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Article

The Serine Carboxypeptidase-Like Gene SCPL41 Negatively Regulates Membrane Lipid Metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana

by
Juan Chen
1,2,
Wei-qi Li
1,* and
Yan-xia Jia
1,*
1
Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
2
University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100039, China
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Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Plants 2020, 9(6), 696; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9060696
Submission received: 14 April 2020 / Revised: 18 May 2020 / Accepted: 26 May 2020 / Published: 29 May 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Function of Lipids in Plant Stress)
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Abstract

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The Arabidopsis has 51 proteins annotated as serine carboxypeptidase-like (SCPL) enzymes. Although biochemical and cellular characterization indicates SCPLs involved in protein turnover or processing, little is known about their roles in plant metabolism. In this study, we identified an Arabidopsis mutant, bis4 (1-butanol insensitive 4), that was insensitive to the inhibitory effect of 1-butanol on seed germination. We cloned the gene that was defective in bis4 and found that it encoded an SCPL41 protein. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants constitutively expressing SCPL41 were generated, oil body staining and lipidomic assays indicated that SCPL41-overexpressing plants showed a decrease in membrane lipid content, especially digalactosyl diglyceride (DGDG) and monogalactosyl diglyceride (MGDG) contents, while the loss of SCPL41 increased the membrane lipid levels compared with those in wild-type plants. These findings suggested that SCPL41 had acquired novel functions in membrane lipid metabolism.

1. Introduction

Serine carboxypeptidases (SCPs) and serine carboxypeptidase-like (SCPL) proteins compose a large enzyme family that functions in the hydrolysis of the C-terminal peptide bond in proteins or peptides [1,2,3]. SCPLs share high levels of similarity with SCPs. Arabidopsis has at least 51 members [4], while 71 SCPLs exist in the rice genome [1], indicating functional redundancy among members of the SCPL family. Several SCP/SCPL genes have been cloned and studied at the biochemical and/or molecular level from barley [5], wheat [3,6], rice [7,8,9,10,11], tomato [12,13,14], tobacco [15], Pisum sativum [16], oats [17], and Arabidopsis [18,19,20,21]. Phylogenetic analysis based on protein sequences shows that the acyltransferase of SCPLs has a single origin within the SCPL family [4,17,22]. Their acyltransferase function may have evolved since the divergence of higher plants from mosses, and their genes have undergone independent diversification in monocot and dicot lineages [22]. SCPL proteins in Arabidopsis are divided into two major clades. One clade consists of 21 members but only two of them are experimentally characterized as acyltransferases in plants’ secondary metabolism: sinapoylglucose:malate sinapoyltransferase and sinapoylglucose:choline sinapoyltransferase [20]. Another clade comprises 25 members but their biochemical functions are not clearly defined.
Although the functions of most SCPs and SCPLs remain unknown and their known functions are still limited at the biochemical and cellular level, available evidence in plants suggests that they have various functions. For example, BRS1 (BRI1 Suppressor 1), a member of the SCP family, is a carboxypeptidase [23] working in the brassinosteroid (BR) signaling pathway [18]; SNG1 as acyltransferases involved in the synthesis of sinapoylmalate; glucose acyltransferase which encodes a serine carboxypeptidase-like protein functioned in glucose polyester biosynthesis, IAInos synthase as acyltransferases involved in the synthesis of indole-3-acetic (IAA) ester conjugate [12,22,24,25]; and SNG2 is involved in the biosynthesis of sinapate esters as a sinapoyltransferases [19,26,27]. Other functions include protein turnover and mobilization of storage proteins during seed germination and organ senescence [22,28]. They also have roles in signal transduction [11,18], programmed cell death [29], seed development [3,16], and secondary metabolism for herbivory defense, UV protection, and disease resistance [19,24,27,29].
Major classes of cell membrane lipids include phospholipids and glycolipids. The composition of their molecules greatly affects membrane properties. They also take part in multiple cellular processes, such as signal transduction, cytoskeleton dynamics, vesicle trafficking, and secretion. One important regulatory process is that common membrane phospholipids, such as phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), are hydrolyzed by phospholipase D (PLD) to generate a free head-group and phosphatidic acid (PA). PA can serve as a second message to transduce environmental signaling [30,31,32,33,34]. PLD can mediate a specific reaction by catalyzing the transesterification of glycerophospholipids with appropriate small alcohols. For example, PLD catalyzes transphosphatidylation with 1-butanol to produce phosphatidylbutanol [35]. This reaction can block the production of PA and lead to severe physiological consequences. Treatments of seeds with 1-butanol decrease germination and result in growing defective seedlings in Arabidopsis. It is, therefore, speculated that PLD-mediated PA is crucial for germination and seedling morphogenesis by maintaining the transverse alignment of microtubules in elongating root cells [35]. However, the mechanism is not fully understood yet.
We identified an Arabidopsis mutant, bis4 (1-butanol insensitive 4), that is insensitive to the inhibitory effect of 1-butanol on seed germination. We cloned the gene that is defective in the bis4 mutant and found that it encodes the SCPL41 protein. SCPL41 protein is a member of clade II of the SCPL family, and its biochemical functions and biological functions have not been clearly defined. We showed that SCPL41 loss-of-function mutants display PA-insensitive phenotypes in terms of their primary root growth. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants constitutively expressing SCPL41 were generated and found to have lower oil body accumulation. Lipidomic assays indicated that SCPL41-overexpressing plants showed a decrease in membrane lipid content, especially digalactosyl diglyceride (DGDG) and monogalactosyl diglyceride (MGDG) content, while the loss of SCPL41 increased the membrane lipid levels compared with those in wild-type plants. These findings suggest that SCPL41 has novel functions in membrane lipid metabolism.

