46, 107–113. 281, 15625–15635. 6H 2 O + 6CO 2 = C 6 H 12 O 6 + 6O 2. Biochem. RNAseq data obtained by Park et al. 33, 1870–1874. The key dark reaction, the production of phosphoglycerate by the enzyme ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (rubisco), is described along with the production of fructose, sucrose, and starch (Sect. Rev. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M114.585554. The source-sink ratio of l-year-old, potted `Montmorency' sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) trees was manipulated by partial defoliation (D) or continuous lighting (CL) to investigate the phenomenon of end-product inhibition of photosynthesis. doi: 10.1007/BF00018467, Zeng, Y., Wu, Y., Avigne, W. T., and Koch, K. E. (1998). (2018). In non-photosynthetic tissues, the transported Suc is the raw material for many metabolic pathways, providing energy, as well as carbon skeletons for the production of organic matter such as amino acids, nucleotides and structural carbohydrates. In plants, glucose is derived from sucrose, which is the end product of photosynthesis or from storage carbohydrates. 32, 87–106. Biotechnol. Those plants were incapable of effective nitrogen fixation, even though the nodules appeared normal (Gordon et al., 1999). 114, 55–62. sugar+oxygen. It is more likely that SuSy are interacting with other proteins and form a complex that is also associated with the cellulose synthases or callose synthases located to membranes (Persia et al., 2008; Fujii et al., 2010). The'end-productinhibitionofphotosynthesis'hypothesis, as proposed over 100 years ago by Boussingault (3), states that the accumulation of assimilates in an illuminated leaf mayberesponsible for a reductionin thenetphotosynthesis rate of that leaf. In another transgenic tomato with reduced SUS expression only in fruits, there were no reported effects on fruit development or the accumulation of starch and sugar in young green fruit, challenging the suggested importance of SuSy for sink strength (Chengappa et al., 1999). 44, 500–509. Two maize SuSy isoforms, SUS1 and SH1, were detected in mitochondria using fractionation and immunolabeling and it was suggested that they may play a role in regulating solute fluxes between the mitochondria and cytosol (Subbaiah et al., 2006). Sucrose synthase may play another, less studied role in the development of shoot apical meristem (SAM). Thus the carbohydrates appeared in the order of their complexity. Planta 232, 701–718. doi: 10.7554/eLife.17023, Pien, S., Wyrzykowska, J., and Fleming, A. J. Salnikov, V. V., Grimson, M. J., Seagull, R. W., and Haigler, C. H. (2003). ): structure, expression, and evolution. Adv. Natl. 32, 316–323. eLife 5:e17023. FEBS Lett. Plant Physiol. Biochem. Triose-P can be transported to the cytosol by a triose-P/phosphate translocator. Ann. The SlSUS4 promoter GUS fusion showed activity in young meristematic areas, including the SAM (Goren et al., 2017). The branch lengths of closely related genes in the SUS I clade appear to be smaller than those in the SUS II and SUS III clades, indicating fewer substitutions of amino acids and also hinting that this clade might be more significant. Sucrose synthase belongs to the glycosyltransferase-4 subfamily of glycosyltransferases, a large family that includes a wide variety of glycosyltransferases, including SPS, trehalose synthase, and trehalose phosphorylase. doi: 10.1104/pp.64.1.31, Nolte, K. D., and Koch, K. E. (1993). Sucrose synthase, a cytosolic enzyme in protoplasts of Jerusalem artichoke tubers (Helianthus tuberosus L.). doi: 10.1016/0378-1119(90)90028-P, Martin, T., Frommer, W. B., Salanoubat, M., and Willmitzer, L. (1993). (2014). 10:95. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00095. G1P is then converted into ADP-G, in a reaction catalyzed by ADP-G pyrophosphorylase (AGPase). Plant Physiol. Sucrose synthase is associated with the cell wall of tobacco pollen tubes. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcj068, Etxeberria, E., and Gonzalez, P. (2003). Isolation and expression analysis of two stress-responsive sucrose-synthase genes from the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum (Hochst.). Suc can also pass directly from the phloem to sink cells through plasmodesmata (Figure 1). Four carbohydrates, D-glucose. 55, 397–409. doi: 10.1104/pp.118.2.399, Ruan, Y. L., Llewellyn, D. J., and Furbank, R. T. (2003). Nucleic Acids Res. doi: 10.1016/j.jplph.2007.02.001, Komina, O., Zhou, Y., Sarath, G., and Chollet, R. (2002). B. [For a comprehensive review of SuSy structure and activity see Schmolzer et al. Plant SuSy isozymes are mainly located in the cytosol or adjacent to plasma membrane, but some SuSy proteins are found in the cell wall, vacuoles, and mitochondria. It is likely that feedback inhibition of SuSy activity and substrate inhibition of fructokinase by Fru (Schaffer and Petreikov, 1997; Kanayama et al., 1998) work together to impose a double break that controls the amount of Suc cleavage (German et al., 2003). (2003). Sci. doi: 10.1093/mp/ssr090. In transgenic tomato plant with antisense suppression of SUS, reduced Suc import was observed only in very young fruits (7 days after anthesis) and not during the later starch-accumulation phase (23 DAA; D’Aoust et al., 1999). These features of SuSy may help to control the amount of Suc consumed in different organs, for example, in stems and petioles. Plant Interact. Roles of sugars in controlling flowering time. Soc. Companion-cell specific localization of sucrose synthase in zones of phloem loading and unloading. 40, 907–911. Deficient sucrose synthase activity in developing wood does not specifically affect cellulose biosynthesis, but causes an overall decrease in cell wall polymers. Most of ADP x glucose linked to starch biosynthesis occurs outside the chloroplast in source leaves. Plant Mol. In maize, phosphorylation of SuSy was found to result in decreased membrane association; whereas dephosphorylation was found to cause SuSy to be less soluble (Winter et al., 1997). Antisense inhibition of tomato fruit sucrose synthase decreases fruit setting and the sucrose unloading capacity of young fruit. Sucrose synthase localizes to cellulose synthesis sites in tracheary elements. SuSy activity is feedback-inhibited by its product, Fru, and its activity is also reversible. 9, 100–101. 101, 899–905. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). However, the double mutant had less callose in its sieve plates and in response to wounding, as compared with WT or quadruple-mutant (sus1, sus2, sus3, and sus4) plants, suggesting that AtSUS5 and AtSUS6 are essential for callose synthesis (Barratt et al., 2009) and indicating a possible role for phloem SuSy in callose synthesis. Sucrose is the end product of photosynthesis and the primary sugar transported in the phloem of most plants. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erg148, Eveland, A. L., and Jackson, D. P. (2012). Biochem. Because Suc cleavage by SuSy yields UDP-G, which is a direct substrate for both cellulose (β1-4) and callose (β1-3) glucans, it is widely assumed that SuSy plays a role in the synthesis of both of these polysaccharides. Sugar metabolism in developing kernels of starch-deficient endosperm mutants of maize. 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