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Received February 3, 2008
Returned for revision October 22, 2008
Accepted November 1, 2008

Protein Repair L-Isoaspartyl Methyltransferase1 Is Involved in Both Seed Longevity and Germination Vigor in Arabidopsis

Laurent Ogé 1, Gildas Bourdais 1, Jérôme Bove 2, Boris Collet 1, Béatrice Godin 1, Fabienne Granier 3, Jean-Pierre Boutin 2, Dominique Job 4, Marc Jullien 1, and Philippe Grappin 1*

1 Laboratoire de Biologie des Semences, Unité Mixte de Recherche 204 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-AgroParisTech, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, F-78026 Versailles cedex, France; UER de Physiologie Végétale, AgroParisTech, F-75231 Paris cedex 05, France
2 Laboratoire de Biologie des Semences, Unité Mixte de Recherche 204 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-AgroParisTech, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, F-78026 Versailles cedex, France
3 Station de Génétique et Amélioration des Plantes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, F-78026 Versailles cedex, France
4 UER de Physiologie Végétale, AgroParisTech, F-75231 Paris cedex 05, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Bayer CropScience Joint Laboratory, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5240, Bayer CropScience, F-69263 Lyon, France

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: grappin{at}versailles.inra.fr.

The formation of abnormal amino acid residues is a major source of spontaneous age-related protein damage in cells. The protein L-isoaspartyl methyltransferase (PIMT) combats protein misfolding resulting from L-isoaspartyl formation by catalyzing the conversion of abnormal L-isoaspartyl residues to their normal L-aspartyl forms. In this way, the PIMT repair enzyme system contributes to longevity and survival in bacterial and animal kingdoms. Despite the discovery of PIMT activity in plants two decades ago, the role of this enzyme during plant stress adaptation and in seed longevity remains undefined. In this work, we have isolated Arabidopsis thaliana lines exhibiting altered expression of PIMT1, one of the two genes encoding the PIMT enzyme in Arabidopsis. PIMT1 overaccumulation reduced the accumulation of L-isoaspartyl residues in seed proteins and increased both seed longevity and germination vigor. Conversely, reduced PIMT1 accumulation was associated with an increase in the accumulation of L-isoaspartyl residues in the proteome of freshly harvested dry mature seeds, thus leading to heightened sensitivity to aging treatments and loss of seed vigor under stressful germination conditions. These data implicate PIMT1 as a major endogenous factor that limits abnormal L-isoaspartyl accumulation in seed proteins, thereby improving seed traits such as longevity and vigor. The PIMT repair pathway likely works in concert with other anti-aging pathways to actively eliminate deleterious protein products, thus enabling successful seedling establishment and strengthening plant proliferation in natural environments.






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