2. Results

2.1. Identification of the SCPL41 Protein Involved in 1-Butanol Response

We identified a 1-butanol-insensitive mutant, named bis4 (1-butanol insensitive 4), by screening an ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS)-mutagenized plant pool (Col-0 background) for changes in the percentage of seed germination in the presence of exogenous 1-butanol. The mutation site in the mutant was detected (TAIR-PCR) in the seventh exon of AT5g42230, which encodes SCPL41 (serine carboxypeptidase-like gene 41, Figure 1A). The phenotype of bis44 (SALK_360_G01), an allelic mutant obtained from the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC), was comparable to that of bis4 plants. The germination rates of wild-type, bis4 and bis44 mutants were 17.5%, 74.2%, and 58.0% in presence of 0.08% 1-butanol for 4 d, respectively, which suggested germination of the bis4 and bis44 mutants both were insensitive to 1-butanol, compared with these processes in wild-type (Figure S1A,B). Compared with bis44 plant, bis4 plant was more insensitive to 1-butanol, which might be due to the higher inhibition of SCPL41 gene expression in bis4 than in bis44 plants. The bis4 line was chosen for subsequent experiments. We generated SCPL41-overexpressing plants containing the 35S promoter fused to the SCPL41 coding region, and two overexpression lines that we named SOE-5 (SCPL41 overexpression 5) and SOE-7 were identified. The SCPL41 expression in line 5 was higher than that in line 7, as assessed by qRT-PCR (Figure 1B). The SOE-5 line was chosen for subsequent experiments.
The bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants were compared with the wild-type for their response to 1-butanol during seed germination. The seeds were sown onto media containing different concentrations of 1-butanol for dose–response assay, and the germination percentage was scored when their radicals obviously emerged at 2 d after the end of stratification. In the presence of 1-butanol, seeds without SCPL41 showed a higher seed germination percentage than did the wild-type, whereas overexpression of SCPL41 resulted in a significantly reduced seed germination percentage (Figure 1C,D). In the absence of 1-butanol, the seed germination of the different genotypes were comparable. Moreover, in the presence of tert-butanol, rather than 1-butanol, the seed germination was comparable to that of the control treatment, and no difference was detected among Col, bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants (Figure 1C,D).
The Col, bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants were also examined for their response to 1-butanol during the postgerminative growth stage. In the absence of 1-butanol or in the presence of tert-butanol, cotyledon greening and photochemical quantum efficiency of the photosystem II (PS II) reaction center (Fv/Fm) of the three genotypes were comparable (Figure 1E). In the presence of 0.08% 1-butanol, the cotyledon greening and Fv/Fm of bis4 and bis44 seedlings were much higher than those of wild-type. In contrast, the cotyledon greening and Fv/Fm of SOE-5 and SOE-7 were lower than those of the wild-type (Figure 1E,F). In addition, the tested SCPL41-overexpression lines revealed that line 5 was more sensitive to 1-butanol than line 7. Given that SCPL41 expression levels in line 5 were higher than those in line 7 (Figure 1B), our results suggested that the 1-butanol hypersensitivity in these SCPL41-overexpression lines is correlated with their SCPL41 expression levels. Taken together, these results suggested that SCPL41 acted as a positive regulator of 1-butanol response during germination and postgerminative growth.
To verify whether the different responses of SCPL41 expression lines to 1-butanol are related to the altered lipid metabolism in these plants, we first compared the total lipid levels in the developing cotyledonary leaves of Col, bis4, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants by Nile red staining [36]. The higher the fluorescence intensity, the higher the total lipid content. Significantly lower lipid accumulation was observed in the cotyledons of SOE-5 and SOE-7 plants than in those of wild-type plants; however, the total lipid accumulation in the bis4 mutant was comparable to that in the wild-type plants (Figure 2A,B). These results suggested that SCPL41 might be involved in lipid metabolism.

