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Peroxisomal Localization of Sulfite Oxidase Separates it from Chloroplast-based Sulfur Assimilation
1 Department of Plant Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Humboldtstrasse 1, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
2 Heidelberger Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften (HIP), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 360, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Recently, we isolated the sulfite oxidase (SO) gene from Arabidopsis thaliana and characterized the purified SO protein. The purpose of the present study was to determine the subcellular localization of this novel plant enzyme. Immunogold electron-microscopic analysis showed the gold labels nearly exclusively in the peroxisomes. To verify this finding, green fluorescent protein was fused to full-length plant SO including the putative peroxisomal targeting signal 1 (PTS1) ‘SNL’ and expressed in tobacco leaves. Our results showed a punctate fluorescence pattern resembling that of peroxisomes. Co-labelling with MitoTracker-Red excluded that the observed fluorescence was due to mitochondrial sorting. By investigation of deleted or mutated PTS1, no functional peroxisomal targeting signal 2 (PTS2) could be detected in plant SO. This conclusion is supported by expression studies in Pichia pastoris mutants with defined defects either in PTS1- or PTS2-mediated peroxisomal import.
3 Corresponding author: E-mail, r.mendel{at}tu-bs.de; Fax, +49-531-391-8128.
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