The Plant Cell, Vol. 4, 721-733, June 1992 O 1992 American Society of Plant Physiologists

Two Anthranilate Synthase Genes in Arabidopsis: Defense-Related Regulation of the Tryptophan Pathway

Krishna K. Niyogi and Gerald R. Finkl Department of Biology and Whitehead lnstitute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

Arabidopsis thaliana has two genes, ASA7 and ASA2, encoding the a subunit of anthranilate synthase, the enzyme catalyzing the first reaction in the tryptophan biosynthetic pathway. As a branchpoint enzyme in aromatic amino acid biosynthesis, anthranilate synthase has an important regulatory role. The sequences of the plant genes are homologous to their microbial counterparts. Both predicted proteins have putative chloroplast transit peptides at their amino termini and conserved amino acids involved in feedback inhibition by tryptophan. ASA7 and ASA2 cDNAs complement anthranilate synthase a subunit mutations in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in Escherichia coli, confirming that both genes encode functional anthranilate synthase proteins. The distributions of ASA7 and ASA2 mRNAs in various parts of Arabidopsis plants are overlapping but nonidentical, and ASA7 mRNA is approximately 10 times more abundant in whole plants. Whereas ASA2 is expressed at a constitutive basal level, ASA7 is induced by wounding and bacterial pathogen infiltration, sug- gesting a nove1 role for ASA7 in the production of tryptophan pathway metabolites as part of an Arabidopsis defense response. Regulation of key steps in aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis appears to involve differential ex- pression of duplicated genes.

INTRODUCTION

The enzyme anthranilate synthase (AS; EC 4.1.3.27) catalyzes the first reaction branching from the aromatic amino acid path- way toward the biosynthesis of tryptophan in plants, fungi, and bacteria. Tryptophan is required primarily for protein synthe- sis in bacteria and fungi, whereas in plants the tryptophan pathway also provides precursors for the synthesis of key “sec- ondary” metabolites such as the major endogenous auxin, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), and other molecules that may help protect plants against pathogens and herbivores.

Because AS is a branchpoint enzyme in aromatic amino acid biosynthesis, regulation of AS is critical for controlling the flux of intermediates in the pathway. In plants, fungi, and bacteria, AS enzyme activity is feedback inhibited by tryptophan. In microorganisms, the genes encoding AS and other tryptophan biosynthetic enzymes are regulated in a manner that reflects the functional importance of the amino acid as the end prod- uct of the pathway. For example, in Escherichia coli the synthesis of tryptophan pathway enzymes is regulated by tryp- tophan via transcription repression and attenuation (for review, see Yanofsky and Crawford, 1987). As a result, the enzymes are synthesized only under conditions of tryptophan starva- tion. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other fungi,

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transcription of the genes encoding tryptophan biosynthetic enzymes is under general amino acid control rather than pathway-specific control (for review, see Hinnebusch, 1988). The genes are expressed ata constitutive basal level, and in- creased transcription occurs not only in response to tryptophan starvation, but also upon starvation for a number of other amino acids. The regulation of tryptophan biosynthetic genes in plants is undefined.

Microbial AS is composed of two nonidentical subunits, an a subunit (also called Component I ) , which binds the substrate chorismate and carries out its aromatization, and a subunit (also called Component II), which transfers an amino group from the other substrate glutamine (for reviews, see Zalkin, 1980; Hütter et al., 1986; Yanofsky and Crawford, 1987; Crawford, 1989). This glutamine-dependent AS reaction (1) re- quires both a and p subunits. The a subunit alone can synthesize anthranilate from chorismate using ammonia as the amino donor rather than glutamine, but only if the ammo- nia is present at a sufficiently high concentration. This reaction is termed the ammonia-dependent AS reaction (2). Both AS reactions require Mg2+ as a cofactor.

Chorismate + glutamine -. anthranilate + pyruvate + glutamate (1 1

Chorismate + NH3 -. anthranilate + pyruvate (2)

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The a subunit is usually a monofunctional polypeptide, whereas the p subunit is often part of a multifunctional polypeptide in which one domain contains the glutamine amidotransferase activity, and the others catalyze subsequent reactions in the tryptophan biosynthetic pathway. For example, in Neurospora crassa the TRPl gene encodes a single polypeptide contain- ing the AS p subunit, phosphoribosylanthranilate isomerase, and indole-3-glycerol phosphate synthase (Hütter et al., 1986). The a and p subunits associate to form a heteromeric AS en- zyme, i.e., an a$;! heterotetramer in E. coli (Ito and Yanofsky, 1969) and N. crassa (Hulett and DeMoss, 1975) and an ap het- erodimer in S. cerevisiae (Prantl et al., 1985). Recent studies of AS from Salmonella typhimurium (Caligiuri and Bauerle, 1991) and Brevibacferium lacfofermenfum (Matsui et al., 1987) have pinpointed particular amino acids in the a subunit that are im- portant for feedback inhibition by tryptophan. Microbial AS genes have homology to genes encoding at least two other chorismate-utilizing enzymes, para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) synthase (Goncharoff and Nichols, 1984; Crawford, 1989) and isochorismate synthase (Ozenberger et al., 1989).

