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An Alternative Pathway Contributes to Phenylalanine Biosynthesis in Plants Via a Cytosolic Tyrosine:Phenylpyruvate Aminotransferase ARTICLE Received 29 Jul 2013 | Accepted 29 Oct 2013 | Published 25 Nov 2013 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3833 An alternative pathway contributes to phenylalanine biosynthesis in plants via a cytosolic tyrosine:phenylpyruvate aminotransferase Heejin Yoo1, Joshua R. Widhalm1, Yichun Qian1, Hiroshi Maeda1,w, Bruce R. Cooper2, Amber S. Jannasch2, Itay Gonda3, Efraim Lewinsohn3, David Rhodes1 & Natalia Dudareva1,4 Phenylalanine is a vital component of proteins in all living organisms, and in plants is a precursor for thousands of additional metabolites. Animals are incapable of synthesizing phenylalanine and must primarily obtain it directly or indirectly from plants. Although plants can synthesize phenylalanine in plastids through arogenate, the contribution of an alternative pathway via phenylpyruvate, as occurs in most microbes, has not been demonstrated. Here we show that plants also utilize a microbial-like phenylpyruvate pathway to produce phenylalanine, and flux through this route is increased when the entry point to the arogenate pathway is limiting. Unexpectedly, we find the plant phenylpyruvate pathway utilizes a cytosolic aminotransferase that links the coordinated catabolism of tyrosine to serve as the amino donor, thus interconnecting the extra-plastidial metabolism of these amino acids. This discovery uncovers another level of complexity in the plant aromatic amino acid regulatory network, unveiling new targets for metabolic engineering. 1 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture Mall Dr, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. 2 Bindley Bioscience Center, Metabolite Profiling Facility, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. 3 Institute of Plant Sciences, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, PO Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30095, Israel. 4 Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. w Present address: Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to N.D. (email: [email protected]). NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | 4:2833 | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3833 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications 1 & 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. ARTICLE NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3833 romatic amino acids are essential constituents of proteins first subjected to dehydration/decarboxylation or dehydro- in all living organisms, whereas in plants, phenylalanine genation/decarboxylation to form phenylpyruvate or 4-hydroxy- A(Phe) and tyrosine (Tyr) also serve as precursors for phenylpyruvate, respectively. Then the corresponding products thousands of vital and specialized compounds. Approximately undergo transamination to phenylalanine and tyrosine (Fig. 1). 20–30% of photosynthetically fixed carbon is directed towards Most microorganisms appear to utilize only the phenylpyruvate/ synthesis of phenylalanine, and in turn to lignin1, the central 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate pathways11–13, with a few exceptions14. structural component of plant cell walls and the major In contrast, phenylalanine and tyrosine biosynthesis in impediment to cellulosic biofuel production. In addition to plants has only been described to occur via the arogenate structural roles, phenylalanine-derived compounds function in pathway15–18. Nevertheless, overexpression of a bacterial plant defence and ultraviolet protection (for example, flavonoids bifunctional chorismate mutase/prephenate dehydratase (PheA) and various phenolics)2,3, signalling (for example, isoflavonoids)4 in Arabidopsis resulted in significantly increased phenylalanine and reproduction (for example, anthocyanins and phenyl- production19, implicating the presence of an aminotransferase propanoid/benzenoid volatiles)3. Moreover, tyrosine-derived capable of converting phenylpyruvate to phenylalanine in plants, metabolites, such as tocopherols (vitamin E)5, plastoquinone6, as it occurs in the final step of the microbial phenylpyruvate cyanogenic glycosides7 and suberin8 have crucial roles in plant pathway. Although several plant aminotransferases, mainly fitness. participating in aromatic amino-acid catabolism, have recently Phenylalanine and tyrosine are synthesized from chorismate, been described20–23, none of them have been demonstrated to the final product of the shikimate pathway9,10, which is converted function in phenylalanine biosynthesis. by chorismate mutase to prephenate. Subsequent conversion of Previously we demonstrated that PhADT1 downregulation in prephenate to phenylalanine and tyrosine occurs through Petunia hybrida flowers, which emit high levels of phenylalanine- alternative routes. In the first (the arogenate pathway), a