α-Amylase is not required for breakdown of transitory starch in Arabidopsis leaves

Yu, TS; Zeeman, Samuel C; Thorneycroft, D; Fulton, DC; Dunstan, H; Lue, WL; Hegemann, B; Tung, SY; Umemoto, T; Chapple, A; Tsai, DL; Wang, SM; Smith, AM; Chen, J; Smith, SM (2005). α-Amylase is not required for breakdown of transitory starch in Arabidopsis leaves. Journal of biological chemistry, 280(11), pp. 9773-9779. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 10.1074/jbc.M413638200

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The Arabidopsis thaliana genome encodes three alpha-amylase-like proteins (AtAMY1, AtAMY2, and AtAMY3). Only AtAMY3 has a predicted N-terminal transit peptide for plastidial localization. AtAMY3 is an unusually large alpha-amylase (93.5 kDa) with the C-terminal half showing similarity to other known alpha-amylases. When expressed in Escherichia coli, both the whole AtAMY3 protein and the C-terminal half alone show alpha-amylase activity. We show that AtAMY3 is localized in chloroplasts. The starch-excess mutant of Arabidopsis sex4, previously shown to have reduced plastidial alpha-amylase activity, is deficient in AtAMY3 protein. Unexpectedly, T-DNA knock-out mutants of AtAMY3 have the same diurnal pattern of transitory starch metabolism as the wild type. These results show that AtAMY3 is not required for transitory starch breakdown and that the starch-excess phenotype of the sex4 mutant is not caused simply by deficiency of AtAMY3 protein. Knockout mutants in the predicted non-plastidial alpha-amylases AtAMY1 and AtAMY2 were also isolated, and these displayed normal starch breakdown in the dark as expected for extraplastidial amylases. Furthermore, all three AtAMY double knock-out mutant combinations and the triple knock-out degraded their leaf starch normally. We conclude that alpha-amylase is not necessary for transitory starch breakdown in Arabidopsis leaves.

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