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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-2-28
pubmed:abstractText
During phosphate starvation, it is known that phospholipids are degraded, and conversely, a nonphosphorus galactolipid digalactosyldiacylglycerol accumulates in the root plasma membrane of plants. We report a novel phospholipase C that hydrolyzes phosphatidylcholine and is greatly induced in response to phosphate deprivation in Arabidopsis. Since phosphatidylcholine-hydrolyzing activity by phospholipase C was highly up-regulated in phosphate-deprived plants, gene expression of some phospholipase C was expected to be induced during phosphate starvation. Based on amino acid sequence similarity to a bacterial phosphatidylcholine-hydrolyzing phospholipase C, six putative phospholipase Cs were identified in the Arabidopsis genome, one of which, NPC4, showed significant transcriptional activation upon phosphate limitation. Molecular cloning and functional expression of NPC4 confirmed that the NPC4 gene encoded a functional phosphatidylcholine-hydrolyzing phospholipase C that did not require Ca(2+) for its activity. Subcellular localization analysis showed that NPC4 protein was highly enriched in the plasma membrane. Analyses of transferred DNA-tagged npc4 mutants revealed that disruption of NPC4 severely reduces the phosphatidylcholine-hydrolyzing phospholipase C activity in response to phosphate starvation. These results suggest that NPC4 plays an important role in the supply of both inorganic phosphate and diacylglycerol from membrane-localized phospholipids that would be used for phosphate supplementation and the replacement of polar lipids in the root plasma membrane during phosphate deprivation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
4
pubmed:volume
280
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7469-76
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Arabidopsis, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Arabidopsis Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Calcium, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Cell Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Chloroplasts, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Chromatography, Thin Layer, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Genes, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Genome, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Hydrolysis, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Lipid Metabolism, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Models, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Phosphates, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Phosphatidylcholines, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Phospholipids, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Plant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Plant Roots, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Transcriptional Activation, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Type C Phospholipases, pubmed-meshheading:15618226-Up-Regulation
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
A novel phosphatidylcholine-hydrolyzing phospholipase C induced by phosphate starvation in Arabidopsis.
pubmed:affiliation
Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259-B-14 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8501, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't