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ArticleScientific reports2019

RSH enzyme diversity for (p)ppGpp metabolism in Phaeodactylum tricornutum and other diatoms.

Luisana Avilan, Carine Puppo, Adrien Villain, Emanuelle Bouveret, Benoit Menand, Ben Field, Brigitte Gontero

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Luisana AvilanAix Marseille Univ CNRS, BIP, UMR 7281, IMM FR 3479, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13009, Marseille, France.
Carine PuppoAix Marseille Univ CNRS, BIP, UMR 7281, IMM FR 3479, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13009, Marseille, France.
Adrien VillainAix Marseille Univ CNRS, IGS; UMR 7256, IMM FR 3479, 13009, Marseille, France.
Emanuelle BouveretStress Adaptation and Metabolism in Enterobacteriae group, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 75015, France.
Benoit MenandAix Marseille Univ, CEA, CNRS, UMR7265 BIAM, 13009, Marseille, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9713-5275
Ben FieldAix Marseille Univ, CEA, CNRS, UMR7265 BIAM, 13009, Marseille, France. ben.field@univ-amu.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2142-4606
Brigitte GonteroAix Marseille Univ CNRS, BIP, UMR 7281, IMM FR 3479, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13009, Marseille, France. bmeunier@imm.cnrs.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1731-712X

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Abstract

The nucleotides guanosine tetraphosphate and pentaphosphate (together known as (p)ppGpp or magic spot) are produced in plant plastids from GDP/GTP and ATP by RelA-SpoT homologue (RSH) enzymes. In the model plant Arabidopsis (p)ppGpp regulates chloroplast transcription and translation to affect growth, and is also implicated in acclimation to stress. However, little is known about (p)ppGpp metabolism or its evolution in other photosynthetic eukaryotes. Here we studied (p)ppGpp metabolism in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. We identified three expressed RSH genes in the P. tricornutum genome, and determined the enzymatic activity of the corresponding enzymes by heterologous expression in bacteria. We showed that two P. tricornutum RSH are (p)ppGpp synthetases, despite substitution of a residue within the active site believed critical for activity, and that the third RSH is a bifunctional (p)ppGpp synthetase and hydrolase, the first of its kind demonstrated in a photosynthetic eukaryote. A broad phylogenetic analysis then showed that diatom RSH belong to novel algal RSH clades. Together our work significantly expands the horizons of (p)ppGpp signalling in the photosynthetic eukaryotes by demonstrating an unexpected functional, structural and evolutionary diversity in RSH enzymes from organisms with plastids derived from red algae.

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Genetic VariationAcclimatizationAlgal ProteinsAmino Acid SequenceArabidopsisCatalytic DomainChloroplastsDiatomsDNA, AlgalEscherichia coliEvolution, MolecularGene ExpressionLigasesPhotosynthesisPhylogenyPlant ProteinsAlgal ProteinsDNA, Algalguanosine 3',5'-polyphosphate synthetasesLigasesPlant Proteins

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