Relatively little is known about the biochemistry and regu- lation of AS from plants (for reviews, see Gilchrist and Kosuge, 1980; Poulsen and Verpoorte, 1991; Singh et al., 1991). Crude fractionation studies have shown that AS is separable from other enzymes in the pathway (Hankins et al., 1976), but the subunit composition of plant AS has not been determined. The role of feedback inhibition of AS enzyme activity by tryptophan (Belser et al., 1971) has been investigated using plant cell cul- tures resistant to 5-methyltryptophan, a false feedback inhibitor of AS. The mutant cells contain a feedback-resistant AS, and as a result the cultures accumulate tryptophan (Widholm, 1972a. 1972b; Carlson and Widholm, 1978; Ranch et al., 1983) and, in some cases, no longer require exogenous auxin for growth (Widholm, 1977; Sung, 1979). Plant cell cultures fed with anthranilate or indole show apparently unregulated ac- cumulation of tryptophan (Widholm, 1974). Together, these results imply that tryptophan levels in cultured cells are con- trolled mainly by regulation of AS. However, besides feedback inhibition of AS, control of tryptophan biosynthesis in plants is largely uncharacterized. The synthesis of pathway enzymes,

including AS, is not repressed by tryptophan in plant tissue cultures (Widholm, 197l). Subcellular fractionation experiments (Mousdale and Coggins, 1986) have led to the conclusion that AS, like the rest of the aromatic amino acid pathway (Schulze- Siebert and Schultz, 1989), is sequestered in plastids, although there has been a report of a cytosolic AS isozyme (Brotherton et al., 1986).

We are studying AS in Arabidopsis fhaliana to gain further insight into the structure and regulation of the tryptophan bio- synthetic pathway in plants. We find that Arabidopsis has two genes encoding the a subunit of AS. The two genes are regu- lated differently in response to wounding and bacterial pathogen infiltration, providing molecular genetic evidence that the tryptophan branch of the aromatic pathway has a role in plant defense responses.

RESULTS

lsolation of Two Genes Encoding Arabidopsis Anthranilate Synthase

A fragment of the yeast TRP2 gene (Zalkin et al., 1984) con- taining the region most highly conserved between yeast and bacterial AS a subunit genes was used as a DNA hybridiza- tion probe to isolate homologous cDNAs from Arabidopsis. A cDNA with 500/0 nucleotide and 39% amino acid identity to the yeast probe was subsequently used to identify two classes of additional Arabidopsis cDNA clones. Restriction mapping and further sequence analysis revealed that one class was identical to the initial Arabidopsis clone, whereas the other class represented a second gene that also had significant similarity to known AS a subunit genes. Genomic clones correspond- ing to each cDNA were isolated and sequenced.

These two Arabidopsis AS genes, designated ASAl (Gen- Bank accession no. M92353) and ASA2 (GenBank accession no. M92354), share 63% nucleotide identity within protein- coding exons. The structures of the ASAl and ASA2 genes are summarized schematically in Figure 1.

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Figure 1. Schematic Structures of ASAl and ASA2 Genes.

The boxes represent exons, and dashed lines connect homologous exons between ASAl and ASAP. The 5' to 3' transcriptional orientation of both genes is from left to right. The restriction sites shown are A, Accl; C, Clal; E, EcoRI; Hc, Hincll; Hd, Hindlll; P, Pstl; S, Sacl; and X, Xbal.

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two genes cross-hybridized weakly, but there was no evidenceof additional hybridizing sequences (data not shown). Restric-tion fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) linkage analysis(S. Hanley and H. Goodman, personal communication) placed

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(A) RNA gel blot analysis. Ten micrograms of Arabidopsis total RNAand 1 ng of poly(A)+ RNA were fractionated by electrophoresis on a1% agarose gel containing formaldehyde (Ausubel et al., 1989), trans-ferred to nitrocellulose, and hybridized with a 32P-labeled 2-kb Xholfragment of pKN41 (ASA1) and a 1.8-kb BamHI fragment of pKN108A(ASA2). The sizes of the RNA markers (Bethesda Research Laborato-ries) are shown in kilobases.(B) Primer extension analysis. For ASA1, an antisense oligonucleo-tide complementary to nucleotides 2391 to 2418 in the ASA1 sequence(GenBank accession no. M92353) was hybridized to 25 ng of Arabidop-sis total RNA at 55°C, and cDNA was synthesized using reversetranscriptase (Ausubel et al., 1989). Products were analyzed by dena-turing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The ASA1 sequencing ladderwas generated using the same primer and pKN211A template DNA.For ASA2, an antisense oligonucleotide complementary to nucleotides2846 to 2873 in the ASA2 sequence (GenBank accession no. M92354)was hybridized to 50 ng of Arabidopsis total RNA at 55°C. The ASA2sequencing ladder was generated using the same primer and pKN143Ctemplate DNA.

Both genes are transcribed, resulting in mRNAs approxi-mately 2200 nucleotides in length, as shown by RNA gel blotanalysis in Figure 2A. The 5' ends of the mRNAs encoded bythe two genes were determined by primer extension (Figure2B) and confirmed by S1 nuclease protection (data not shown).For ASA1 mRNA, there are two major 5' ends, resulting in 5'untranslated leaders of 90 and 93 nucleotides. The mRNA cor-responding to ASA2 begins at a single site 41 nucleotidesupstream of the first AUG codon. As determined by cDNA se-quencing, the ASA1 and ASA2 genes have 3' transcribed butuntranslated regions of 156 nucleotides and 162 nucleotides,respectively. As is the case for many plant genes (Joshi, 1987),no sequences were found in these 3' regions that exactly matchthe AAUAAA consensus sequence for animal poly(A) addi-tion signals.

Arabidopsis ASA1 and ASA2 are duplicated, but unlinked,nuclear genes. The cloned genes hybridized to different setsof fragments on a genomic DNA gel blot, as shown in Figure3A. Under conditions of reduced hybridization stringency, the

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(A) Genomic DNA gel blot analysis. Two micrograms of Arabidopsisgenomic DNA was digested with the indicated restriction enzymes,fractionated by electrophoresis on a 0.8% agarose gel, transferred toa Zeta-Probe membrane (Bio-Rad), and hybridized with a ̂ P-labeled1-kb EcoRI fragment of pKNSA (ASA1) and a 1.2-kb EcoRI fragmentof pKN1A (ASA2). Sizes of DNA markers (Hindlll-digested X DNA) areshown in base pairs.(B) Schematic representation of the locations of ASA1 and ASA2 onArabidopsis chromosomes 2 and 5. Selected visible and RFLP geneticmarkers are shown to the left of each vertical line, and map distancesin centimorgans (S. Hanley and H. Goodman, personal communica-tion) are to the right.

