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Nat Commun. 2021 Nov 22;12(1):6752. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27020-1.

The main oxidative inactivation pathway of the plant hormone auxin.

Nature communications

Ken-Ichiro Hayashi, Kazushi Arai, Yuki Aoi, Yuka Tanaka, Hayao Hira, Ruipan Guo, Yun Hu, Chennan Ge, Yunde Zhao, Hiroyuki Kasahara, Kosuke Fukui

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biochemistry, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, 700-0005, Japan. [email protected].
  2. Department of Biochemistry, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, 700-0005, Japan.
  3. Department of Biological Production Science, United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan.
  4. Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan.
  5. Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, Gilman Dr. La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093-0116, USA.
  6. RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan.

PMID: 34811366 PMCID: PMC8608799 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27020-1

Abstract

Inactivation of the phytohormone auxin plays important roles in plant development, and several enzymes have been implicated in auxin inactivation. In this study, we show that the predominant natural auxin, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), is mainly inactivated via the GH3-ILR1-DAO pathway. IAA is first converted to IAA-amino acid conjugates by GH3 IAA-amidosynthetases. The IAA-amino acid conjugates IAA-aspartate (IAA-Asp) and IAA-glutamate (IAA-Glu) are storage forms of IAA and can be converted back to IAA by ILR1/ILL amidohydrolases. We further show that DAO1 dioxygenase irreversibly oxidizes IAA-Asp and IAA-Glu into 2-oxindole-3-acetic acid-aspartate (oxIAA-Asp) and oxIAA-Glu, which are subsequently hydrolyzed by ILR1 to release inactive oxIAA. This work established a complete pathway for the oxidative inactivation of auxin and defines the roles played by auxin homeostasis in plant development.

© 2021. The Author(s).

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