An Ancestral Gibberellin in a Moss Physcomitrella patens
An Ancestral Gibberellin in a Moss Physcomitrella patens
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DOI:
10.1016/j.molp.2018.03.010
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发表时间:
2018-08-06
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27.5
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Nakajima, Masatoshi
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Miyazaki, Sho;Hara, Mariho;Nakajima, Masatoshi
Most of the plant hormones found in flowering plants contribute to growth regulation in the moss Physcomitrella patens. This moss does not produce gibberellin (GA)(Figure 1 A). An ent-kaurene synthase (PpCPS/KS) and an ent-kaurene oxidase (PpKO) have been identified in P. patens, but in contrast to flowering plants, P. patens has no ent-kaurenoic acid oxidase (KAO) homologs (Hayashi et al., 2010; Miyazaki et al., 2011, Figure 1 A). Nevertheless, several 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase (2ODD) genes, which might be related to the GA synthesis pathway, have been annotated (Hirano et al., 2007), and ent-kaurene-deficient P. patens mutants (Ppcps/ks) showed limited protonemal cell differentiation of chloronemata to caulonemata, which are fast-growing cells that produce gametophores. The application of ent-kaurenoic acid (KA), but not GA, recovered the phenotype. These results support that P. patens lacks a GA biosynthetic pathway downstream of KA, indicating that KA metabolite (s) instead of GA may play physiological roles in P. patens.In this letter, we report the identification, biosynthesis, and characterization of a hormonal diterpenoid compound biosynthesized from KA in P. patens. For detecting KA metabolites, we established a complementation bioassay system using Ppcps/ks mutants that quantifies KA within the 0.0001–1 mM range (Supplemental Figure 1A and 1B). After applying KA to the mutant, metabolites were extracted, fractionated by reversedphase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and subjected to the assay system. The recovery ratio of Ppcps/ks cell differentiation was set to 100% using 1 mM KA, and cell differentiation activities were detected in fractions 15 and 18 (Figure 1 B and Supplemental Figure 1C). Possible KA metabolites in these fractions were determined using liquid chromatographyelectrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESIMS/MS), as previously reported (Miyazaki et al., 2015). Considering KA (molecular weight 302) and the GA-catabolite GA34 (molecular weight 348), negatively charged ions were monitored from m/z 299> 299 to 350> 350 (Figure 1 C), which revealed that fraction 18 contained unmetabolized KA with an m/z 301> 301 [M À H]–ion (Figure 1 C). On the other hand, a possible candidate was found in fraction 15: an m/z 317> 317 [M À H]–ion at tR 7.8 min (Figure 1 C). The 16 m/z ions larger than that from KA were assumed to compose the KA skeleton with an oxygen without any desaturation.