Abstract
BackgroundAtPAP2 is a purple acid phosphatase that is targeted to both chloroplasts and mitochondria. Over-expression (OE) lines of AtPAP2 grew faster, produced more seeds, and contained higher leaf sucrose and glucose contents. The present study aimed to determine how high energy status affects leaf and root transcriptomes.ResultsATP and ADP levels in the OE lines are 30-50% and 20-50% higher than in the wild-type (WT) plants. Global transcriptome analyses indicated that transcriptional regulation does play a role in sucrose and starch metabolism, nitrogen, potassium and iron uptake, amino acids and secondary metabolites metabolism when there is an ample supply of energy. While the transcript abundance of genes encoding protein components of photosystem I (PS I), photosystem II (PS II) and light harvesting complex I (LHCI) were unaltered, changes in transcript abundance for genes encoding proteins of LHCII are significant. The gene expressions of most enzymes of the Calvin cycle, glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle were unaltered, as these enzymes are known to be regulated by light/redox status or allosteric modulation by the products (e.g. citrate, ATP/ADP ratio), but not at the level of transcription.ConclusionsAtPAP2 overexpression resulted in a widespread reprogramming of the transcriptome in the transgenic plants, which is characterized by changes in the carbon, nitrogen, potassium, and iron metabolism. The fast-growing AtPAP2 OE lines provide an interesting tool for studying the regulation of energy system in plant.
Highlights
AtPAP2 is a purple acid phosphatase that is targeted to both chloroplasts and mitochondria
AtPAP2 OE lines contain elevated levels of ATP To determine if the overexpression of AtPAP2 resulted in alteration in metabolites, LC-MS/MS analysis and bioluminescent based assays were carried out to measure the amount of ATP and ADP
Identification of genes differentially expressed in the AtPAP2 OE plants To identify the molecular events associated with the fast growth phenotype of AtPAP2 OE lines, gene expression profiles from soil-grown 20-day-old WT, AtPAP2 T-DNA line and AtPAP2 OE lines were analyzed with NimbleGen cDNA Arrays at the middle of day under long day growth conditions (Figure 1)
Summary
AtPAP2 is a purple acid phosphatase that is targeted to both chloroplasts and mitochondria. The present study aimed to determine how high energy status affects leaf and root transcriptomes. The only PAP that has been shown to affect carbon metabolism is AtPAP2, which is targeted to both chloroplasts and mitochondria by an additional transmembrane motif at the C-terminus compared to other related proteins [4]. To study the impact of AtPAP2 overexpression on the energy status of plants, the levels of ATP and ADP in the leaves of 20-day-old AtPAP2 OE Arabidopsis were measured and compared with those of WT plants. AtPAP2 overexpression resulted in a widespread changes of the transcriptome in the transgenic plants, which may reflect the impact of changes in energy supply that feed back to alter transcriptional programmes
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