First published online February 22, 2008; 10.1105/tpc.107.057554
The Plant Cell 20:438-451 (2008)
© 2008 American Society of Plant Biologists
Identification of a Novel Adenine Nucleotide Transporter in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Arabidopsis[W]
Michaela Lerocha,1,
H. Ekkehard Neuhausa,1,
Simon Kirchbergera,
Sandra Zimmermanna,
Michael Melzerb,
Joachim Gerholda and
Joachim Tjadena,2
a Pflanzenphysiologie, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
b Strukturelle Zellbiologie, Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
2 Address correspondence to tjaden{at}rhrk.uni-kl.de.
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ABSTRACT
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Many metabolic reactions in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) require high levels of energy in the form of ATP, which is important for cell viability. Here, we report on an adenine nucleotide transporter residing in the ER membranes of Arabidopsis thaliana (ER-ANT1). Functional integration of ER-ANT1 in the cytoplasmic membrane of intact Escherichia coli cells reveals a high specificity for an ATP/ADP antiport. Immunodetection in transgenic ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag Arabidopsis plants and immunogold labeling of wild-type pollen grain tissue using a peptide-specific antiserum reveal the localization of this carrier in ER membranes. Transgenic ER-ANT1-promoter-β-glucuronidase Arabidopsis lines show high expression in ER-active tissues (i.e., pollen, seeds, root tips, apical meristems, or vascular bundles). Two independent ER-ANT1 Arabidopsis knockout lines indicate a high physiological relevance of ER-ANT1 for ATP transport into the plant ER (e.g., disruption of ER-ANT1 results in a drastic retardation of plant growth and impaired root and seed development). In these ER-ANT1 knockout lines, the expression levels of several genes encoding ER proteins that are dependent on a sufficient ATP supply (i.e., BiP [for luminal binding protein] chaperones, calreticulin chaperones, Ca2+-dependent protein kinase, and SEC61) are substantially decreased.
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INTRODUCTION
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A major difference feature between prokaryotes and eukaryotes is the high degree of compartmentalization in the latter, allowing an improved regulation of complex metabolism, and the simultaneous presence of pathways of opposite direction (e.g., the reductive and the oxidative pentose phosphate cycle in photosynthetic cells). The lumens of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi apparatus are the subcellular sites where glycosylation, sulfation, and phosphorylation of secretory and membrane-bound proteins, proteoglycans, and lipids occur (Hirschberg et al., 1998 ). The correct folding and assembling of proteins and peptides, disulfide bond formation, and protein polymerization in the ER lumen indicate a strong demand for energy in this compartment, and ATP serves as the energy source for the reactions mentioned above (Abeijon et al., 1997 ). Both the size and charge of nucleotides prevent free flux across biological membranes, making a specific carrier protein for the translocation of cytosolic ATP into the ER lumen necessary.
In eukaryotic cells, different groups of intracellular adenine nucleotide transport proteins have been elucidated at the molecular level. First, the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier (AAC) is the most prominent member of the mitochondrial carrier family (MCF). MCFs occur as homodimers, each monomer exhibiting six predicted transmembrane domains (TMDs) with a molecular mass of 32 kD. The mitochondrial AAC catalyzes ATP export in strict counterexchange with cytosolic ADP and, thus, provides the cell with ATP synthesized inside the mitochondrial matrix during oxidative phosphorylation (Haferkamp et al., 2002 ). Second, two other adenine nucleotide carriers belonging to the MCF, which phylogenetically do not cluster to the AAC subgroup, show a peroxisomal or a plastidic localization. The yeast peroxisomal adenine nucleotide carrier ANT1p is thought to play an important role in the peroxisomal fatty acid metabolism and catalyzes ATP/AMP exchange across the peroxisomal membrane (Palmieri et al., 2001 ). The plastidic adenine nucleotide carrier from Solanum tuberosum (St BT1) mediates, in contrast with all other adenine nucleotide transporters, a uniport of AMP, ADP, and ATP and most likely provides the cytosol and other compartments with adenine nucleotides synthesized exclusively inside plastids (Leroch et al., 2005 ). Third, the plastidic ATP/ADP transporter (NTT), which is neither phylogenetically nor structurally related to the MCF, exhibits a molecular mass of 60 kD and possesses 12 predicted transmembrane helices. The physiological role of the NTT is the energy supply of storage plastids required for starch synthesis and to allow nocturnal anabolic reactions in chloroplasts (Tjaden et al., 1998a ; Reiser et al., 2004 ).
Although several biochemical studies have revealed ATP transport across the ER membrane (Abeijon et al., 1997 ; Kochendörfer et al., 1999 ), no ER-ATP transport protein has been characterized at the molecular level. Here, we present a candidate eukaryotic adenine nucleotide transporter localized in the ER membrane (ER-ANT1). The aim of this work was to gain insight into the biochemical nature and the physiological importance of ER-ANT1 from a dicotyledonous plant (Arabidopsis thaliana). For functional characterization of At ER-ANT1, we exploited Escherichia coli for heterologous expression; this system has previously been shown to functionally integrate several plastidic and mitochondrial membrane proteins into the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane (Tjaden et al., 1998b ; Haferkamp et al., 2002 ; Leroch et al., 2005 ; Kirchberger et al., 2007 ). We also investigated the subcellular localization, tissue-specific expression, and physiological aspects of ER-ANT1.
