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Despite 14-3-3 proteins being implicated in the control of the eukaryotic cell cycle, metabolism, cell signalling and survival, little is known about the global regulation or functions of the phosphorylation-dependent binding of 14-3-3s to diverse target proteins. We identified Arabidopsis cytosolic proteins that bound 14-3-3s in competition with a 14-3-3-binding phosphopeptide, including nitrate reductase, glyceraldehyde- 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, a calcium-dependent protein kinase, sucrose-phosphate synthase (SPS) and glutamyl-tRNA synthetase. Remarkably, in cells starved of sugars or fed with non-metabolizable glucose analogues, all 14-3-3 binding was lost and the target proteins were selectively cleaved into proteolytic fragments. 14-3-3 binding reappeared after several hours of re-feeding with sugars. Starvation-induced degradation was blocked by 5-amino imidazole-4-carboxamide riboside (which is converted to an AMP-mimetic) or the protease inhibitor MG132 (Cbz-leu-leu-leucinal). Extracts of sugar-starved (but not sugar-fed) Arabidopsis cells contained an ATP-independent, MG132-sensitive, neutral protease that cleaved Arabidopsis SPS, and the mammalian 14-3-3-regulated transcription factor, FKHR. Cleavage of SPS and phosphorylated FKHR in vitro was blocked by binding to 14-3-3s. The finding that 14-3-3s participate in a nutrient-sensing pathway controlling cleavage of many targets may underlie the effects of these proteins on plant development.
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PMID:14-3-3s regulate global cleavage of their diverse binding partners in sugar-starved Arabidopsis cells. 1085 32

Water and mussel samples were collected from two brackish lakes, used as mussel farms, at different times of the year, for the quantitative analysis of Vibrio spp. and for the isolation of potentially pathogenic species. The isolates underwent cultural and biochemical tests selected for rapid identification. Glucose oxidizing-fermenting and O/129 sensitive strains were distinguished on the basis of the following tests: sucrose and cellobiose utilization, sulphatase activity and polymyxin B resistance performed, respectively, on TCBS, CPC and SPS media. Responses to the presence of beta-galactosidase, salt requirement and growth on triple sugar iron medium were also added. A total of 125 from 152 isolates were referred to the species Vibrio fluvialis (55 strains), V. alginolyticus (40), V. parahaemolyticus (11), V. vulnificus (10) and V. mimicus (9). The remaining 27 isolates were not identified. The isolation of potentially pathogenic vibrios from cultivated mussels is a risk for health of people consuming raw seafood. Therefore, a long-term monitoring programme should also include the search for these bacterial species.
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PMID:Potentially pathogenic vibrios in brackish waters and mussels. 1097 57

The relative contribution of sucrose synthase and sucrose-phosphate synthase to sucrose synthesis in dormant tubers of Jerusalem artichokes was determined. Feeding dormant tubers alternatively with mixtures of [14C]glucose and unlabeled fructose, and [14C]glucose and [14C]fructose has shown that sucrose synthase contributes ca. 95-97% to sucrose synthesis. This is the first report of sucrose synthesis in Jerusalem artichokes dormant tubers.
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PMID:Involvement of sucrose synthase in sucrose synthesis during mobilization of fructans in dormant Jerusalem artichoke tubers. 1107 71

The activity and allosteric properties of plant phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC; EC 4.1.1.31) are controlled posttranslationally by specific reversible phosphorylation of a strictly conserved serine residue near the N-terminus. This up/down-regulation of PEPC is catalyzed by a dedicated and highly regulated serine/threonine (Ser/Thr) kinase (PEPC-kinase) and an opposing type-2A Ser/Thr phosphatase (PP2A). In marked contrast to PEPC-kinase, the PP2A holoenzyme from photosynthetic tissue has been virtually unstudied to date. In the present investigation, we have partially purified and characterized the native form of this PP2A from illuminated leaves of maize (Zea mays L.), a C4 plant, using maize [32P]PEPC as substrate. Various conventional chromatographic matrices, together with thiophosphorylated C4 PEPC-peptide and microcystin-LR affinity-supports, were exploited for the enrichment of this PP2A from soluble leaf extracts. Biochemical and immunological results indicate that the C4-leaf holoenzyme is analogous to other eukaryotic PP2As in being a approximately 170-kDa heteromer comprised of a core PP2Ac-A heterodimer (approximately 38- and approximately 65-kDa subunits, respectively) complexed with a putative, approximately 74-kDa B-type regulatory/targeting subunit. This heterotrimer lacks any strict substrate specificity in that it dephosphorylates C4 PEPC, mammalian phosphorylase a, and casein in vitro. This activity is independent of free Me2+, insensitive to levamisole and the Inhibitor-2 protein that targets PP1, activated by several polycations such as protamine and poly-L-lysine, and highly sensitive to inhibition by microcystin-LR and okadaic acid (IC50 approximately 30 pM), all of which are diagnostic features of yeast and mammalian PP2As. In addition, this C4-leaf PP2A holoenzyme (i) is inhibited in vitro by physiological concentrations of certain C4 PEPC-related metabolites (L-malate, PEP, glucose 6-phosphate, but not the activator glycine) when either 32P-labeled maize PEPC or rabbit muscle phosphorylase a is used as substrate, suggesting a direct effect on this Ser/Thr phosphatase; and (ii) displays, at best, only modest light/dark effects in vivo on its apparent molecular mass, component core subunits and activity against C4 PEPC, in marked contrast to the opposing activity of PEPC-kinase in C4 and Crassulacean acid metabolism leaves. This report represents one of the few studies of a heteromeric PP2A holoenzyme from photosynthetic tissue that dephosphorylates a known target enzyme in plants, such as PEPC, sucrose-phosphate synthase or nitrate reductase.
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PMID:Partial purification and biochemical characterization of a heteromeric protein phosphatase 2A holoenzyme from maize (Zea mays L.) leaves that dephosphorylates C4 phosophoenolpyruvate carboxylase. 1150 60

