Scopoletin 8-hydroxylase: a novel enzyme involved in coumarin biosynthesis and iron-deficiency responses in Arabidopsis

Highlight A strongly iron-responsive gene of previously unknown function, At3g12900, encodes a scopoletin 8-hydroxylase involved in coumarin biosynthesis and plays an important role in the iron uptake strategy in Arabidopsis. Abstract Iron (Fe) deficiency represents a serious agricultural problem, particularly in alkaline soils. Secretion of coumarins by Arabidopsis thaliana roots is induced under Fe-deficiency. An essential enzyme for the biosynthesis of major Arabidopsis coumarins, scopoletin and its derivatives, is Feruloyl-CoA 6’-Hydroxylase1 (F6′H1) that belongs to a large enzyme family of the 2-oxoglutarate and Fe(II)-dependent dioxygenases. Another member of this family that is a close homologue of F6’H1 and is encoded by a strongly Fe-responsive gene, At3g12900, is functionally characterized in the presented work. We purified the At3g12900 protein heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli and demonstrated that it is involved in the conversion of scopoletin into fraxetin via hydroxylation at the C8-position. Consequently, it was named scopoletin 8-hydroxylase (S8H). Its function in plant cells was confirmed by the transient expression of S8H protein in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves followed by the metabolite profiling and the biochemical and ionomic characterization of Arabidopsis s8h knockout lines grown under various regimes of Fe availability. Our results indicate that S8H is involved in coumarin biosynthesis as part of the Fe acquisition machinery.

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  2017

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  bioRxiv

• Publication date

  2017-10-04

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  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/jxb/ery005PMID 29361149PMCID 5888981
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