Heterologous expression of plant vacuolar pyrophosphatase in yeast demonstrates sufficiency of the substrate-binding subunit for proton transport
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
The membrane bounding the vacuole of plant cells contains two electrogenic proton pumps. These are the vacuolar H[sup +]-ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3), an enzyme common to all eukaryotes, and a vacuolar H[sup +]-translocating pyrophosphatase (EC 3.6.1.1), which is ubiquitous in plants but otherwise known in only a few phototrophic bacteria. Although the substrate-binding subunit of the vacuolar H[sup +]-pyrophosphatase has been identified and purified and cDNAs encoding it have been isolated and characterized, the minimal unit competent in pyrophosphate (PPi)-energized H[sup +] translocation is not known. Here the authors address this question and show that heterologous expression of the cDNA (AVP) encoding the substrate-binding subunit of the vacuolar H[sup +]-pyrophosphatase from the vascular plant Arabidopsis thaliana in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae results in the production of vacuolarly localized functional enzyme active in PPi-dependent H[sup +] translocation. Since the heterologously expressed pump is indistinguishable from the native plant enzyme with respect to PPi hydrolysis, H[sub +] translocation, activation by potassium, and selective inhibition by calcium and 1,1-diphosphonates, it is concluded that all of the known catalytic functions of the enzyme map to the one subunit encoded by AVP.
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-91ER20055
- OSTI ID:
- 7009708
- Journal Information:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; (United States), Vol. 91:13; ISSN 0027-8424
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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