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Plant and Cell Physiology Advance Access published online on July 27, 2007
Plant and Cell Physiology, doi:10.1093/pcp/pcm096
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OeMST2 encodes a monosaccharide transporter expressed throughout olive fruit maturation.

Carlos Conde1, Alice Agasse1, Paulo Silva1, Rémi Lemoine2, Serge Delrot3, Rui Tavares1 and Hernâni Gerós1

1Departamento de Biologia, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar 4710-057 Braga, Portugal.
2UMR CNRS 6161, Transport des Assimilats, Laboratoire de Physiologie, Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaires Végétales, Bâtiment Botanique, UFR Sciences, 40 Avenue du Recteur Pineau, 86022 Poitiers Cédex, France.
3Institute of Vine and Wine Sciences (ISVV), University Victor Segalen Bordeaux II, Unité Mixte de Recherches Ecophysiology and Grape Functional Genomics, INRA, 71 Avenue Edouard Bourlaux, 33883, BP 81 Villenave d'Ornon, France.

Corresponding author:, Hernâni Gerós, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal, Phone: + 351 253 604048, Fax: + 351 253678980, e-mail: geros{at}bio.uminho.pt


  Abstract

In olive fruits, sugars are the main soluble components providing energy and acting as precursors for olive oil biosynthesis. Large quantities of glucose, fructose and galactose are often found in olive pulp. To analyse sugar transport processes in Olea europaea, a cDNA encoding a monosaccharide transporter, designated OeMST2 (Olea europaea monosaccharide transporter 2) was cloned. An open reading frame of 1569 bp codes for a protein of 523 amino acids and a calculated molecular weight of 57.6 kD. The protein is homologous to other sugar transporters identified so far in higher plants. Expression of this cDNA in an hxt-null Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain deficient in glucose transport restored its capacity to grow on and to transport glucose. The encoded protein showed high affinity for D-glucose (Km, 25 µM) and was also able to recognize D-galactose and the analogs 3-O-methyl-D-glucose and 2-deoxy-D-glucose, but not D-fructose, D-arabinose, sucrose nor D-mannitol. Maximal transport activity was high at acidic pH (5.0), and the initial D-[14C]glucose uptake rates were strongly inhibited by the protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, confirming that OeMST2 is an H+/monosaccharide transporter. The expression of OeMST2 was studied during the ripening process. Transcript levels increased during fruit maturation, suggesting that OeMST2 takes part in the massive accumulation of monosaccharides in olive fruits. Monosaccharide:H+ transport system activity and OeMST2 expression were negatively regulated by glucose in suspension-cultured cells. Glucose-mediated OeMST2 repression was impaired by mannoheptulose suggesting the involvement of a hexokinase-dependent signalling pathway.

Keywords: Glucose - Monosaccharide transport - Olea europaea - Sugar sensing

The nucleotide sequence reported in this paper has been submitted to NCBI under acession number DQ087177


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