The expression levels of these genes using qRT-PCR were in good accordance with corresponding transcript levels of the RNA-seq dataset Fig. It was documented that Gly, Cys, and Ser are derived from 3-phosphoglycerate in plants, and are synthesized through 6 reactions catalyzed by 6 enzymes.

Genes encoding biosynthetic and catabolic enzymes involved in 3-Phosphoglycerate pathway were screened. In total, 77 annotated genes encoding 10 major enzymes in 3-phosphoglycerate pathways were identified Fig. Notably, only three DEGs encoding dphosphoglycerate dehydrogenase CsPGDH , Serine hydroxymethyltransferase CsSHMT and Serine O-acetyltransferase CsSOA were observed under various forms of N treatments.

Importantly, both CsSHMT and CsSOA have two members in tea plant, and these showed differential responses to N treatments. The gene expression of CsSHMT TEA Likewise, the gene expression of CsSOA TEA While, a significant decrease of transcript levels of CsSOA TEA Identification of DEGs encoding enzymes related to 3-phosphoglycerate pathway.

A The DEGs encoding enzymes related to synthesis and first step degradation pathway of amino acids from 3-phosphoglycerate pathway.

To further validate our results, three important genes CsPGDH , CsSHMT and CsSOA were chosen for qRT-PCR analysis. The expression levels of these genes using qRT-PCR were consistent with corresponding transcript levels of the RNA-seq dataset Fig.

In general, the contents of secondary metabolites significantly affect the quality of tea products Among the various metabolic products, amino acids greatly contribute to the quality of green tea. Previous studies showed that N forms and N level significantly affect amino acid metabolism, thereby modulating amino acid levels in tea roots and shoots.

It is important to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the underlying molecular basis of how amino acid biosynthesis and catabolism are regulated at molecular level by N forms in tea plant root.

Several studies have explored amino acid contents and corresponding molecular changes that occur in tea plants in response to nutritional and environmental conditions 26 , 27 , 30 , 43 , 54 , 55 , 56 , Glu-derived pathway amino acids are most abundant and most dynamic in roots of tea plants.

Metabolism of amino acids derived from same precursors may be regulated in modules Figs. Notably, a direct supply of EA in the culture medium did not increase Thea synthesis, suggesting that Thea might be as a form of nitrogen storage only when N nutrition is sufficient.

In present study, we used same amount N concentration as normal nutritional solution. In this condition, the tea plants prefer to utilize EA-N to meet their need for N Fig. S2 , but not directly providing the substrate for Thea synthesis. Bioavailability of N correlates closely to both tea yield and quality of processed tea 26 , 27 , Nutrient supplementation level is a critical factor greatly influencing both yield and quality of tea 7 , In addition, Ruan et al.

In summary, these findings are consistent with those of this study of amino acids contents in tea roots under various N forms treatments Fig. Increasing evidences showed that N forms and levels relate closely to changes of amino acids content of tea roots and leaves 26 , 27 , 30 , However, a comprehensive investigation into the molecular basis underlying amino acids metabolism in tea roots is still absent.

For example, Huang et al. Actually, previous studies reported that many amino acids are mainly synthesized in tea root, and are then transported from root to shoot 41 , 44 , Yang et al.

Thus, the tissue-specific response of gene expression could not be elucidated Recently, Liu et al. Deep RNA-sequence technology is a powerful tool to systemically identify key gene candidates in many plants, such as Poplar 60 , Arabidopsis 61 , Camellia sinensis 30 , 62 , This suggested that the genes involved in N absorption, assimilation and metabolism were remarkably affected by the forms of N.

Combined with the RNA-seq data, we identified the genes encoding enzymes involved in five main amino acid metabolism pathways. Notably, FPKM of CsAlaDC , CsGDHs , CsGOGATs , CsCsTSI and CsGSs of Thea-related amino acid biosynthetic genes accounted for as high as We speculate that high expression of these genes conferred the highly specific synthesis and accumulation of Thea in tea plant root.

In Asp and pyruvate pathway, aspartate aminotransferase AspAT catalyzed 2-oxaloacetate and Glu to synthesize Asp. Asp can be hydrolyzed by asparate kinase CsAK.

In addition, Phe is a precursor for many tea secondary metabolites. The first step of Phe catabolism is catalyzed by PAL. Our results showed EA-N significantly represses Phe catabolism by down-regulated of CsPALs , suggesting that less metabolism of Phe occurred in this treatment of shikimate pathway.

