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Engineering of the Cytosolic form of Phosphoglucose Isomerase into Chloroplasts Improves Plant Photosynthesis and Biomass
Fei Gao, Huijun Zhang, Wenjuan Zhang, Ning Wang, Shijia Zhang, Chengcai Chu, Cuimin Liu
New Phytologist
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Starch is the most abundant carbohydrate synthesized in plant chloroplast as the product of photosynthetic carbon assimilation, serving a crucial role in the carbon budget as storage energy. Phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) catalyzes the interconversion between glucose 6‐phosphate (G6P) and fructose 6‐phosphate (F6P), which are important metabolic molecules in starch synthesis within chloroplasts and sucrose synthesis in cytosol.
Here, we found that the specific activity of recombinantly purified PGI localized in cytosol (PGIc) was much higher than its plastidic isoenzyme counterpart (PGIp) originated from wheat, rice and Arabidopsis, with wheat PGIc having by far the highest activity. Crystal structures of wheat TaPGIc and TaPGIp proteins were solved and the functional units were homodimers.
The active sites of PGIc and PGIp, constituted by the same amino acids, formed different binding pockets. Moreover, PGIc showed slightly lower affinity to the substrate F6P but with much faster turnover rates. Engineering of TaPGIc into chloroplasts of a pgip mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (atpgip) resulted in starch overaccumulation, increased carbon dioxide assimilation, up to 19% more plant biomass and 27% seed yield productivity.
These results show that manipulating starch metabolic pathways in chloroplasts can improve plant biomass and yield productivity.
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Engineering of the Cytosolic form of Phosphoglucose Isomerase into Chloroplasts Improves Plant Photosynthesis and Biomass |
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Fei Gao, Huijun Zhang, Wenjuan Zhang, Ning Wang, Shijia Zhang, Chengcai Chu, Cuimin Liu |
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Starch is the most abundant carbohydrate synthesized in plant chloroplast as the product of photosynthetic carbon assimilation, serving a crucial role in the carbon budget as storage energy. Phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) catalyzes the interconversion between glucose 6‐phosphate (G6P) and fructose 6‐phosphate (F6P), which are important metabolic molecules in starch synthesis within chloroplasts and sucrose synthesis in cytosol.
Here, we found that the specific activity of recombinantly purified PGI localized in cytosol (PGIc) was much higher than its plastidic isoenzyme counterpart (PGIp) originated from wheat, rice and Arabidopsis, with wheat PGIc having by far the highest activity. Crystal structures of wheat TaPGIc and TaPGIp proteins were solved and the functional units were homodimers.
The active sites of PGIc and PGIp, constituted by the same amino acids, formed different binding pockets. Moreover, PGIc showed slightly lower affinity to the substrate F6P but with much faster turnover rates. Engineering of TaPGIc into chloroplasts of a pgip mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (atpgip) resulted in starch overaccumulation, increased carbon dioxide assimilation, up to 19% more plant biomass and 27% seed yield productivity.
These results show that manipulating starch metabolic pathways in chloroplasts can improve plant biomass and yield productivity. |
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Starch is the most abundant carbohydrate synthesized in plant chloroplast as the product of photosynthetic carbon assimilation, serving a crucial role in the carbon budget as storage energy. Phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) catalyzes the interconversion between glucose 6‐phosphate (G6P) and fructose 6‐phosphate (F6P), which are important metabolic molecules in starch synthesis within chloroplasts and sucrose synthesis in cytosol.
Here, we found that the specific activity of recombinantly purified PGI localized in cytosol (PGIc) was much higher than its plastidic isoenzyme counterpart (PGIp) originated from wheat, rice and Arabidopsis, with wheat PGIc having by far the highest activity. Crystal structures of wheat TaPGIc and TaPGIp proteins were solved and the functional units were homodimers.
The active sites of PGIc and PGIp, constituted by the same amino acids, formed different binding pockets. Moreover, PGIc showed slightly lower affinity to the substrate F6P but with much faster turnover rates. Engineering of TaPGIc into chloroplasts of a pgip mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (atpgip) resulted in starch overaccumulation, increased carbon dioxide assimilation, up to 19% more plant biomass and 27% seed yield productivity.
These results show that manipulating starch metabolic pathways in chloroplasts can improve plant biomass and yield productivity. |
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