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Plurality ASA1 ASA2 TRP2 (S.C.) TrpE (E .c. ) TrpE ( B . s . ) PabB (E. c . )

Plural ity ASAl ASA2 TRP2(S.c.) TrpE (E .c. ) TrpE ( B . s . ) PabB (E.c.)

Plurality ASAl ASA2 TRP2(S.c.) TrpE (E.c. ) TrpE(E3.s.) PabB (E.c.)

Plurality ASAl ASA2 TRP2 ( S . c. ) TrpE (E .c. ) TrpE (E3.s.) PabB (E.c.)

Plurality A S A l ASA2 TRPZ(5.c.) TrpE (E.c.) TrpE(B.s.) PabB (E .c. )

Plurality A S A l ASA2 TRPZ(S.c.) TrpE (E .c. ) TrpE ( B . s . ) PabB (E.c.)

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ASAl and ASA2 on different chromosomes on an Arabidopsis RFLP genetic map (Nam et al., 1989). The ASAl gene is lo- cated on chromosome 5 at 14.8 centimorgans, whereasASA2 is located on chromosome 2 at 47.2 centimorgans (Figure 38). Sequence analysis of 5908 bp of ASAl and 6661 bp of ASA2 genomic DNA did not reveal any sequences related to microbial AS p subunit genes or any other tryptophan biosynthetic genes. Based on available mapping data, there does not appear to be significant clustering of the cloned Arabidopsis tryptophan biosynthetic genes in any particular region of the genome (Fig- ure 38; Last et al., 1991).

Comparison of the ASA1 and ASA2 Deduced Proteins

The amino acid sequences of deduced proteins encoded by ASAl and ASA2 are shown in Figure 4. For each gene, protein translation was assumed to begin at the first AUG codon down- stream of the transcription start site(s). The ASAl gene is capable of encoding a protein of 595 amino acids with calcu- lated molecular mass of 66212 D; ASA2 can encode a 6971 1-D protein composed of 621 amino acids.

The ASAl and ASA2 predicted amino acid sequences were aligned with the AS a subunits from yeast, E. coli, and Bacil- lus subtilis, along with the PABA synthase a subunit from E. coli (Figure 4). As seen in Table 1, ASAl and ASA2 are 67% identical to each other and 30 to 36% identical to microbial AS a subunit sequences. The ASAl and ASA2 predicted pro- teins contain conserved amino acids involved in feedback inhibition of AS by tryptophan (Figure 4).

60th ASA1 and ASA2 proteins are predicted to have amino- terminal extensions not present in the corresponding microbial proteins (Figure 4). The amino acid compositions and second- ary structures of these extensions are characteristic of plant chloroplast transit peptides (von Heijne et al., 1989). The amino- terminal amino acid sequences of the mature, processed Arabidopsis ASA1 and ASA2 proteins are not known, but the sequences IKCV in ASAl and IKCS in ASA2 are near matches to a proposed cleavage site consensus [(V/I)X(A/C).1A] (Gavel and von Heijne, 1990). The putative chloroplast transit pep- tides are the most dissimilar regions of the aligned proteins, as evidenced by the fact that there is only 20% amino acid

identity between the peptides encoded by the first exons of ASAl and ASA2. There is no apparent homology between the ASA1 and ASA2 transit peptides and the transit peptides of other Arabidopsis aromatic amino acid biosynthetic enzymes (Klee et al., 1987; Berlyn et al., 1989; Keith et al., 1991; Last et al., 1991).

ASA7 and ASA2 Encode Functional AS a Subunits

Arabidopsis ASAl and ASA2 complemented AS mutations in yeast and E. coli, verifying the assertion, based on sequence analysis, that ASAl and ASA2 are AS a subunit genes. To test complementation in yeast, we made a deletionlinsertion mu- tation of the TRP2 gene encoding the AS a subunit in yeast. A strain (KNY1) containing this mutation (frp2A9O::HlS3) re- quires tryptophan supplementation of minimal medium for growth. As shown in Figure 5, ASAl and ASA2 cDNAs under the control of the yeast GALl promoter complemented the aux- otrophic phenotype of the frp2 mutation, confirming that both ASAl and ASA2 encode functional anthranilate synthases. Con- sistent with the control of expression by the inducible GALl promoter, the KNYl strain containing the ASAl cDNA (pKN41) or the ASA2 cDNA (pKNlO9A-1) grew on galactose medium

Table 1. Pairwise Amino Acid ldentity between Plant AS a Subunit Sequences and Microbial AS a and PABA Synthase a Subunit Sequences

ASA2 TRP2a TrpEb TrpEC PabBb ( 0 4 ( O 4 ( 0 4 ( 0 4 ( O 4

ASAl 67 33 30 36 32 ASA2 33 31 35 30 TRP2a 31 35 27 TrpEb 31 26 TrpEC 29

Percent identity was calculated for the sequences as aligned in Figure 4. a Derived from S. cerevisiae.

Derived from E. coli. Derived from 6. subfilis.

Figure 4. (continued).

The predicted amino acid sequences of ASAl and ASA2 proteins were fit to the alignment of bacterial and yeast AS a subunit sequences (Crawford, 1989), with minor modifications. The sequences shown are Arabidopsis ASAl and ASA2, S. cerevisiae TRP2 [TRPP S.C.)] (Zalkin et al., 1984), E. coli TrpE [TrpE (E.c.)] (Nichols et ai., 1981), 6. subtilis TrpE [TrpE (B.s.)] (Band et al., 1984), and E. coli PabB [PabB (E.c.)] (Goncharoff and Nichols, 1984), the a subunit of PABA synthase. The TRP2 sequence was modified by the introduction of frameshifts at amino acid positions 622 and 638, as described by Crawford (1989). The plurality shows amino acids that are conserved in two-thirds of the aligned sequences at each position. Hyphens indicate introduced gaps. Amino acid positions showing identity to the ASA1 sequence are shaded. Conserved amino acids that are affected in inactivating missense mutants of S. typhimurium WpE (Bauerle et al., 1987) are designated with daggers. Five of six of these amino acids are invariant in the AS a subunit sequences shown. Amino acid positions affected in strongly feedback-resistant mutants of S. typhimurium trp€ (Caligiuri and Bauerle, 1991) are noted with asterisks. Five of nine of these amino acids are identically conserved in ASAl and ASA2, and two of nine are replaced by similar amino acids.