2.2. SCPL41 Had Different Effects on The Content and Composition of Lipids

Since the above results suggested that SCPL41 was involved in lipid metabolism, we then comparably profiled the membrane lipids in Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants, and identified >110 molecular species of polar glycerolipids, including six head-group classes of phospholipids, PC, PE, PA, phosphatidylinositol (PI), phosphatidylserine (PS), and phosphatidylglycerol (PG), and two head-group classes of galactolipids, MGDG and DGDG (Table 1). Each molecular species was identified in terms of the total numbers of acyl carbon atoms and double bonds [37].
As an overview, the profile of most lipid species in terms of their absolute level (nmol/mg dry weight, Figure 3, left panel) and their relative content (mol % of total lipids, Figure 3, right panel) was different among wild-type, bis4, and SOE-5 Arabidopsis. Compared to wild-type, the absolute levels of most lipids were lower in the SOE-5 plants than in the wild-type Arabidopsis but higher in the bis4 plants (Figure 3). Compared to these in wild-type Arabidopsis, the composition of most lipid species in the SOE-5 plants increased, except for MGDG molecules, while a few lipid species changed in bis4 plants. These results suggested that the change in SCPL41 expression dramatically affected lipid degradation and lipid composition, albeit in different ways.

2.3. Overexpression of SCPL41 Decreased the Membrane Lipid Content, but Loss of SCPL41 Increased the Membrane Lipid Content

Compared to that in the wild-type, the number of total lipids in SOE-5 plants decreased to 83.02%, while it increased to 111.91% in bis4 plants (Table 1). The most important changes concerned the two galactolipids. The level of MGDG in the SOE-5 plants decreased to 76.15%, and the level of DGDG decreased to 80.58%. The level of PG decreased to 77.57%. The levels of PC and PE were also significantly higher in wild-type plants than in SOE-5 plants, while no differences in the levels of PI, PA, or PS were detected between wild-type and SOE-5 plants. However, the deletion of SCPL41 increased the content of total lipids (from 127.26 nmol/mg to 146.89 nmol/mg, Table 1). Compared to those in the wild-type, the levels of PG, PC, PE, and MGDG in the bis4 plants increased obviously (Table 1). MGDG 34:6 and 36:6 molecular species as well as the DGDG 36:6 in SOE-5 plants were much lower than those in wild-type plants (Figure 4). The levels of PG 34:2, 34:3, and 34:4; PC 34:5 and 34:6; and PE 34:2, 34:3, 36:4, and 36:5 were also lower in the SOE-5 plants than in the wild-type plants. The levels of PC 36:4 and 36:5, PE 34:2 and 34:3 and PG 34:4 increased because of the deletion of SCPL41 in bis4 plants. The content of other lipid molecular species showed no clear difference compared with those in wild-type plants (Figure 4). These results indicated that SCPL41 had a negative correlation between SCPL41 gene expression and membrane lipid content, further confirming that SCPL41 regulates membrane lipid metabolism.

