Evolution of a plant-specific copper chaperone family for chloroplast copper homeostasis
Evolution of a plant-specific copper chaperone family for chloroplast copper homeostasis
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1421545111
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发表时间:
2014-12-16
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Merchant, Sabeeha S.
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Blaby-Haas, Crysten E.;Padilla-Benavides, Teresita;Merchant, Sabeeha S.
Metallochaperones traffic copper (Cu+) from its point of entry at the plasma membrane to its destination. In plants, one destination is the chloroplast, which houses plastocyanin, a Cu-dependent electron transfer protein involved in photosynthesis. We present a previously unidentified Cu+ chaperone that evolved early in the plant lineage by an alternative-splicing event of the pre-mRNA encoding the chloroplast P-type ATPase in Arabidopsis 1 (PAA1). In several land plants, recent duplication events created a separate chaperone-encoding gene coincident with loss of alternative splicing. The plant-specific Cu+ chaperone delivers Cu+ with specificity for PAA1, which is flipped in the envelope relative to prototypical bacterial ATPases, compatible with a role in Cu+ import into the stroma and consistent with the canonical catalytic mechanism of these enzymes. The ubiquity of the chaperone suggests conservation of this Cu+-delivery mechanism and provides a unique snapshot into the evolution of a Cu+ distribution pathway. We also provide evidence for an interaction between PAA2, the Cu+-ATPase in thylakoids, and the Cu+-chaperone for Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (CCS), uncovering a Cu+ network that has evolved to fine-tune Cu+ distribution.