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ArticlePlant physiology2008

Metabolome analysis of biosynthetic mutants reveals a diversity of metabolic changes and allows identification of a large number of new compounds in Arabidopsis.

Christoph Böttcher, Edda von Roepenack-Lahaye, Jürgen Schmidt, Constanze Schmotz, Steffen Neumann, Dierk Scheel, Stephan Clemens

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7 authors.

Christoph BöttcherLeibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Department of Stress and Developmental Biology, 06120 Halle/Saale, Germany.
Edda von Roepenack-Lahaye
Jürgen Schmidt
Constanze Schmotz
Steffen Neumann
Dierk Scheel
Stephan Clemens

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Abstract

Metabolomics is facing a major challenge: the lack of knowledge about metabolites present in a given biological system. Thus, large-scale discovery of metabolites is considered an essential step toward a better understanding of plant metabolism. We show here that the application of a metabolomics approach generating structural information for the analysis of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) mutants allows the efficient cataloging of metabolites. Fifty-six percent of the features that showed significant differences in abundance between seeds of wild-type, transparent testa4, and transparent testa5 plants could be annotated. Seventy-five compounds were structurally characterized, 21 of which could be identified. About 40 compounds had not been known from Arabidopsis before. Also, the high-resolution analysis revealed an unanticipated expansion of metabolic conversions upstream of biosynthetic blocks. Deficiency in chalcone synthase results in the increased seed-specific biosynthesis of a range of phenolic choline esters. Similarly, a lack of chalcone isomerase activity leads to the accumulation of various naringenin chalcone derivatives. Furthermore, our data provide insight into the connection between p-coumaroyl-coenzyme A-dependent pathways. Lack of flavonoid biosynthesis results in elevated synthesis not only of p-coumarate-derived choline esters but also of sinapate-derived metabolites. However, sinapoylcholine is not the only accumulating end product. Instead, we observed specific and sophisticated changes in the complex pattern of sinapate derivatives.

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ArabidopsisChromatography, LiquidCyclotronsFourier AnalysisMutationPlant ExtractsSeedsSpectrometry, Mass, Electrospray IonizationPlant Extracts

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PMID18552234
PMCPMC2492617

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