2.4. SCPL41 Had No Effect on the Composition of Lipid Classes

For the analysis of the relative contents of membrane lipids (mol % total lipids), we only found MGDG and PG percentages slightly lower and PI and PA percentage slightly higher in SOE-5 plants than that in wild-type (Table 2). The compositions of the lipid molecular species were basically the same among Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants (Figure S2). The ratio of galactolipids/phospholipids was 0.74 and 0.65 in wild-type and SOE-5 plants, respectively, which might have resulted from the relatively low content of MGDG in the SOE-5 plants (Table 2).
Both PC and DGDG have relatively large head-groups, in terms of chemical structure, and tend to form a bilayer lipid phase. In contrast, PE and MGDG have small head-groups involved in the formation of a nonbilayer lipid phase. The molar PC/PE and DGDG/MGDG ratios are positively related to membrane stability [37,38], we compared these ratios in bis4 and SOE-5 plants with that in wild-type plants (Table 2) and found no difference. The degree of unsaturation of membrane lipids significantly impacts the fluidity of the membranes. It is indicated by a double bond index (DBI), an average number of double molecular species. The DBI of each lipid remained unchanged under different levels of SCPL41 expression (Table 3). These results suggested that SCPL41 might have no effect on the lipid composition, membrane stabilization, or fluidity.

2.5. SCPL41 Had No Effect on the PA content, But Might be Involved in PA Signaling

PA is the product of PLD-mediated phospholipid hydrolysis and plays an important role in many physiological processes [39,40,41]. One process at the seedling stage is that exogenous application inhibits primary root length [42]. We examined the absolute level of PA and the PLD substrate, such as PC and PE, in Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants, and no significant differences in PA levels were detected (Table 1). This suggests that SCPL41 had no effect on the PA content. However, the exogenous application of PA showed that the inhibition of primary root length is suppressed in bis4 mutants. The SOE-5 plants had comparable root length to that of wild-type plants. No obvious difference was detected in the root growth of any of the plants when exposed to exogenous PC (Figure 5). These results suggested that SCPL41 might play a positive role in PA signaling.