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RESULTS
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Sequence Analysis of ER-ANT1
An ER-ANT1 cDNA clone was isolated from first-strand cDNA of Arabidopsis leaves. The deduced amino acid sequence was aligned with the three mitochondrial AAC isoforms (AAC1 to AAC3) from Arabidopsis (Figure 1
), since phylogenetic analyses classify ER-ANT1 as a member of the MCF forming a monophyletic subcluster with mitochondrial AACs (Picault et al., 2004 ). The amino acid sequence of ER-ANT1 consists of three tandem repeats of 100 residues exhibiting six putative transmembrane helices. Three conserved mitochondrial energy transfer signatures, a characteristic of membrane proteins of the MCF (Leroch et al., 2005 ), were also identified (Figure 1). A comparison of ER-ANT1 with mitochondrial AAC homologs revealed a high sequence similarity to AAC1 to AAC3 of 62, 61, and 63%, respectively. However, in contrast with AAC1 to AAC3, ER-ANT1 does not possess a putative N-terminal transit peptide (Figure 1), which is strictly required for targeting plant AACs to the inner mitochondrial membrane (Murcha et al., 2005 ).

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Figure 1. Alignment of the Predicted Amino Acid Sequence of ER-ANT1 with Those of AAC1 to AAC3.
The amino acid residues identical or similar among all family members are shaded in black, and conserved residues in three proteins are shaded in gray. The predicted N-terminal mitochondrial transit peptides of AAC1 to AAC3 are indicated by black squares. Solid black bars underline six putative membrane-spanning regions (H1 to H6). The conserved mitochondrial energy transfer signatures (METS = P-x-[DE]-x-[LIVAT]-[RK]-x-[LRH]-[LIVMFY]-[QGAIVM]) following each odd membrane-spanning domain are marked by white bars. Triangles indicate important amino acid residues for the function of mitochondrial AACs (see text): black triangles represent amino acid residues conserved also in ER-ANT1, and white triangles indicate residues not conserved in ER-ANT1.
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A comprehensive study of amino acids essential for the function of mitochondrial AACs suggests a putative biochemical function for ER-ANT1 as an ATP/ADP transporter. For example, the importance of basic amino acid residues for the function of AAC2 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae was investigated previously by site-directed mutagenesis. Six Arg residues and one Lys (R96, R204, R252, R253, R254, R294, and K38) were found to be crucial for the ADP/ATP transport activity of the yeast mitochondrial AAC2 (Nelson et al., 1993 ). The corresponding amino acids in At ER-ANT1 (R83, R192, R240, R241, R242, L282, and K25) are almost identical, with the exception that R294 is replaced by L282 (Figure 1).
Furthermore, the structure of the bovine AAC1 monomer was solved at a resolution of 2.2 Å by x-ray crystallography (Pebay-Peyroula et al., 2003 ). Several clusters of charged amino acids were identified as being potentially involved in the substrate binding and, therefore, are fundamental for the function of mitochondrial AACs. In the translocation channel of the bovine AAC1, a cationic cluster consisting of two Lys and six Arg residues (K22, K32, R79, R137, R234, R235, R236, and R279) directed to the substrate was identified. The positions of their side chains were stabilized by an intricate hydrogen bond network and electrostatic interactions involving water molecules and acidic or polar side chains of E29, D134, D231, Q36, E264, and N276. All of these important charged or polar amino acids are conserved in At ER-ANT1 (K25, K35, R83, R140, R192, R240, R241, R242, L282, E32, D137, D237, Q39, E267, and N279), with the above mentioned R279 (R294 of yeast AAC2)-to-L282 substitution (Figure 1).
A second cationic cluster was found near the bottom of the bovine AAC1 translocation channel, comprising four Lys (K91, K95, K106, and K198) and two Arg (R104 and R187) residues, which are postulated to be involved in the carrier function. This cationic cluster of six basic amino acids is also conserved in At ER-ANT1 (K95, K99, K106, K108, K203, and R192), but R104 of the bovine AAC1 is replaced in At ER-ANT1 by the similarly charged K106 as in plant mitochondrial At AAC1 to AAC3 (Figure 1). Next to the two cationic clusters, a Tyr ladder motif was identified in the proposed translocation channel of the bovine AAC1. This motif, formed by the residues Y186, Y190, and Y194, was suggested to guide ADP translocation along the Tyr rings. Interestingly, the corresponding Tyr ladder is completely conserved in At ER-ANT1 (Y191, Y195, and Y199; Figure 1). The high conservation of amino acid residues critical for the function of mitochondrial AACs strongly indicates a putative biochemical function for At ER-ANT1 as an adenylate transport protein.
Functional Expression of ER-ANT1 in E. coli Cells
We showed previously that the heterologous synthesis of three plant mitochondrial AACs from Arabidopsis (AAC1 to AAC3) in E. coli leads to their functional integration into the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane, with transport properties similar to those obtained across the authentic membranes (Haferkamp et al., 2002 ). The heterologous synthesis of ER-ANT1 in E. coli also results in the integration of ER-ANT1 into the bacterial membrane (Figure 2A
). After isopropyl-β-D-thiogalactopyramoside (IPTG) induction in the presence of radioactively labeled [35S]Met, a substantial fraction of the recombinantly synthesized ER-ANT1, which migrates according to the calculated molecular mass of 33.8 kD (Figure 2A, lanes 2 and 4), was incorporated into the cellular membrane of E. coli (Figure 2A, lane 4).

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Figure 2. Analyses of Heterologously Expressed ER-ANT1.
(A) Membrane integration of radioactively labeled ER-ANT1 in E. coli cells. Purified E. coli cytoplasmic membrane of noninduced (lanes 1 and 3; control) or IPTG-induced (lanes 2 and 4) cells harboring the plasmid encoding ER-ANT1 were separated by SDS-PAGE. Lanes 1 and 2, 50 µg of E. coli total protein; lanes 3 and 4, 5 µg of E. coli membrane protein.
(B) Kinetics of adenine nucleotide uptake into intact E. coli cells. IPTG-induced E. coli cells harboring the plasmid encoding ER-ANT1 were incubated with 350 µM [ -32P]ATP (closed squares) or [ -32P]ADP (closed circles) for the indicated time intervals. Noninduced E. coli cells with the plasmid encoding At ER-ANT1 were used as controls (open squares, ATP; open circles, ADP). Data are means ± SE of four independent experiments.