The relationship between leaf blade elongation rates (LER) and sucrose-phosphate synthase (SPS) activity was investigated at different times during ontogeny of rice (Oryza sativa L. cv Jarrah) grown in flooded soil at either 350 or 700 [mu]L CO2 L-1. High CO2 concentrations increased LER of expanding blades and in vivo activity (Vlimiting) SPS activity of expanded blades during the early vegetative stage (21 d after planting [DAP]), when tiller number was small and growing blades were strong carbohydrate sinks. Despite a constant light environment, there was a distinct diurnal pattern in LER, Vlimiting SPS activity, and concentration of soluble sugars, with an increase in the early part of the light period and a decrease later in the light period. The strong correlation (r = 0.65) between LER and Vlimiting SPS activity over the diurnal cycle indicated that SPS activity played an important role in controlling blade growth. The higher Vlimiting SPS activity at elevated CO2 at 21 DAP was caused by an increase in the activation state of the enzyme rather than an increase in Vmax. Fructose and glucose accumulated to a greater extent than sucrose at high CO2 and may have been utilized for synthesis of cell-wall components, contributing to higher specific leaf weight. By the mid-tillering stage (42 DAP), CO2 enrichment enhanced Vlimiting and Vmax activities of source blades. Nevertheless, LER was depressed by high CO2, probably because tillers were stronger carbohydrate sinks than growing blades.
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PMID:Diurnal Regulation of Leaf Blade Elongation in Rice by CO2 (Is it Related to Sucrose-Phosphate Synthase Activity?). 1222 56

S. cerevisiae responds to the presence of amino acids in the environment through the membrane-bound complex SPS, by altering transcription of several genes. Global transcription analysis shows that 46 genes are induced by L-citrulline. Under the given conditions there appears to be only one pathway for induction with L-citrulline, and this pathway is completely dependent on the SPS component, Ssy1p, and either of the transcription factors, Stp1p and Stp2p. Besides the effects on amino acid permease genes, an ssy1 and an stp1 stp2 mutant exhibit a number of other transcriptional phenotypes, such as increased expression of genes subject to nitrogen catabolite repression and genes involved in stress response. A group of genes involved in the upper part of the glycolysis, including those encoding hexose transporters Hxt4p, Hxt5p, Hxt6p, Hxt7p, hexokinase Hxk1p, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase Tdh1p and glucokinase (Glk1p), shows increased transcription levels in either or both of the mutants. Also, most of the structural genes involved in trehalose and glycogen synthesis and a few genes in the glyoxylate cycle and the pentose phosphate pathway are derepressed in the ssy1 and stp1 stp2 strains.
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PMID:Transcriptional profiling of extracellular amino acid sensing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the role of Stp1p and Stp2p. 1519 29

Sorbitol is a primary end-product of photosynthesis in apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) and many other tree fruit species of the Rosaceae family. Sorbitol synthesis shares a common hexose phosphate pool with sucrose synthesis in the cytosol. In this study, 'Greensleeves' apple was transformed with a cDNA encoding aldose 6-phosphate reductase (A6PR, EC 1.1.1.200) in the antisense orientation. Antisense expression of A6PR decreased A6PR activity in mature leaves to approximately 15-30% of the untransformed control. The antisense plants had lower concentrations of sorbitol but higher concentrations of sucrose and starch in mature leaves at both dusk and predawn. (14)CO(2) pulse-chase labeling at ambient CO(2) demonstrated that partitioning of the newly fixed carbon to starch was significantly increased, whereas that to sucrose remained unchanged in the antisense lines with decreased sorbitol synthesis. Total activities of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (EC 4.1.1.39), sucrose-phosphate synthase (EC 2.4.1.14), and ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (EC 2.7.7.27) were not significantly altered in the antisense lines, whereas both stromal and cytosolic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (EC 3.1.3.11) activities were higher in the antisense lines with 15% of the control A6PR activity. Concentrations of glucose 6-phosphate and fructose 6-phosphate (F6P) were higher in the antisense plants than in the control, but the 3-phosphoglycerate concentration was lower in the antisense plants with 15% of the control A6PR activity. Fructose 2, 6-bisphosphate concentration increased in the antisense plants, but not to the extent expected from the increase in F6P, comparing sucrose-synthesizing species. There was no significant difference in CO(2) assimilation in response to photon flux density or intercellular CO(2) concentration. We concluded that cytosolic FBPase activity in vivo was down-regulated and starch synthesis was up-regulated in response to decreased sorbitol synthesis. As a result, CO(2) assimilation in source leaves was sustained at both ambient CO(2) and saturating CO(2).
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PMID:Antisense inhibition of sorbitol synthesis leads to up-regulation of starch synthesis without altering CO2 assimilation in apple leaves. 1544 63

