b UmeD Plant Sci ence Cen tre, De part ment of Plant Phys i ol ogy, UmeD Uni ver sity, 901 87 UmeD, Swe denKey words: Arabidopsis, car bo hy drate me tab o lism reg u la tion, gene ex pres sion, pho mu tants, phosphate star va tion
Ab stractThe ef fects of in or ganic phos phate (Pi) de fi ciency on ex pression of genes en cod ing ADP-glu cose pyrophosphorylase small and large sub units (ApS and ApL1, ApL2, ApL3 genes), UDP-glu cose pyrophosphorylase (Ugp gene), su crose synthase (Sus1), sol u ble and in sol u ble acid invertases (Inv and Invcw) and hexokinase (Hxk1 gene), all in volved in car bo hydrate me tab o lism, were in ves ti gated in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. We used soil-grown pho mu tants af fected in Pi status, as well as wild-type (wt) plants grown un der Pi de fi ciency con di tions in liq uid me dium, and leaves of wt plants fed with D-mannose. Gen er ally, ApS, ApL1, Ugp and Inv genes were upregulated, al though to a var ied de gree, un der con di tions of Pi-stress. The ap plied con di tions had dif fer en tial ef fects on expres sion of other genes stud ied. For in stance, Sus1 was downregulated in pho1 (Pi-de fi cient) mu tant, but was un affected in wt plants grown in liq uid me dium un der P-de ficiency. Mannose had dis tinct con cen tra tion-de pend ent ef fects on ex pres sion of genes un der study, pos si bly re flect ing a dual role of mannose as a sink for Pi and as glu cose an a log. Feed ing Pi (at up to 200 mM) to the de tached leaves of wt plants strongly af fected the ex pres sion of ApL1, ApL2, Sus1 and Inv genes, pos si bly due to an os motic ef fect ex erted by Pi. The data sug gest that ADP-glu cose and UDP-glu cose pyrophosphorylases (en zymes in di rectly in volved in Pi re cycling) as well as invertases (su crose hy dro ly sis) are transcriptionally reg u lated by Pi-de fi ciency, which may play a role in homeostatic mech a nisms that ac cli mate the plant to the Pi-stress con di tions.