(C) Thin layer chromatography of exported adenine nucleotides. E. coli cells expressing ER-ANT1 were preloaded with 50 µM radioactively labeled [ -32P]ATP. Preloaded cells were used for back exchange for 5 min at room temperature. Lane 1, separation of radioactive compounds of disrupted E. coli cells after preloading; lanes 2 to 4, separation of radioactive compounds exported by E. coli in counterexchange without any exogenous substrate (lane 2; control) or in counterexchange to 250 µM ATP (lane 3) and 250 µM ADP (lane 4).
(D) E. coli cells harboring ER-ANT1 were incubated in the presence of 4 µM [ -32P]ATP (closed squares). At the indicated time points, unlabeled ATP (open circles) or ADP (open circles) was added (chase) to a final concentration of 2 mM (500-fold) and a possible induced efflux was monitored for the given time spans. Data are means ± SE of four independent experiments.
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Uptake studies with radioactively labeled [ -32P]ATP or [ -32P]ADP into intact bacterial cells harboring ER-ANT1 clearly revealed the time-linear import of both nucleotides for at least 25 min. By contrast, noninduced E. coli control cells were not able to transport ATP or ADP at significant rates (Figure 2B). The nucleotide uptake was strictly dependent on the membrane intactness of E. coli cells (see Supplemental Figure 1 online). The import of radioactively labeled [ -32P]ATP or [ -32P]ADP by the recombinant ER-ANT1 into E. coli cells displayed typical Michaelis-Menten kinetics, with apparent Km values of 343.7 ± 20.4 µM and 327.3 ± 24.4 µM for ATP and ADP, respectively. Competition experiments with 26 different potential substrates showed that ER-ANT1 has a high specificity for transporting ATP and ADP similar to the mitochondrial isoform AAC1 (Table 1
). The [ -32P]ATP import catalyzed by ER-ANT1 could be reduced with nonlabeled ATP or ADP to below 44 or 38% of the control value, respectively. All other metabolic intermediates tested exerted no substantial influence on the [ -32P]ATP transport rate (Table 1).
We also determined the influence of common inhibitors on the [ -32P]ATP uptake catalyzed by ER-ANT1 in comparison with the mitochondrial AAC1 isoform from Arabidopsis (Table 1). As expected, the mitochondrial AAC1 is highly sensitive to bongkrekic acid (BKA) and carboxyatractyloside (CAT). The inhibition with 10 µM BKA and 1 mM CAT reduced the [ -32P]ATP uptake mediated by At AAC1 to 30.4 and 47.5%, respectively (Table 1). Remarkably, these two highly specific inhibitors of mitochondrial AACs (Leroch et al., 2005 ) showed no inhibitory effect on the [ -32P]ATP uptake catalyzed by ER-ANT1 at the given concentrations (Table 1). In addition, no significant inhibition of the ER-ANT1–mediated nucleotide transport was observed in the presence of pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP) or mersalyl (Table 1), which are known as efficient inhibitors of plastidic (PLP) and peroxisomal (PLP and mersalyl) adenine nucleotide transporters (Palmieri et al., 2001 ; Leroch et al., 2005 ). Only N-ethylmaleimide, which does not exert any influence on the mitochondrial AAC1, exhibited a significant inhibitory effect of up to 71% on the nucleotide transport rate of ER-ANT1 (Table 1).
To analyze whether ER-ANT1 mediates a nucleotide exchange, we performed back-exchange experiments with E. coli cells harboring ER-ANT1. For this, E. coli cells were preloaded with radioactively labeled [ -32P]ATP, external label was removed, and the export of adenylates by the recombinant ER-ANT1 was initiated in the presence of appropriate nonlabeled externally applied substrates. Thin layer chromatography of an extract prepared from disrupted [ -32P]ATP–preloaded E. coli cells demonstrated that 60% of imported ATP was metabolized inside the bacterial cell to ADP (Figure 2C, lane 1). As indicated in Figure 2C, lane 2, no significant release of radioactivity after incubation of preloaded E. coli cells in potassium phosphate buffer could be detected. In the presence of nonlabeled ATP or ADP, radioactively labeled adenine nucleotides were exported by ER-ANT1, as shown in Figure 2C, lanes 3 and 4. In addition, we used [ -32P]ATP–preloaded E. coli cells harboring ER-ANT1 for quantitative back-exchange experiments. We initiated a putative efflux of imported radioactively labeled nucleotides through a high dilution (chase) with nonlabeled substrates at a specific time point during the uptake experiment. Directly after the start of the chase with nonlabeled ATP and ADP (2 mM), a rapid efflux led to a total release of 95% of labeled nucleotides (6 min after the start of the chase). Therefore, a counterexchange mode for the transport of ATP and ADP, similar to mitochondrial AAC proteins (Haferkamp et al., 2002 ), has to be assumed for ER-ANT1.
Subcellular Localization of ER-ANT1
The subcellular localization of ER-ANT1 was predicted to be in the secretory pathway by the computer programs TargetP (Emanuelsson et al., 2000 ) and SignalP (Nielsen et al., 1997 ). Moreover, the lack of any putative plastidic or mitochondrial transit peptide (Figure 1) was confirmed by the use of the programs ChloroP and MitoProt (Claros and Vincens, 1996 ; Emanuelsson et al., 1999 ). Therefore, we investigated the subcellular localization of ER-ANT1 in planta by the generation and subsequent analyses of ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag plants. In such plants, the subcellular localization can be analyzed by immunoblotting using an anti-C-MYC-tag antibody. The DNA construct used is a chimeric gene that encodes ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag in a sense orientation under the control of the constitutive cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. Three independent lines of transgenic Arabidopsis plants exhibited a substantial accumulation of ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag mRNA. These lines were used for total membrane isolation and immunoblot analyses. In all three lines, the recombinantly synthesized ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag protein was detectable, whereas no signal was observed in the wild type (Figure 3A
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Figure 3. ER Localization of ER-ANT1.
