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The Golgi Localized Bifunctional UDP-Rhamnose/ UDP-Galactose Transporter Family of Arabidopsis The Golgi localized bifunctional UDP-rhamnose/ UDP-galactose transporter family of Arabidopsis Carsten Rautengartena,1, Berit Eberta,b,1, Ignacio Morenoc,d, Henry Templec,d, Thomas Hertera, Bruce Linke, Daniela Doñas-Cofréc,d, Adrián Morenoc,d, Susana Saéz-Aguayoc,d, Francisca Blancoc,d, Jennifer C. Mortimerf, Alex Schultinkg, Wolf-Dieter Reitere, Paul Dupreef, Markus Paulyg, Joshua L. Heazlewooda, Henrik V. Schellera,g,2, and Ariel Orellanac,d,2 aJoint BioEnergy Institute and Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94702; bDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, C 1871, Copenhagen, Denmark; cCentro de Biotecnología Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago RM 8370146, Chile; dFondo de Areas Prioritarias Center for Genome Regulation, Santiago RM 8370146, Chile; eDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269; fDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, United Kingdom; and gDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Edited by Natasha V. Raikhel, University of California, Riverside, CA, and approved June 27, 2014 (received for review April 3, 2014) Plant cells are surrounded by a cell wall that plays a key role in plant only account for the transport of GDP-mannose (Man), UDP- growth, structural integrity, and defense. The cell wall is a complex galactose (Gal), UDP-glucose (Glc), and CMP-sialic acid (Sia), and diverse structure that is mainly composed of polysaccharides. The although the latter sugar is unlikely to be part of any plant glycan majority of noncellulosic cell wall polysaccharides are produced in the (8–18). Considering the diverse composition of polysaccharide Golgi apparatus from nucleotide sugars that are predominantly structures in plants, this collection of nucleotide sugars only synthesized in the cytosol. The transport of these nucleotide sugars represents a fraction of required substrates. Thus, there must be from the cytosol into the Golgi lumen is a critical process for cell wall additional NSTs mediating the transport of other key nucleotide biosynthesis and is mediated by a family of nucleotide sugar trans- sugars, such as UDP-rhamnose (Rha), UDP-glucuronic acid porters (NSTs). Numerous studies have sought to characterize sub- (GlcA), GDP-fucose (Fuc), UDP-xylose (Xyl), and UDP-arabinose strate-specific transport by NSTs; however, the availability of certain (Ara), all of which are essential for plant development and substrates and a lack of robust methods have proven problematic. function. Plants harboring mutations in the biosynthesis of nu- Consequently, we have developed a novel approach that combines cleotide sugar substrates display developmental and biochemical reconstitution of NSTs into liposomes and the subsequent assessment defects (e.g., GDP-Fuc biosynthesis) (19). Alterations to plant of nucleotide sugar uptake by mass spectrometry. To address the NSTs have only resulted in observable phenotypes for a GDP- limitation of substrate availability, we also developed a two-step re- Man transporter (Arabidopsis thaliana Golgi nucleotide sugar transporter 1) (14) and a UDP-Glc transporter (Oryza sativa action for the enzymatic synthesis of UDP–L-rhamnose (Rha) by nucleotide sugar transporter 1) (8). In contrast, studies in other expressing the two active domains of the Arabidopsis UDP–L-Rha eukaryotic systems have shown that mutations in a number of synthase. The liposome approach and the newly synthesized sub- strateswereusedtoanalyzeacladeofArabidopsis NSTs, resulting PLANT BIOLOGY in the identification and characterization of six bifunctional UDP–L- Significance Rha/UDP–D-galactose (Gal) transporters (URGTs). Further analysis of loss-of-function and overexpression plants for two of these URGTs Delivery of nucleotide sugar substrates into the Golgi apparatus supported their roles in the transport of UDP–L-Rha and UDP–D-Gal and endoplasmic reticulum for processes such as cell wall bio- for matrix polysaccharide biosynthesis. synthesis and protein glycosylation is critical for plant growth and development. Plant genomes encode large families of membrane transport | proteoliposomes | glycan biosynthesis | galactan uncharacterized nucleotide sugar transporters that are specifi- cally presumed to deliver the diverse array of nucleotide sugars lant cell walls are largely composed of polysaccharides, and found in plants. This study has developed a novel approach that with the exception of cellulose and callose, these polymers enabled functional characterization of six bifunctional UDP- P rhamnose (Rha)/UDP-galactose (Gal) transporters from Arabi- are synthesized in the Golgi apparatus by families of