Starch-related cytosolic heteroglycans in roots from Arabidopsis thaliana |
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Authors: | Malinova Irina Steup Martin Fettke Joerg |
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Institution: | a Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Plant Physiology, University of Potsdam, Germany b Mass Spectrometry of Biopolymers, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany |
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Abstract: | Both photoautotrophic and heterotrophic plant cells are capable of accumulating starch inside the plastid. However, depending on the metabolic state of the respective cell the starch-related carbon fluxes are different. The vast majority of the transitory starch biosynthesis relies on the hexose phosphate pools derived from the reductive pentose phosphate cycle and, therefore, is restricted to ongoing photosynthesis. Transitory starch is usually degraded in the subsequent dark period and mainly results in the formation of neutral sugars, such as glucose and maltose, that both are exported into the cytosol. The cytosolic metabolism of the two carbohydrates includes reversible glucosyl transfer reactions to a heteroglycan that are mediated by two glucosyl transferases, DPE2 and PHS2 (or, in all other species, Pho2).In heterotrophic cells, accumulation of starch mostly depends on the long distance transport of reduced carbon compounds from source to sink organs and, therefore, includes as an essential step the import of carbohydrates from the cytosol into the starch forming plastids.In this communication, we focus on starch metabolism in heterotrophic tissues from Arabidopsis thaliana wild type plants (and in various starch-related mutants as well). By using hydroponically grown A. thaliana plants, we were able to analyse starch-related biochemical processes in leaves and roots from the same plants. Within the roots we determined starch levels and the morphology of native starch granules. Cytosolic and apoplastic heteroglycans were analysed in roots and compared with those from leaves of the same plants. A. thaliana mutants lacking functional enzymes either inside the plastid (such as phosphoglucomutase) or in the cytosol (disproportionating isoenzyme 2 or the phosphorylase isozyme, PHS2) were included in this study. In roots and leaves from the three mutants (and from the respective wild type organ as well), starch and heteroglycans as well as enzyme patterns were analysed. |
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Keywords: | DPE2 disproportionating enzyme 2 PHS1 plastidial phosphorylase isozyme (in A thaliana in all other species: Pho1) PHS2 cytosolic phosphorylase isozyme (in A thaliana in all other species: Pho2) SHG water soluble heteroglycans l" target="_blank">SHGl water soluble heteroglycans with an apparent size of more than 10 kDa |
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