Chloroplast nitrite uptake is enhanced in Arabidopsis PII mutants.

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Ferrario-Méry, Sylvie | Meyer, Christian | Hodges, Michael

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International audience. In higher plants, the PII protein is a nuclear-encoded plastid protein that regulates the activity of a key enzyme of arginine biosynthesis. We have previously observed that Arabidopsis PII mutants are more sensitive to nitrite toxicity. Using intact chloroplasts isolated from Arabidopsis leaves and (15)N-labelled nitrite we show that a light-dependent nitrite uptake into chloroplasts is increased in PII knock-out mutants when compared to the wild-type. This leads to a higher incorporation of (15)N into ammonium and amino acids in the mutant chloroplasts. However, the uptake differences do not depend on GS/GOGAT activities. Our observations suggest that PII is involved in the regulation of nitrite uptake into higher plant chloroplasts.

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