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Physiological performance of transplastomic tobacco plants overexpressing aquaporin AQP1 in chloroplast membranes
The leaf mesophyll CO(2) conductance and the concentration of CO(2) within the chloroplast are major factors affecting photosynthetic performance. Previous studies have shown that the aquaporin NtAQP1 (which localizes to the plasma membrane and chloroplast inner envelope membrane) is involved in CO(...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022695/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29912355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery148 |
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author | Fernández-San Millán, Alicia Aranjuelo, Iker Douthe, Cyril Nadal, Miquel Ancín, María Larraya, Luis Farran, Inmaculada Flexas, Jaume Veramendi, Jon |
author_facet | Fernández-San Millán, Alicia Aranjuelo, Iker Douthe, Cyril Nadal, Miquel Ancín, María Larraya, Luis Farran, Inmaculada Flexas, Jaume Veramendi, Jon |
author_sort | Fernández-San Millán, Alicia |
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description | The leaf mesophyll CO(2) conductance and the concentration of CO(2) within the chloroplast are major factors affecting photosynthetic performance. Previous studies have shown that the aquaporin NtAQP1 (which localizes to the plasma membrane and chloroplast inner envelope membrane) is involved in CO(2) permeability in the chloroplast. Levels of NtAQP1 in plants genetically engineered to overexpress the protein correlated positively with leaf mesophyll CO(2) conductance and photosynthetic rate. In these studies, the nuclear transformation method used led to changes in NtAQP1 levels in the plasma membrane and the chloroplast inner envelope membrane. In the present work, NtAQP1 levels were increased up to 16-fold in the chloroplast membranes alone by the overexpression of NtAQP1 from the plastid genome. Despite the high NtAQP1 levels achieved, transplastomic plants showed lower photosynthetic rates than wild-type plants. This result was associated with lower Rubisco maximum carboxylation rate and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate regeneration. Transplastomic plants showed reduced mesophyll CO(2) conductance but no changes in chloroplast CO(2) concentration. The absence of differences in chloroplast CO(2) concentration was associated with the lower CO(2) fixation activity of the transplastomic plants. These findings suggest that non-functional pores of recombinant NtAQP1 may be produced in the chloroplast inner envelope membrane. |
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spelling | pubmed-60226952018-07-05 Physiological performance of transplastomic tobacco plants overexpressing aquaporin AQP1 in chloroplast membranes Fernández-San Millán, Alicia Aranjuelo, Iker Douthe, Cyril Nadal, Miquel Ancín, María Larraya, Luis Farran, Inmaculada Flexas, Jaume Veramendi, Jon J Exp Bot Research Papers The leaf mesophyll CO(2) conductance and the concentration of CO(2) within the chloroplast are major factors affecting photosynthetic performance. Previous studies have shown that the aquaporin NtAQP1 (which localizes to the plasma membrane and chloroplast inner envelope membrane) is involved in CO(2) permeability in the chloroplast. Levels of NtAQP1 in plants genetically engineered to overexpress the protein correlated positively with leaf mesophyll CO(2) conductance and photosynthetic rate. In these studies, the nuclear transformation method used led to changes in NtAQP1 levels in the plasma membrane and the chloroplast inner envelope membrane. In the present work, NtAQP1 levels were increased up to 16-fold in the chloroplast membranes alone by the overexpression of NtAQP1 from the plastid genome. Despite the high NtAQP1 levels achieved, transplastomic plants showed lower photosynthetic rates than wild-type plants. This result was associated with lower Rubisco maximum carboxylation rate and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate regeneration. Transplastomic plants showed reduced mesophyll CO(2) conductance but no changes in chloroplast CO(2) concentration. The absence of differences in chloroplast CO(2) concentration was associated with the lower CO(2) fixation activity of the transplastomic plants. These findings suggest that non-functional pores of recombinant NtAQP1 may be produced in the chloroplast inner envelope membrane. Oxford University Press 2018-07-10 2018-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6022695/ /pubmed/29912355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery148 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Papers Fernández-San Millán, Alicia Aranjuelo, Iker Douthe, Cyril Nadal, Miquel Ancín, María Larraya, Luis Farran, Inmaculada Flexas, Jaume Veramendi, Jon Physiological performance of transplastomic tobacco plants overexpressing aquaporin AQP1 in chloroplast membranes |
title | Physiological performance of transplastomic tobacco plants overexpressing aquaporin AQP1 in chloroplast membranes |
title_full | Physiological performance of transplastomic tobacco plants overexpressing aquaporin AQP1 in chloroplast membranes |
title_fullStr | Physiological performance of transplastomic tobacco plants overexpressing aquaporin AQP1 in chloroplast membranes |
title_full_unstemmed | Physiological performance of transplastomic tobacco plants overexpressing aquaporin AQP1 in chloroplast membranes |
title_short | Physiological performance of transplastomic tobacco plants overexpressing aquaporin AQP1 in chloroplast membranes |
title_sort | physiological performance of transplastomic tobacco plants overexpressing aquaporin aqp1 in chloroplast membranes |
topic | Research Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022695/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29912355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery148 |
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