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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2017

Subcellular localization of Arabidopsis arogenate dehydratases suggests novel and non-enzymatic roles.

Crystal D Bross, Travis R Howes, Sara Abolhassani Rad, Ornela Kljakic, Susanne E Kohalmi

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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Crystal D BrossDepartment of Biology, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street North, London Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada.
Travis R HowesDepartment of Biology, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street North, London Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada.
Sara Abolhassani RadDepartment of Biology, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street North, London Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada.
Ornela KljakicDepartment of Biology, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street North, London Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada.
Susanne E KohalmiDepartment of Biology, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street North, London Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arogenate dehydratases (ADTs) catalyze the final step in phenylalanine biosynthesis in plants. The Arabidopsis thaliana genome encodes a family of six ADTs capable of decarboxylating/dehydrating arogenate into phenylalanine. Using cyan fluorescent protein (CFP)-tagged proteins, the subcellular localization patterns of all six A. thaliana ADTs were investigated in intact Nicotiana benthamiana and A. thaliana leaf cells. We show that A. thaliana ADTs localize to stroma and stromules (stroma-filled tubules) of chloroplasts. This localization pattern is consistent with the enzymatic function of ADTs as many enzymes required for amino acid biosynthesis are primarily localized to chloroplasts, and stromules are thought to increase metabolite transport from chloroplasts to other cellular compartments. Furthermore, we provide evidence that ADTs have additional, non-enzymatic roles. ADT2 localizes in a ring around the equatorial plane of chloroplasts or to a chloroplast pole, which suggests that ADT2 is a component of the chloroplast division machinery. In addition to chloroplasts, ADT5 was also found in nuclei, again suggesting a non-enzymatic role for ADT5. We also show evidence that ADT5 is transported to the nucleus via stromules. We propose that ADT2 and ADT5 are moonlighting proteins that play an enzymatic role in phenylalanine biosynthesis and a second role in chloroplast division or transcriptional regulation, respectively.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsChloroplastsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHydro-LyasesNicotianaPlant LeavesPlants, Genetically ModifiedArabidopsis ProteinsCyan Fluorescent ProteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHydro-Lyasespretyrosine dehydrataseArogenate dehydratasechloroplast divisionmoonlighting proteinsnuclear localizationphenylalanine biosynthesisstromules.

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PMCPMC5444438

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