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Characterization of a novel zinc metalloprotease involved in degrading targeting peptides in mitochondria and chloroplasts 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
Moberg P Ståhl A Bhushan S Wright SJ Eriksson A Bruce BD Glaser E 《The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology》2003,36(5):616-628
We have recently isolated and identified a novel mitochondrial metalloprotease, pre-sequence protease (PreP) from potato and shown that it degrades mitochondrial pre-sequences. PreP belongs to the pitrilysin protease family and contains an inverted zinc-binding motif. To further investigate the degradation of targeting peptides, we have overexpressed the Arabidopsis thaliana homologue of PreP, zinc metalloprotease (Zn-MP), in Escherichia coli . We have characterized the recombinant Zn-MP with respect to its catalytic site, substrate specificity and intracellular localization. Mutagenesis studies of the residues involved in metal binding identified the histidines and the proximal glutamate as essential residues for the proteolytic activity. Substrate specificity studies showed that the Zn-MP has the ability to degrade both mitochondrial pre-sequences and chloroplastic transit peptides, as well as other unstructured peptides. The Zn-MP does not recognize an amino acid sequence per se . Immunological studies and proteolytic activity measurements in isolated mitochondria and chloroplasts revealed the presence of the Zn-MP in both organelles. Furthermore, the Zn-MP was found to be dually imported to both mitochondria and chloroplasts in vitro . In summary, our data show that the Zn-MP is present and serves the same function in chloroplasts as in mitochondria – degradation of targeting peptides. 相似文献
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Narasimha Rao Nizampatnam Harinath Doodhi Yamini Kalinati Narasimhan Sujatha Mulpuri Dinesh Kumar Viswanathaswamy 《Planta》2009,229(4):987-1001
Sterility in the universally exploited PET1-CMS system of sunflower is associated with the expression of orfH522, a novel mitochondrial gene. Definitive evidence that ORFH522 is directly responsible for male sterility is lacking.
To test the hypothesis that ORFH522 is sufficient to induce male sterility, a set of chimeric constructs were developed. The
cDNA of orfH522 was cloned in-frame with yeast coxIV pre-sequence, and was expressed under tapetum-specific promoter TA29 (construct designated as TCON). For developing control
vectors, orfH522 was cloned without the transit peptide under TA29 promoter (TON) or orfH522 was cloned with or without transit peptide under the constitutive CaMV35S promoter (SCOP and SOP). Among several independent
transformants obtained with each of the gene cassettes, one third of the transgenics (6/17) with TCON were completely male
sterile while more than 10 independent transformants obtained with each of the control vectors were fertile. The male sterile
plants were morphologically similar to fertile plants, but had anthers that remained below the stigmatic surface at anthesis.
RT-PCR analysis of the sterile plants confirmed the anther-specific expression of orfH522 and bright-field microscopy demonstrated ablation of the tapetal cell layer. Premature DNA fragmentation and programmed
cell death was observed at meiosis stage in the anthers of sterile plants. Stable transmission of induced male sterility trait
was confirmed in test cross progeny. This constitutes the first report at demonstrating the induction of male sterility by
introducing orfH522 gene that could be useful for genetic engineering of male sterility.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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