Abstract
Little, if any, regulation of threonine synthesis was observed in Lemna paucicostata Hegelm. 6746 supplemented with concentrations of threonine and/or isoleucine that allow for uptake of these amino acids in amounts sufficient for total plant requirements, and that increase tissue concentrations of soluble threonine manyfold. High tissue concentrations of soluble threonine generated endogenously in isoleucine-supplemented plants were no more effective in regulation than a similar concentration of threonine accumulated from the medium. These studies exclude also major regulation of threonine biosynthesis by bivalent repression by threonine plus isoleucine. Isoleucine biosynthesis was severely inhibited by supplementation with isoleucine, but not with threonine or methionine. The fivefold increase in soluble threonine in isoleucine-supplemented plants suggests that threonine dehydratase is a major locus for feedback regulation of isoleucine synthesis. It is concluded that regulation of threonine biosynthesis differs from that of the other amino acids of the aspartate family (isoleucine, methionine, and lysine), each of which strongly feedback regulates its own synthesis. Methionine supplementation had a negligible effect on the tissue concentration of soluble threonine, indicating that threonine is not important in balancing changes of flux into methionine by equivalent changes of flux through the step catalyzed by aspartokinase.
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