3. Discussion

SCP and SCPL family members are expressed in all major tissue types [4] and take part in wide biochemical and cellular processes [16,17,19,24,43,44] in plants, including secondary metabolite biosynthesis, herbicide conjugation, and germination-associated protein degradation in seed reserves. In the present study, we investigate the role of SCPL41 in lipid metabolism and signaling during the germination and postgerminative growth in Arabidopsis. Deletion and overexpression of SCPL41 confer seeds resistant and sensitive to the inhibitory effect of 1-butanol on seed germination, respectively (Figure 1). The known suppression of 1-butanol on PLD-mediated PA formation led us to investigate the role of SCPL41 in lipid metabolism. We indeed observed lipids accumulated significantly lower in cotyledonary leaves of SCPL41 overexpression plants (Figure 2). Lipid profiling further confirmed that deletion and overexpression of SCPL41 significantly increase and decrease the content of membrane glycerolipids, respectively (Figure 3 and Table 1), while basically maintaining their composition, DBI, and PC/PE and DGDG/MGDG ratios. The PA contents are not affected by SCPL41 but the inhibitory effect on primary root length is attenuated in the absence of SCPL41 (Figure 5). Our results demonstrate that SCPL41 positively regulates membrane lipid metabolism and suggests that it has a positive role in PA signaling.
SCPL41 was expressed ubiquitously at relatively high levels in flowers but at relatively low levels in seedlings [4]. During the identification and growth of all plant genotypes, no morphological or developmental issue changes were observed, suggesting that SCPL41 does not have effects on plant growth and development under normal conditions. The increased expression of SCPL41 caused a large decrease in the contents of PG, MGDG, and DGDG. They are plastidic lipids, the most abundant in leaves [45], and have a direct role in photosynthesis [38]. However, overexpression of SCPL41 did not affect the lipid composition or the stability of the chloroplast membrane, as reflected by the DGDG/MGDG ratio (Table 2), which also contributed to maintaining photosynthetic activity [46]. This is consistent with the normal photosynthesis activity in SOE-5 plants, as measured by Fv/Fm (Figure 1E).
SCPLs have been identified by various genetic approaches. Forward genetic screens found mutant plants without specific acylated compounds and led to the identification of SNG1 [24] and SNG2 [20] in Arabidopsis, and AsSCPL1 in oat [17]. Activity-guided purification and protein sequencing led to the identification of the tomato GAC enzyme [12]. In our case, SCPL41 in Arabidopsis was identified by screening an EMS mutagenized pool for changes in seed germination in the presence of exogenous 1-butanol (Figure S1). 1-Butanol is involved in the transphosphatidylation reaction as a substrate to produce phosphatidyl alcohol or PA [47]. Thus, we proposed that SCPL41 might be required for phospholipid metabolism or PA-dependent signaling in Arabidopsis. Overexpression of SCPL41 induced a marked decrease in contents of PC, PE, and PG, which are substrates of phospholipid hydrolysis via PLD, and the deletion of SCPL41 increased the PC, PE, and PG contents to some extent. The PI and PS contents were not affected when the expression of SCPL41 changed, which might be because the content was too low to reflect the difference. The SCPL enzymes identified so far are involved in the biosynthesis of glucose polyesters [12], sinapate esters [19,48], anthocyanins, avenacins, tannins [17], and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) ester conjugates [25,49]. To the best of our knowledge, SCPL41 is the first member of the SCPL family functioning in cell membrane lipid metabolism.
Previous reports have demonstrated that 1-butanol inhibited seed germination and that 1-butanol blocked PLD-mediated PA produce. It was, therefore, assumed that the 1-butanol inhibition of germination resulted from the absence of PLD-dependent PA [50,51,52]. However, our evidence showed that the insensitivity or hypersensitive of germination to 1-butanol was correlated to the expression of SCPL41 but the expression of SCPL41 was not correlated to PA content (Figure 1 and Table 1). Thus, the previous assumption may be incorrect. However, more evidence is needed to prove our speculation. Biochemical characterization of the SCPL41 protein and functional studies of the SCPL41 gene with knockout/knockdown mutants and/or overexpression in transgenic plants will provide new insights into the biological function and mechanism of SCPL41 in response to 1-butanol in Arabidopsis.

4. Material and Methods

4.1. Plant Materials and Growth Conditions

Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Columbia (Col-0) was used in the present study. Surface sterilization of all genotype seeds as conducted with 75% ethanol for 2 min followed by 5% NaClO for 2 min and then sterile water rinse three times. The sterilized seeds on MS media with 0.1% agarose were pretreated at 4 °C in darkness for 2 d and then germinated in a growth chamber with conditions of 22 °C, 16-h light/8-h dark photoperiod, and 120 μmol m−2 s−1 light intensity.

4.2. Phenotype Analysis

Seeds of different genotypes were collected from the plants grown in the same conditions at the same time. For phenotype examination, seeds and seedlings (postgerminative growth) of each genotype were germinated and grown side by side on the same plate containing MS medium with different concentrations of 1-butanol and tert-butanol as indicated. The germination rate was measured at the percentage of seed with radicle emergence at the indicated times. The percentage of cotyledon greening was recorded after 7 d germination when cotyledons fully expand and turn green. The effect of 1-butanol on cotyledon greening was also quantified by chlorophyll fluorescence of the seedlings (imaging chlorophyll fluorometer, MAXI-Imaging Pulse-Amplitude, Walz/Germany) [53,54] as follows: after dark-adapted for 20 minutes, the maximal quantum yield of photosystem II (PS II) photochemistry (Fv/Fm) was measured by the initial fluorescence level (F0) and the maximal fluorescence level (Fm) with the equation of Fv/Fm = (Fm − F0)/Fm.

4.3. Transgenic Plants

The coding region of SCPL41 was cloned into a pEGAD-GFP binary vector driven by the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. SCPL41-overexpressing transgenic plants (in the Col-0 background) were generated using Agrobacterium-mediated floral transformation. RT-PCR and resistance screening with glufosinate–ammonium were used to detect the abundance of the transgene transcripts. The homozygous T3 seeds of the transgenic plants were used for analysis.