Moreover, due to the significant variation of Ser and Gly contents under different forms of N and levels, we also found a key regulatory DEG CsSHMT in the 3-Phosphoglycerate pathway, which was significantly responsive to N forms treatment.

We have identified some key regulatory genes in the five main pathways of amino acid metabolism, which provided a vital and useful clue to comprehensively understand the changes of amino acid accumulation in tea roots.

However, the molecular mechanism related to how these potential genes control amino acid metabolic flux in tea roots remains unclear. Future studies of these regulatory genes will be needed to further determine the mechanistic effects. In this study, integrated transcriptome and metabolites amino acids analyses provide new insights into amino acid metabolism of tea roots.

The results showed that Glu-derived pathway amino acids are the most abundant and most dynamic in tea roots. Metabolism of amino acids derived from same precursors may be regulated as modules.

Moreover, the amino acid composition in tea roots is significantly regulated in response to different forms of N and N deficiency. This study first systematically identified the key potential genes encoding biosynthetic enzymes as well as enzymes catalyzing the initial catabolic steps of amino acids, which can be used for providing a reference and guidance for further research on the role of these potential genes in amino acid metabolism of tea plant roots.

Two-year-old tea cutting seedings Camellia sinensis L. shuchazao were collected from Dechang Tea Fabrication Base at Shucheng County in Anhui province, China, and used for the hydroponic culture experiments in this study.

In the hydroponic experiment, roots of the seedlings collected were washed in tap water to remove the soil on the root surface, and then tea cutting seedlings of similar size with 10—12 leaves were selected and transplanted into plastic pots containing 10 liters of tap water.

After 3 days, seedlings were transferred to 5-litre plastic bucket 5 plants per bucket for hydroponic culture. Afterwards, the complete basal nutrient solution was supplied for one month.

The composition of the nutrient solution was used as described 50 : 0. The pH of the nutrient solution was adjusted to 4. HCl 1. The determination of free amino acids in tea plant roots was performed as described 64 , 65 with minor modifications.

Briefly, a HPLC system Waters coupled to a fluorescence detector Waters and an ultraviolet-visible detector Waters was used in this study. Thea standard was purchased from Sigma Chemical Company St. Louis, MO, USA , and other amino acid standards were purchased from Waters Corporation Milford, Massachusetts, U.

Total contents of free amino acids content were calculated as the sum of each individual free amino acid. Total RNA was extracted from root samples using the RNA pure plant Kit Tiangen, Beijing, China combined with the improved CTAB method described previously Agarose gel electrophoresis and NanoDrop spectrophotometer Thermo were used to determine the quality of samples.

Libraries were then constructed and sequenced using the Illumina Genome Analyzer Solexa. All samples for Digital Gene Expression were run in four biological replicates, and each replicate was a mixture of roots from 5 individual tea seedlings.

Unique mapped reads were used for further analysis. The fragments per kilobase of transcript sequence per millions of base pairs sequenced FPKM presented the normalized gene expression NR annotation and Gene ontology GO analysis were used to predict gene function, and identify the functional category distribution frequency GO classifications were obtained according to molecular function, biological process, and cellular component.

KEGG annotation http:www. To validate the genes expression patterns displayed by RNA-seq results, a total of 16 DEGs were randomly selected and analyzed using quantitative real-time reverse transcription PCR qRT-PCR.

qRT-PCR amplification was performed using primers designed by Primer 6. Three biological replicates were included. The expression levels of targeted genes were normalized based on the expression levels of CsACTIN in different root samples All the primers for genes amplification using qRT-PCR were listed in the Supplemental Table S The datasets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature. nature scientific reports articles article. Download PDF. Most know that from a nutrition perspective, amino acids can be divided into nonessential and essential need external dietary supplementation amino acids.

These are shown for humans below. Three of the essential amino acids can be made in humans but need significant supplementation. Arginine is depleted in processing through the urea cycle. When cysteine is low, methionine is used to replace it so its levels fall.

If tyrosine is low, phenylalanine is used to replace it. For this chapter subsection, we will provide only the basic synthetic pathways in abbreviated form without going into mechanistic or structural details. Ala can easily be synthesized from the alpha-keto acid pyruvate by a transamination reaction, so we will focus our attention on the others, the branched-chain nonpolar amino acids Val, Leu, and Ile.

