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- Title
The N-Terminal Propeptide and the C Terminus of the Precursor to 20-kilo-dalton Potato Tuber Protein Can Function as Different Types of Vacuolar Sorting Signals.
- Authors
Koide, Yasuhiro; Matsuoka, Ken; Ohto, Masa-aki; Nakamura, Kenzo
- Abstract
Two types of vacuolar sorting signals (VSSs), an asparagine-proline-isoleucine-arginine-leucine (NPIRL)-related VSS in the N-terminal propeptides (NTPPs) and a C-terminal VSS in the C-terminal propeptides (CTPPs), function differently in plant cells. A precursor to a 20-kDa protein of potato tuber (PT20) contains two NPIRL-related sequences, NPINL in a short NTPP and NPLDV close to the C terminus of the precursor. We made mutant forms of sweet potato sporamin (SPO), nPT20-SPO, in which the N-terminal pre-pro part was exchanged with that of the precursor to PT20, and SPO-PT20c, in which the C-terminal 13 amino acids of the precursor to PT20 was attached to the C terminus of Δpro-SPO which lacked NTPP. Both nPT20-SPO and SPO-PT20c were efficiently transported to the vacuoles in tobacco cells. Unlike nPT20-SPO, the vacuolar transport of SPO-PT20c was inhibited by wortmannin and by the C-terminal addition of Gly or Gly-Gly suggesting its similarity to the vacuolar transport of sporamin mediated by CTPP of barley lectin. Further analysis of the C-terminal sequence of PT20 indicated that the most C-terminal SFKQVQ sequence functions as the C-terminal VSS. These results suggest that the precursor to PT20 contains both NPIRL-like VSS in its NTPP and C-terminal VSS at the C terminus.
- Subjects
PEPTIDES; PLANT vacuoles; POTATOES; PLANT cellular signal transduction; WORTMANNIN; SPORAMIN; PLANT proteins; AMINO acid sequence; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Plant & Cell Physiology, 1999, Vol 40, Issue 11, p1152
- ISSN
0032-0781
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029500