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Figure 5. Complementation of a Yeast trp2 Deletion Mutation byArabidopsis ASA1 and ASA2.

The yeast strain KNY1 (MATa trp2A90::HIS3 ura3-52 his3A200 leu2A2Gal+) was transformed with the plasmids pKN10 (TRP2), pSE936*(vector), pKN41 (ASA1), pKN109C (antisense ASA2), and pKN109A-1(ASA2), and Ura+ transformants were grown to saturation at 30°C inliquid SC medium containing 2% glucose lacking uracil. Serial dilu-tions were made with water, and 2 nL of each were spotted on theindicated agar plates: SC medium with 2% glucose lacking uracil (glc-ura), SC medium with 2% glucose lacking uracil and tryptophan (glc-ura-trp), and SC medium with 2% galactose lacking uracil and trypto-phan (gal-ura-trp). Growth after 4 days at 30°C is shown.

lacking tryptophan but not on glucose medium without trypto-phan. The URA3 ARS1 CEN4 vector alone (pSE936*) orantisense ASA2 in the URA3, 2-um vector (pKN109C) did notallow growth of KNY1 on either galactose or glucose mediumlacking tryptophan. As a positive control, the yeast TRP2 geneunder the control of its own promoter (pKN10) complementedthe trp2 mutation in KNY1 for growth on both glucose and galac-tose medium without tryptophan.

We also tested the ability of ASA1 cDNAs to complementtrpE mutations in £ coli. As shown in Figure 6, expression ofan ASA1 cDNA allowed growth of E. coli strains containing ei-ther a deletion mutation in trpE (trpAES) or a nonsense mutationin trpE (trpE5972) on M9 glycerol minimal medium lacking tryp-tophan. The vector alone was unable to complement eithertrpAES or trpE5972. Complementation of trpAES by ASA1(pKN37) was also observed on modified M9 glycerol minimalmedium without tryptophan containing only 1 mM NH4CI(data not shown), conditions under which E. coli requiresglutamine-dependent AS activity (1) in order to grow (Paluhet al., 1985). Expression of ASA1 in an £ coli strain lackingboth endogenous AS subunits (trpAED27; Jackson andYanofsky, 1974) allowed growth on M9 medium lacking tryp-tophan (data not shown), conditions under which the ammonia-dependent AS activity (2) provided by the AS a subunit issufficient. However, this strain did not grow on modified M9(1 mM NH4CI) lacking tryptophan (data not shown), suggest-ing that ASA1 encodes an AS a subunit that can interactwith the E. coli AS p subunil in vivo and that such interactionis necessary for catalyzing the glutamine-dependent ASreaction (1).

Regulation of ASA1 and ASA2 mRNA Levels

We observed a quantitative difference in the steady state lev-els of ASA1 and ASA2 mRNAs in Arabidopsis plants (Figure2A). The ASA1 mRNA was the major AS a subunit transcript,present at a level about 10-fold greater than that of ASA2, asdetermined by RNA gel blot analysis using probes of approxi-mately equal specific activity.

RNA gel blot analysis of RNAs isolated from different partsof Arabidopsis plants revealed a qualitative difference in thepatterns of ASA1 and ASA2 expression, as shown in Figure7A. Roots and rosette leaves of 5-week-old plants containedapproximately equal amounts of ASA1 mRNA. The level of ASA1mRNA was lower in stem tissue and undetectable in flowers,developing (green) siliques, and mature dry seeds. In contrast,ASA2 mRNA was present at low, but detectable, levels in roots,leaves, and developing siliques and at slightly lower levels instem tissue. There was no detectable ASA2 mRNA in flowersor dry seeds. The absence of detectable ASA1 orASA2 mRNAin certain tissues was not due to any general problem withthe RNA from those tissues, because the mRNA correspond-ing to the ALS gene encoding acetolactate synthase(acetohydroxyacid synthase) (Mazur et al., 1987), the first en-zyme of the isoleucine-valine biosynthetic pathway, wasdetected in all Arabidopsis tissues examined (Figure 7A).

Addition of tryptophan or auxin did not affect the expres-sion of ASA1 or ASA2 RNAs in wild-type plants. Arabidopsisplants grown on synthetic medium without tryptophan hadsteady state levels of ASA1 and ASA2 mRNAs equivalent toplants grown with 50 uM tryptophan (data not shown). Because

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The E. coli strains trpAES tnaA2 and trpE5972 were transformed withpSE936* (vector) or pKN37 (ASAT), and ampicillin-resistant transfor-mants were grown to saturation at 37°C in liquid Luria-Bertani mediumcontaining 100 ng/mL ampicillm and then streaked onto agar platescontaining M9 minimal medium plus 0.2% glycerol, 100 ng/mL am-picillin, 200 uM L-tryptophan (+trp) or M9 minimal medium plus 0.2%glycerol, 100 |ig/mL ampicillin, 100 uM isopropylthiogalactoside(-trp). Growth after 4 days at 37°C is shown.

