Heterologous expression of plant vacuolar pyrophosphatase in yeast demonstrates sufficiency of the substrate-binding subunit for proton transport.

AUTOR(ES)

Kim, E J

RESUMO

The membrane bounding the vacuole of plant cells contains two electrogenic proton pumps. These are the vacuolar H(+)-ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3), an enzyme common to all eukaryotes, and a vacuolar H(+)-translocating pyrophosphatase (EC 3.6.1.1), which is ubiquitous in plants but otherwise known in only a few phototrophic bacteria. Although the substrate-binding subunit of the vacuolar H(+)-pyrophosphatase has been identified and purified and cDNAs encoding it have been isolated and characterized, the minimal unit competent in pyrophosphate (PPi)-energized H+ translocation is not known. Here we address this question and show that heterologous expression of the cDNA (AVP) encoding the substrate-binding subunit of the vacuolar H(+)-pyrophosphatase from the vascular plant Arabidopsis thaliana in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae results in the production of vacuolarly localized functional enzyme active in PPi-dependent H+ translocation. Since the heterologously expressed pump is indistinguishable from the native plant enzyme with respect to PPi hydrolysis, H+ translocation, activation by potassium, and selective inhibition by calcium and 1,1-diphosphonates, it is concluded that all of the known catalytic functions of the enzyme map to the one subunit encoded by AVP.

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