A. D. |
المصدر: | Plant Physiology; August 1996, Vol. 111 Issue: 4 p965-973, 9p |
مستخلص: | In the flowering plant Wollastonia biflora (L.) DC. the first step in 3-dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) synthesis is conversion of methionine to S-methylmethionine (SMM) and the last is oxidation of 3-dimethylsulfoniopropionaldehyde (DMSP-ald) (F. James, L. Paquet, S.A. Sparace, D.A. Gage, A.D. Hanson [1995] Plant Physiol 108: 1439-1448). DMSP-ald was shown to undergo rapid, spontaneous decomposition to dimethylsulfide and acrolein. However, it was stable enough (half-life [greater than or equal to] 1 h) in tertiary amine buffers to use as a substrate for enzyme assays. A dehydrogenase catalyzing DMSP-ald oxidation was detected in extracts of W. biflora mesophyll protoplasts. This enzyme had a high affinity for DMSP-ald (Km = 1.5 [mu]M), was subject to substrate inhibition, preferred NAD to NADP, and was immunologically related to plant betaine aldehyde dehydrogenases. After fractionation of protoplast lysates, [greater than or equal to]90% of DMSP-ald dehydrogenase activity was recovered from the chloroplast stromal fraction, whereas the enzyme that mediates SMM synthesis, S-adenosylmethionine:methionine S-methyltransferase, was found exclusively in the cytosolic fraction. Immunohistochemical analysis confirmed that the S-methyltransferase was cytosolic. Intact W. biflora chloroplasts were able to metabolize supplied [35S]SMM to [35S]DMSP. These findings indicate that SMM is made in the cytosol, imported into the chloroplast, and there converted successively to DMSP-ald and DMSP. |
قاعدة البيانات: | Supplemental Index |
تدمد: | 00320889 15322548 |
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DOI: | 10.1104/pp.111.4.965 |