SCFGrr1, one of several members of the SCF family of E3 ubiquitin ligases in budding Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is required for both regulation of the cell cycle and nutritionally controlled transcription. In addition to its role in degradation of Gic2 and the CDK targets Cln1 and Cln2, Grr1 is also required for induction of glucose- and amino acid-regulated genes. Induction of HXT genes by glucose requires the Grr1-dependent degradation of Mth1. We show that Mth1 is ubiquitinated in vivo and degraded via the proteasome. Furthermore, phosphorylated Mth1, targeted by the casein kinases Yck1/2, binds to Grr1. That binding depends upon the Grr1 leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain but not upon the F-box or basic residues within the LRR that are required for recognition of Cln2 and Gic2. Those observations extend to a large number of Grr1-dependent genes, some targets of the amino acid-regulated SPS signaling system, which are properly regulated in the absence of those basic LRR residues. Finally, we show that regulation of the SPS targets requires the Yck1/2 casein kinases. We propose that casein kinase I plays a similar role in both nutritional signaling pathways by phosphorylating pathway components and targeting them for ubiquitination by SCFGrr1.
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PMID:Regulation and recognition of SCFGrr1 targets in the glucose and amino acid signaling pathways. 1545 73

Photosynthates transported into fruits are mainly in the form of sucrose in most fruit tree species; but sorbitol takes the place of sucrose in woody Rosaceae plants. The transport of sugars across the plasma membrane from apoplastic space into cells is mediated by sugar transporters. The fact that gene expression of sugar transporters is upregulated just before and during sugar accumulation suggests the participation of sugar transporters in sugar accumulation of fruit. The sucrose-metabolizing enzymes participate in four futile cycles that involve sugar transport between cytosol, vacuole, amyloplast and apoplast. The increase in SS (sucrose synthase) and SPS (sucrose phosphate synthase) activities and mRNA levels during maturation parallels the increase in sugar accumulation indicates that the sucrose-metabolizing enzymes have important roles on sugar accumulation in fruits. The prerequisite for rapid accumulation of sugar in fruit is restriction of hexose catabolism and promotion of its synthesis. In woody Rosaceae plants, the fact that sucrose metabolism is also quite active in fruit suggests that sorbitol and sucrose probably play similar roles in fruit development. Sugars as signal molecules regulate the expression of genes involved in sugar transport and metabolism. Sugar transport, metabolism and accumulation are also regulated by natural environmental factors and cultural practices. The increase in sugar content of tomato fruit in acid invertase gene antisense-inhibited plants provides promising prospect of genetic engineering as a potential effective technique in regulation of sugar accumulation in fruits. Thus, the sugar content of fruit is determined by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The future research works will be focused on elucidating the mechanism of sugar signal and other intrinsic signals as well as extrinsic signals including nutrients, plant hormones and physical factors on sugar transport, metabolism and accumulation and the interrelationship among them.
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PMID:[Sugar transport, metabolism, accumulation and their regulation in fruits]. 1558 2

Kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa cv. Bruno) was used to investigate starch and sugar metabolism and the mechanisms of regulation by acetylsalicylic acid (AsA 1.0 mmol/L, pH 3.5), low temperature (0 degrees C) and ethylene (100 microL/L) treatments. There was an increase in amylase activity at the initial stage followed by dramatical decrease in starch content and a rapid increase in hexose content at the rapid stage of fruit ripening and softening, which was associated with an increase in SPS activity, a decrease in acid invertase activity, and the accumulation of sucrose. AsA and low temperature treatments inhibited the amylase activity, slowed down the hydrolysis of starch and the accumulation of hexoses, suppressed the rise of SPS activity and the decline of acid invertase activity in the ripening fruit. The accumulation of sucrose was delayed by AsA and low temperature treatments. However, ethylene application induced amylase activity, accelerated starch hydrolysis, and raised the hexose content. The SPS activity also increased and the sucrose accumulated in the presence of ethylene. It is suggested that the SPS may play a key role in sugar metabolism of postharvest kiwifruit, and it could be activated by hexose and feedback-inhibited by sucrose. AsA, low temperature and ethylene treatments regulate sugar metabolism probably through influencing the SPS activity.
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PMID:[Sugar metabolism and its regulation in postharvest ripening kiwifruit]. 1559 29


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