4.4. Nile Red Staining

To visually detect neutral lipids, two-day-old seedlings of wild-type, bis4, SOE-5, and SOE-7 were infiltrated with an aqueous solution of Nile red (Sigma) [36,55]. The seedlings were placed in sterile water, cotyledonary leaves were imaged at 10 × and 60 × objective with an Olympus FV 1000 system equipped with argon as an excitation source. Fluorescence was detected at 515 nm and collected with a 539–653 nm filter (n = 12 per replicate).

4.5. Lipid Analysis and Data Processing

The 7-day-old seedlings were analyzed by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS) [37] to detect the lipids and the data was processed by the methods previously reported [54]. Lipids in each class were quantified by comparing them with two internal standards and were recorded as nanomoles per milligram of plant dry weight. We analyzed five replicates of each plant species at each sampling time. Paired values were subjected to a t-test to determine statistical significance.
The double bond index (DBI) of acyl chains in a given lipid class was calculated using the equation: Double Bond Index (DBI) = [∑(N × mol % fatty acid])/100, where N is the total number of double bonds in each lipid molecule [56].

4.6. RNA Isolation and Quantitative PCR

Total RNA was extracted using the RNeasy Plant Mini Kit (Qiagen, QIAGEN N.V. Corporate, Germany) and reverse-transcribed via the reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen, Invitrogen Corporation, United States) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. A total of 50 ng cDNA was used for quantitative PCR in each reaction with SYBR Green PCR Master Mix (Takara, TaKaRa Biotechnology (Dalian) Co.,Ltd., Japan), and then detected by using ABI real-time PCR detection system (Quantstudio 7, QuantStudio 7, Applied Biosystems, United States). Relative amounts of SCPL41 transcripts were calculated by the comparative cycle threshold method normalized to ACTIN2 expression from the same sample. Values were determined from three replicates.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/6/696/s1, Figure S1. SCPL41 is required for normal seed germination in response to 1-butanol. (A) Visual comparison of Col, bis4, and bis44 seed germination and postgerminative growth after 6 d in the absence or presence of 0.05% 1-butanol, 0.08% 1-butanol, or 0.08% tert-butanol. Mean ± SD values were determined from three replicates (n = 120). (B) Germination rate of Col wild type, bis4 and bis44 over 6 d in the absence or presence of 0.05% 1-butanol, 0.08% 1-butanol, or 0.08% tert-butanol at indicated times. Figure S2. Lipid composition within each head-group class in Col, bis4 and SOE-5 plants. The values are the means ± SDs (n = 4 or 5).

Author Contributions

Investigation, J.C., and Y.-X.J.; conceptualization, Y.-X.J.; writing, Y.-X.J. and W.-Q.L.; funding acquisition, Y.-X.J.; supervision, W.-Q.L. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31600215) and the Yunnan Applied Basic Research Projects- General Program (2015FB171, 2017FB057).

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31600215) and the Yunnan Applied Basic Research Projects General Program (2015FB171, 2017FB057). The authors would like to thank Mary Roth for the acquisition and processing of the ESI-MS/MS data at the Kansas Lipidomics Research Center Analytical Laboratory.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Abbreviations

SCPLserine carboxypeptidase-like
PGphosphatidylglycerol
PCphosphatidylcholine
PEphosphatidylethanolamine
PIphosphatidylinositol
PSphosphatidylserine
PAphosphatidic acid
MGDGmonogalactosyldiacylglycerol
DGDGdigalactosyldiacylglycerol
DBIdouble bond index
ESI-MS/MSelectrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