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Figure 7. RNA Gel Blot Analysis of ASA1 and AS/42 Expression.Total RNA was fractionated by electrophoresis on 1% agarose gels containing formaldehyde (Ausubel et al., 1989), transferred to nitrocellulose,and hybridized with 32P-labeled probes.(A) Tissue specificity. Five micrograms of total RNA per lane from rosette leaves (leaf), roots (root), stems of flowering stalks (stem), immatureand fully opened flowers (flower), developing green seed pods (silique), and mature dry seeds (seed) of 5-week-old Arabidopsis pgm plants werehybridized with a 32P-labeled 1-kb EcoRI fragment of pKNSA (ASA1), a 1.2-kb EcoRI fragment of pKN1A (ASA2), and a 3.3-kb Ncol-Xbal fragmentof pGH1 (ALS) (kindly provided by G. Haughn, University of Saskatchewan). Equal loading of RNA in each gel lane was confirmed by ethidiumbromide staining.(B) Wounding. Ten micrograms of total RNA per lane from wounded Arabidopsis leaves were hybridized with a 32P-labeled 2-kb Xhol fragmentof pKN41 (ASA1), a 1.8-kb BamHI fragment of pKN108A (ASA2), a 3.3-kb Ncol-Xbal fragment of pGH1 (ALS), and a 1-kb Kpnl-BamHI fragmentof pABT4 (ABT4) (Marks et al., 1987).(C) Pathogen infiltration. Ten micrograms of total RNA per lane from leaves of 3-week-old Arabidopsis plants inoculated as described previously(Dong et al., 1991) with 10 mM MgSO4 (control), P. s. pv tomato MM1065 (1065 [avirulent]), and P. s. pv maculicola ES4326 (4326 [virulent]) werehybridized with the same probes as given in (B). The liter of the inoculated bacterial strains was 1 x 105 colony-forming units per milliliter. Bac-terial growth was followed as described by Dong et al. (1991). Disease symptoms caused by ES4326 were readily apparent 48 hr after inoculation.

the tryptophan pathway provides the precursors for IAA bio-synthesis in plants, we also examined the effect of exogenousIAA application on the steady state levels of ASA1 and ASA2mRNAs. Spraying 3-week-old wild-type Arabidopsis plants with100 uM IAA did not discernibly affect ASA1 and ASA2 mRNAsrelative to water-treated control plants (data not shown),whereas levels of mRNAs corresponding to known auxin-induced genes were increased (J. Normanly and G. R. Fink,unpublished results).

Expression of ASA1 mRNA, but not ASA2 mRNA, wasstrongly induced by wounding of Arabidopsis leaf tissue. Asshown in Figure 7B, the steady state level of ASA1 mRNA in-creased dramatically 3 hr after wounding and then increasedagain after 12 hr, reaching a maximum at 18 hr. In striking con-trast to ASA1, the level of ASA2 mRNA declined gradually afterwounding of Arabidopsis leaves. A similar decrease was ob-served for ALS and (5-tubulin (ABT4) mRNAs (Figure 7B).

Infiltration of Arabidopsis leaves with virulent and avirulentstrains of Pseudomonas syringae (Dong et al., 1991) specifi-cally induced ASA1 mRNA. The avirulent strain P. s. pv tomatoMM1065 causes a resistance response when inoculated intoArabidopsis ecotype Columbia, whereas infiltration of the viru-lent strain P. s. pv maculicola ES1065 results in disease (Dong

etal., 1991). Figure 7C shows that the steady state level of ASA1mRNA increased transiently 6 hr after inoculation with the aviru-lent pathogen R s. pv tomato MM1065. Infiltration of the virulentstrain P. s. pv maculicola ES4326 resulted in a strong induc-tion of ASA1 mRNA, beginning at 12.5 hr and persisting untilthe end of the time course. Mock inoculation of Arabidopsisleaves caused a slight, transient increase in the level of ASA1mRNA at 1.5 hr that may be due to wounding of the plantsduring the inoculation procedure; similar increases were ob-served 1.5 hr after bacterial inoculations (Figure 7C). The levelsof ASA2 and ALS mRNAs were relatively unaffected by bac-terial infiltration, whereas (3-tubulin (ABT4) mRNA increasedslightly 12 to 48 hr after infiltration of ES4326 (Figure 7C).

DISCUSSION

Arabidopsis AS Resembles Microbial AS

We have isolated and characterized two Arabidopsis genes,ASA1 and ASA2, encoding the a subunit of AS. The initial clonewas obtained using part of the yeast TRP2 gene (Zalkin et al.,

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1984) as a heterologous probe. Two lines of evidence have led to the conclusion that ASAl and ASA2 encode Arabidopsis AS. First, the sequences of both genes are homologous to AS a subunit genes from bacteria and yeast (Figure 4 and Table 1). Second, ASA7 and ASA2 cDNAs complemented mutations in yeast TRP2 and E. coli frpE (Figures 5 and 6).

The structure of plant AS appears to resemble that of microbial AS. With the exception of the putative chloroplast transit peptides at their amino termini, the Arabidopsis ASAl and ASA2 proteins align well with AS a subunit proteins from yeast and bacteria (Figure 4). We found no evidence for fused a and p subunits as in Rhizobium meliloti (Bae et al., 1989) and the photosynthetic eukaryote Euglena gracilis (Hankins and Mills, 1976). When expressed in E. coli, the Arabidopsis a subunit encoded by ASA7 was apparently able to interact with the E. coli p subunit (Figure 6 and data not shown). Al- though there is no information about the subunit structure of plant AS, our data suggest that in Arabidopsis the ASA1 and ASA2 proteins interact with an AS p subunit, presumably en- coded by a distinct gene(s).

Two Genes, Two Pathways

The presence of two Arabidopsis genes encoding the AS a subunit is consistent with the suggestion that there may be two aromatic amino acid pathways in plants (Jensen, 1986; Keith et al., 1991; Last et al., 1991). Duplication of genes has also been observed for three other Arabidopsis aromatic amino acid biosynthetic enzymes: 3-deoxy-o-arabino-heptulosonate bphosphate (DAHP) synthase (Keith et al., 1991), 5enolpyruvyl- shikimate-3phosphate (EPSP) synthase (Klee et al., 1987), and tryptophan synthase p subunit (Berlyn et al., 1989; Last et al., 1991). The available evidence suggests that duplication of genes encoding certain enzymes of this pathway may be a general feature of plants (Last et al., 1991).

