Plastid LPAT1 is an Integral Inner Envelope Membrane Protein with the Acyltransferase Domain Located in the Stroma

Overview

Journal Plant Cell Rep

Publisher Springer

Date 2024 Oct 9

PMID 39382709

Authors

Chun-Wei Yu

Van C Nguyen

Nina Alyssa M Barroga

Yuki Nakamura

Hsou-Min Li

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Abstract

The N-terminal transmembrane domain of LPAT1 crosses the inner membrane placing the N terminus in the intermembrane space and the C-terminal enzymatic domain in the stroma. Galactolipids mono- and di-galactosyl diacylglycerol are the major and vital lipids of photosynthetic membranes. They are synthesized by five enzymes hosted at different sub-chloroplast locations. However, localization and topology of the second-acting enzyme, lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase 1 (LPAT1), which acylates the sn-2 position of glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P) to produce phosphatidic acid (PA), remain unclear. It is not known whether LPAT1 is located at the outer or the inner envelope membrane and whether its enzymatic domain faces the cytosol, the intermembrane space, or the stroma. Even the size of mature LPAT1 in chloroplasts is not known. More information is essential for understanding the pathways of metabolite flow and for future engineering endeavors to modify glycerolipid biosynthesis. We used LPAT1 preproteins translated in vitro for import assays to determine the precise size of the mature protein and found that the LPAT1 transit peptide is at least 85 residues in length, substantially longer than previously predicted. A construct comprising LPAT1 fused to the Venus fluorescent protein and driven by the LPAT1 promoter was used to complement an Arabidopsis lpat1 knockout mutant. To determine the sub-chloroplast location and topology of LPAT1, we performed protease treatment and alkaline extraction using chloroplasts containing in vitro-imported LPAT1 and chloroplasts isolated from LPAT1-Venus-complemented transgenic plants. We show that LPAT1 traverses the inner membrane via an N-terminal transmembrane domain, with its N terminus protruding into the intermembrane space and the C-terminal enzymatic domain residing in the stroma, hence displaying a different membrane topology from its bacterial homolog, PlsC.

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