A plastidial sodium-dependent pyruvate transporter

Tsuyoshi Furumoto (), Teppei Yamaguchi, Yumiko Ohshima-Ichie, Masayoshi Nakamura, Yoshiko Tsuchida-Iwata, Masaki Shimamura, Junichi Ohnishi, Shingo Hata, Udo Gowik, Peter Westhoff, Andrea Bräutigam, Andreas P. M. Weber and Katsura Izui
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Tsuyoshi Furumoto: Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan
Teppei Yamaguchi: Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
Yumiko Ohshima-Ichie: Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
Masayoshi Nakamura: Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
Yoshiko Tsuchida-Iwata: Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
Masaki Shimamura: Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan
Junichi Ohnishi: Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255, Shimo-ohkubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan
Shingo Hata: Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
Udo Gowik: Institut für Entwicklungs- und Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Peter Westhoff: Institut für Entwicklungs- und Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Andrea Bräutigam: Institut für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Andreas P. M. Weber: Institut für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Katsura Izui: Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

Nature, 2011, vol. 476, issue 7361, 472-475

Abstract: Pyruvate transporter is BASS2 Many of the plastid-localized metabolic pathways of plants, including the C4 photosynthetic pathway that operates in many crop plants, depend critically on the import of pyruvate. The pyruvate transporter has proved elusive, but has now been identified as the bile acid:sodium symporter family protein 2 (BASS2). The BASS2 protein is found in the chloroplast envelope membrane, and is highly abundant in C4 plants. Orthologues of BASS2 are present in all the genomes of land plants characterized so far, thus indicating the widespread importance of sodium-coupled pyruvate import in plastids.

Date: 2011
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