Two aromatic amino acid biosynthetic pathways could be separated within the plant cell due to different compartmen- tation (Jensen, 1986). Cytosolic and plastidic isozymes of AS have been described in 5-methyltryptophan-resistant tobacco cell cultures (Brotherton et al., 1986). However, both Arabidop- sis AS a subunit genes encode proteins with putative amino-terminal chloroplast transit peptides, suggesting that the products of both genes may reside within plastids. Like ASA7 and ASA2, the gene pairs encoding tryptophan synthase p (Berlyn et al., 1989; Last et al., 1991) and DAHP synthase (Keith et al., 1991) and the one published EPSP synthase gene (Klee et al., 1987) encode putative chloroplast transit peptides at their amino termini. Although we have not proven that ASAl and ASA2 proteins are plastid-localized, preliminary subcel- lular fractionation experiments indicated that there is AS activity in Arabidopsis chloroplasts, whereas none was detectable in a cytosolic fraction (K. K. Niyogi and G. R. Fink, unpublished results). It is possible that ASAl and ASA2 are sequestered in different compartments within the plastid. If our results can be extrapolated to tobacco, the cytosolic AS isozyme, which

was detectable only in tissue culture cells and not in regener- ated plants (Brotherton et al., 1986), might be due to aberrant processing or localization of a plastidic AS protein in cultured cells (Singh et al., 1991). Of course, there may be additional, distantly related AS genes in Arabidopsis that encode cyto- solic isozymes.

60th aromatic amino acid pathways could be present in plastids, but the two pathways might be expressed in distinct cell types. Our results showing expression of ASA7 and ASA2 in different parts of Arabidopsis plants revealed subtle qualita- tive differences in ASAl and ASA2 tissue specificity (Figure 7A). Transgenic plants containing fusions of ASA7 and ASA2 promoters to the reporter gene 0-glucuronidase (Jefferson et al., 1987) should be useful for determining precisely in which cell types the two genes are expressed.

Two Genes, Two Functions

Expression of the ASAl gene is regulated by increased de- mand for tryptophan pathway metabolites, whereas theASA2 gene appears to be constitutively expressed. Addition of tryp- tophan or auxin to Arabidopsis plants had no effect on ASA7 orASA2 mRNA levels (data not shown), suggesting that repres- sion below the basal levels of expression does not occur in response to exogenous primary and secondary products of the pathway.

The dramatic increases in ASAl steady state mRNA levels following wounding (Figure 76) and bacterial pathogen infiltra- tion (Figure 7C) suggest a role for ASAl in production of secondary metabolites as part of an Arabidopsis defense re- sponse. Because ALS mRNA was unaffected by these treatments, the induction of ASA7 is probably not due to a general stress-related requirement for amino acids for protein synthesis. Tryptophan pathway metabolites that may be involved in plant defense responses include indole-3-methyl- glucosinolates and indole phytoalexins. lndole glucosinolates, which are found in Arabidopsis (Hogge et al., 1988) and which have a number of toxic hydrolysis products (for review, see Fenwick et al., 1983), accumulate following insect infestation and wounding of Brassica species (Koritsas et al., 1989). Production of indole phytoalexins by cruciferous plants has been observed following elicitation with bacterial and funga1 pathogens and UV light (Takasugi et al., 1986; Devys et al., 1988; Browne et al., 1991). In Arabidopsis, the phytoalexin pro- duced in response to I? s. pv syringae infection is 3-thiazol-2'-yl-indole (Tsuji et al., 1992). lnduction of ASA1 mRNA may therefore be necessary for increased synthesis of indole phytoalexins.

The second AS gene, ASA2, behaves constitutively under conditions that induce ASA1. The different regulation of ASAl and ASA2 may reflect different functions. Duplication of AS genes to perform distinct functions has a precedent in the bac- terium I? aeruginosa, which has one AS gene for tryptophan biosynthesis and another involved in pyocyanin pigment syn- thesis (Essar et al., 1990).

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In Arabidopsis, the constitutiveASA2 gene may function pri- marily to maintain a basal leve1 of tryptophan pathway metabolites. The regulated ASA7 gene may also have a role in basal biosynthetic activity, so the two genes may have some functional redundancy, but the induction of ASAl in situations requiring increased synthesis of secondary products derived from the tryptophan pathway suggests that ASA1 has additional roles. Arabidopsis mutants affected in AS activity should be useful for testing this hypothesis.

The different regulation of ASAl and ASA2 parallels the sit- uation for the duplicated genes encoding Arabidopsis DAHP synthase (Keith et al., 1991), the first enzyme in the aromatic amino acid pathway. The DAHP synthase gene DHSl, like ASAl, responds to wounding and pathogen infection, whereas the second DAHP synthase gene DHS2, like ASAP, is un- affected. These results suggest that for two canonical control points in the aromatic amino acid pathway, AS and DAHP syn- thase, regulation in plants involves differential expression of duplicated genes.

METHODS

Plant Material

Arabidopsis thaliana plants derived from the Columbia ecotype were grown in soil under continuous illumination at 22OC as described by Last and Fink (1988). Total DNA from rosette leaves of 3-week-old wild- type plants and RNAfrom 3-week-old whole pgm (Caspar et al., 1985) plants were isolated as described by Ausubel et al. (1989). Total RNA was isolated from small amounts of plant material bya miniprep method (Nagy et al., 1988).

Wounding of plants was performed by cutting rosette leaves of 3-week-old pgm plants into a damp glass beaker that was then cov- ered and incubated in the dark at room temperature. At various time points, 2 to 3 g of tissue was frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at

lnoculation of 3-week-old wild-type Arabidopsis plants with Pseu- domonas syringae pv tomato MM1065 and P s. pv maculicola ES4326 was performed as described by Dong et al. (1991).

