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• W2023198536 abstract "Among higher plants graminaceous species have the unique ability to efficiently acquire iron from alkaline soils with low iron solubility by secreting phytosiderophores, which are hexadentate metal chelators with high affinity for Fe(III). Iron(III)-phytosiderophores are subsequently taken up by roots via YS1 transporters, that belong to the OPT oligopeptide transporter family. Despite its physiological importance at alkaline pH, uptake of Fe-phytosiderophores into roots of wild-type maize plants was greater at acidic pH and sensitive to the proton uncoupler CCCP. To access the mechanism of Fe-phytosiderophore acquisition, ZmYS1 was expressed in an iron uptake-defective yeast mutant and in Xenopus oocytes, where ZmYS1-dependent Fe-phytosiderophore transport was stimulated at acidic pH and sensitive to CCCP. Electrophysiological analysis in oocytes demonstrated that Fephytosiderophore transport depends on proton cotransport and on the membrane potential, which allows ZmYS1-mediated transport even at alkaline pH. We further investigated substrate specificity and observed that ZmYS1 complemented the growth defect of the zinc uptake-defective yeast mutant zap1 and transported various phytosiderophore-bound metals into oocytes, including zinc, copper, nickel, and, at a lower rate, also manganese and cadmium. Unexpectedly, ZmYS1 also transported Ni(II), Fe(II), and Fe(III) complexes with nicotianamine, a structural analog of phytosiderophores, which has been shown to act as an intracellular metal chelator in all higher plants. Our results show that ZmYS1 encodes a proton-coupled broad-range metal-phytosiderophore transporter that additionally transports Fe- and Ni-nicotianamine. These biochemical properties indicate a novel role of YS1 transporters for heavy metal homeostasis in plants. Among higher plants graminaceous species have the unique ability to efficiently acquire iron from alkaline soils with low iron solubility by secreting phytosiderophores, which are hexadentate metal chelators with high affinity for Fe(III). Iron(III)-phytosiderophores are subsequently taken up by roots via YS1 transporters, that belong to the OPT oligopeptide transporter family. Despite its physiological importance at alkaline pH, uptake of Fe-phytosiderophores into roots of wild-type maize plants was greater at acidic pH and sensitive to the proton uncoupler CCCP. To access the mechanism of Fe-phytosiderophore acquisition, ZmYS1 was expressed in an iron uptake-defective yeast mutant and in Xenopus oocytes, where ZmYS1-dependent Fe-phytosiderophore transport was stimulated at acidic pH and sensitive to CCCP. Electrophysiological analysis in oocytes demonstrated that Fephytosiderophore transport depends on proton cotransport and on the membrane potential, which allows ZmYS1-mediated transport even at alkaline pH. We further investigated substrate specificity and observed that ZmYS1 complemented the growth defect of the zinc uptake-defective yeast mutant zap1 and transported various phytosiderophore-bound metals into oocytes, including zinc, copper, nickel, and, at a lower rate, also manganese and cadmium. Unexpectedly, ZmYS1 also transported Ni(II), Fe(II), and Fe(III) complexes with nicotianamine, a structural analog of phytosiderophores, which has been shown to act as an intracellular metal chelator in all higher plants. Our results show that ZmYS1 encodes a proton-coupled broad-range metal-phytosiderophore transporter that additionally transports Fe- and Ni-nicotianamine. These biochemical properties indicate a novel role of YS1 transporters for heavy metal homeostasis in plants. Although iron is the second most abundant metal in the earth's crust, the bioavailability of this essential micronutrient is extremely low. Many microorganisms and graminaceous plant species overcome this problem by secreting siderophores, which are hydroxamate-, hydroxypyridonate-, catechol-, or aminocarboxylate-type chelators with a particular high affinity for Fe(III) (1Sugiura Y. Nomoto K. Struct. Bond. 1984; 58: 107-135Crossref Google Scholar, 2Neilands J.B. J. Biol. Chem. 1995; 270: 26723-26726Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (1231) Google Scholar). After mobilization of Fe(III), e.g. from sparingly soluble precipitates, siderophore-bound iron is subsequently taken up by specific transport systems, which have been well characterized in prokaryotic organisms (3Braun V. Killmann H. Trends Biochem. Sci. 1999; 24: 104-109Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (328) Google Scholar). Yeast or dicotyledonous and non-graminaceous monocotyledonous plants increase proton secretion by H+-ATPases as well as Fe(III) reduction capacity by ferric chelate reductases at the root plasma membrane and induce the Fe(II) transporter IRT1 (4Schmidt W. Trends Plant Sci. 2003; 8: 188-193Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (195) Google Scholar). This reduction-based strategy, however, is prone to inhibition by high pH and elevated bicarbonate levels in calcareous soils, due to the pH dependence of chemical Fe(III) solubilization and enzymatic Fe(III) reduction (5Toulon V. Sentenac H. Thibaud J.