(A) Protein gel blot analysis of the total membranes isolated from wild-type plants or transgenic ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag Arabidopsis lines 11, 15, and 16 using an anti-C-MYC antibody.
(B) Cofractionation of ER-ANT1-C-MYC and calreticulin (ER control). Total membranes of ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag Arabidopsis line 11 were isolated and analyzed by sucrose gradient centrifugation (55 to 20%) under various conditions (with and without Mg2+), and 15 fractions were immunoblotted. As further controls, we used peptide-specific antibodies against ATPase (plasma membrane; PM [Chen et al., 2002 ]), VM23 (vacuole [Chen et al., 2002 ]), and CoxII (mitochondria; cytochrome oxidase subunit II [AgriSera]).
(C) Immunogold labeling and transmission electron microscopy imaging of ER-ANT1 in Arabidopsis wild-type pollen grain tissue. Protein A–gold particles (10 nm) specifically labeled the ER membrane after incubation with an ER-ANT1–specific antiserum (left). Organelles like mitochondria and dictyosomes (center) and control sections with preimmune serum (right) did not show any significant labeling. D, dictyosome; M, mitochondrion. Bars = 100 nm.
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To resolve the membrane location of ER-ANT1, sucrose density gradient centrifugation with total membranes of Arabidopsis was performed either in the presence or absence of Mg2+. The association of ribosomes with the ER is Mg2+-dependent, and removal of the divalent cation results in the dissociation of ribosomes from the ER and the diagnostic redistribution of ER from higher to lower density on the gradient (Chen et al., 2002 ). Fractions from the sucrose gradient were screened for the presence of the ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag as well as for the calreticulin marker specific for ER membranes (Pagny et al., 2000 ). In the absence of Mg2+, ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag and the ER marker calreticulin cofractionated (Figure 3B, lanes 11 and 12). In the gradient containing Mg2+, both ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag and the ER marker calreticulin shifted to the bottom fractions of the gradient without the loss of colocalization (Figure 3B, lanes 6 and 7). Since other membranes, like the plasma membrane, the vacuolar membrane, or the mitochondrial membrane, did not show any similar shift in gradient position dependent upon the presence of Mg2+ (Figure 3B; cf. Chen et al., 2002 ), this observation shows the ER localization of At ER-ANT1.
To confirm these data, we conducted a second totally independent approach. For these localization studies, we chose Arabidopsis wild-type pollen grain tissues, since pollen shows the highest levels of ER-ANT1 transcript (pollen, 99,714; 90-fold higher than the mean [ 1100] of other main plant tissues; https://www.genevestigator.ethz.ch). We used a peptide-specific antiserum against the entire ER-ANT1 for the immunogold labeling in Arabidopsis pollen cryosections. The analysis of several sections showed that the immunogold particles were restricted to ER membranes (Figure 3C). No labeling could be detected when the corresponding preimmune serum was used (Figure 3C). Together, these two different studies and the in silico analyses conclusively prove that ER-ANT1 is localized in the ER membrane of higher plants.
Expression Analyses of ER-ANT1
To study ER-ANT1 expression in planta, we analyzed 16 independent ER-ANT1-promoter-GUS (for β-glucuronidase) Arabidopsis lines for reporter gene activity. Fifteen of these lines showed a very similar expression pattern, varying only slightly in the intensity of GUS staining. Interestingly, GUS staining revealed intense ER-ANT1-promoter activity restricted to sections with a highly active ER metabolism necessary for cell growth, cell elongation, or polysaccharide and protein secretion. In 2-d-old seedlings, the ER-ANT1-promoter is highly active in the root tip and developing cotyledons (Figure 4A
). In 4-d-old seedlings, ER-ANT1-promoter activity in the roots (especially in root tips) as well as in the meristematic zone of the hypocotyl could still be observed (Figure 4B). The vascular bundles of developed leaves showed GUS staining in major and minor veins, where phloem loading takes place (Figures 4C and 4D). Expression of ER-ANT1-promoter-GUS was also found in flowers at the base of the flower buds, in vascular tissues, in ovules of ovary, in stamen, and particularly in pollen grains within the anthers (Figures 4E and 4F). Furthermore, high ER-ANT1-promoter activity was detectable in developing Arabidopsis seeds (Figure 4G), where the ER fulfills an important role in seed lipid and protein storage metabolism (Vigeolas et al., 2003 ; Gruis et al., 2004 ).

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Figure 4. Histochemical Localization of GUS Expression under the Control of the ER-ANT1 Promoter in Arabidopsis.
Plants were grown as described in Methods. Two-day-old seedling (A), 4-day-old seedling (B), young leaf of a 2-week-old plant (C), mature leaf section of a 3-week-old plant (D), anther with pollen grains (E), open flower (F), and a developing silique (G) are shown.
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Physiological Analyses of ER-ANT1 Arabidopsis Knockout Lines
To provide the first insight into the physiological role of ER-ANT1 as an adenine nucleotide transporter localized in the ER, we made use of transgenic plants. Two independent heterozygous ER-ANT1::T-DNA Arabidopsis mutants carrying a T-DNA insert in exon 2 were provided by the SALK library (Figure 5A
). After backcrossing, homozygous knockout lines were identified by PCR and the absence of ER-ANT1 transcript was verified by RT-PCR.

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Figure 5. Growth Analyses and Root Development for Wild-Type and ER-ANT1 Knockout Plants.
(A) Site of T-DNA insertion in two independent ER-ANT1 knockout lines (Salk_043626 and Salk_023441).
(B) Growth patterns of a 24-d-old wild-type plant and null mutants grown on soil under short-day conditions.