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Figure 1. Seed germination and postgerminative growth of Col, bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants in response to 1-butanol. (A) Gene structure of AT5g42230. The filled boxes indicate exons, and the lines indicate introns. The sites of insertion in the bis4 mutant are marked. (B) Quantitative PCR analysis of SCPL41 expression in 7-d-old Col, bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 mutant seedlings in the absence of 1-butanol. The values are the means ± SDs (n = 3). (C) Visual comparison of Col, bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 seed germination and postgerminative growth after 7 d in the absence or presence of 0.05% 1-butanol, 0.08% 1-butanol, or 0.08% tert-butanol. (D) Germination rate of Col wild-type as well as bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants in the absence or presence of 0.08% 1-butanol or 0.08% tert-butanol at the indicated times. (E) Fv/Fm values. The color bar on the bottom indicates the Fv/Fm values. (F) Green cotyledons were scored after 7 d of growth and represent an average of 120 seeds of at least three independent experiments ± SDs.
Figure 1. Seed germination and postgerminative growth of Col, bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants in response to 1-butanol. (A) Gene structure of AT5g42230. The filled boxes indicate exons, and the lines indicate introns. The sites of insertion in the bis4 mutant are marked. (B) Quantitative PCR analysis of SCPL41 expression in 7-d-old Col, bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 mutant seedlings in the absence of 1-butanol. The values are the means ± SDs (n = 3). (C) Visual comparison of Col, bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 seed germination and postgerminative growth after 7 d in the absence or presence of 0.05% 1-butanol, 0.08% 1-butanol, or 0.08% tert-butanol. (D) Germination rate of Col wild-type as well as bis4, bis44, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants in the absence or presence of 0.08% 1-butanol or 0.08% tert-butanol at the indicated times. (E) Fv/Fm values. The color bar on the bottom indicates the Fv/Fm values. (F) Green cotyledons were scored after 7 d of growth and represent an average of 120 seeds of at least three independent experiments ± SDs.
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Figure 2. Level of total lipid accumulation in the cotyledonary leaves of Col, bis4, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants. (A) Representative images of lipid accumulation in 2-d-old cotyledonary leaves of Col, bis4 mutant, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants after staining the seedlings with Nile red. The top panel images were captured at 10 × magnification with an Olympus FV 1000 system. Bars = 200 µm; the bottom panel images were captured at 60 × magnification with an Olympus FV 1000 system. Bars = 30 µm. (B) Fluorescence intensity. The average fluorescence intensity of the whole cotyledon was calculated. The higher the fluorescence intensity, the higher the total lipid content.
Figure 2. Level of total lipid accumulation in the cotyledonary leaves of Col, bis4, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants. (A) Representative images of lipid accumulation in 2-d-old cotyledonary leaves of Col, bis4 mutant, SOE-5, and SOE-7 plants after staining the seedlings with Nile red. The top panel images were captured at 10 × magnification with an Olympus FV 1000 system. Bars = 200 µm; the bottom panel images were captured at 60 × magnification with an Olympus FV 1000 system. Bars = 30 µm. (B) Fluorescence intensity. The average fluorescence intensity of the whole cotyledon was calculated. The higher the fluorescence intensity, the higher the total lipid content.
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Figure 3. Heat map of lipid molecular species in Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants. Each color bar in the column represents lipid molecular species in the indicated plant. The color of each bar represents the relative change from the median of each lipid species (n = 5).
Figure 3. Heat map of lipid molecular species in Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants. Each color bar in the column represents lipid molecular species in the indicated plant. The color of each bar represents the relative change from the median of each lipid species (n = 5).