-B. Soler A. Clarkson D. Grignon C. Planta. 1989; 179: 235-241Crossref PubMed Scopus (23) Google Scholar). By contrast, graminaceous plant species constitutively express the reduction-dependent pathway for iron uptake at a comparatively low level, but enhance capacities for phytosiderophore release and Fe(III)-phytosiderophore uptake under iron deficiency (6Römheld V. Marschner H. Plant Physiol. 1986; 80: 175-180Crossref PubMed Google Scholar). Physiological studies showed that Fe-phytosiderophore transport in graminaceous plants is unaffected by the presence of strong Fe(II) chelators, such as BPDS (6Römheld V. Marschner H. Plant Physiol. 1986; 80: 175-180Crossref PubMed Google Scholar), but recognizes the backbone structure of mugineic acid-derived phytosiderophores, which are aminocarboxylate-type, hexadentate Fe(III) chelators (Refs. 1Sugiura Y. Nomoto K. Struct. Bond. 1984; 58: 107-135Crossref Google Scholar and 7Ma J.F. Kusano G. Kimura S. Nomoto K. Phytochem. 1993; 34: 599-603Crossref Scopus (55) Google Scholar and Fig. 1). In roots of maize high-affinity Fe(III)-phytosiderophore uptake is required to produce non-chlorotic, healthy plants, and is strongly dependent on the YS1 gene product (8von Wirén N. Mori S. Marschner H. Römheld V. Plant Physiol. 1994; 106: 71-77Crossref PubMed Scopus (179) Google Scholar). Transposon-tagging of the YS1 gene in maize allowed to identify ZmYS1 as a highly hydrophobic protein with 14 putative transmembrane-spanning domains that confers growth of the iron uptake-defective yeast mutant fet3 fet4 on phytosiderophore-bound iron, even in the presence of the Fe(II) chelator BPDS 1The abbreviations used are: BPDS, bathophenanthroline disulfonate; DMA, 2′-deoxymugineic acid; NA, nicotianamine; MES, 4-morpholineethanesulfonic acid. (9Curie C. Panaviene Z. Loulergue C. Dellaporta S.L. Briat J.-F. Walker E.L. Nature. 2001; 409: 346-349Crossref PubMed Scopus (764) Google Scholar). This study confirmed earlier uptake experiments with double-labeled Fe-phytosiderophores in the ys1 mutant indicating a stochiometric uptake of metal and ligand (10von Wirén N. Marschner H. Römheld V. Physiol. Plant. 1995; 93: 611-616Crossref Google Scholar). The non-reductive transport pathway of Fe-phytosiderophores seems especially effective at alkaline pH and very low concentrations of Fe(III)-phytosiderophore complexes (11Shi W.-M. Chino M. Youssef R.A. Mori S. Takagi S. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 1988; 34: 585-592Crossref Scopus (41) Google Scholar, 12Marschner H. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. Academic Press, London1995Google Scholar). Although showing high affinity for ferric, phytosiderophores of the mugineic acid family do also chelate other heavy metals. Phytosiderophore-enriched root exudates efficiently mobilized copper, manganese, and zinc as well as other non-essential heavy metals (13Treeby M. Marschner H. Römheld V. Plant Soil. 1989; 114: 217-226Crossref Scopus (254) Google Scholar, 14Römheld V. Awad F. J. Plant Nutr. 2000; 23: 1857-1866Crossref Scopus (45) Google Scholar). Moreover, uptake studies with labeled metal-phytosiderophores indicated that barley roots possess uptake activities for phytosiderophore-complexed zinc and copper (7Ma J.F. Kusano G. Kimura S. Nomoto K. Phytochem. 1993; 34: 599-603Crossref Scopus (55) Google Scholar, 15Zhang F. Römheld V. Marschner H. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 1991; 37: 671-678Crossref Scopus (111) Google Scholar) and that ZmYS1 is responsible for the import of Zn(II)-phytosiderophores in maize roots (16von Wirén N. Marschner H. Römheld V. Plant Physiol. 1996; 111: 1119-1125Crossref PubMed Scopus (196) Google Scholar). Thus, the plant phytosiderophore system could potentially also serve for the acquisition of metals other than iron, which is supported by the observation that phytosiderophore release is not only triggered under iron-deficient growth conditions, but also induced under zinc deficiency (15Zhang F. Römheld V. Marschner H. