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ArticleThe Plant cell2009

The rice alpha-amylase glycoprotein is targeted from the Golgi apparatus through the secretory pathway to the plastids.

Aya Kitajima, Satoru Asatsuma, Hisao Okada, Yuki Hamada, Kentaro Kaneko, Yohei Nanjo, Yasushi Kawagoe, Kiminori Toyooka, Ken Matsuoka, Masaki Takeuchi and 2 more

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Article in The Plant cell, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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70 citing papers in PubMed, 148 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Aya KitajimaGraduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan.
Satoru Asatsuma
Hisao Okada
Yuki Hamada
Kentaro Kaneko
Yohei Nanjo
Yasushi Kawagoe
Kiminori Toyooka
Ken Matsuoka
Masaki Takeuchi
Akihiko Nakano
Toshiaki Mitsui
Niigata University · JPInstitute of Agrobiological Sciences · JPKyushu University · JPRIKEN Advanced Science Institute · JPRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science · JPThe University of Tokyo · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The well-characterized secretory glycoprotein, rice (Oryza sativa) alpha-amylase isoform I-1 (AmyI-1), was localized within the plastids and proved to be involved in the degradation of starch granules in the organelles of rice cells. In addition, a large portion of transiently expressed AmyI-1 fused to green fluorescent protein (AmyI-1-GFP) colocalized with a simultaneously expressed fluorescent plastid marker in onion (Allium cepa) epidermal cells. The plastid targeting of AmyI-1 was inhibited by both dominant-negative and constitutively active mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana ARF1 and Arabidopsis SAR1, which arrest endoplasmic reticulum-to-Golgi traffic. In cells expressing fluorescent trans-Golgi and plastid markers, these fluorescent markers frequently colocalized when coexpressed with AmyI-1. Three-dimensional time-lapse imaging and electron microscopy of high-pressure frozen/freeze-substituted cells demonstrated that contact of the Golgi-derived membrane vesicles with cargo and subsequent absorption into plastids occur within the cells. The transient expression of a series of C-terminal-truncated AmyI-1-GFP fusion proteins in the onion cell system showed that the region from Trp-301 to Gln-369 is necessary for plastid targeting of AmyI-1. Furthermore, the results obtained by site-directed mutations of Trp-302 and Gly-354, located on the surface and on opposite sides of the AmyI-1 protein, suggest that multiple surface regions are necessary for plastid targeting. Thus, Golgi-to-plastid traffic appears to be involved in the transport of glycoproteins to plastids and plastid targeting seems to be accomplished in a sorting signal-dependent manner.

Indexed as

alpha-AmylasesAmino Acid SequenceGlycoproteinsGolgi ApparatusGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, ElectronMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesis, Site-DirectedOnionsOryzaPlant ProteinsPlastidsProtein IsoformsProtein TransportSequence Alignmentalpha-AmylasesGlycoproteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsPlant ProteinsProtein IsoformsStarch

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PMID19767453
PMCPMC2768910
OpenAlexW2122442193

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