PMID:16617180

Citation	Gross, J, Cho, WK, Lezhneva, L, Falk, J, Krupinska, K, Shinozaki, K, Seki, M, Herrmann, RG and Meurer, J (2006) A plant locus essential for phylloquinone (vitamin K1) biosynthesis originated from a fusion of four eubacterial genes. J. Biol. Chem. 281:17189-96
Abstract	Phylloquinone is a compound present in all photosynthetic plants serving as cofactor for Photosystem I-mediated electron transport. Newly identified seedling-lethal Arabidopsis thaliana mutants impaired in the biosynthesis of phylloquinone possess reduced Photosystem I activity. The affected gene, called PHYLLO, consists of a fusion of four previously individual eubacterial genes, menF, menD, menC, and menH, required for the biosynthesis of phylloquinone in photosynthetic cyanobacteria and the respiratory menaquinone in eubacteria. The fact that homologous men genes reside as polycistronic units in eubacterial chromosomes and in plastomes of red algae strongly suggests that PHYLLO derived from a plastid operon during endosymbiosis. The principle architecture of the fused PHYLLO locus is conserved in the nuclear genomes of plants, green algae, and the diatom alga Thalassiosira pseudonana. The latter arose from secondary endosymbiosis of a red algae and a eukaryotic host indicating selective driving forces for maintenance and/or independent generation of the composite gene cluster within the nuclear genomes. Besides, individual menF genes, encoding active isochorismate synthases (ICS), have been established followed by splitting of the essential 3' region of the menF module of PHYLLO only in genomes of higher plants. This resulted in inactivation of the ICS activity encoded by PHYLLO and enabled a metabolic branch from the phylloquinone biosynthetic route to independently regulate the synthesis of salicylic acid required for plant defense. Therefore, gene fusion, duplication, and fission events adapted a eubacterial multienzymatic system to the metabolic requirements of plants.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1074/jbc.M601754200
Keywords	Algal Proteins/genetics; Algal Proteins/metabolism; Arabidopsis/genetics; Base Sequence; Cell Nucleus/metabolism; Chlorophyta/metabolism; Evolution, Molecular; Models, Chemical; Models, Genetic; Molecular Sequence Data; Plant Proteins/chemistry; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; Symbiosis; Vitamin K 1/chemistry; Vitamin K 1/metabolism; Vitamin K 1/pharmacology
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