Nitrate reductase expression in maize leaves (Zea mays) during dark-light transitions. Complex effects of protein phosphatase inhibitors on enzyme activity, protein synthesis and transcript levels

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-76

  Redinbaugh, Margaret G ^a   Huber, Steven C ^b   Huber, Joan L ^b   Hendrix, Keith W ^b   Campbell, Wilbur H ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn; enzyme activation; gene expression; maize; microcystin LR; nitrate reductase; okadaic acid; protein phosphatase; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030499121     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1996.980108.x     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Bialojan, C. & Takai, A. 1988. Inhibitory effect of a marine-sponge toxin, okadaic acid, on protein phosphatases. - Biochem. J. 256: 283-290.
2. Champigny, M. L. & Foyer. C. 1992. Nitrate activation of cytosolic protein kinases diverts photosynthetic carbon from sucrose to amino acid biosynthesis - Basis for a new concept. - Plant Physiol. 100: 7-12.
3. Cheng, C.-L., Acedo, G, N., Cristinsin, M. & Conkling, M. A. 1992. Sucrose mimics the light induction of Arabidopsis nitrate reductase gene transcription. - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89: 1861-1864.
4. 2 fixation in the control of nitrate reductase activity in barley leaves. - Planta 190: 277-283.
5. Deng, M.-D., Moureaux, T., Leydecker, M.-T. & Caboche, M. 1990. Nitrate reductase expression is under the control of a circadian rhythm in Nicotiana tabacum leaves. - Planta 180: 257-261.
6. Dominov, J. A., Stenzler, L., Lee, S., Schwartz, J. J., Leisner, S. & Howell, S. H. 1992. Cytokinins and auxins control the expression of a gene in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia cells by feedback regulation. - Plant Cell 4: 451-461.
7. Galangau, F., Daniel-Vedele, F., Moureaux, T., Dorbe, M.-F., Leydecker, M.-T. & Caboche, M. 1988. Expression of leaf nitrate reductase genes from tomato and tobacco in relation to light-dark regimes and nitrate supply. - Plant Physiol. 88: 383-388.
8. Glaab, J. & Kaiser, W. M. 1995. Inactivation of nitrate reductase involves NR-protein phosphorylation and subsequent 'binding' of an inhibitor protein. - Planta 195: 514-518.
9. Gowri, G. & Campbell, W. H 1989. cDNA clones for com leaf NADH:nitrate reductase and chloroplast NADPT:glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. Characterization of the clones and analysis of the expression of the genes in leaves as influenced by nitrate in the light and dark. - Plant Physiol. 90: 792-798.
10. _ , Kenis, J. D., Ingemarsson, B., Redinbaugh, M. G. & Campbell, W. H. 1992. Nitrate reductase transcript is expressed in the primary response of maize to environmental nitrate. - Plant Mol. Biol. 18: 55-64.
11. Haystead, T. A. J., Sim, A. T. R., Carling, D., Honnor, R. C., Tsukitani, Y., Cohen, P. & Hardie, D. G. 1989. Effects of the tumour promoter okadaic acid on intracellular protein phosphorylation and metabolism. - Nature 337: 78-81.
12. Hershey, J. W. B. 1991. Translational control in mammalian cells. - Annu. Rev. Biochem. 60: 717-755.
13. Hou, M.-C., Shen, C.-H., Lee, W.-C. & Lai, Y.-K. 1993. Okadaic acid as an inducer of the 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein in 9L rat brain tumor cells. - J. Cell. Biochem. 51: 91-101.
14. Huber, J. L., Huber, S. C., Campbell, W H. & Redinbaugh, M. G. 1992. Reversible light/dark modulation of spinach leaf nitrate reductase activity involves protein phosphorylation. - Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 296: 58-65.
15. _ , Redinbaugh, M. G., Huber, S. C. & Campbell, W. H. 1994. Regulation of maize leaf nitrate reductase activity involves both gene expression and protein phosphorylation. - Plant Physiol. 106: 1667-1674.