Since amino acid metabolism is so complex, it's important to constantly review past learning. As is evident from the figure, glutamic acid can be made directly through the transamination of α-ketoglutarate by an ammonia donor, while glutamine can be made by the action of glutamine synthase on glutamic acid.

Arginine is synthesized in the urea cycle as we have seen before. It can be made from α-ketoglutarate through the following sequential intermediates: N-acetylglutamate, N-acetylglutamate-phosphate, N-acetylglutamate-semialdehyde, N-acetylornithine to N-acetylcitruline.

The is deacetylated and enters the urea cycle. Here we present just the synthesis of lysine from aspartate and pyruvate using the diaminopimelic acid DAP pathway.

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Without the accessory half sites the regulon cannot be transcribed and cysteine will not be produced. It is believed that the presence of NAS causes CysB to undergo a conformational change.

This conformational change allows CysB to bind properly to all the half sites and causes the recruitment of the RNA polymerase. The RNA polymerase will then transcribe the cys regulon and cysteine will be produced. Further regulation is required for this pathway, however.

CysB can down regulate its own transcription by binding to its own DNA sequence and blocking the RNA polymerase. In this case NAS will act to disallow the binding of CysB to its own DNA sequence.

OAS is a precursor of NAS, cysteine itself can inhibit CysE which functions to create OAS. Without the necessary OAS, NAS will not be produced and cysteine will not be produced.

There are two other negative regulators of cysteine. These are the molecules sulfide and thiosulfate , they act to bind to CysB and they compete with NAS for the binding of CysB. Pyruvate, the result of glycolysis , can feed into both the TCA cycle and fermentation processes.

Reactions beginning with either one or two molecules of pyruvate lead to the synthesis of alanine, valine, and leucine. Feedback inhibition of final products is the main method of inhibition, and, in E. coli , the ilvEDA operon also plays a part in this regulation.

Alanine is produced by the transamination of one molecule of pyruvate using two alternate steps: 1 conversion of glutamate to α-ketoglutarate using a glutamate-alanine transaminase, and 2 conversion of valine to α-ketoisovalerate via Transaminase C.

Not much is known about the regulation of alanine synthesis. The only definite method is the bacterium's ability to repress Transaminase C activity by either valine or leucine see ilvEDA operon.

Other than that, alanine biosynthesis does not seem to be regulated. Valine is produced by a four-enzyme pathway. It begins with the condensation of two equivalents of pyruvate catalyzed by acetohydroxy acid synthase yielding α-acetolactate.

This is catalyzed by acetohydroxy isomeroreductase. The third step is the dehydration of α, β-dihydroxyisovalerate catalyzed by dihydroxy acid dehydrase. In the fourth and final step, the resulting α-ketoisovalerate undergoes transamination catalyzed either by an alanine-valine transaminase or a glutamate-valine transaminase.

Valine biosynthesis is subject to feedback inhibition in the production of acetohydroxy acid synthase. The leucine synthesis pathway diverges from the valine pathway beginning with α-ketoisovalerate. α-Isopropylmalate synthase catalyzes this condensation with acetyl CoA to produce α-isopropylmalate.

An isomerase converts α-isopropylmalate to β-isopropylmalate. The final step is the transamination of the α-ketoisocaproate by the action of a glutamate-leucine transaminase.

Leucine, like valine, regulates the first step of its pathway by inhibiting the action of the α-Isopropylmalate synthase. The genes that encode both the dihydroxy acid dehydrase used in the creation of α-ketoisovalerate and Transaminase E, as well as other enzymes are encoded on the ilvEDA operon.

This operon is bound and inactivated by valine , leucine , and isoleucine. Isoleucine is not a direct derivative of pyruvate, but is produced by the use of many of the same enzymes used to produce valine and, indirectly, leucine.

When one of these amino acids is limited, the gene furthest from the amino-acid binding site of this operon can be transcribed. When a second of these amino acids is limited, the next-closest gene to the binding site can be transcribed, and so forth.

The commercial production of amino acids usually relies on mutant bacteria that overproduce individual amino acids using glucose as a carbon source. Some amino acids are produced by enzymatic conversions of synthetic intermediates. Aspartic acid is produced by the addition of ammonia to fumarate using a lyase.

See Template:Leucine metabolism in humans — this diagram does not include the pathway for β-leucine synthesis via leucine 2,3-aminomutase.