shared derived volatiles24,25, resulted in a greater decrease in transamination reaction catalysed by prephenate amino- phenylalanine levels compared with the effect of PhPPA-AT transferase (PPA-AT), produces L-arogenate, which can then downregulation (up to 82% versus 20% reduction, either be dehydrated/decarboxylated to phenylalanine by respectively)16,17. Such a differential impact on phenylalanine arogenate dehydratase (ADT) or dehydrogenated/decarboxyled levels from the downregulation of these individual genes was to tyrosine by arogenate dehydrogenase (ADH; Fig. 1). In suggested to be due to either sufficient residual PPA-AT activity the other routes (the phenylpyruvate/4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate in the PhPPA-AT RNAi lines capable of sustaining the arogenate pathways), these reactions occur in reverse order: prephenate is pathway, or the redirection of carbon flux from accumulated prephenate in the PhPPA-AT RNAi lines through the hitherto undetected alternative phenylpyruvate pathway17. COOH Here to test these hypotheses, we generated RNAi transgenic CH petunia plants in which both PhADT1 and PhPPA-AT genes Shikimate 2 were simultaneously downregulated. If the phenylalanine and O COOH volatile phenotypes in PhADT1 plants can be rescued by OH concurrent downregulation of PhPPA-AT, this would be Chorismate consistent with redirection of flux from prephenate through an alternative pathway. Indeed, detailed metabolic profiling of CM PhADT1xPhPPA-AT RNAi lines provides evidence in agreement with the involvement of an alternative pathway. To provide COOH further support, we identify a petunia phenylpyruvate amino- HOOC transferase gene (designated as PhPPY-AT), downregulation of COOH O which leads to reduction of phenylalanine and phenylalanine- COOH O derived scent compounds. Extensive biochemical characterization of PhPPY-AT reveals that it preferentially converts phenylpyr- PDH PDT O OH uvate to phenylalanine, and unexpectedly strongly favours Prephenate tyrosine as the amino donor. In addition, feeding experiments OH with petunia petals show that the 15N label from supplied 15N- 4-Hydroxy- PPA-AT tyrosine is retrieved in phenylalanine, and higher phenylalanine phenylpyruvate Phenylpyruvate labelling occurs in PhADT1xPhPPA-AT RNAi lines than in wild- type, consistent with higher flux through the phenylpyruvate HPP-AT COOH PPY-AT pathway when the flux into the arogenate pathway is limiting. HOOC Moreover, we have shown that PhPPY-AT is a cytosolic enzyme, COOH NH2 and when the tyrosine pool is reduced via overexpression of a COOH cytosolic tyrosine decarboxylase, it leads to a decrease in NH2 phenylalanine levels. Taken together, these results demonstrate ADH ADT for the first time that the microbial-like phenylpyruvate pathway OH NH2 Arogenate operates in plants, phenylalanine biosynthesis is not limited to plastids, and that there is an interconnection between aromatic OH Tyrosine Phenylalanine amino-acid catabolism and biosynthesis in planta. Figure 1 | Proposed phenylalanine and tyrosine biosynthetic pathways in plants. ADH, arogenate dehydrogenase; ADT, arogenate dehydratase; Results CM, chorismate mutase; HPP-AT, 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate amino- PhPPA-AT suppression in PhADT1 RNAi lines rescues Phe transferase; PDH, prephenate dehydrogenase; PDT, prephenate levels. To determine if phenylpyruvate can serve as an inter- dehydratase; PPA-AT, prephenate aminotransferase; PPY-AT, mediate in phenylalanine biosynthesis in petunia, 2 days old wild- 2 phenylpyruvate aminotransferase. type flowers were fed with 10 mM L-[ring- H5]-phenylpyruvate 2 NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | 4:2833 | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3833 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications & 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3833 ARTICLE for 6 h during the night. Indeed, time-of-flight (TOF) Liquid type (Supplementary Fig. S1). Moreover, like phenylalanine levels, chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis revealed phenylalanine-derived volatiles were rescued to those of wild type that phenylalanine was labelled up to 9%. Next, to examine the (Fig. 2c, Supplementary Fig. S1 and Supplementary Table S1). contribution of the undiscovered phenylpyruvate pathway towards Feeding petunia petals from PhADT1xPhPPA-AT RNAi flowers 2 phenylalanine biosynthesis in petunia flowers, PhADT1 and with 10 mM H5-phenylpyruvate resulted in labelling of the phe- PhPPA-AT RNAi lines were crossed to simultaneously down- nylalanine pool by 24% (2.7-fold higher than wild type), further regulate both steps in the arogenate pathway. Five independent supporting the hypothesized increased flux through an alternative lines (A–E) were generated and found to display comparable pathway when the arogenate route is limiting. degrees of PhADT1 and PhPPA-AT mRNA
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