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 1991; 37: 671-678Crossref Scopus (111) Google Scholar, 17Tolay I. Erenoglu B. Römheld V. Braun H.J. Cakmak I. J. Exp. Bot. 2001; 52: 1093-1099Crossref PubMed Scopus (43) Google Scholar). In plants, metal-phytosiderophore uptake is not only important for covering the micronutrient demand of the plant, but might also be important for employing plants in future for phytoremediation purposes. In the dicotyledonous plant Arabidopsis thaliana eight ZmYS1 homologs (AtYSL1–8) have been identified (9Curie C. Panaviene Z. Loulergue C. Dellaporta S.L. Briat J.-F. Walker E.L. Nature. 2001; 409: 346-349Crossref PubMed Scopus (764) Google Scholar). Since the release of phytosiderophores has so far not yet been observed in dicotyledonous plants, it is possible that YSL proteins function to transport metal-nicotianamine (NA) chelates. Nicotianamine, which occurs in all higher plants, is structurally similar to phytosiderophores and serves as a precursor in their biosynthetic pathway (Ref. 18Shojima S. Nishizawa N.K. Fushiya S. Nozoe S. Irifune T. Mori S. Plant Physiol. 1990; 93: 1497-1503Crossref PubMed Scopus (205) Google Scholar and Fig. 1). A strong link between NA and iron metabolism is reflected in the NA-less tomato mutant chloronerva that shows severe symptoms of iron deficiency due to a deletion in a gene encoding nicotianamine synthase (19Ling H.-Q. Koch G. Bäumlein H. Ganal M.W. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1999; 96: 7098-7103Crossref PubMed Scopus (192) Google Scholar). Furthermore, NA has been shown to chelate not only Fe(III) but also Fe(II), in particular at higher pH, which may allow it to serve as an intracellular Fe(II) scavenger thereby protecting the cell from Fe(II)-mediated oxidative damage (20von Wirén N. Klair S. Bansal S. Briat J.-F. Khodr H. Shioiri T. Leigh R.A. Hider R.C. Plant Physiol. 1999; 119: 1107-1114Crossref PubMed Scopus (391) Google Scholar). The recent success of chemical synthesis of NA (21Miyakoshi K. Oshita J. Kitahara T. Tetrahedron. 2001; 573355Crossref Scopus (30) Google Scholar) allowed us also to investigate metal-NA chelate transport. In order to understand iron-phytosiderophore transport under alkaline conditions and to characterize metal and ligand specificity by the ZmYS1 transporter in maize, we expressed ZmYS1 in two heterologous systems and verified its transport properties in the ys1 maize mutant. We found that ZmYS1 mediates transport of phytosiderophore-bound Fe(III) and other metals by H+-coupled cotransport and permeates also NA-complexed Fe(II), Fe(III), and Ni(II). Plasmids, Yeast Strains, and Growth Conditions—Plasmid preparation, restriction enzyme digestion, and DNA ligation were performed using standard methods (22Sambrook J. Fritsch E.F. Maniatis T. Molecular Cloning, A Laboratory Manual.2nd Ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY1989Google Scholar). The ZmYS1 open reading frame containing a 32-bp 5′-untranslated region was subcloned from pYPGE15 (9Curie C. Panaviene Z. Loulergue C. Dellaporta S.L. Briat J.-F. Walker E.L. Nature. 2001; 409: 346-349Crossref PubMed Scopus (764) Google Scholar) into the yeast expression vector pDR196 (23Rentsch D. Laloi M. Rouhara I. Schmelzer E. Delrot S. Frommer W.B. FEBS Lett. 1995; 370: 264-268Crossref PubMed Scopus (279) Google Scholar) and the oocyte expression vector pOO2 (24Ludewig U. von Wirén N. Frommer W.B. J. Biol. Chem. 2002; 277: 13548-13555Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (212) Google Scholar) using EcoRI/XhoI restriction sites. The fet3 fet4 mutant DEY1453 (MATa/MATα ade2/+can1/can1 his3/his3 leu2/trp1/trp1 ura3/ura3 fet3-2:HIS3/fet3-2:HIS3/fet4-1:LEU2/fet4-1:LEU2) (25Spizzo T. Byersdorfer C. Duesterhoeft S. Eide D. Mol. Gen. Genet. 1997; 256: 547-556PubMed Google Scholar), the zap1 mutant (BY4741; Mat a; his3Δ1; leu2Δ0; met15Δ0; ura3Δ0; YJL056c::kanMX4; acc no Y01367 from Euroscarf) (www.unifrankfurt.de/fb15/mikro/euroscarf/index.html) and its isogenic wt (BY4741; Mat a; his3Δ1; leu2Δ0; met15Δ0; ura3Δ0; acc no Y00000 from Euroscarf) were used for yeast complementation. Media were prepared using standard recipes (22Sambrook J. Fritsch E.F. Maniatis T. Molecular Cloning, A Laboratory Manual.2nd Ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY1989Google Scholar, 26Rose M.D. Winston F. Hieter P. Methods in Yeast Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY1990Google Scholar). To support growth of the fet3 fet4 mutant, solid YNB medium contained additionally 30 μm FeCl3, while the liquid YPD medium was acidified to pH 5.0 with HCl. Yeast was transformed with either pDR196 or pDR196-ZmYS1 using the LiAc method (27Gietz D. St. Jean A. Woods R.A. Schiestl H. Nucleic Acids Res. 1992; 201425Crossref PubMed Scopus (2899) Google Scholar), and transformants were selected on uracil-deficient YNB medium containing 0.1% arginine as nitrogen source and the appropriate supplements. For growth tests a single colony from BY4741 and fet3 fet4 transformants was washed in 1 ml of 10× TE (pH 7.5) and resuspended in sterile MQ water to obtain an OD of 0.09. Cells were streaked on uracil-deficient YNB medium, containing 0.1% arginine, 3% glucose, 0.01% tryptophane, histidine, methionine, leucine, and the respective iron source. For complementation of the zap1 mutant, cells were streaked on a modified LIM medium (28Eide D. Guarente L. J. Gen. Microbiol. 