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Journal of Experimental Botany 2006 57(10):2363-2377; doi:10.1093/jxb/erj207
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The influence of cytosolic phosphorylating glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPC) on potato tuber metabolism

Mohammad-Reza Hajirezaei1,*, Sophia Biemelt2, Martin Peisker1, Anna Lytovchenko3, Alisdair R. Fernie3 and Uwe Sonnewald2

1Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
2Department of Biochemistry, Straudtstrasse 5, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
3Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mohammad{at}ipk-gatersleben.de

The aim of this work was to investigate the importance of cytosolic phosphorylating glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPC) in potato carbohydrate metabolism. For this purpose, the cytosolic isoform of phosphorylating GAPC was cloned and used for an antisense approach to generate transgenic potato plants that exhibited constitutively decreased GAPDH activity. Potato lines with decreased activities of phosphorylating GAPC exhibited no major changes in either whole-plant or tuber morphology. However, the levels of 3-phosphoglycerate were decreased in leaves of the transformants. A broad metabolic phenotyping of tubers from the transformants revealed an increase in sucrose and UDPglucose content, a decrease in the glycolytic intermediates 3-phosphoglycerate and phosphoenolpyruvate but little change in the levels of other metabolites. Moreover, the transformants displayed no differences in cold sweetening with respect to the wild type. Taken together these data suggest that phosphorylating GAPC plays only a minor role in the regulation of potato metabolism. The results presented here are discussed in relation to current models regarding primary metabolism in the potato tuber parenchyma.

Key words: Antisense, carbohydrate metabolism, GAPDH, potato tuber


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