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- Title
Exploring the Deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate Synthase Gene Family in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).
- Authors
Di, Xueni; Rodriguez-Concepcion, Manuel
- Abstract
Isoprenoids are a wide family of metabolites including high-value chemicals, flavors, pigments, and drugs. Isoprenoids are particularly abundant and diverse in plants. The methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway produces the universal isoprenoid precursors isopentenyl diphosphate and dimethylallyl diphosphate in plant plastids for the downstream production of monoterpenes, diterpenes, and photosynthesis-related isoprenoids such as carotenoids, chlorophylls, tocopherols, phylloquinone, and plastoquinone. The enzyme deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXS) is the first and main rate-determining enzyme of the MEP pathway. In tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), a plant with an active isoprenoid metabolism in several tissues, three genes encode DXS-like proteins (SlDXS1 to 3). Here, we show that the expression patterns of the three genes suggest distinct physiological roles without excluding that they might function together in some tissues. We also confirm that SlDXS1 and 2 are true DXS enzymes, whereas SlDXS3 lacks DXS activity. We further show that SlDXS1 and 2 co-localize in plastidial speckles and that they can be immunoprecipitated together, suggesting that they might form heterodimers in vivo in at least some tissues. These results provide novel insights for the biotechnological use of DXS isoforms in metabolic engineering strategies to up-regulate the MEP pathway flux.
- Subjects
TOMATOES; GENE families; MONOTERPENES; ISOPENTENOIDS; DITERPENES; VITAMIN E; TISSUE metabolism; CAROTENOIDS
- Publication
Plants (2223-7747), 2023, Vol 12, Issue 22, p3886
- ISSN
2223-7747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/plants12223886