1992; 138: 347-354Crossref PubMed Scopus (59) Google Scholar) without sodium citrate, zinc sulfate, and ammonium, but supplemented with 0.1% arginine, 3% glucose, 0.01% histidine, methionine, and leucine, 50 mm MES/Tris (pH 7.0) and the respective zinc source. For uptake experiments single colonies of transformed BY4741 cells were cultured in liquid YNB medium containing 3% glucose, the appropriate supplements and 30 μm NiSO4, harvested at mid-log phase, washed at 4 °C in ice cold uptake buffer consisting of 3% glucose, 40 mm NaH2PO3 (pH 6.5) and resuspended on ice in uptake buffer to obtain OD 12. Before the uptake experiment, cells were incubated for 15 min at 30 °C (500 rpm). Uptake was started by addition of 1 volume of solution containing 3% glucose, 100 mm MES/Tris (pH 6.5) and the respective 63Ni(II)-chelate (specific activity 143 Ci mol-1). 100 μl of uptake reaction was diluted in 10 ml of 10 mm EDTA (pH 6.5) and filtered (Whatman, 1822 025) before analyzing filter membranes by scintillation counting. Electrophysiological Studies in Xenopus laevis Oocytes—Capped cRNA was transcribed from pOO2-ZmYS1 in vitro using the mMessage mMachine kit (Ambion, Austin, TX), after linearization of the plasmid with Eco72I. Oocyte experiments were performed as described in (29Liu L. Ludewig U. Frommer W.B. von Wirén N. Plant Cell. 2003; 15: 790-800Crossref PubMed Scopus (112) Google Scholar). Metal-chelate-induced currents in oocytes were detected by two electrode voltage clamp 3 days after cRNA injection. Preparation of Metal Chelates—Deoxymugineic acid (DMA) was produced, and NA was chemically synthesized as described previously (16von Wirén N. Marschner H. Römheld V. Plant Physiol. 1996; 111: 1119-1125Crossref PubMed Scopus (196) Google Scholar, 21Miyakoshi K. Oshita J. Kitahara T. Tetrahedron. 2001; 573355Crossref Scopus (30) Google Scholar). Fe-DMA was prepared by mixing appropriate amounts of a 10 mm FeCl3 solution, pH <2, and MES/Tris buffer and, if not indicated otherwise, with a 10-fold excess of DMA for 2–3 h at RT. Fe(II)-NA was obtained by mixing a freshly prepared Fe(II) stock solution consisting of 10 mm FeCl2 and 20 mm ascorbate in 200 mm MES/Tris, pH 7.0 or 7.5, with the appropriate amount of a 10 mm NA solution and MES/Tris buffer, pH 7.0 or 7.5, followed by 10 min of incubation at 65 °C. According to this procedure successful complex formation had been verified (20von Wirén N. Klair S. Bansal S. Briat J.-F. Khodr H. Shioiri T. Leigh R.A. Hider R.C. Plant Physiol. 1999; 119: 1107-1114Crossref PubMed Scopus (391) Google Scholar, 35von Wirén N. Khodr H. Hider R.C. Plant Physiol. 2000; 124: 1149-1157Crossref PubMed Scopus (98) Google Scholar). Formation of the Fe(II)-NA complex was monitored by disappearance of the purple Fe-ascorbate complex. The Fe(III)- and Ni(II)-NA complexes were prepared similarly by dissolving FeCl3 or NiSO4 in 10 mm HCl to obtain a 10 mm metal solution, and mixing with the appropriate amount of MES/Tris buffer and NA, followed by incubation at 65 °C for 10 min. In all solutions NA was in 20% excess if not indicated otherwise. All chelate solutions were centrifuged or filtered (0.2 μm, Schleicher & Schuell) to remove precipitated iron hydroxides. Iron concentrations of supernatants or filtrates were verified by AAS or scintillation counting. 59Fe-labeled Fe-phytosiderophore Uptake Studies in Maize—Maize plants were precultured and subjected to uptake studies using 59Fe-labeled Fe-DMA (8von Wirén N. Mori S. Marschner H. Römheld V. Plant Physiol. 1994; 106: 71-77Crossref PubMed Scopus (179) Google Scholar, 16von Wirén N. Marschner H. Römheld V. Plant Physiol. 1996; 111: 1119-1125Crossref PubMed Scopus (196) Google Scholar). CCCP was added from 1 mm or 10 mm stock solutions in methanol to uptake solutions to final concentrations of 10 or 100 μm (solutions w/o CCCP contained methanol alone). Uptake solutions were buffered with MES/Tris or HEPES. Fe-Phytosiderophore Transport in Maize Roots Is pH-dependent—Since graminaceous plant species are dependent on Fe(III)-phytosiderophore uptake in particular at alkaline soil pH, uptake of 59Fe-labeled Fe(III)-DMA was compared in wild type (Alice) and ys1 mutant plants at different pH values of the uptake solution. At alkaline pH (pH 7.5) uptake rates of Fe(III)-DMA were 5-fold higher in wild type maize compared with ys1 mutant plants. However in wild