bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/768317; this version posted September 13, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 2 Title of article: Role of Cytosolic, Tyrosine-Insensitive Prephenate Dehydrogenase in 3 Medicago truncatula 4 5 6 Authors: Craig A. Schenck1,2, Josh Westphal1, Dhileepkumar Jayaraman3, Kevin Garcia3,4, 7 Jiangqi Wen5, Kirankumar S. Mysore5 Jean-Michel Ané3,6, Lloyd W. Sumner7,8 and Hiroshi A. 8 Maeda1,* 9 10 11 Affiliations: 1Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 12 2 Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State 13 University, East Lansing, MI 48824 14 3 Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 15 4 Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 16 5 Noble Research Institute, LLC., Ardmore, OK, USA 17 6 Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 18 7 Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 19 8 Metabolomics and Bond Life Sciences Centers, University of Missouri, Colubmia, MO 65211 20 21 22 23 *Corresponding author: Hiroshi A. Maeda (
[email protected]) 24 25 26 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/768317; this version posted September 13, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 27 ABSTRACT 28 L-Tyrosine (Tyr) is an aromatic amino acid synthesized de novo in plants and microbes 29 downstream of the shikimate pathway.