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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-7-4
pubmed:abstractText
We have previously identified a zinc metalloprotease involved in the degradation of mitochondrial and chloroplast targeting peptides, the presequence protease (PreP). In the Arabidopsis thaliana genomic database, there are two genes that correspond to the protease, the zinc metalloprotease (AAL90904) and the putative zinc metalloprotease (AAG13049). We have named the corresponding proteins AtPreP1 and AtPreP2, respectively. AtPreP1 and AtPreP2 show significant differences in their targeting peptides and the proteins are predicted to be localized in different compartments. AtPreP1 was shown to degrade both mitochondrial and chloroplast targeting peptides and to be dual targeted to both organelles using an ambiguous targeting peptide. Here, we have overexpressed, purified and characterized proteolytic and targeting properties of AtPreP2. AtPreP2 exhibits different proteolytic subsite specificity from AtPreP1 when used for degradation of organellar targeting peptides and their mutants. Interestingly, AtPreP2 precursor protein was also found to be dual targeted to both mitochondria and chloroplasts in a single and dual in vitro import system. Furthermore, targeting peptide of the AtPreP2 dually targeted green fluorescent protein (GFP) to both mitochondria and chloroplasts in tobacco protoplasts and leaves using an in vivo transient expression system. The targeting of both AtPreP1 and AtPreP2 proteases to chloroplasts in A. thaliana in vivo was confirmed via a shotgun mass spectrometric analysis of highly purified chloroplasts. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis revealed that AtPreP1 and AtPreP2 are differentially expressed in mature A. thaliana plants. Phylogenetic evidence indicated that AtPreP1 and AtPreP2 are recent gene duplicates that may have diverged through subfunctionalization.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0032-0781
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
46
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
985-96
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Arabidopsis, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Biological Transport, Active, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Catalysis, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Chloroplasts, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-DNA, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Evolution, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Genes, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Mass Spectrometry, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Metalloproteases, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Mitochondria, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Plants, Genetically Modified, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Subcellular Fractions, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:15827031-Tobacco
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Catalysis, subcellular localization, expression and evolution of the targeting peptides degrading protease, AtPreP2.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't