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DNA and RNA Methods

Standard techniques of DNA analysis and cloning were performed as described by Ausubel et al. (1989). DNA fragments were purified from agarose gels using GeneClean (Bio 101, La Jolla, CA). DNA hy- bridization probes were labeled using a-32P-dATP (Amersham) and random hexamer primers (Prime Time, lnternational Biotechnologies, New Haven, CT). For DNA gel blot analysis of genomic DNA, total DNA was digested with restriction enzymes (New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA), separated on 0.8% agarose gels, and transferred to Zeta-Probe (Bio-Rad) in 0.4 M NaOH. Genomic DNA blots were hybridized in 1.5 x SSPE (1 x SSPE is 0.15 M NaCI, 10 mM sodium phosphate, 1 mM EWA, pH 7.4), 05% Blotlo, 1% SDS, O5 mg/mL heat-denatured sheared herring sperm DNA, and 10% dextran sulfate at 65OC overnight and washed in 0.1 x SSC (1 x SSC is 0.15 M NaCI, 15 mM sodium ci- trate), 0.1% SDS at 5OOC.

RNA gel blot analysis was done as described by Ausubel et al. (1989). except that 0.1 mg/mL heat-denatured sheared herring sperm DNA and 5% dextran sulfate were used in the hybridization solution. Nitrocel- lulose filters were washed in 0.1 x SSC, 0.1% SDS at 65OC. An RNA ladder (Bethesda Research Laboratories) was used to estimate sizes on RNA gels. Densitometric scanning of RNA blot autoradiograms was done using a computing densitometer (Molecular Dynamics, Sunnyvale, CA).

Primer extension analysis of RNA was done as described by Ausubel et al. (1989) with minor modifications. Yeast tRNA (10 pg) was included in the hybridization. Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MLV) reverse transcriptase (400 units; Bethesda Research Laboratories) was used instead of avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase, and alka- line hydrolysis was substituted for RNase A treatment.

Screening of cDNA and Genomic Libraries

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae TRP2 gene (Zalkin et al., 1984) and the Escherichia coli trpE gene (Nichols et al., 1981) were compared to identify conserved amino acid sequences, and a 91Sbp EcoRV frag- ment (nucleotides 1271 to 2189) of the yeast TRP2 gene in pME514 (Braus et al., 1985) was chosen as a DNA hybridization probe. An Arabidopsis cDNA library in IgtlO (Clontech, Palo Alto, CA) was grown in E. coli host strain C600, and 50,000 plaques were transferred to Bio- trans nylon filters (ICN Biomedicals, Irvine, CA) in duplicate and hybridized to the 32P-labeled probe in 25% formamide, 5 x SSPE, 5 x Denhardt's solution (1 x Denhardfs solution is 0.02% Ficoll, 0.02% polyvinylpyrrolidone, 0.02% BSA), 0.1 mg/mL heat-denatured sheared herring sperm DNA, 5% dextran sulfate at 42OC overnight. Filters were washed four times for 15 min each in 25% formamide, 5 x SSC, 0.1% SDS at 42OC and then exposed to x-rayfilm (Kodak) with an intensify- ing screen at 70% for 7 days. Phage clones yielding duplicated positive hybridization signals were purified by two more rounds of plaque hy- bridization. The 1.2-kb cDNA insert of IKNl was subcloned in both orientations into the EcoRl site of pUC118 (Vieira and Messing, 1987) to create pKNlA and pKNlC.

The EcoRl fragment containing the 1.2-kb cDNA and pKNlA was then used as a hybridization probe to isolate additional cDNAs from a random hexamer-primed Arabidopsis cDNA library in IgtlO (Learned and Fink, 1989). Hybridization was done in 5 x SSPE, 5 x Denhardt's solution, 0.2% SDS, 0.1 mg/mL heat-denatured sheared herring sperm DNA, 5% dextran sulfate at 65OC overnight, and the most stringent wash was in 0.25 x SSC, 0.1% SDS at room temperature. The 1.0-kb cDNA insert from purified phage IKN8 was subcloned in both orien- tations into the EcoRl site of pUC118, yielding pKN8A and pKN8C.

The cDNAs from pKN8A and pKNlA were then used to isolate genomic clones corresponding toASA7 and ASA2, respectively, from an Arabidopsis genomic library in IEMBL3 (Clontech). The ASA7 genomic clone IKN21 was subcloned as follows: a 3.2-kb Hindlll par- tia1 digest fragment was subcloned in both orientations into the Hindlll site of pUC119 to make pKN212A and pKN212C; an overlapping 4.2- kb EcoRl fragment was subcloned into EcoRlcut pUC118 to make pKN211A; a 3.2-kb EcoRl-Xbal fragment that is a subset of the pKN211A insert was ligated in the opposite orientation into pUC118 cut with EcoRl and Xbal to make pKN214. Two adjacent Hindlll fragments from ASA2 genomic clone IKN12 were each ligated into the Hindlll site of pUCll9 in both orientations; pKN140A and pKN140C contain a 3.1-kb fragment, and pKN143A and pKN143C contain a 3.6-kb fragment.

Additional ASA7 and ASA2 cDNAs were isolated from an Arabidop- sis cDNA library in IYES-R (Elledge et al., 1991). A 533-bp EcoRl fragment of pKN212Awas used to isolate kKN37 and XKN41, from which

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pKN37 and pKN41 were looped out in vivo by site-specific recombina- tion using JM107lhKC as host (Elledge et al., 1991). A 612-bp Sacl fragment of pKN143A was used to isolate IKN34 and IKN35 and thereby pKN34 and pKN35. The cDNA in pKN35 lacked 198 bp at the 5'end and 438 bp at the 3'end of the coding region, so a nearly full- length ASA2 cDNA was constructed as follows. The Xhol fragment con- taining the cDNA from pKN35 was ligated into the Sal1 site of pUC119 to make pKN104, and then the 844-bp Bglll-Pstl fragment of pKNlC was ligated into Bglll- and Pstlcut pKN104 to generate pKNlO8A.

