生物技术通报 ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (8): 170-177.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2019-0095

• 综述与专论 • 上一篇    下一篇

植物细胞中蛋白脂酰化修饰的生物学功能

于明香1, 宋水山1,2,3   

  1. 1. 河北工业大学化工学院,天津 300131;
    2. 河北省科学院生物研究所,石家庄 050051;
    3. 河北省主要农作物病害微生物控制工程技术;研究中心,石家庄 050051
  • 收稿日期:2019-01-23 出版日期:2019-08-26 发布日期:2019-08-05
  • 作者简介:于明香,女,硕士研究生,研究方向:分子生物学;E-mail:13821532703@163.com

Biological Functions of Protein Fatty Acylation in Plant Cells

YU Ming-xiang1, SONG Shui-shan1,2,3   

  1. 1. College of Chemical Engineering,Hebei University of Technology,Tianjin 300131;
    2. Institute of Biology,Hebei Academy of Sciences,Shijiazhuang 050051;
    3. Hebei Engineering and Technology Center of Microbiological Control on Main Crop Disease,Shijiazhuang 050051
  • Received:2019-01-23 Published:2019-08-26 Online:2019-08-05

摘要: 蛋白脂肪酰化修饰是蛋白翻译修饰的重要形式,在细胞信号转导、生长发育和代谢等过程中发挥着重要的作用。N-肉豆蔻酰化和S-酰化是脂肪酰化修饰的两种主要形式,长链的脂肪酸被共价结合到蛋白质上,使蛋白结构发生变化,从而影响细胞的一系列生理作用。近年来,相比于真菌和动物细胞中蛋白脂肪酰化修饰的功能研究而言,植物蛋白质脂酰化修饰及其生物学功能的研究相对较少,且两者并不完全相同,引起了研究人员的广泛关注。研究发现,植物蛋白质N-肉豆蔻酰化和S-酰化修饰过程中分别需要相对应的豆蔻酰基转移酶和S-酰基转移酶来催化,通过对两种转移酶缺失的突变体的研究发现,这两种酰基转移酶的活性与植物种子萌发、花期长短及表型正常化有关;N-肉豆蔻酰化和S-酰化蛋白通过疏水性的酰基键插入膜上相应的位置,进行膜锚定;参与调控植物生长、信号转导及免疫应答等过程。综述了近年来N-肉豆蔻酰化和S-酰化在植物细胞生物学功能中的研究进展,并对植物G蛋白偶联受体(GPCRs)脂质修饰在感知细菌信号分子N-酰基高丝氨酸内脂(AHLs)过程中的作用进行了讨论,旨在为采用遗传干预技术提高农作物生产、优质及抗逆提供理论指导。

关键词: 脂肪酰化, N-肉豆蔻酰化, S-酰化, 信号转导, N-高丝氨酸内脂

Abstract: Protein fatty acylation modification is an important form of protein translation modification,and plays an important role in cell signal transduction,growth and metabolism. N-myristoylation and S-acylation are the two major forms of fatty acylation. Long-chain fatty acids are covalently bound to proteins,which alter the structure of the protein and affect a range of physiological functions of the cell. In recent years,compared with the functional studies of protein fatty acylation in fungi and animal cells,the study of plant protein lipid acylation and its biological functions are relatively backward,and the two are not identical,causing researchers broad interests. Extensive studies have found that the plant protein N-myristoylation and S-acylation modification process requires the corresponding soybean acyltransferase and S-acyltransferase to catalyze,respectively. Through the study of two transferase-deficient mutants,these two acyltransferases were found to be involved in plant seed germination,flowering length and phenotypic normalization. N-myristoylation and S-acylated proteins were inserted into the membrane at the corresponding positions by hydrophobic acyl bonds for membrane anchoring;participating in the regulation of plant growth,signal transduction and immune response processes. This paper reviewed recent advances in the biological functions of N-myristoylation and S-acylation in plant cells and discusses the role of lipid-modification of plant G-protein coupled receptors(GPCRs)in the sensing of bacterial signaling molecules N-acylhomoserine lactones(AHLs),providing theoretical guidance for the use of genetic intervention techniques to improve crop production,quality and resistance.

Key words: fatty acylation, N-myristoylation, S-acylation, signal transduction, N-acylhomoserime lactones