RRC ID 63916
著者 Takubo E, Kobayashi M, Hirai S, Aoi Y, Ge C, Dai X, Fukui K, Hayashi KI, Zhao Y, Kasahara H.
タイトル Role of Arabidopsis INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID CARBOXYL METHYLTRANSFERASE 1 in auxin metabolism.
ジャーナル Biochem Biophys Res Commun
Abstract The phytohormone auxin regulates a wide range of developmental processes in plants. Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is the main auxin that moves in a polar manner and forms concentration gradients, whereas phenylacetic acid (PAA), another natural auxin, does not exhibit polar movement. Although these auxins occur widely in plants, the differences between IAA and PAA metabolism remain largely unknown. In this study, we investigated the role of Arabidopsis IAA CARBOXYL METHYLTRANSFERASE 1 (IAMT1) in IAA and PAA metabolism. IAMT1 proteins expressed in Escherichia coli could convert both IAA and PAA to their respective methyl esters. Overexpression of IAMT1 caused severe auxin-deficient phenotypes and reduced the levels of IAA, but not PAA, in the root tips of Arabidopsis, suggesting that IAMT1 exclusively metabolizes IAA in vivo. We generated iamt1 null mutants via CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing and found that the single knockout mutants had normal auxin levels and did not exhibit visibly altered phenotypes. These results suggest that other proteins, namely the IAMT1 homologs in the SABATH family of carboxyl methyltransferases, may also regulate IAA levels in Arabidopsis.
巻・号 527(4)
ページ 1033-1038
公開日 2020-7-5
DOI 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.05.031
PII S0006-291X(20)30938-4
PMID 32444138
PMC PMC7331827
MeSH Arabidopsis / metabolism* Arabidopsis Proteins / metabolism* Indoleacetic Acids / metabolism* Methylation Methyltransferases / metabolism* Phenylacetates / metabolism
IF 2.985
リソース情報
シロイヌナズナ / 植物培養細胞・遺伝子 pda13959