SAGA1 and SAGA2 promote starch formation around proto-pyrenoids in Arabidopsis chloroplasts.
SAGA1 and SAGA2 promote starch formation around proto-pyrenoids in Arabidopsis chloroplasts.
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10.1073/pnas.2311013121
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发表时间:
2024-01-23
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
McCormick, Alistair J.
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Atkinson, Nicky;Stringer, Rhea;Mitchell, Stephen R.;Seung, David;McCormick, Alistair J.
Engineering a pyrenoid-based CO2 concentrating mechanism (pCCM) into land plants could improve crop yield potential and resilience to fluctuating climates. Modeling predicts that an efficient pCCM requires a barrier around the pyrenoid to limit CO2 diffusion away from Rubisco. In many species, including the model algae Chlamydomonas, this barrier consists of a sheath of starch plates. Here, we have engineered starch plate-like granules around the proto-pyrenoid in Arabidopsis. This work represents a critical step forward toward achieving a functional pCCM in plants that could ameliorate food security concerns. The pyrenoid is a chloroplastic microcompartment in which most algae and some terrestrial plants condense the primary carboxylase, Rubisco (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase) as part of a CO2-concentrating mechanism that improves the efficiency of CO2 capture. Engineering a pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanism (pCCM) into C3 crop plants is a promising strategy to enhance yield capacities and resilience to the changing climate. Many pyrenoids are characterized by a sheath of starch plates that is proposed to act as a barrier to limit CO2 diffusion. Recently, we have reconstituted a phase-separated “proto-pyrenoid” Rubisco matrix in the model C3 plant Arabidopsis thaliana using proteins from the alga with the most well-studied pyrenoid, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [N. Atkinson, Y. Mao, K. X. Chan, A. J. McCormick, Nat. Commun. 11, 6303 (2020)]. Here, we describe the impact of introducing the Chlamydomonas proteins StArch Granules Abnormal 1 (SAGA1) and SAGA2, which are associated with the regulation of pyrenoid starch biogenesis and morphology. We show that SAGA1 localizes to the proto-pyrenoid in engineered Arabidopsis plants, which results in the formation of atypical spherical starch granules enclosed within the proto-pyrenoid condensate and adjacent plate-like granules that partially cover the condensate, but without modifying the total amount of chloroplastic starch accrued. Additional expression of SAGA2 further increases the proportion of starch synthesized as adjacent plate-like granules that fully encircle the proto-pyrenoid. Our findings pave the way to assembling a diffusion barrier as part of a functional pCCM in vascular plants, while also advancing our understanding of the roles of SAGA1 and SAGA2 in starch sheath formation and broadening the avenues for engineering starch morphology.
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影响因子:
30.8
作者:
Fauser, Friedrich;Vilarrasa-Blasi, Josep;Onishi, Masayuki;Ramundo, Silvia;Patena, Weronika;Millican, Matthew;Osaki, Jacqueline;Philp, Charlotte;Nemeth, Matthew;Salome, Patrice A.;Li, Xiaobo;Wakao, Setsuko;Kim, Rick G.;Kaye, Yuval;Grossman, Arthur R.;Niyogi, Krishna K.;Merchant, Sabeeha S.;Cutler, Sean R.;Walter, Peter;Dinneny, Jose R.;Jonikas, Martin C.;Jinkerson, Robert E.
通讯作者:
Jinkerson, Robert E.
影响因子:
5.1
作者:
Dobrescu A;Scorza LCT;Tsaftaris SA;McCormick AJ
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McCormick AJ
影响因子:
7.2
作者:
Clough, SJ;Bent, AF
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Bent, AF
影响因子:
7.2
作者:
Gamez-Arjona, Francisco M.;Raynaud, Sandy;Merida, Angel
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Merida, Angel
影响因子:
5.9
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