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Comparison of Metabolic Profiling of Arabidopsis Inflorescences Between Landsberg erecta and Columbia, and Meiosis-Defective Mutants by 1H-NMR Spectroscopy

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With the rapid development of omics technologies during the last several decades, genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics have been extensively used to characterize gene or protein functions in many organisms at the cell or tissue level. However, metabolomics has not been conducted in reproductive organs, with a focus on meiosis in plants. In this study, we adopted a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabolomics approach to reveal the metabolic profile of inflorescences from two Arabidopsis accessions, Columbia (Col) and Landsberg erecta (Ler), and several sterile mutants caused by meiosis defects. We identified 68 dominant metabolites in the samples. Col and Ler displayed distinct metabolite profiles. Interestingly, mutants with similar meiotic defects, such as Atrad51-3, Atrfc1-2, and Atpol2a-2, exhibited similar alterations in metabolites, including upregulation of energy metabolites and promotion of compounds related to maintenance of genomic stability, cytoplasmic homeostasis, and membrane integrity. The collective data reveal distinct changes in metabolites in Arabidopsis inflorescences between the Col and Ler wild type accessions. NMR-based metabolomics could be an effective tool for molecular phenotyping in studies of aspects of plant reproductive development such as meiosis.

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Abbreviations

DSBs:

Double-strand breaks

COs:

Crossovers

NCOs:

Non-crossovers

Col-0:

Columbia-0

Ler :

Landsberg erecta

1H-NMR:

Proton nuclear magnetic resonance

LC–MS:

Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

GC–MS:

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry

PCA:

Principal component analysis

OPLS-DA:

Orthogonal projection to latent structure with discriminant analysis

COSY:

Correlation spectroscopy

TOCSY:

Total correlation spectroscopy

JRES:

J-resolved spectroscopy

HSQC:

Heteronuclear single quantum coherence spectroscopy

HMBC:

Heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation

Ala:

Alanine

Arg:

Arginine

α-KG:

α-Ketoglutarate

cAA:

cis-Aconitic acid

Cho:

Choline

Cit:

Citrate

DMA:

Dimethylamine

EA:

Ethanolamine

Eth:

Ethanol

Fruc:

Fructose

Fum:

Fumarate

GABA:

4-Aminobutyrate

Glc:

Glucose

Glu:

Glutamate

Gln:

Glutamine

His:

Histidine

Ile:

Isoleucine

Lac:

Lactate

Tyr:

Tyrosine

Phe:

Phenylalanine

Thr:

Threonine

Suc:

Sucrose

Succ:

Succinate

Val:

Valine

6PGL:

6-Phosphogluconate

E-4-P:

Erythrose-4-phosphate

PRPP:

5-Phosphoribosyl diphosphate

PEP:

Phosphoenolpyruvate

Ici:

Isocitrate

F-1,6-2P:

Fructose-1, 6-biphosphate

TCA:

Tricarboxylic acid

IMP:

Inosine monophosphate

UMP:

Uridine monophosphate

CMP:

Cytidine monophosphate

DMA:

Dimethylamine

SAM:

S-adenosylmethionine

AMP:

Adenosine monophosphate

ADP:

Adenosine diphosphate

ATP:

Adenosine triphosphate

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Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Yanpeng An at the School of Life Sciences of Fudan University for helpful discussions regarding the experimental data.

Funding

This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China (31570314 and 31925005) and by funds from the State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at Fudan University.

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YXW and LMZ designed the research; YXW, LMZ and YW performed the experiments; XL, HKW, YXW and LMZ analyzed the data; and XL and HKW drafted the manuscript. YXW and LMZ have revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Correspondence to Limin Zhang or Yingxiang Wang.

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Li, X., Wang, H., Wang, Y. et al. Comparison of Metabolic Profiling of Arabidopsis Inflorescences Between Landsberg erecta and Columbia, and Meiosis-Defective Mutants by 1H-NMR Spectroscopy. Phenomics 1, 73–89 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43657-021-00012-3

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