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The Plant Cell 17:1252-1267 (2005)
© 2005 American Society of Plant Biologists

Metabolic, Genomic, and Biochemical Analyses of Glandular Trichomes from the Wild Tomato Species Lycopersicon hirsutum Identify a Key Enzyme in the Biosynthesis of Methylketones{boxw}

Eyal Fridmana, Jihong Wanga,1, Yoko Iijimaa, John E. Froehlichb, David R. Gangc, John Ohlrogged and Eran Picherskya,2

a Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048
b Michigan State University, Department of Energy, Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
c Department of Plant Biology, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona 85721-0036
d Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

2 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail lelx{at}umich.edu; fax 734-936-3522.

Medium-length methylketones (C7-C15) are highly effective in protecting plants from numerous pests. We used a biochemical genomics approach to elucidate the pathway leading to synthesis of methylketones in the glandular trichomes of the wild tomato Lycopersicon hirsutum f glabratum (accession PI126449). A comparison of gland EST databases from accession PI126449 and a second L. hirsutum accession, LA1777, whose glands do not contain methylketones, showed that the expression of genes for fatty acid biosynthesis is elevated in PI126449 glands, suggesting de novo biosynthesis of methylketones. A cDNA abundant in the PI126449 gland EST database but rare in the LA1777 database was similar in sequence to plant esterases. This cDNA, designated Methylketone Synthase 1 (MKS1), was expressed in Escherichia coli and the purified protein used to catalyze in vitro reactions in which C12, C14, and C16 ß-ketoacyl–acyl-carrier-proteins (intermediates in fatty acid biosynthesis) were hydrolyzed and decarboxylated to give C11, C13, and C15 methylketones, respectively. Although MKS1 does not contain a classical transit peptide, in vitro import assays showed that it was targeted to the stroma of plastids, where fatty acid biosynthesis occurs. Levels of MKS1 transcript, protein, and enzymatic activity were correlated with levels of methylketones and gland density in a variety of tomato accessions and in different plant organs.




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