title: Identifying the ionically bound cell wall and intracellular glycoside hydrolases in late growth stage Arabidopsis stems: implications for the genetic engineering of bioenergy crops.
abstract: Identifying the cell wall-ionically bound glycoside hydrolases (GHs) in Arabidopsis stems is important for understanding the regulation of cell wall integrity. For cell wall proteomics studies, the preparation of clean cell wall fractions is a challenge since cell walls constitute an open compartment, which is more likely to contain a mixture of intracellular and extracellular proteins due to cell leakage at the late growth stage. Here, we utilize a CaCl2-extraction procedure to isolate non-structural proteins from Arabidopsis whole stems, followed by the in-solution and in-gel digestion methods coupled with Nano-LC-MS/MS, bioinformatics and literature analyses. This has led to the identification of 75 proteins identified using the in-solution method and 236 proteins identified by the in-gel method, among which about 10% of proteins predicted to be secreted. Together, eight cell wall proteins, namely AT1G75040, AT5G26000, AT3G57260, AT4G21650, AT3G52960, AT3G49120, AT5G49360, and AT3G14067, were identified by the in-solution method; among them, three were the GHs (AT5G26000, myrosinase 1, GH1; AT3G57260, β-1,3-glucanase 2, GH17; AT5G49360, bifunctional XYL 1/α-L-arabinofuranosidase, GH3). Moreover, four more GHs: AT4G30270 (xyloglucan endotransferase, GH16), AT1G68560 (bifunctional α-l-arabinofuranosidase/XYL, GH31), AT1G12240 (invertase, GH32) and AT2G28470 (β-galactosidase 8, GH35), were identified by the in-gel solution method only. Notably, more than half of above identified GHs are xylan- or hemicellulose-modifying enzymes, and will likely have an impact on cellulose accessibility, which is a critical factor for downstream enzymatic hydrolysis of plant tissues for biofuels production. The implications of these cell wall proteins identified at the late growth stage for the genetic engineering of bioenergy crops are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brunecky
authors.affiliation: Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Bryon S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Donohoe
authors.affiliation: Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, CO, USA ; Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Shi-You
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Peter N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Ciesielski
authors.affiliation: National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Shihui
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Melvin P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Tucker
authors.affiliation: Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Michael E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Himmel
keywords: biomass recalcitrance; cell wall proteins; feedstock engineering; glycoside hydrolase; pectin-modifying enzyme; plant late growth stage; plant senescence; xylan-modifying enzyme