(C) Root development of 12-d-old wild-type and knockout plants (Salk_023441, representative for both knockout lines) grown on Murashige and Skoog plates containing 0.5 to 1.5% agar under short-day conditions.
(D) Phenotypic appearance of 3.5-month-old knockout plants (Salk_023441) grown on soil under short-day conditions.
(E) Flowering stage of wild-type and knockout plants (Salk_023441). The mutant phenotype is present under long-day conditions as well.
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Interestingly, 24-d-old homozygous ER-ANT1 knockout plants of both SALK lines grown on soil under ambient conditions exhibited a dramatic growth retardation compared with wild-type plants (Figure 5B). Due to the high ER-ANT1-promoter activity, particularly in the root tips, we assumed that the root development of ER-ANT1 knockout plants was most likely impaired under these growth conditions. Thus, we analyzed the germination and early development of the ER-ANT1 knockout seeds in sterile culture supplemented with agar at various concentrations (0.5 to 1.5%). Interestingly, root development of both ER-ANT1 knockout mutants was improved when grown on low-agar medium, which facilitates the penetration of developing root tips (Figure 5C). At an agar concentration of 0.5%, the root development of ER-ANT1 knockout mutants was similar to that in wild-type roots (Figure 5C).
Therefore, prior to growth on soil, we incubated plants for the first 12 d on sterile medium with 0.5% agar. The improved growth of ER-ANT1 knockout plants enabled us to carry out further physiological studies. However, ER-ANT1 knockout plants exhibited, after 3 to 4 months of growth, a dumose compact, bushy phenotype with several parallel flower buds still very delayed in growth compared with wild-type plants (Figure 5D). In contrast with the short generation cycle of 6 weeks of Arabidopsis wild-type plants, ER-ANT1 knockout mutants extended their generation cycle up to 6 months, until seed harvest was possible. During the flowering stage, ER-ANT1 knockout plants presented a reduced size accompanied by the loss of apical dominance compared with wild-type plants (Figure 5E).
ER chaperones are known to be high consumers of luminal ATP and play an important role in ER metabolism (Hirschberg et al., 1998 ). In order to analyze any putative influence of the ER-ANT1 deletion on the ER metabolism, we determined the expression levels of several ER chaperones in the two independent knockout mutants lacking ER-ANT1. Interestingly, a reduced ATP supply into the ER lumen in the ER-ANT1 knockout plants led to substantial reduction in the expression levels of BiP1 to BiP3 (for luminal binding protein) and calreticulin1 and 2 as well (Figure 6
). By contrast, the expression levels of cytosolic or mitochondrial chaperones were not influenced in the ER-ANT1 knockout mutants (Figure 6). Furthermore, similar to the ER chaperones, the corresponding mRNA levels of other important ER proteins that are dependent on adequate luminal ATP (such as the Ca2+-dependent protein kinase CPK2 or SEC61 [Lu and Hrabak, 2002 ; Alder et al., 2005 ]) were found to be strongly reduced (Figure 6).
To investigate any putative influence of ER-ANT1 on seed development, we analyzed the seeds of both ER-ANT1 knockout lines compared with wild-type seeds. For the quantification of the 1000-seed weight and the lipid and protein contents, fully developed seeds from wild-type and ER-ANT1 knockout plants were harvested from mature siliques. Seeds of ER-ANT1 knockout plants exhibited morphological alterations compared with wild-type seeds. ER-ANT1 seeds were translucent and smaller in size than wild-type seeds (Figure 7A
). The average 1000-seed weight for wild-type seeds was 20 mg, which fully concurs with previous studies (Jako et al., 2001 ). By contrast, the 1000-seed weight in ER-ANT1 knockout seeds decreased to 45% (Figure 7B). The seed oil content of ER-ANT1 knockout seeds decreased drastically to 30% compared with wild-type seeds (Figure 7C). In addition, both ER-ANT1 knockout lines also exhibited a significant decrease of 50% in the seed protein levels (Figure 7D). Apparently, the observed reduction in seed weight of ER-ANT1 knockout seeds can be attributed mainly to the loss of storage oil and protein.

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Figure 7. Seed Analyses of Wild-Type and ER-ANT1 Knockout Seeds.
Plants were grown under short-day conditions (10 h of light/14 h of dark) on soil. After development of a leaf rosette ( 4 to 5 cm), the light phase was prolonged (14 h of light per day) to induce flowering until the life cycle was completed. (A) shows phenotypes of representative ER-ANT1 knockout (KO2) or wild-type seeds. Seeds from wild-type, ER-ANT1 knockout 1 (KO1; Salk_043626), and ER-ANT1 knockout 2 (KO2; Salk_023441) plants were collected, and seed weight (B), lipid content (C), and protein content (D) in dry seeds were quantified. Data represent means ± SE of four independent experiments.
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DISCUSSION
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Necessity of ATP Transport into the ER
In eukaryotes, ATP transport has been shown to occur across ER membranes, but the corresponding carrier proteins have not been identified at the molecular level (Mayinger et al., 1995 ; Abeijon et al., 1997 ; Kochendörfer et al., 1999 ). The occurrence of an adenine nucleotide transporter in the ER membrane is essential to provide the ER lumen with ATP for the following reasons. (1) Protein translocation through the ER membrane can only occur in the presence of luminal ATP, because the transfer of bound protein precursors into the translocation pore and the subsequent transport is mediated by ATP-dependent ER chaperones (Schatz and Dobberstein, 1996 ; Lyman and Schekman, 1997 ). (2) Other ATP-dependent chaperones are crucial for the proper folding and assembly of ER or secretory proteins inside the organelle throughout the transport process (Pfeffer and Rothman, 1987 ). (3) For the glycosylation and phosphorylation of proteins, proteoglycans, or lipids, ATP is either required to energize the corresponding reactions or serves as a direct substrate inside the ER lumen (Hirschberg et al., 1998 ). (4) Protein trafficking between the ER and the Golgi within the secretory pathway depends on luminal ATP, since this metabolite is required for fundamental steps in the transport process, such as the regeneration of GTP used by GTPases (Brandizzi et al., 2002 ).