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Figure 4. Changes in the molecular species of lipids in Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants. The values are the means ± SDs (n = 4 or 5). Bars for the same lipid class with different letters indicate that the values were significantly different (P < 0.05).
Figure 4. Changes in the molecular species of lipids in Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants. The values are the means ± SDs (n = 4 or 5). Bars for the same lipid class with different letters indicate that the values were significantly different (P < 0.05).
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Figure 5. Primary root growth phenotype of Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants. (A) Seeds were germinated on MS media for 3 d, after which they were transferred to 25 μM phosphatidylcholine (PC) or phosphatidic acid (PA). (B) The length of the primary roots of each genotype plant was averaged after 6 d of vertical growth. Bars with different letters indicate that the value was significantly different (P < 0.05).
Figure 5. Primary root growth phenotype of Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants. (A) Seeds were germinated on MS media for 3 d, after which they were transferred to 25 μM phosphatidylcholine (PC) or phosphatidic acid (PA). (B) The length of the primary roots of each genotype plant was averaged after 6 d of vertical growth. Bars with different letters indicate that the value was significantly different (P < 0.05).
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Table 1. Total lipids in Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants.
Table 1. Total lipids in Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants.
Lipid ClassesLipids/Dry Weight (nmol/mg)Ratio
Colbis4SOE-5bis4/ColSOE-5/Col
PG10.88 ± 0.45 b12.28 ± 0.39 a8.44 ± 0.79 c112.8477.57
PC35.14 ± 2.21 b38.70 ± 2.44 a31.43 ± 0.45 c110.1389.43
PE21.02 ± 0.95 b23.85 ± 1.33 a17.41 ± 1.72 c113.4682.87
PI5.44 ± 0.32 a5.79 ± 0.69 a5.53 ± 0.17 a--
PA1.55 ± 0.25 a1.74 ± 0.34 a1.81 ± 0.15 a--
PS0.88 ± 0.06 a1.02 ± 0.25 a0.80 ± 0.17 a--
MGDG44.33 ± 2.11 b49.43 ± 2.76 a33.75 ± 4.54 c111.5076.15
DGDG11.42 ± 0.80 a12.09 ± 1.08 a9.20 ± 1.09 b-80.58
Total lipids/dry weight (nmol/mg)
Total lipids127.26 ± 2.37 b146.89 ± 8.11 a108.97 ± 7.65 c115.4383.02
Col, bis4 and SOE-5 plants with different letters a, b and c in the same row indicate significantly differences. (P < 0.05). The values are the means ± SDs (n = 5).
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Table 2. Membrane lipid composition in each head-group class and lipid ratio in Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants.
Table 2. Membrane lipid composition in each head-group class and lipid ratio in Col, bis4, and SOE-5 plants.
Lipid ClassesLipid (mol % of total lipids)
Colbis4SOE-5
PG8.41 ± 0.31 a8.61 ± 0.38 a7.85 ± 0.26 b
PC26.72 ± 0.74 a26.79 ± 0.99 a28.91 ± 2.12 a
PE16.01 ± 0.42 a14.47 ± 2.72 a15.98 ± 0.99 a
PI4.14 ± 0.13 b4.24 ± 0.34 ab5.01 ± 0.41 a
PA1.18 ± 0.19 b1.28 ± 0.23 b1.66 ± 0.11 a
PS0.67 ± 0.04 a0.74 ± 0.11 a0.73 ± 0.14 a
MGDG33.72 ± 0.36 a34.55 ± 1.25 a30.81 ± 2.14 b
DGDG8.70 ± 0.31 a8.88 ± 0.31 a8.42 ± 0.43 a
Lipid ratio
PC/PE1.67 ± 0.06 a1.93 ± 0.53 a1.82 ± 0.18 a
DGDG/MGDG0.26 ± 0.01 a0.26 ± 0.01 a0.27 ± 0.01 a
Galactolipids/Phospholipids0.74 ± 0.02 a0.77 ± 0.04 a0.65 ± 0.07 b
Col, bis4 and SOE-5 plants with different letters a, b and c in the same row indicate significantly differences. (P < 0.05). The values are the means ± SDs (n = 4 or 5).
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Table 3. Double bond index (DBI) of each lipid class.
Table 3. Double bond index (DBI) of each lipid class.
Lipid ClassDBI (double bond index)
Colbis4SOE-5
DGDG6.48 ± 0.02 b6.51 ± 0.01 a6.39 ± 0.04 c
MGDG6.84 ± 0.01 a6.84 ± 0.01 a6.83 ± 0.01 a
PG2.98 ± 0.04 a2.97 ± 0.04 a2.94 ± 0.07 a
PC3.81 ± 0.02 a3.82 ± 0.02 a3.80 ± 0.01 a
PE3.43 ± 0.02 a3.44 ± 0.02 a3.43 ± 0.02 a
PI2.59 ± 0.01 a2.58 ± 0.01 a2.58 ± 0.01 a
PS2.70 ± 0.02 a2.69 ± 0.05 a2.75 ± 0.04 a
PA3.06 ± 0.02 a3.11 ± 0.06 a3.10 ± 0.09 a
Col, bis4 and SOE-5 plants with different letters a, b and c in the same row indicate significantly differences. (P < 0.05). The values are the means ± SDs (n =4 or 5).

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