Project description:Plastid gene expression (PGE) acts as a signal that regulates the expression of photosynthesis-associated nuclear genes (PhANGs) via GENOMES UNCOUPLED1 (GUN1)-dependent retrograde signaling. We recently isolated Arabidopsis sugar-inducible cotyledon yellow-192 (sicy-192), a gain-of-function mutant of plastidic invertase (INV-E), and showed that following the treatment of this mutant with sucrose, the expression of PhANGs decreased while that of nitrate reductase 1 (NIA1) increased. Plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP)-dependent PGE was markedly suppressed in the sicy-192 mutant by the sucrose treatment. A double mutant of sicy-192 and gun1-101, a null mutant of GUN1, revealed that metabolic perturbation in the sucrose-treated sicy-192 mutant was, at least in part, dependent on GUN1. To confirm whether there is a relationship between plastid sugar metabolism and nuclear gene expression, we performed a microarray analysis using Suc-treated 3 genotypes consisting of wild-type, sicy-192, and sicy-192 gun1-101 plants.
Project description:Plastid gene expression (PGE) acts as a signal that regulates the expression of photosynthesis-associated nuclear genes (PhANGs) via GENOMES UNCOUPLED1 (GUN1)-dependent retrograde signaling. We recently isolated Arabidopsis sugar-inducible cotyledon yellow-192 (sicy-192), a gain-of-function mutant of plastidic invertase (INV-E), and showed that following the treatment of this mutant with sucrose, the expression of PhANGs decreased while that of nitrate reductase 1 (NIA1) increased. Plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP)-dependent PGE was markedly suppressed in the sicy-192 mutant by the sucrose treatment. A double mutant of sicy-192 and gun1-101, a null mutant of GUN1, revealed that metabolic perturbation in the sucrose-treated sicy-192 mutant was, at least in part, dependent on GUN1. To confirm whether there is a relationship between plastid sugar metabolism and nuclear gene expression, we performed a microarray analysis using Suc-treated 3 genotypes consisting of wild-type, sicy-192, and sicy-192 gun1-101 plants. Wild-type, sicy-192, and sicy-192 gun1-101 plants were grown on MS medium containing 100 mM sucrose in a growth chamber kept at 25°C during 16 h of light (100 µmol/m2/s) and at 22°C during 8 h of darkness for 4 days. At 4 days of age, cotyledons were collected as samples for microarray analysis.
Project description:In the present study we investigated at the system level the proteome obtained from seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type Col-0 and gun1-101 and gun1-102 mutant plants treated or not with lincomycin (Lin), a chloroplast translation inhibitor widely used to inhibit chloroplast biogenesis and to trigger the plastid-to-nucleus retrograde communication. Specifically, we attempted a description of cellular responses to Lincomycin in wild-type genetic background and in retrograde signaling-defective mutant gun1. Hypotheses and key players emerged by our holistic view were validated at the experimental level. Our findings suggest that, in the presence of Lincomycin, cell responses rely on the plastid compartment in a GUN1-dependent manner, while in the gun1-mutant background, the activity of extra-plastid compartments prevails. Moreover, results obtained by complementary approaches depict the Oxygen Evolving Complex subunit PsbO as an atypical Photosynthesis-related protein by accumulating in non-photosynthetic plastids and having a superhub role in modulating chloroplast dismantling upon impairment of plastid functions.
Project description:GUN1 proteins controls protein homeostasis in chloroplast development in cotyledons of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, via coordination of nuclear encoded polymerase (NEP)-dependent chloroplast genes expression with plastid encoded polymerase (PEP)-dependent chloroplast genes expression. Lack of GUN1 leads to development of abnormal plastids and, consequently, accumulation of nuclear-encoded chloroplast-targeted (NECT) proteins which in many cases have been found still in their precursor form. Data dependent acquisition (DDA) mass spectrometry analysis of cotyledons soluble fractions, as well as targeted proteomics analysis of specific FtsH protease forms recognized by FtsH antibodies in western blotting, have been performed to identify peptides from the chloroplast transit peptide (cTP) of NECT in cotyledons extracts of wild type and GUN1 knocked-out mutant plants. The aim was to compare the number of cTPs found in 6 days after sowing (DAS) seedlings grown on plates with or without the inhibitor of plastid translation lincomycin.
Project description:To comprehensively investigate the effects of glutathione on the gene expression, the microarray analysis was performed in the glutathione-fed wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana. Wild-type Arabidopsis (ecotype Columbia-0) were fed with 1 mM oxidized glutathione (GSSG) and 2 mM reduced glutathione (GSH) for comparison at equal nitrogen equivalents. To examine the effects of glutathione other than nitrogen at equal nitrogen equivalents, plants were fed with 3 mM NH4NO3. Plants grown by water were used as a control.