Identification of an Adenine Nucleotide Exchanger Localized in the ER Membrane of Arabidopsis
Here, we present the first candidate of a eukaryotic adenine nucleotide transporter localized in the ER membrane of a higher plant, Arabidopsis (ER-ANT1). ER-ANT1, a member of the MCF, is phylogenetically related to plant mitochondrial AACs (Figure 1) (Picault et al., 2004 ). Functional heterologous synthesis of ER-ANT1 in E. coli clearly reveals a high substrate specificity of ER-ANT1 for ATP and ADP (Figure 2, Table 1), which classifies ER-ANT1 to the diverse group of adenylate transporters in eukaryotic cells. ER-ANT1 operates in a counterexchange mode (Figures 2C and 2D) similar to mitochondrial AACs, which exchange ATP and ADP in a 1:1 stoichiometry (Haferkamp et al., 2002 ). Since AMP and other nucleotides are not accepted as substrates (Table 1), we propose that ER-ANT1 mediates ATP uptake into plant ER coupled to the export of ADP in vivo. This mechanism is absolutely essential to keep the nucleotide levels in different cell compartments balanced. By this counterexchange, ATP regeneration in mitochondria via oxidative phosphorylation is maintained. Thus, the transport properties of the recombinant ER-ANT1 resemble microsomal nucleotide exchange across ER membranes from yeast cells, as shown by the reconstitution of corresponding microsomal membranes into proteoliposomes (Mayinger et al., 1995 ).
The identification of ER-ANT1 in ER membranes is in full concordance with previous observations that typical MCF carriers reside in other subcellular membranes, including plastids, glyoxisomes, and peroxisomes (Picault et al., 2004 ; Leroch et al., 2005 ). The following arguments clearly speak for an insertion of ER-ANT1 in plant ER membranes.
(1) In contrast with the mitochondrial AAC1 to AAC3 isoforms, ER-ANT1 lacks any cleavable N-terminal transit peptide (Figure 1), which is necessary for the efficient insertion of plant AACs into the inner mitochondrial membranes (Murcha et al., 2005 ). Soluble ER proteins located in the ER lumen possess a tetrapeptide retention signal (KDEL or HDEL) at their C termini (Frigerio et al., 2001 ), but ER membrane proteins are mostly missing such motifs (Chen et al., 2002 ; McCartney et al., 2004 ). In multispanning ER membrane proteins, the first two TMDs often act as a noncleavable signal sequence that directs cotranslational protein synthesis and then fulfills a stop transfer to anchor the protein in the membrane. Therefore, a hydrophobic core of the first TMD, often flanked by several N-terminal charged amino acids, is sufficient as a signal anchor (High and Dobberstein, 1992 ; Meacock et al., 2002 ). Interestingly, the first TMD of ER-ANT1 exhibits substantial higher hydrophobicity compared with the mitochondrial AAC1 to AAC3 isoforms, and ER-ANT1 possesses four N-terminal charged amino acids (K6, E8, R9, and D13) (Figure 1).
(2) Moreover, our in planta localization experiments showed the integration of ER-ANT1 in ER membranes. The immunodetection of ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag fusion protein in transgenic Arabidopsis and the immunogold labeling in wild-type pollen grain tissue using an At ER-ANT1–specific antiserum prove that ER-ANT1 resides in ER membranes (Figure 3).
(3) The remarkable ER-ANT1 insensitivity to BKA and CAT distinguishes biochemically ER-ANT1 from mitochondrial AACs, which are highly sensitive to both inhibitors (Table 1) (Haferkamp et al., 2002 ). In this regard, it is important to note that R279, which is known to participate in CAT binding of the mitochondrial bovine AAC (Pebay-Peyroula et al., 2003 ), is not conserved in ER-ANT1 (Figure 1). It was reported that the nucleotide exchange across ER membranes of rat liver was insensitive to CAT (Guillén and Hirschberg, 1995 ). On the other hand, N-ethylmaleimide, which does not exert any influence on the mitochondrial AAC1, showed a significant inhibitory effect of up to 71% on the nucleotide transport rate of ER-ANT1 (Table 1), as reported for ER vesicles derived from rat liver (Clairmont et al., 1992 ).
(4) As mentioned above, several ER chaperones (e.g., BiP chaperones) are high ATP consumers and essential for the constitutive function of the plant ER. In Arabidopsis and soybean (Glycine max), several BiP proteins play an important role in the biosynthesis of ER-related proteins in ER-active tissues (Sung et al., 2001 ; Buzeli et al., 2002 ). Interestingly, in such tissues (i.e., pollen, seeds, root tips, apical meristem, and vascular bundles), the high expression of BiP genes is very similar to that of ER-ANT1 (Figure 4; cf. Buzeli et al., 2002 ).
(5) The deletion of an ATPase gene (MIA, for Male gametogenesis Impaired Anthers) located in the ER membranes of Arabidopsis mutants is linked to defects in the secretory pathway accompanied by significantly impaired pollen development and male fertility (Jakobsen et al., 2005 ). The disruption of the MIA gene strongly affects the expression of functional groups of genes related to protein secretion, protein folding, and solute transport. Interestingly, a 20-fold decrease in the ER-ANT1 expression level has also been observed in MIA knockout plants (Jakobsen et al., 2005 ). This is further evidence that ER-ANT1 may be functionally involved in the molecular network located in the secretory pathway. By contrast, the expression level of none of the three mitochondrial AAC isoforms was altered in the MIA mutants (Jakobsen et al., 2005 ).