type maize decreasing pH caused an increase in uptake which was almost 2-fold higher at pH 4.5 compared with pH 7.5 (Fig. 2A). The majority of this Fe(III)-DMA uptake could be ascribed to ZmYS1, since uptake rates in the ys1 mutant were five to ten times lower and did not change with external pH. To confirm a pH dependence of Fe-phytosiderophore uptake further, the effect of the proton uncoupler CCCP on root uptake of labeled Fe(III)-DMA was tested in Fe-deficient wild-type plants. Addition of CCCP at concentrations of 10 and 100 μm led to a 10–20-fold decrease in Fe(III)-DMA uptake (Fig. 2B), suggesting a dependence of Fe(III)-DMA transport on the proton gradient across the root plasma membrane. Transport Properties of ZmYS1 in Yeast—ZmYS1 has been shown to complement growth of the fet3 fet4 mutant (9Curie C. Panaviene Z. Loulergue C. Dellaporta S.L. Briat J.-F. Walker E.L. Nature. 2001; 409: 346-349Crossref PubMed Scopus (764) Google Scholar), which is defective in high and low affinity iron transport and cannot grow on Fe-limited medium (30Eide D. Broderius M. Fett J. Guerinot M.L. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1996; 93: 5624-5628Crossref PubMed Scopus (1083) Google Scholar). As expected, fet3 fet4 cells transformed with pDR196-ZmYS1 grew well on medium containing 7.5 μm Fe(III)-2′-DMA, whereas transformants with the empty vector did not (Fig. 3A). Growth complementation was pH-dependent. ZmYS1 transformants appeared earlier (data not shown), and colony number increased with decreasing pH (Fig. 3A). To test ligand specificity of ZmYS1-mediated transport, ZmYS1-transformed fet3 fet4 cells were grown on NA-chelated iron. After 7-days growth complementation was achieved by 40 μm of either Fe(II)-NA or Fe(III)-NA (Fig. 3B), while growth was not complemented using 7.5 μm Fe-NA (data not shown). With supply of 30 μm FeCl3 differences between yeast transformants disappeared (Fig. 3C). Zn(II)-phytosiderophore transport was investigated employing the zinc uptake-defective yeast strain zap1, which carries a deletion in the zinc-responsive transcriptional activator Zap1 (31Zhao H. Eide D.J. Mol. Cell Biol. 1997; 17: 5044-5052Crossref PubMed Scopus (223) Google Scholar) and does not grow on modified LIM medium containing less than 400 μm zinc when transformed with pDR196 alone (Fig. 3D). Transformation of zap1 with pDR196-ZmYS1, however, permitted growth on 0.7 mm Zn(II)-DMA as zinc source, showing that ZmYS1 also transports phytosiderophore-chelated zinc (Fig. 3D). To investigate ZmYS1-mediated transport of nickel complexes, we first examined time-dependent uptake of 63Ni-DMA in the wt yeast strain BY4741. Little uptake was detected at 4 °C for either ZmYS1-expressing or control cells (Fig. 4A). At 30 °C, ZmYS1 expression led to an almost linear increase in 63Ni accumulation over 20 min, while control cells hardly accumulated any 63Ni. Nickel(II)-DMA uptake activity stopped immediately after addition of CCCP, while cells receiving the solvent alone continued to accumulate 63Ni(II)-DMA (Fig. 4B). Uptake activity of 63Ni(II)-NA was also CCCP-sensitive and increased almost linearly over time, though at a 3-fold lower rate (Fig. 4C). Concentration-dependent uptake of both nickel complexes in a range between 1 and 300 μm yielded saturable kinetics, and Lineweaver-Burk transformation allowed calculatation of a Km of ZmYS1 for Ni(II)-NA of 165 μm compared with a Km of 19 μm for Ni(II)-DMA (Fig. 4D). Hence nickel was transported by ZmYS1 in a similar manner to iron, i.e. as a DMA- or NA-chelate and in a CCCP-sensitive manner. Electrophysiological Characterization of ZmYS1-mediated Transport in Oocytes—To study the transport mechanism employed by ZmYS1 in more detail, the protein was expressed heterologously in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Oocytes were voltage-clamped to -70 mV in choline-based buffer solution at pH 6.0 and then superfused with buffer containing different concentrations of Fe(III)-DMA. In oocytes injected with cRNA encoding ZmYS1, currents induced by Fe(III)-DMA corresponded to the net influx of positive charge, reversed after withdrawal of substrate and were voltage and concentration-dependent (Fig. 5A). Currents were absent in water- or non-injected control oocytes (data not shown). Fe(III)-DMA-dependent currents increased with more negative voltage and increasing substrate concentrations up to ∼25 μm Fe(III)-DMA (Fig. 5B). Thus, Fe(III)-DMA transport was saturable, and the Fe(III)-DMA concentration that permitted half-maximal uptake was between 5 and 10 μm with the tendency to decrease at more positive voltage (Fig. 5C). A decreasing Km with less negative voltage indicates binding of a negatively charged substrate to the transport protein. Fe(III)-DMA-induced