glycosyl- dopsis transferases (1, 2). Many glycan structures of glycoproteins and . An analysis of loss-of-function and overexpression lines for two of these transporters identified biochemical alterations sup- glycolipids are likewise assembled in the Golgi apparatus (3). porting their roles in the biosynthesis of Rha- and Gal-containing The nucleotide sugar substrates necessary for the assembly of polysaccharides. Thus, cell wall polysaccharide biosynthesis in the these polysaccharides and glycans are predominantly synthesized Golgi apparatus of plants is likely also regulated by substrate in the cytosol. This subcellular partitioning of substrates and transport mechanisms. enzymes necessitates transmembrane transport into the lumen of the Golgi apparatus and endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Conse- Author contributions: C.R., B.E., B.L., W.-D.R., J.L.H., H.V.S., and A.O. designed research; quently, nucleotide sugar transporters (NSTs) have evolved to C.R., B.E., I.M., H.T., T.H., B.L., D.D.-C., A.M., S.S.-A., F.B., J.C.M., A.S., and J.L.H. performed enable the transfer of nucleotide sugars into these organelles. research; C.R., B.E., B.L., W.-D.R., P.D., M.P., and J.L.H. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; C.R., B.E., T.H., W.-D.R., P.D., M.P., J.L.H., H.V.S., and A.O. analyzed data; and C.R., Given the essential roles of NSTs in the glycosylation of proteins, B.E., J.L.H., H.V.S., and A.O. wrote the paper. lipids, and proteoglycans, as well as in the biosynthesis of plant The authors declare no conflict of interest. cell wall polysaccharides, it is not surprising that these trans- This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. porters have been identified in all eukaryotes (4). NSTs consist Freely available online through the PNAS open access option. of 300- to 400-aa residues and possess six to 10 transmembrane Data deposition: The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank domains (5, 6). Plant NSTs belong to the NST/triose phosphate database (accession nos. KJ667158, KJ667159, KJ667160, KJ667161,andKJ667162). translocator (TPT) superfamily, and phylogenetic analyses have 1C.R. and B.E. contributed equally to this work. identified more than 50 members that are distributed in six 2To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: [email protected] or aorellana@ clades in the reference plant, Arabidopsis thaliana (7) (Fig. 1). unab.cl. In the past decade, few plant NSTs have been functionally This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10. characterized at the molecular level, and those characterized 1073/pnas.1406073111/-/DCSupplemental. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1406073111 PNAS | August 5, 2014 | vol. 111 | no. 31 | 11563–11568 Downloaded by guest on September 29, 2021 URGTs Are Ubiquitously Expressed and Localize to the Golgi. Analysis of publicly available microarray expression data from the de- A velopmental dataset (23) for the NST-KT clade revealed ubiquitous expression for all six NSTs throughout plant development, with B URGT1 showing the highest level in virtually all organs and URGT2 showing the highest levels in developing seeds (Fig. S1). Notably, II the expression patterns appeared to be largely overlapping, sug- gesting a high degree of functional redundancy. To examine the C III subcellular localizations of members of the NST-KT clade, we fused their coding sequences to YFP and transiently expressed them in I tobacco leaves (Fig. 2). All six candidates localized to moving, dot- D NST-KT like structures typical of the Golgi apparatus, which also colocalized with the cis-Golgi marker α-Man I (24). This observation is con- IV sistent with their putative roles as NSTs of the Golgi apparatus. Functional Determination of the NST-KT Clade. To investigate the substrate specificity of the URGTs fully, we first needed to obtain all potential nucleotide sugar substrates in plants. Neither UDP- Rha nor GDP-Gal was commercially available; therefore, we syn- thesized both substrates enzymatically (Materials and Methods). VI V Enzymatic synthesis of UDP-Rha had not been previously de- scribed, and we developed a two-step reaction using UDP-Glc as a substrate and expression of the individual domains of UDP-Rha synthase. The synthesized and commercially available nucleotide Fig. 1. Phylogenetic tree of the Arabidopsis NST-TPT superfamily. Full-length sugars comprised a set of 13 potential substrates. To confirm amino acid sequences were aligned using the Clustal Omega program, and the that URGT1 transports UDP-Gal, and to test whether this NST is phylogenetic tree was generated using Molecular Evolutionary Genetics monospecific, URGT1 was heterologously expressed in yeast and Analysis (MEGA)
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