Physiological Relevance of ER-ANT1 in the Metabolism of Arabidopsis
The absence of a functional ER-ANT1 in the ER of Arabidopsis in two independent knockout lines clearly indicates an impaired plant ER metabolism, obviously due to an ATP deficiency inside the ER lumen. The secretion of pectic polysaccharide mucilage mediated by the ER–Golgi secretory apparatus is a major prerequisite for a successful penetration of root tips into the soil (Vicre et al., 2005 ). The disruption of ER-ANT1 causes markedly impaired root development in ER-ANT1 knockout plants, which might be due to concomitant defects in the secretory pathway (Figure 5C).
The ER proteins involved in protein translocation, phosphorylation, and proper folding are dependent on an adequate luminal ATP level (Hirschberg et al., 1998 ). Interestingly, the corresponding mRNA levels of the ER chaperones BiP1 to BiP3 and calreticulin1 and 2, the ER-localized Ca2+-dependent protein kinase CPK2, and the translocation channel subunit SEC61 are all found to be strongly reduced in both ER-ANT1 knockout lines (Figure 6). In contrast with the so-called unfolded protein response, which is induced by ER stress (Urade, 2007 ), a reduced energy supply into the ER lumen of the ER-ANT1 knockout mutants leads to a downregulation of ATP-consuming ER proteins in these knockout plants. However, a dietary energy restriction in mice causes a substantial decrease in the gene expression of several ER chaperones of 50 to 80%, whereas cytosolic and mitochondrial chaperones are not regulated at the mRNA level (Spindler et al., 1990 ; Tillman et al., 1996 ; Dhahbi et al., 1997 ).
Moreover, the plant ER plays an important role in lipid metabolism (White et al., 2000 ; Xu et al., 2003 ). In maturing Arabidopsis seeds, triacylglycerols, phospholipids, and oleosins are synthesized in the ER, from which budding oil bodies are released (Hsieh and Huang, 2004 ). In seeds of the closely related oilseed rape (Brassica napus), the adenylate energy state exerts a substantial influence on the rate of triacylglycerol synthesis (Vigeolas et al., 2003 ). Therefore, a high demand for energy in the ER of wild-type seeds, as indicated by the high expression of ER-ANT1 in maturing seeds (Figure 4G), is fully consistent with the strong reduction in seed weight and seed lipid content of ER-ANT1 knockout mutants (Figure 7C).
Seed storage proteins are all initially synthesized in the ER. The formation of specific disulfide bonds and assembly into dimers or trimers occurs in the ER lumen before sorting to protein storage vacuoles (Gruis et al., 2004 ). In the seeds of both ER-ANT1 knockout mutants, the storage protein content is reduced substantially (up to 50%), which indicates a defect in the ER metabolism of these knockout lines (Figure 7D).
The biochemical and molecular physiological analyses of ER-ANT1, a novel ATP/ADP transporter residing in ER membranes of higher plants, provide the first insights into the physiological importance of the energy supply for the ER–Golgi system. Approximately one-third of all cellular proteins are translocated and processed in the ER lumen, which requires an enormous amount of energy (Shen et al., 2002 ). This might explain the drastic morphological and physiological phenotypes of the ER-ANT1 knockout mutants during whole plant development, leading to delayed growth and small stature (Figures 5B and 5E).
Nevertheless, an absolute lack of ATP inside the ER lumen should be lethal for ER-ANT1 knockout mutants. Thus, we predict a low basic ATP supply by an alternative transport system in plant ER membranes. Recently, it was proposed that a voltage-dependent anion channel residing in ER membranes might mediate ATP transport into the ER lumen (Shoshan-Barmatz and Israelson, 2005 ). Our data above indicate that ER-ANT1 represents an ER membrane–located ATP/ADP counterexchanger; however, the corresponding functional equivalent residing in the ER membrane of mammalian cells is still unknown. Since mammalian genomes encode several AAC-like proteins of unknown function, it remains to be analyzed whether one of these candidate genes encodes an ATP/ADP transporter located in ER membranes.
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METHODS
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Cultivation of Plants
Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype Columbia) plants were grown in a climate-controlled chamber on soil at 22 to 24°C and 120 µmol·m–2·s–1. For short-day growth conditions, light was given for 10 h/d; for long-day conditions, light was present for 16 h/d. For improved root growth of knockout lines, surface-sterilized seeds were sown on Murashige and Skoog plates as described earlier (Reiser et al., 2004 ).
ER-ANT1 Knockout Mutants
Two independent heterozygous ER-ANT1::T-DNA mutant plants (Salk_043626 and Salk_023441) were provided by the SALK library. In both mutant lines, the T-DNA is located in exon 2 of ER-ANT1 (locus At5g17400), at positions 469 bp (Salk_043626) and 604 bp (Salk_023441). To confirm that we generated homozygous knockout plants after backcrossing, we used gene- and T-DNA–specific primers. Chlorophyll levels, seed lipid, and protein contents were quantified as described previously (Reiser et al., 2004 ).
cDNA Constructs
DNA manipulations were performed according to standard protocols (Sambrook et al., 1989 ). For construction of the Escherichia coli expression plasmid, the coding region of ER-ANT1 (At5g17400) was amplified by PCR on first-strand cDNA from Arabidopsis leaf tissues and introduced into the IPTG-inducible expression vector pET16b (Novagen). For generation of the ER-ANT1-promoter-GUS construct, the binary vector pGPTV was used. A promoter region of ER-ANT1 (1078 bp) was amplified by PCR from genomic DNA and inserted upstream of the GUS gene of pGPTV (Reiser et al., 2004 ). For construction of the ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag plasmid, we generated a PCR fragment comprising the complete ER-ANT1 open reading frame and a fused C-terminal MYC tag gene encoding 10 additional amino acids (FQKLISEEDL). The obtained PCR product was cloned into the binary vector pART27 (Reiser et al., 2004 ). The ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag and ER-ANT1-promoter-GUS plasmids were used for Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformation. Transformation of Arabidopsis was conducted according to the floral dip method (Clough and Bent, 1998 ).