currents strongly depended on external pH. Highest currents were obtained at pH 5.0 and gradually decreased by increasing the pH to 9.5 (Fig. 6A). Plotting substrate-induced currents against H+ concentrations showed that Fe(III)-DMA-induced currents increased up to proton concentrations of 100 nm, corresponding to a pH of 7, but saturated at higher proton concentrations (Fig. 6B). Replacing choline by sodium (100 mm, pH 9.5) did not stimulate transport, indicating that sodium could not substitute protons to drive metalchelate uptake (Fig. 6A). Since yeast uptake experiments provided evidence that ZmYS1 might also transport other heavy metals chelated with phytosiderophores (Fig. 4), different metal-chelates were tested for the induction of currents in ZmYS1-injected oocytes. When supplied at 100 μm external concentration, Ni(II)-, Zn(II)-, and Cu(II)-DMA provoked currents of similar size to those achieved with Fe(III)-DMA (Fig. 7A). By contrast, Mn(II)- and Cd(II)-bound DMA induced significantly smaller currents and negligible currents were induced by the unchelated ligand. Ferrous and ferric complexes with the synthetic chelator EDTA or unchelated metals (data not shown) induced little if any current. Since ZmYS1 might be saturated at <100 μm, currents were also assayed at 5 μm corresponding to the Km for Fe(III)-DMA (Fig. 5C). Currents induced by Ni(II)-, Zn(II)-, and Cu(II)-DMA were smaller relative to those induced by Fe(III)-DMA, while currents induced by Mn(II)- and Cd(II)-DMA approached zero (Fig. 7B), indicating that Cd- and Mn-phytosiderophore transport by ZmYS1 will be relatively insignificant in the presence of more competitive metals like iron, nickel, zinc, and copper. Smaller currents induced by 5 μm Ni(II)-DMA compared with 5 μm Fe(III)-DMA were consistent with the higher Km value of ZmYS1 for Ni(II)-DMA (Fig. 4D) compared with Fe(III)-DMA (Fig. 7A). Currents induced by DMA-chelated Fe(III) were then compared with NA-chelated iron at a concentration of 5 μm, clearly showing that ZmYS1 transports Fe(III)-DMA more efficiently than Fe(II)- or Fe(III)-NA (Fig. 7B). Together with the observation in yeast, where ZmYS1-mediated uptake of Ni(II)-DMA was higher than uptake of Ni(II)-NA, we concluded that metal-DMA complexes are more favored substrates for ZmYS1 compared with metal-NA complexes. At higher concentration and more negative membrane potential a discrimination between Fe(II)- and Fe(III)-NA transport could be achieved. Currents induced by 100 μm Fe(II)-NA increased steeply with voltage and were 3-fold larger than those for Fe(III)-NA (Fig. 7C). The induction of currents by NA complexes with both iron forms clearly agreed with the growth complementation of ZmYS1-transformed yeast cells on Fe(II)- and Fe(III)-NA (Fig. 3B). ZmYS1 Mediates H+-coupled High Affinity Fe-Phytosiderophore Transport—In three different systems we observed that ZmYS1-mediated Fe(III)-DMA transport depends on the availability of protons: (i) in maize roots Fe(III)-DMA uptake was severely inhibited by CCCP, and the contribution of ZmYS1 to transport of the iron chelate increased with the concentration of external protons (Fig. 2); (ii) in yeast, low pH values improved growth complementation by ZmYS1 of the iron uptake-defective yeast mutant fet3 fet4 (Fig. 3A) and uptake of 63Ni(II)-DMA was strongly inhibited by CCCP (Fig. 4B); and (iii) oocytes expressing ZmYS1 exhibited a positive inwardly rectifying and voltage-dependent current in response to supply with negatively charged Fe(III)-DMA and this current was proton dependent (Figs. 5 and 6). Considering the almost stochiometric uptake of double-labeled 59Fe- and 65Zn-14C-DMA by maize roots (8von Wirén N. Mori S. Marschner H. Römheld V. Plant Physiol. 1994; 106: 71-77Crossref PubMed Scopus (179) Google Scholar, 16von Wirén N. Marschner H. Römheld V. Plant Physiol. 1996; 111: 1119-1125Crossref PubMed Scopus (196) Google Scholar), we conclude that ZmYS1 represents a H+-Fe(III)-phytosiderophore cotransporter. These data provide the first description of the transport mechanism employed by a member of the OPT family of oligopeptide transporters. In view of the pH and CCCP sensitivity of oligopeptide transport in yeast by ScOPT1 (32Lubkowitz M.A. Barnes D. Breslav M. Burchfield A. Naider F. Becker J.M. Mol. Microbiol. 2000; 28: 729-741Crossref Scopus (71) Google Scholar, 33Hauser M. Donhardt A.M. Barnes D. Naider F. Becker J.M. J. Biol. Chem. 2000; 275: 3037-3041Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (68) Google Scholar), which belongs to a different cluster within the OPT family (34Yen M.-R. Teng Y.H. Saier Jr., M.H. Microbiology. 