한빛사논문, 상위피인용논문
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So-Yon Park 1, Jae-Woong Yu 1, Jong-Sung Park 1, Jinjie Li 1, Soo-Cheul Yoo 1, Na-Yeoun Lee 1, Sang-Kyu Lee 2, Seok-Won Jeong 3, Hak Soo Seo 1, Hee-Jong Koh 1, Jong-Seong Jeon 2, Youn-Il Park 3, and Nam-Chon Paek 1*
1 Department of Plant Science and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea
2 Graduate School of Biotechnology and Plant Metabolism Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 449-701, Korea
3 Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Korea
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Loss of green color in leaves results from chlorophyll (Chl) degradation in chloroplasts, but little is known about how Chl catabolism is regulated throughout leaf development. Using the staygreen (sgr) mutant in rice (Oryza sativa), which maintains greenness during leaf senescence, we identified Sgr, a senescence-associated gene encoding a novel chloroplast protein. Transgenic rice overexpressing Sgr produces yellowish-brown leaves, and Arabidopsis thaliana pheophorbide a oxygenase-impaired mutants exhibiting a stay-green phenotype during dark-induced senescence have reduced expression of Sgr homologs, indicating that Sgr regulates Chl degradation at the transcriptional level. We show that the leaf stay-greenness of the sgr mutant is associated with a failure in the destabilization of the light-harvesting chlorophyll binding protein (LHCP) complexes of the thylakoid membranes, which is a prerequisite event for the degradation of Chls and LHCPs during senescence. Transient overexpression of Sgr in Nicotiana benthamiana and an in vivo pull-down assay show that Sgr interacts with LHCPII, indicating that the Sgr-LHCPII complexes are formed in the thylakoid membranes. Thus, we propose that in senescing leaves, Sgr regulates Chl degradation by inducing LHCPII disassembly through direct interaction, leading to the degradation of Chls and Chl-free LHCPII by catabolic enzymes and proteases, respectively.
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