Characterization of O-acetylserine(thiol)lyase-encoding genes reveals their distinct but cooperative expression in cysteine synthesis of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 277-291

  Zhang, Chunhong ^a   Meng, Qingchang ^a   Zhang, Man ^a   Huang, Fang ^a   Gai, Junyi ^a   Yu, Deyue ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cysteine synthesis; Expression; O acetylserine(thiol)lyase; Soybean Glycine max (L.) Merr.

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 58549118423     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-008-0047-2     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. RA Aeschbacher J Müller T Boller A Wiemken 1999 Purification of the trehalase GMTRE1 from soybean nodules and cloning of its cDNA: GMTRE1 is expressed at a low level in multiple tissues Plant Physiol 119 489 96
2. C Barroso JM Vega C Gotor 1998 The role of roots in cysteine biosynthesis by Arabidopsis thaliana J Physiol Biochem 54 189 94
3. MM Bradford 1976 A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding Anal Biochem 72 248 54
4. D Chronis HB Krishnan 2003 Sulfur assimilation in soybean: molecular cloning and characterization of O-acetylserine(thiol)lyase (cysteine synthase) Crop Sci 43 1819 27
5. D Chronis HB Krishnan 2004 Sulfur assimilation in soybean: molecular cloning and characterization of a cytosolic isoform of serine acetyltransferase Planta 218 417 26
6. E Fediuc SH Lips L Erdei 2005 O-acetylserine(thiol)lyase activity in Phragmites and Typha plants under cadmium and NaCl stress conditions and the involvements of ABA in the stress response J Plant Physiol 162 865 72
7. M Hajduch A Ganapathy JW Stein JJ Thelen 2005 A systematic proteomic study of seed filling in soybean: Establishment of high-resolution two-dimensional reference maps, expression profiles, and an interactive proteome database Plant Physiol 137 1397 419
8. Y Hatzfeld A Maruyama A Schmidt M Noji K Ishizawa K Saito 2000 b-Cyanoalanine synthase is a mitochondrial cysteine synthase-like protein in spinach and Arabidopsis Plant Physiol 123 1163 71
9. MJ Hawkesford LJ De Kok 2006 Managing sulphur metabolism in plants Plant Cell Environ 29 382 95
10. C Heeg C Kruse R Jost M Gutensohn T Ruppert M Wirtz R Hell 2008 Analysis of the Arabidopsis O-acetylserine(thiol)lyase gene family demonstrates compartment-specific differences in the regulation of cysteine synthesis Plant Cell 20 168 85
11. R Hell C Bork N Bogdanova I Frolov R Hauschild 1994 Isolation and characterization of two cDNAs encoding for compartment specific isoforms of O-acetylserine(thiol)lyase from Arabidopsis thaliana FEBS Lett 351 257 62
12. R Hell R Jost O Berkowitz M Wirtz 2002 Molecular and biochemical analysis of the enzymes of cysteine biosynthesis in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana Amino Acids 22 245 57
13. R Höfgen O Kreft L Willmitzer H Hesse 2001 Manipulation of thiol contents in plants Amino Acids 20 291 9
14. CA Hughes JS Gebhardt A Reuss BF Matthews 1999 Identification and expression of a cDNA encoding cystathionine γ-synthase in soybean Plant Sci 146 69 79
15. Ikegami F, Murakoshi I. Heterocyclic b-substituted alanines. In: Lea PJ, editor. Enzymes of secondary metabolism. London: Academic; 1993. p. 133-51.
16. R Jost O Berkowitz M Wirtz L Hopkins MJ Hawkesford R Hell 2000 Genomic and functional characterization of the OAS gene family encoding O-acetylserine(thiol)lyases, enzymes catalyzing the final step in cysteine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana Gene 253 237 47
17. HB Krishnan 2005 Engineering soybean for enhanced sulfur amino acid content Crop Sci 45 454 61
18. Leustek T. Sulfate metabolism. In: Somerville CR, Meyerowitz EM, editors. The arabidopsis book. Rockville: American Society of Plant Biologists; 2002. p. 1-16.
19. JE Lunn M Droux J Martin R Douce 1990 Localization of ATP sulfurylase and O-acetylserine(thiol)lyase in spinach leaves Plant Physiol 94 1345 52
20. QC Meng CH Zhang JY Gai DY Yu 2007 Molecular cloning, sequence characterization and tissue-specific expression of six NAC-like genes in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] J Plant Physiol 164 1002 12
21. P Phartiyal W Kim RE Cahoon JM Jez HB Krishnan 2006 Soybean ATP sulfurylase, a homodimeric enzyme involved in sulfur assimilation, is abundantly expressed in roots and induced by cold treatment Arch Biochem Biophys 450 20 9
22. P Phartiyal WS Kim RE Cahoon JM Jez HB Krishnan 2008 The role of 5′adenylylsulfate reductase in the sulfur assimilation pathway of soybean: Molecular cloning, kinetic characterization, and gene expression Phytochemistry 69 356 64
23. A Riemenschneider K Riedel R Höfgen J Papenbrock H Hesse 2005 Impact of reduced O-acetylserine(thiol)lyase isoform contents on potato plant metabolism Plant Physiol 137 892 900
24. Saito K. Biosynthesis of cysteine. In: Singh BK, editor. Plant amino acids: biochemistry and biotechnology. New York: Marcedl Dekker; 1999. p. 267-91.
25. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pressp. 1989.
26. A Sirko A Blaszczyk F Liszewska 2004 Overproduction of SAT and/or OASTL in transgenic plants: a survey of effects J Exp Bot 4 1881 8
27. A Warrilow MJ Hawkesford 1998 Separation, subcellular location and influence of sulfur nutrition on isoforms of cysteine synthase in spinach J Exp Bot 49 1625 36
28. M Wirtz M Droux 2005 Synthesis of the sulfur amino acids: cysteine and methionine Photosynth Res 86 345 62
29. M Wirtz M Droux R Hell 2004 O-acetylserine(thiol)lyase: an enigmatic enzyme of plant cysteine biosynthesis revisited in Arabidopsis thaliana J Exp Bot 55 1785 98
30. S Youssefian M Nakamura E Orudgev N Kondo 2001 Increased cysteine biosynthesis capacity of transgenic tobacco overexpressing an O-acetylserine(thiol)lyase modifies plant responses to oxidative stress Plant Physiol 126 1001 11