16. Huber, S. C. & Huber, J. L. 1990. In vitro phosphorylation and inactivation of spinach leaf sucrose-phosphate synthase by an endogenous protein kinase. - Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1091: 393-400.
17. _ , Huber, J. L., Campbell, W. H. & Redinbaugh, M. G. 1992a. Comparative studies of the light modulation of nitrate reductase and sucrose-phosphate synthase activities in spinach leaves.- Plant Physiol. 100: 706-712.
18. _ , Huber, J. L., Campbell, W. H. & Redinbaugh, M. G. 1992b. Apparent dependence of the light activation of nitrate reductase and sucrose-phosphate synthase activities in spinach leaves on protein synthesis. - Plant Cell Physiol. 33: 639-646.
19. Hyde, G. E., Wilberding, J. A., Meyer, A. L., Campbell, E. R. & Campbell, W. H. 1989. Monoclonal antibody-based immunoaffinity chromatography for purifying corn and squash NADH:nitrate reductases. Evidence for an interchain disulfide bond in nitrate reductase. - Plant Mol. Biol. 13: 233-246.
20. Jorgensen, R. A., Cuellar, R. E., Thompson, W. F. & Kavanagh, T. A. 1987. Structure and variation in ribosomal RNA genes of pea. Characterization of a cloned ribosomal DNA repeat and chromosomal ribosomal DNA variants. - Plant Mol. Biol. 8: 3-12.
21. 2 availability. - Plant Physiol. 96: 363-367.
22. _ & Huber, S. C. 1994. Posttranslational regulation of nitrate reductase in higher plants. - Plant Physiol. 106: 817-821.
23. _ & SpilL D. 1991. Rapid modulation of spinach leaf nitrate reductase by photosynthesis. 2. In vitro modulation by ATP and AMP. - Plant Physiol. 96: 368-375.
24. _ , Spill, D. & Brendle-Behnisch, E. 1992. Adenine nucleotides are apparently involved in the light-dark modulation of spinach-leaf nitrate reductase. -Planta 186: 236-240.
25. Kenis, J. D. & Campbell, W. H. 1989. Oxygen inhibition of nitrate reductase biosynthesis in detached corn leaves via inhibition of total soluble protein synthesis. - Plant Physiol. 93: 883-888.
26. Kojima, M., Wu, S. J., Fukui, H., Sugimoto, T., Nanmori, T. & Oji, Y. 1995. Phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of Komatsuna (Brassica campestris) leaf nitrate reductase in vivo and in vitro in response to environmental light conditions: Effects of protein kinase and protein phosphatase inhibitors. - Physiol. Plant. 93: 139-145.
27. LaBrie, S. T. & Crawford, N. M. 1994. A glycine to aspartic acid change in the MoCo domain of nitrate reductase reduces both activity and phosphorylation levels in Arabidopsis. - J. Biol. Chem. 269: 14497-14501.
28. -. - Plant Physiol. 102: 1251-1257.
29. _ & Oaks, A. 1994. Induction and turnover of nitrate reductase in Zea mays - Influence of light. - Plant Physiol. 106: 1145-1149.
30. Lillo, C. 1991. Diurnal variations of com leaf nitrate reductase - An experimental distinction between transcriptional and post-transcriptional control. - Plant Sci. 73: 149-154.
31. _ 1994a. Light regulation of nitrate reductase in green leaves of higher plants. - Physiol. Plant. 90: 616-620.
32. _ 1994b. Only the complete NADH:nitrate reductase activity is inhibited by magnesium, not the partial activities. - Plant Cell Physiol. 35:515-518.
33. Lu, J., Ertl, J. R. & Chen, C. 1990. Cytokinin enhancement of the light induction of nitrate reductase transcript levels in etiolated barley leaves. - Plant Mol. Biol. 14: 585-594.
34. MacKintosh, C. 1992. Regulation of spinach-leaf nitrate reductase by reversible phosphorylation. - Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1137: 121-126.
