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The enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate (EPSP) synthase (EC 2.5.1.19), the target of the herbicide glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine], exists in two molecular forms in Euglena gracilis. One form has previously been characterized as a monofunctional 59 kDa protein. The other form constitutes a single domain of the multifunctional 165 kDa arom protein. The two enzyme forms are inversely regulated at the protein and mRNA levels during light-induced chloroplast development, as demonstrated by the determination of their enzyme activities after non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Northern hybridization analysis with a Saccharomyces cerevisiae ARO1 gene probe. The arom protein and its mRNA predominate in dark-grown cells, and the levels of both decline upon illumination. In contrast, the monofunctional EPSP synthase and its mRNA are induced by light, the increase in mRNA abundance preceding accumulation of the protein. The two enzymes are localized in different subcellular compartments, as demonstrated by comparing total protein patterns with those of isolated organelles. Glyphosate-adapted wild-type cells and glyphosate-tolerant cells of a plastid-free mutant of E. gracilis, W10BSmL, were used for organelle isolation and protein extraction, as these cell lines overproduce EPSP synthase and the arom protein, respectively. Evidence was obtained for the cytosolic localization of the arom protein and the plastid compartmentalization of the monofunctional EPSP synthase. These conclusions are further supported by the observation that EPSP synthase precursor, produced by in vitro translation of the hybrid-selected mRNA, was efficiently taken up and processed to mature size by isolated chloroplasts from photoautotrophic wild-type E. gracilis cells, while the in vitro-synthesized arom protein was not sequestered by isolated Euglena plastids.
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Reinbothe, C., Ortel, B., Parthier, B. et al. Cytosolic and plastid forms of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase in Euglena gracilis are differentially expressed during light-induced chloroplast development. Molec. Gen. Genet. 245, 616–622 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282224
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