2001; 147: 2881-2883Crossref PubMed Scopus (83) Google Scholar), it is likely that energization by H+-cotransport also holds true for other OPT members. Proton cotransport is surprising in view of the environmental conditions, under which the uptake of Fe(III)-phytosiderophores has to take place. The release of phytosiderophores by graminaceous species is enhanced as a response to low availability of soluble iron, which naturally occurs at high pH, such as is found in calcareous soils. In contrast to plants employing reduction-dependent iron acquisition, iron deficiency in grasses shows little if any correlation with elevated bicarbonate concentrations (12Marschner H. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. Academic Press, London1995Google Scholar), since iron acquisition does not rely on an Fe(III) reduction step. Our investigations uncovered another factor that contributes to more efficient iron acquisition in grasses: coupling the transport of Fe-phytosiderophores, which are negatively charged at neutral pH (35von Wirén N. Khodr H. Hider R.C. Plant Physiol. 2000; 124: 1149-1157Crossref PubMed Scopus (98) Google Scholar), to protons allows efficient root uptake even at high soil pH, because transport of the proton-coupled substrate can be driven as long as the overall difference of the electrochemical potential remains negative. This is emphasized by the Fe-DMA-induced currents in ZmYS1-expressing oocytes at pH 9.5, where currents appeared already at membrane potentials below -120 mV (Fig. 6A). Since the membrane potentials of root cells in grasses are usually between -120 and -180 mV, Fe-phytosiderophore uptake can still be driven until the availability of protons as a co-substrate becomes limiting. In oocytes proton availability limited Fe-DMA transport between pH 7 and 9.5 (Fig. 6B); but in soil-grown plants proton limitation probably occurs even at higher soil pH, because P-type ATPase-mediated proton extrusion may generate a local pH gradient favoring substrateproton cotransport (36Thibaud J.-B. Davidian J.-C. Sentenac H. Soler A. Grignon C. Plant Physiol. 1988; 88: 1469-1473Crossref PubMed Google Scholar). Thus, even at high proton buffering capacities in bicarbonate-rich soils, the electrochemical potential drives accumulation mainly by generating a strongly negative membrane potential. Under these conditions ZmYS1 can exhibit a high substrate affinity (Km of 5–10 μm, Fig. 5C) that would address the micromolar phytosiderophore concentrations found in the rhizosphere of grasses (11Shi W.-M. Chino M. Youssef R.A. Mori S. Takagi S. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 1988; 34: 585-592Crossref Scopus (41) Google Scholar). Several plant transporters employ proton cotransport for negatively charged substrates, such as sulfate, nitrate or amino acids (37Chrispeels M.J. Crawford M.N. Schroeder J.I. Plant Cell. 1999; 11: 661-676Crossref PubMed Scopus (154) Google Scholar, 38Fischer W.-N. Loo D.D.F. Koch W. Ludewig U. Boorer K.J. Tegeder M. Rentsch D. Wright E.M. Frommer W.B. Plant J. 2002; 29: 717-731Crossref PubMed Scopus (170) Google Scholar). Fe(III)-DMA complexes are negatively charged at neutral pH, while at pH 5 the majority of complexes is uncharged (35von Wirén N. Khodr H. Hider R.C. Plant Physiol. 2000; 124: 1149-1157Crossref PubMed Scopus (98) Google Scholar). The slight tendency of ZmYS1 to increase the affinity for DMA-complexed Fe(III) at more positive voltage (Fig. 5C) tempts us to speculate that the negatively charged substrate and protons bind to different sites of ZmYS1 prior to transport. Since Fe(III)-DMA transport generated a positive inward current, at least two protons are cotransported with each complex. Interestingly, the net current with different saturating metal-complex concentrations was similar irrespectively of the valency of substrate charge (Fig. 7A). As phytosiderophore complexes with divalent cations such as copper, zinc, or nickel, are predicted to carry two negative charges at neutral pH (35von Wirén N. Khodr H. Hider R.C. Plant Physiol. 2000; 124: 1149-1157Crossref PubMed Scopus (98) Google Scholar), the positive inward current demands that at least three protons are cotransported with these substrates. ZmYS1 Shows a Broad Metal Specificity—Growth complementation and oocyte transport studies clearly showed that ZmYS1 also transports phytosiderophore-chelated Zn(II). This has been substantiated in planta by lower uptake rates of 65Zn-phytosiderophores in the ys1 mutant compared with wild type maize (16von Wirén N. Marschner H. Römheld V. Plant Physiol. 1996; 111: 1119-1125Crossref PubMed Scopus (196) Google Scholar). Since phytosiderophore release is also enhanced under zinc deficiency in several graminaceous species, zinc-phytosiderophore transport by ZmYS1 most likely represents one part of a concerted adaptive response to low zinc availability. Thus, phytosiderophore release, metal chelation and chelate uptake apply for iron and zinc, which is ecologically reasonable, since poor availability of both metal micronutrients can limit plant growth on calcareous soils (12Marschner H. