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Published on April 8, 2008; 10.1105/tpc.106.049478

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Received December 6, 2006
Returned for revision February 2, 2008
Accepted March 20, 2008

Identification and Regulation of TPS04/GES, an Arabidopsis Geranyllinalool Synthase Catalyzing the First Step in the Formation of the Insect-Induced Volatile C16-Homoterpene TMTT

Marco Herde 1, Katrin Gärtner 1, Tobias G. Köllner 2, Benjamin Fode 1, Wilhelm Boland 3, Jonathan Gershenzon 2, Christiane Gatz 1*, and Dorothea Tholl 4

1 Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Georg-August-University Göttingen, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
2 Department of Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, D-07745 Jena, Germany
3 Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, D-07745 Jena, Germany
4 Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cgatz{at}gwdg.de.

Volatile secondary metabolites emitted by plants contribute to plant–plant, plant–fungus, and plant–insect interactions. The C16-homoterpene TMTT (for 4,8,12-trimethyltrideca-1,3,7,11-tetraene) is emitted after herbivore attack by a wide variety of plant species, including Arabidopsis thaliana, and is assumed to play a role in attracting predators or parasitoids of herbivores. TMTT has been suggested to be formed as a degradation product of the diterpene alcohol (E,E)-geranyllinalool. Here, we report the identification of Terpene Synthase 04 (TPS04; At1g61120) as a geranyllinalool synthase (GES). Recombinant TPS04/GES protein expressed in Escherichia coli catalyzes the formation of (E,E)-geranyllinalool from the substrate geranylgeranyl diphosphate. Transgenic Arabidopsis lines carrying T-DNA insertions in the TPS04 locus are deficient in (E,E)-geranyllinalool and TMTT synthesis, a phenotype that can be complemented by expressing the GES gene under the control of a heterologous promoter. GES transcription is upregulated under conditions that induce (E,E)-geranyllinalool and TMTT synthesis, including infestation of plants with larvae of the moth Plutella xylostella and treatment with the fungal peptide alamethicin or the octadecanoid mimic coronalon. Induction requires jasmonic acid but is independent from salicylic acid or ethylene. This study paves the ground to address the contribution of TMTT in ecological interactions and to elucidate the signaling network that regulates TMTT synthesis.






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