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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-9-8
pubmed:abstractText
The regulation by photorespiration of the transcript level corresponding to plastidic glutamine synthetase (GS-2) was investigated in the leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.. Photorespiration was suppressed by growing the plants in an atmosphere containing 300 Pa CO2. Suppression of photorespiration was demonstrated by the ability of the conditionally lethal serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT)-deficient stm mutant of A. thaliana to grown normally under these conditions. In contrast to previous studies with bean or pea that were performed at very high CO2 partial pressure (2-4 kPa; Edwards and Coruzzi, 1989, Plant Cell 1:241-248; Cock et al., 1991, Plant Mol Biol 17: 761-771), suppression of photorespiration during growth of A. thaliana in an atmosphere with 300 Pa CO2 had no effect of the leaf GS-2 transcript level. In the short term, neither suppression of photorespiration induced by the transfer of air-grown A. thaliana plants into a CO2-enriched atmosphere, nor an increase in the rate of photorespiration achieved by the transfer of high-CO2-grown A. thaliana plants into air resulted in a change in the GS-2 mRNA level. The absence of photorespiratory ammonium release in leaves of the stm mutant had no effect on the GS-2 transcript level. Overall, our data argue against a control by photorespiration of the A. thaliana leaf GS-2 mRNA pool. In contrast, regulation of the leaf SHMT mRNA level may involve a negative feedback effect of at least one metabolite derived from the glycine/serine conversion during photorespiration, as indicated by the overexpression of SHMT transcripts in the leaves of the stm mutant.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
B
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0032-0935
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
202
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
379-86
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Photosynthesis and fluorescence quenching, and the mRNA levels of plastidic glutamine synthetase or of mitochondrial serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) in the leaves of the wild-type and of the SHMT-deficient stm mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana in relation to the rate of photorespiration.
pubmed:affiliation
Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't