35. _ , Coggins, J. & Cohen, P. 1991. Plant protein phosphatases. Subcellular distribution, detection of protein phosphatase 2C and identification of protein phosphatase 2A as' the major quinate dehydrogenase phosphatase. - Biochem. J. 273: 733-738.
36. _ , Douglas, P. & Lillo, C. 1995. Identification of a protein that inhibits the phosphorylated form of nitrate reductase from spinach (Spinacia oleracea) leaves. - Plant Physiol. 107: 451-457.
37. McMichael, R. W. Jr, Bachmann, M. & Huber, S. C. 1995. Spinach leaf sucrose-phosphate synthase and nitrate reductase are phosphorylated/inactivated by multiple protein kinases in vitro. - Plant Physiol. 108: 1077-1082.
38. Melzer, J. M., Kleinhofs, A. & Warner, R. L. 1989. Nitrate reductase regulation: Effects of nitrate and light on nitrate reductase mRNA accumulation. - Mol. Gen. Genet. 217: 341-346.
39. Raz, V. & Fluhr, R. 1993. Ethylene signal is transduced via protein phosphorylation events in plants. - Plant Cell 5: 523-530.
40. Redinbaugh, M. G. & Campbell, W. H. 1985. Adaptation of the dye-binding protein assay to microtiter plates. - Anal. Biochem. 147: 144-147.
41. _ & Campbell, W. H. 1991. Higher plant responses to environmental nitrate. - Physiol. Plant. 82: 640-650.
42. _ , Wadsworth, G. J. & Scandalios, J. G. 1988. Characterization of catalase transcripts and their differential expression in maize. - Biochim. Biophys. Acta 951: 104-116.
43. _ , Sabre, M. & Scandalios, J. G. 1990. Expression of the maize Cat3 catalase gene is under the influence of a circadian rhythm. - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87: 6853-6857.
44. Redpath, N. T. & Proud, C. G. 1989. The tumour promoter okadaic acid inhibits reticulocyte-lysate protein synthesis by increasing net phosphorylation of elongation factor 2. - Biochem. J. 262: 69-75.
45. Remmler, J. L. & Campbell, W. H. 1986. Regulation of corn leaf nitrate reductase. II. Synthesis and turnover of the enzyme's activity and protein. - Plant Physiol. 80: 442-447.
46. Riens, B. & Heldt, H. W. 1992. Decrease of nitrate reductase activitv in spinach leaves during a light-dark transition. - Plant Physiol. 98: 573-577.
47. Rundlc, S. J., Nasrallah, M. E. & Nasrallah, J. B. 1993. Effects of inhibitors of protein serine/threonine phosphatases on pollination in Brassica. - Plant Physiol. 103: 1165-1171.
48. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F. & Maniatis, T. 1989. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, NY. ISBN 0-87969-309-6.
49. Sheen, J. 1993. Protein phosphatase activity is required for light-inducible gene expression in maize. - EMBO J. 12: 3497-3505.
50. Solomonson, L. P. & Barber, M J. 1990. Assimilatory nitrate reductase: Functional properties and regulation. - Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 41: 225-253.
51. Somers, D. A., Kuo, T.-M., Kleinhofs, A., Warner, R. L. & Oaks, A. 1983. Synthesis and degradation of barley nitrate reductase. - Plant Physiol. 72: 949-952.
52. Sun, G. Q. & Markwell, J. 1992. Lack of types 1 and 2A protein serine(P)/threonine(P) phosphatase activities in chloroplasts. - Plant Physiol. 100: 620-624.
53. Takeda, S., Mano, S., Ohto, M. & Nakamura, K. 1994. Inhibitors of protein phosphatases 1 and 2A block the sugar-inducible gene expression in plants. - Plant Physiol. 106: 567-574.
54. - on wheat leaf phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity - Evidence for covalent modulation of the C3 enzyme. - Plant Physiol. 97: 1476-1482.
55. Worrell, A. C., Bruneau, J.-M., Summerfelt, K., Boersig, M. & Voelker. T. A. 1991. Expression of a maize sucrose phosphate synthase in tomato alters leaf carbohydrate partitioning. - Plant Cell 3: 1121-1130.