Highjacked by a pseudoenzyme: How eudicot plants make indole
Florean, M.; Schultz, H.; Grabe, V.; Luck, K.; O'Connor, S. E.; Kollner, T. G.
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Indole is crucial for plant defense, where it is released as a signaling volatile upon herbivore attack and also serves as a starting precursor for defensive specialized metabolites. Indole is known to be synthesized in plants from indole-3-glycerol phosphate by the enzyme indole-3-glycerol phosphate lyase. Here we report that in core eudicots, indole production for plant defense occurs via an alternative pathway. The subunit of tryptophan synthase (TSA), an enzyme of core metabolism, normally binds to tryptophan synthase {beta} subunit (TSB) to produce tryptophan. However, we show that a non-catalytic TSB paralogue (TSB-like) can highjack TSA to produce indole. The widespread occurrence of TSB-like genes in eudicots suggests that this alternative mechanism for indole formation is widespread throughout the plant kingdom.
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