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. Academic Press, London1995Google Scholar). However, ZmYS1 also transported phytosiderophore-chelated nickel and copper at a similar rate to iron and zinc (Fig. 7A), although low availabilities of nickel and copper are apparently not limiting growth factors in calcareous soils. The specificity of phytosiderophore-mediated metal chelation and transport might thus be regarded as low, suggesting that metal-chelate transport by ZmYS1 primarily depends on the probability of complex formation and on regulation of ZmYS1. Since metal-phytosiderophore transport by ZmYS1 shows a similar poor selectivity for iron, as does metal transport by the major iron transporter IRT1 (30Eide D. Broderius M. Fett J. Guerinot M.L. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1996; 93: 5624-5628Crossref PubMed Scopus (1083) Google Scholar, 39Vert G. Grotz N. Dédaldéchamp F. Gaymard F. Guerinot M.L. Briat J.-F. Curie C. Plant Cell. 2002; 14: 1223-1233Crossref PubMed Scopus (1190) Google Scholar), for which a complex regulation at the transcript level by iron and cadmium and at the protein level by iron and zinc was found (40Conolly E.L. Fett J.P. Guerinot M.L. 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Fe- and Ni-NA transport by ZmYS1 is of particular physiological importance, since NA is believed to fulfill a physiological role, which is different from phytosiderophores. Based on the formation of stable complexes between NA and Fe(II) or Fe(III) (20von Wirén N. Klair S. Bansal S. Briat J.-F. Khodr H. Shioiri T. Leigh R.A. Hider R.C. Plant Physiol. 1999; 119: 1107-1114Crossref PubMed Scopus (391) Google Scholar), the occurrence of NA in aqueous extracts of leaves and roots (43Walter A. Pich A. Scholz G Marschner H. Römheld V. J. Plant Nutr. 1995; 18: 1577-1593Crossref Scopus (17) Google Scholar) and the likely accumulation of Fe-NA complexes in the cytoplasm and the vacuole (44Pich A. Manteuffel R. Hillmer S. Scholz G. Schmidt W. Planta. 2001; 213: 967-976Crossref PubMed Scopus (117) Google Scholar), NA may find its physiological role in iron chelation for the intracellular delivery of iron and long-distance trafficking of iron, zinc, and copper (44Pich A. Manteuffel R. Hillmer S. 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Loulergue C. Dellaporta S.L. Briat J.-F. Walker E.L. Nature. 2001; 409: 346-349Crossref PubMed Scopus (764) Google Scholar) but does not synthesize phytosiderophores, transport of Fe-NA might represent a major function for this transporter family in dicotyledonous plant species. Thus, YS1 and YSL proteins might act in a complementary manner to IRT and NRAMP transporters, since membrane transport could be mediated without involving a reduction step. An alternative physiological role of YS1 and YSL proteins is indicated by our finding that ZmYS1 mediates transport of Ni(II)-NA (Fig. 4). Supported by the observation that one NA synthase gene from maize, ZmNAS3, is up-regulated by iron sufficiency, which provides evidence for NA synthesis independent of phytosiderophore biosynthesis (46Mizuno D. Higuchi K. Sakamoto T. Nakanishi H. Mori S. Nishizawa N.K. Plant Physiol. 2003; 132: 1989-1997Crossref PubMed Scopus (91) Google Scholar), a novel role for NA in heavy metal transport and detoxification is indicated. Indeed, recent investigations on the physiological basis of nickel tolerance in the hyperaccumulator species Thlaspi caerulescens identified enhanced chelation of Ni(II) by NA in the xylem as a response to toxic levels of external nickel (47Vacchina V. Mari S. Czernic P. Marques L. Pianelli K. Schaumlöffel D. Lebrun M. Lobinski R. Anal. Chem. 2003; 75: 2740-2745Crossref PubMed Scopus (121) Google Scholar). This response implies the existence of membrane transporters for NA-chelated Ni(II), that are most likely represented by YS1 and YSL homologs. Future experiments should therefore focus on the membrane localization of YS1 and YSL proteins in graminaceous and dicotyledonous plants as well as on overexpression of YS1 and YSL genes, which might become an important foundation for future phytoremediation strategies. We thank Catherine Curie for providing the ZmYS1 cDNA clone, Günther Winkelmann for providing the fet3 fet4 mutant, Dominique Loqué, Maria Ruckwied, and Nadine Drews for excellent technical assistance, and Toru Fujiwara, Junpei Takano, Wolfgang Schmidt, and Mike Merrick for critically reading the manuscript." @default.
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