Thioredoxin Redox Regulates ATPase Activity of Magnesium Chelatase CHLI Subunit and Modulates Redox-Mediated Signaling in Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis and Homeostasis of Reactive Oxygen Species in Pea Plants
Adenosine Triphosphatases
Cell Nucleus
Chlorophyll
0301 basic medicine
0303 health sciences
Molecular Sequence Data
Agrobacterium
Lyases
Aminolevulinic Acid
Genes, Plant
Plants, Genetically Modified
Enzyme Activation
Chloroplast Thioredoxins
03 medical and health sciences
Phenotype
Protein Interaction Mapping
Homeostasis
Gene Silencing
Photosynthesis
Reactive Oxygen Species
Oxidation-Reduction
Pisum sativum
Plant Proteins
DOI:
10.1104/pp.112.195446
Publication Date:
2012-03-29T00:14:18Z
AUTHORS (8)
ABSTRACT
Abstract
The chloroplast thioredoxins (TRXs) function as messengers of redox signals from ferredoxin to target enzymes. In this work, we studied the regulatory impact of pea (Pisum sativum) TRX-F on the magnesium (Mg) chelatase CHLI subunit and the enzymatic activation of Mg chelatase in vitro and in vivo. In vitro, reduced TRX-F activated the ATPase activity of pea CHLI and enhanced the activity of Mg chelatase reconstituted from the three recombinant subunits CHLI, CHLD, and CHLH in combination with the regulator protein GENOMES UNCOUPLED4 (GUN4). Yeast two-hybrid and bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays demonstrated that TRX-F physically interacts with CHLI but not with either of the other two subunits or GUN4. In vivo, virus-induced TRX-F gene silencing (VIGS-TRX-F) in pea plants did not result in an altered redox state of CHLI. However, simultaneous silencing of the pea TRX-F and TRX-M genes (VIGS-TRX-F/TRX-M) resulted in partially and fully oxidized CHLI in vivo. VIGS-TRX-F/TRX-M plants demonstrated a significant reduction in Mg chelatase activity and 5-aminolevulinic acid synthesizing capacity as well as reduced pigment content and lower photosynthetic capacity. These results suggest that, in vivo, TRX-M can compensate for a lack of TRX-F and that both TRXs act as important redox regulators of Mg chelatase. Furthermore, the silencing of TRX-F and TRX-M expression also affects gene expression in the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis pathway and leads to the accumulation of reactive oxygen species, which may also serve as an additional signal for the transcriptional regulation of photosynthesis-associated nuclear genes.
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