UDP-glucose dehydrogenases of maize: A role in cell wall pentose biosynthesis

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 391, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 409-415

  Kärkönen, Anna ^a   Murigneux, Alain ^b   Martinant, Jean Pierre ^b   Pepey, Elodie ^b   Tatout, Christophe ^b   Dudley, Bernard J ^a   Fry, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Biogemma   (France)

Author keywords

Arabinose; Insertional mutagenesis; Pentose biosynthesis; UDP glucose dehydrogenase; UDP glucuronate; Xylose

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; MUTAGENESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYSACCHARIDES;

INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS; PENTOSE BIOSYNTHESIS; UDP-GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE; UDP-GLUCURONATE; UDP-L-ARABINOSE; XYLOSE;

CELLS;

URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOYBEAN; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PENTOSES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE; ZEA MAYS;

GLYCINE MAX; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); ZEA MAYS;

EID: 27444436382     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20050800     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Feingold, D. S. and Avigad, G. (1980) Sugar nucleotide transformations in plants. In The Biochemistry of Plants, A Comprehensive Treatise, vol. 3 (Preiss, J., ed.), pp. 101-170, Academic Press, New York
2. Mohnen, D. (2002) Biosynthesis of pectins. In Pectins and their Manipulation (Seymor, G. B. and Knox, J. P., eds.), pp. 52-98, Blackwell Publishing/CRC Press, Oxford, U.K.
3. Seifert, G. J. (2004) Nucleotide sugar interconversions and cell wall biosynthesis: how to bring the inside to the outside. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 7, 277-284
4. Carpita, N. C. (1996) Structure and biogenesis of the cell walls of grasses. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 47, 445-476
5. Loewus, F., Chen, M. S. and Loewus, M. W. (1973) The myo-inositol oxidation pathway to cell wall polysaccharides. In Biogenesis of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides (Loewus, F., ed.), pp. 1-27, Academic Press, New York
6. Loewus, F. and Murthy, P. P. N. (2000) myo-Inositol metabolism in plants. Plant Sci. 150, 1-19
7. Kärkönen, A. (2005) Biosynthesis of UDP-GlcA: via UDPGDH or myo-inositol oxidation pathway? Plant Biosystems 139, 46-49
8. Casati, P. and Walbot, V. (2004) Rapid transcriptome responses of maize (Zea mays) to UV-B in irradiated and shielded tissues. Genome Biol. 5, R16 [Supplementary material therein]
9. Engel, M. L., Chaboud, A., Dumas, C. and McCormick, S. (2003) Sperm cells of Zea mays have a complex complement of mRNAs. Plant J. 34, 697-707 [Supplementary material therein]
10. Kärkönen, A. and Fry, S. C. (2005) Novel characteristics of UDP-glucose dehydrogenase activities in maize: non-involvement of alcohol dehydrogenases in cell wall polysaccharide biosynthesis. Planta, in the press
11. Tenhaken, R. andThulke, O. (1996) Cloning of an enzyme that synthesizes a key nucleotide-sugar precursor of hemicellulose biosynthesis from soybean: UDP-glucose dehydrogenase. Plant Physiol. 112, 1127-1134
12. Robertson, D., Smith, C. and Bolwell, G. P. (1996) Inducible UDP-glucose dehydrogenase from French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L) locates to vascular tissue and has alcohol dehydrogenase activity. Biochem. J. 313, 311-317
13. Fry, S. C. (2000) The Growing Plant Cell Wall: Chemical and Metabolic Analysis. 2nd edn, Blackburn Press, Caldwell, NJ
14. Updegraff, D. M. (1969) Semi-micro determination of cellulose in biological materials. Anal. Biochem. 32, 420-424
15. Johansson, H., Sterky, F., Amini, B., Lundeberg, J. and Kleczkowski, L. A. (2002) Molecular cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding poplar UDP-glucose dehydrogenase, a key gene of hemicellulose/pectin formation. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1576, 53-58
16. Seitz, B., Klos, C., Wurm, M. and Tenhaken, R. (2000) Matrix polysaccharide precursors in Arabidopsis cell walls are synthesized by alternate pathways with organ-specific expression patterns. Plant J. 21, 537-546
17. Bindschedler, L. V., Wheatley, E., Gay, E., Cole, J., Cottage, A. and Bolwell, G. P. (2005) Characterisation and expression of the pathway from UDP-glucose to UDP-xylose in differentiating tobacco tissue. Plant Mol. Biol. 57, 285-301
18. Roberts, R. M. and Cetorelli, J. J. (1973) UDP-D-glucuronic acid pyrophosphorylase and the formation of UDP-D-glucuronic acid in plants. In Biogenesis of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides (Loewus, F., ed.), pp. 49-68, Academic Press, New York
19. 14C to cell wall polysaccharide material in Zea mays in presence of high endogenous levels of myo-inositol. Plant Physiol. 52, 646-650
20. Tenhaken, R., Kanter, U. and Klinghammer, M. (2004) Biosynthesis of UDP-glucuronic acid, an important precursor for plant cell wall matrix polysaccharides. In X Cell Wall Meeting, 29 August-3 September 2004, Sorrento, Italy, Programme and Abstract book, p. 93
21. Turner, W. and Botha, F. C. (2002) Purification and kinetic properties of UDP-glucose dehydrogenase from sugarcane. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 407, 209-216
22. Griffith, C. L., Klutts, J. S., Zhang, L., Levery, S. B. and Doering, T. L. (2004) UDP-glucose dehydrogenase plays multiple roles in the biology of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 51669-51676