DNA Sequencing

DNA sequence was determined using the dideoxy chain termination method (Sanger et al., 1977) with modified T7 DNA polymerase (Tabor and Richardson, 1987) and either single-stranded templates gener- ated using M13KW (Vieira and Messing, 1987) or alkaline-denatured double-stranded templates (Chen and Seeburg, 1985). Overlapping unidirectional deletion series were made using exonuclease 111 (Henikoff, 1984) with exonuclease VI1 instead of S1 nuclease. Dele- tion series of fragments subcloned in both orientations were made so that both strands were completely sequenced. Sequencing reactions (Sequenase, United States Biochemical) were analyzed on denatur- ing gradient polyacrylamide gels (Biggin et al., 1983).

The overlapping deletions in combination with synthetic oligonu- cleotides were used to sequence the entire genomic or cDNA clones in pKN212A, pKN212C, pKN211A, pKN214, pKNBA, pKNBC, pKN140A, pKN140C, pKN143A, pKN143C, pKNlA, and pKN1C. Partia1 sequences were obtained for the inserts in pKN34, pKN35, pKN36, pKN37, and pKN41 to determine the 5' ends of these cDNAs and to confirm the positions of introns in the genomic clones. The 5'ends of the cDNAs in pKN37 and pKN41 are nucleotides 2508 and 2386, respectively, in the ASA7 sequence (GenBank accession no. M92353). The 5'end of the pKN35 cDNA is nucleotide 3023 in theASA2 sequence (GenBank accession no. M92354). In addition, the cDNA in pKN35 has a single silent T- to -C transition mutation (nucleotide 3753 in theASA2 sequence) relative to the sequence of pKN34 and of the genomic clone, and the cDNA in pKN34 has an unspliced fourth intron.

Sequence analysis was done using UWGCG programs (Devereux et al., 1984). Data base searches were performed using FastA (Pearson and Lipman, 1988). Protein secondary structure predictions were done using PREDICT89 (Finer-Moore and Stroud, 1984).

Expression ln Yeast and E. coli

Yeast media were prepared as described by Sherman et al. (1986). The yeaststrain KNYl (MATa ttp2A90::HlS3ura3-52his3A2OOleu2A7

Gal+) was constructed as follows. The ends of the 1.77-kb BamHl frag- ment of pJH-H1 (kindly provided by J. Hill, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA) wntaining the HlS3gene were made blunt using Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase I, and the resulting fragment was ligated into Stul- and Hpal-cut pME514 to create pKNtrpPAB, a construct con- taining a deletion of nucleotides 1106 to 1794 in the TRP2 coding region (Zalkin et al., 1984) as well as an insertion of the HlS3 gene. The plas- mid pKNtrp2AB was digested with EwRl and Sal1 and used to transform yeast strain L4242 (MATa ura3-52 his3A200 leu2A 7 Gal+) (6. Ruskin and G. R. Fink, unpublished results) by the lithium acetate method (Ausubel et al., 1989). His+ transformants were selected on synthetic complete (SC) medium lacking histidine, and His+ Trp- clones were identified by replica plating. Genomic DNA gel blot analysis confirmed

the replacement of the wild-type TRP2 gene by the deletionlinsertion mutation trp2A 90::HIS3.

The 4.2-kb BamHI-Sal1 fragment of pME514 was subcloned into BamHI- and Sall-cut YEp24 (Botstein et al., 1979) to create pKN10, which contains the wild-type yeast TRP2 gene under the control of its own promoter in a high-copy 2-pm, URA3 vector. The plasmid pSE936*, the URA3 ARS7 CEN4 empty vector counterpart of pKN37 and pKN41, was generated by site-specific recombination between lox sites on IYES-R in host JMlWlIKC (Elledge et al., 1991); pSE936' differs from pSE936 (Elledge et al., 1991) because it lacks the Notl site and has only a single lox site. The BamHl fragment containing the ASA2 cDNA from pKNlO8A was subcloned in both orientations into the yeast expression vector pDAD2 (URA3, 2 Wm) to generate pKNlO9A (sense orientation) and pKNlO9C (antisense). The plasmid pDAD2(D. Miller, D. Pellman, and G. R. Fink, unpublished results)was created by inserting a polylinker and PH05 terminator downstream of the GAL7 promoter in pCGSlO9 (a kind gift of J. Schaum and J. Mao, Collaborative Research, Bedford, MA). Yeast strain KNYl was transformed with pKNlOSA, grown to saturation in SC containing 2% galactose and lacking uracil, and cells were plated on SC containing 2% galactose without uracil and tryptophan. Trp+ colonies arose at a frequency of approximately 5 x 10-8. The plasmid was rescued from one of these Trp+ clones (pKNlO9A-I), and DNA sequencing re- vealed that a single base pair substitution had occurred to generate an in-frame ATG in the adaptor region three codons upstream of the ASA2 reading frame.

E. coli media were prepared as described by Ausubel et al. (1989). E. coli strains were transformed by the CaCI, method (Ausubel et al., 1989).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We gratefully acknowledge the work of Paula L. Grisafi in sequencing the 5'half of theASA7 gene, the RFLP mapping data provided by Susan Hanley and Howard Goodman (Massachusetts General Hospital), and the help of Brian Keith with the pathogen infection experiment. We thank Charles Yanofsky for bacterial strains and Stephen Elledge for providing the IYES-R library prior to publication. We thank Bonnie Bartel, Judy Bender, Brian Keith, and Jennifer Normanly for critical reading of the manuscript. K.K.N. thanks past and present members of the lab, especially Rob Last and Brian Keith, for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation. K.K.N. was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow- ship. G.R.F. is an American Cancer Society Professor of Genetics.

Received March 25, 1992; accepted April 22, 1992.

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