Heterologous Expression of ER-ANT1 in E. coli
The IPTG-inducible E. coli strain BL21 (DE3) was used for heterologous expression. Radiolabeling of ER-ANT1 and uptake and efflux experiments with E. coli cells after synthesis of ER-ANT1 were performed as described earlier (Haferkamp et al., 2002 ; Leroch et al., 2005 ). Heterologously synthesized ER-ANT1 was purified by affinity chromatography (Haferkamp et al., 2002 ) and used as antigen for the production of a polyclonal antiserum (Eurogentec).
Staining for GUS Activity
Seedlings or tissues from transgenic ER-ANT1-promoter-GUS plants were collected in glass scintillation vials filled with ice-cold 90% acetone and incubated for 20 min at room temperature. For histochemical localization of GUS activity, the plant material was incubated for 30 min with 2 mM 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-β-glucuronic acid in staining buffer and subsequently stained according to standard protocols (Reiser et al., 2004 ). Images were taken using a digital camera (PowerShot G5; Cannon).
Quantitative Real-Time RT-PCR
Total RNA was prepared from Arabidopsis leaf tissues using the RNeasy plant mini kit (Qiagen). To remove any contaminating DNA, the samples were treated with DNase (RNase-free DNase kit; Qiagen). Quantitative PCR was performed using MyIQ-Cycler (Bio-Rad) and IQ SYBR Green Supermix (Bio-Rad) according to the manufacturer's instructions with the following cycler conditions: 20 min at 50°C; 15 min at 95°C; and 55 cycles of 15 s at 95°C, 25 s at 58°C, and 40 s at 72°C. The gene-specific oligonucleotides used for real-time RT-PCR are listed in Supplemental Table 1 online. The elongation factor EF-1 (At5g60390) was used for quantitative normalization.
Membrane Fractionation and Analyses from Arabidopsis Plants
Total membranes including microsomal membranes were isolated from 2-week-old Arabidopsis wild-type plants or ER-ANT1-C-MYC-tag plants grown under short-day conditions. Membrane isolation and fractionation by sucrose density centrifugation were performed as described previously (Chen et al., 2002 ). Gradient fractions were analyzed using antibodies against specific membrane proteins or an anti-C-MYC-tag antibody. SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analyses were performed as described earlier (Chen et al., 2002 ).
Immunogold Labeling and Transmission Electron Microscopy
Arabidopsis anthers were fixed for 3 h at room temperature in 50 mM cacodylate buffer, pH 7.2, containing 0.5% (v/v) glutaraldehyde and 2.0% (v/v) formaldehyde. Samples were washed for 10 min first with buffer followed by three times distilled water. Dehydration of samples was done stepwise by increasing the concentration of ethanol as follows: 30, 40, 50, 60, 75, 90, and 2x 100% (v/v) ethanol for 60 min at room temperature. The samples were infiltrated subsequently with Lowycryl HM20 resin (Plano) as follows: 33% (v/v) HM20 resin in ethanol overnight, 50% (v/v) and 66% (v/v) for 6 h each, and then 100% (v/v) resin overnight. Samples were polymerized in gelatin capsules with fresh HM20 and accelerator at 60°C for 24 h. Sections with a thickness of 70 nm were cut with a diamond knife and used for electron microscopic examination and immunogold labeling with an ER-ANT1–specific antiserum as described previously (Teige et al., 1998 ).
Accession Numbers
Sequence data from this article can be found in the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative or GenBank/EMBL databases under the following accession numbers: At ER-ANT1 (At5g17400), At AAC1 (At3g08580), At AAC2 (At5g13490), At AAC3 (At4g28390), At EF1 (At5g60390), At BiP1 (At5g28540), At BiP2 (At5g42420), At BiP3 (At1g09080), At CRT1 (At1g56340), At CRT2 (At1g09210), At mtHsc70-1 (At4g37910), At mtHsc70-2 (At5g09590), At Hsp70 (At3g12580), At CPK2 (At3g10660), and At SEC61 subunit (At5g50460).
Supplemental Data
The following materials are available in the online version of this article. - Supplemental Figure 1. Dependence of [32P]ATP Uptake into E. coli Cells on Membrane Intactness.
- Supplemental Table 1. Gene-Specific Oligonucleotides Used for Real-Time PCR
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Acknowledgments
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We gratefully acknowledge critical reading of the manuscript by Zeina Tjaden. We thank Rebecca Boston (North Carolina State University), Wolfgang Michalke (Freiburg University), and Masayoshi Maeshima (Nagoya University) for antibodies. Work in the laboratory of J.T. was financially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grant TJ 5/1-3) and by the Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Innovation (Grant 15202-386261/766).
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Footnotes
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1 These authors contributed equally to this work. 
The author responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantcell.org) is: Joachim Tjaden (tjaden{at}rhrk.uni-kl.de).
[W] Online version contains Web-only data. 
www.plantcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1105/tpc.107.057554
Received December 14, 2007;
Revision received January 25, 2008.
accepted February 7, 2008.
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N. Linka, F. L. Theodoulou, R. P. Haslam, M. Linka, J. A. Napier, H. E. Neuhaus, and A. P.M. Weber
Peroxisomal ATP Import Is Essential for Seedling Development in Arabidopsis thaliana
PLANT CELL,
December 1, 2008;
20(12):
3241 - 3257.
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Y. Arai, M. Hayashi, and M. Nishimura
Proteomic Identification and Characterization of a Novel Peroxisomal Adenine Nucleotide Transporter Supplying ATP for Fatty Acid {beta}-Oxidation in Soybean and Arabidopsis
PLANT CELL,
December 1, 2008;
20(12):
3227 - 3240.
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N. A. Eckardt
Identification of an Endoplasmic Reticulum ATP/ADP Transporter
PLANT CELL,
February 1, 2008;
20(2):
245 - 245.
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