Photorespiration: origins and metabolic integration in interacting compartments
Photorespiration: origins and metabolic integration in interacting compartments
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DOI:
10.1093/jxb/erw178
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发表时间:
2016-05-13
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6.9
通讯作者:
Eisenhut M
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作者:
Hagemann M;Weber AP;Eisenhut M
This special issue on photorespiration focuses on recent advances in this topic. The majority of the papers summarizes and extends contributions given at the 2nd workshop,‘Photorespiration–key to better crops’, held in Warnemuende, Germany in June 2015. This was organized by the DFG (German Research Foundation)-supported research network,‘Photorespiration: origins and metabolic integration in interacting compartments’(FOR 1186–Promics). The term photorespiration (PR) describes a light-induced biochemical process that converts 2-phosphoglycolate (2PG) into 3-phosphoglycerate (3PGA) and is accompanied by O2 uptake and CO2 release. It is closely associated with photosynthetic CO2 assimilation and represents one of the major highways of carbon metabolism in most plants. By mass flow, surpassed only by photosynthesis, PR actually constitutes the second most important process in the land-based biosphere. Plants using the most widespread C3 type of photosynthesis for CO2 assimilation display particularly massive photorespiratory CO2 production. PR is initiated by competition of O2 with CO2 at the active site of the universal carboxylating enzyme Ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase (Rubisco)(Smith, 1976), which produces large amounts of 2PG during the day. Hence, PR essentially acts as a salvage or metabolic repair process that converts the toxic by-product 2PG into the useful Calvin–Benson cycle intermediate 3PGA. It is supposedly the most important ancient ancillary metabolic process that enables plants to thrive in an O2-containing atmosphere (Osmond, 1981). To convert 2PG into 3PGA, the concerted action of many plastidial, peroxisomal, mitochondrial, and also cytosolic enzymes is necessary, which makes this pathway the most prominent example of subcellular metabolic integration in higher plants.However, PR also leads to the loss of a considerable fraction of freshly assimilated C and N as photorespiratory CO2 and NH3. Quantitatively, PR can decrease photosynthesis by up to 30% under current atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and O2 and even more at elevated temperature (eg Sharkey, 1988; Zhu et al., 2004). This substantial decrease of net photosynthesis led to the somewhat misleading view of PR as a ‘wasteful’process limiting photosynthetic productivity in C3 plants (eg Garrett, 1978; Siedow and Day, 2001). However, genetic analysis showed that PR is essential for all organisms performing oxygenic photosynthesis, since mutations of genes encoding for key photorespiratory enzymes always resulted in the photorespiratory phenotype and frequently in lethality (Somerville, 2001), ie corresponding mutants of cyanobacteria, red algae (Rademacher et al., this issue), chlorophytes, C3 and C4 plants were not viable in ambient air and could only be rescued under artificially enhanced CO2/O2 ratios (reviewed in Bauwe et al., 2010). Nevertheless, due to the large CO2 and energy losses, PR is seen as a promising target in breeding more productive crops (Ort et al., 2015). For example, attempts have been initiated to introduce photorespiratory bypasses to make the process less energy demanding or to reduce the CO2 release (reviewed in Peterhänsel et al., 2013). Interestingly, it has recently been reported that, instead of decreasing PR an increased PR flux capacity resulted in enhanced growth of Arabidopsis thaliana in ambient air. The independent over-expression of two different proteins of the mitochondrial glycine cleavage system increased photorespiratory carbon flow and also improved Calvin–Benson cycle activity, leading to higher photosynthetic activity and higher biomass …