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The procedure starts with Seed Linkage software [ 14 ] that clusters cognate proteins from multiple organisms beginning with a single seed sequence through connectivity saturation with it.

Since basal eukaryotes such as plants and fungi are autotrophic, sequences coding for all the enzymes used in the biosynthesis of EAAs from the plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae were manually inspected using KEGG Pathway and used as seeds to search for homologues.

Moreover, our group has been developing a procedure to enrich secondary databases such as COG [ 12 ] and KEGG Orthology to be published with UniRef50 clusters [ 16 ] available from UniProt, therefore allowing the inclusion of data from incompletely sequenced genomes.

Additional file 1 : Sequences and genome status distribution reflects the abundance of proteins derived from incomplete genomes and evidences the importance of their inclusion.

In this work we took advantage of a home-built UniRef50 Enriched KEGG Orthology database UEKO to additionally cluster sequences with the seed sequences mentioned above. Since these searches recruit sequences from diverse clades, which may or may not contain organisms with completely sequenced genomes, we represented this information in Figure 1 as: a black filled circles for phyla containing complete genomes; b grey filled circles comprise clades with at least one draft genome available, but no complete genome, and c empty circles represent phyla with no complete nor draft genomes.

Protein fragments are not included in the search for homologues because they may represent partial sequenced full length proteins at mRNA level or incompletely modeled from genome.

Moreover since some full length proteins might have not been captured in databases due to high sequence divergence, a second search round used UniProt to query all clustered sequences. This step also captures partial sequences entries labeled as fragments in UniProt which were approved by the coverage filtering applied see Methods for details.

These additional significant hits are represented by triangles in Figure 1. Furthermore, enzymes required for the biosynthesis of the indicated amino acids are ordered in the anabolic pathway from left to right.

All pathways refer to EAAs biosynthesis except serine and glycine the rightmost ones used as experimental controls. Serine is represented with two alternative pathways observed in human and other eukaryotes: S 1 , from 3P-D-glycerate; and S 2 , from pyruvate.

Glycine is also represented by two pathways: G 1 and G 2 , both coming from serine; and G 3 , coming from threonine. As expected, serine and glycine biosynthesis were found to be potentially proficient in almost all phyla. This control supports the searching mechanism and attest for the efficacy of methods applied.

A few exceptions were observed and deserve comments: i Serine biosynthetic pathways was found to be absent in Rhodophyta, although the complete genome of Cyanidioschyzon merolae is available.

We manually inspected this result with regular BLAST searches and did not find additional evidence, although a translation of partial CDS was obtained for glycine biosynthetic enzyme G1 Figure 1 , triangle ; ii Serine biosynthesis seems absent in Apicomplexa as well, a clade comprising two Plasmodium complete genomes lacking enzymes S1 and S4; iii Considering the animals, besides being able to find serine biosynthetic enzymes, we fail to support the NEAA character of glycine for Mollusca.

However, evidences could be obtained for ancient organisms such as Placozoa and Porifera. For the Microsporidia E. Thus, absence of evidence may not guarantee the absence of the gene. However, out of 28 phyla, discarding both the four clades with no genome project or in progress open circles and the ones with complete genome filled symbols , we could not provide evidence of glycine biosynthesis for two phyla Fornicata and Mollusca.

However evidence for serine has been provided in all of them. Essential amino acid anabolic pathways. Eukaryotic taxonomic tree displayed at phyla level. Circles represent detection of complete proteins and triangles detection of complete and fragmented proteins.

Black: phyla containing complete genomes; Grey: at most organisms with draft genomes; White: phyla with no complete or draft genomes. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ascomycota and Arabidopsis thaliana Streptophyta were used as seeds.

The 4 distinct aminotransferases in phenylalanine pathway are: i aspartate aminotransferase ii histidinol-phosphate aminotransferase iii aromatic amino acid aminotransferase iv tyrosine aminotransferase. The 4 distinct methyltransferases in methionine pathway are: i 5-methyltetrahydropteroyltriglutamate--homocysteine methyltransferase ii homocysteine S-methyltransferase iii betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase iv 5-methyltetrahydrofolate--homocysteine methyltransferase.

The 3 distinct transaminases in glycine pathway are: alanine-glyoxylate transaminase, serine-glyoxylate transaminase and serine-pyruvate transaminase. Data presented in Figure 1 clearly depicts the presence of complete biosynthetic pathways for EAAs in both plants Chlorophyta and Streptophyta and fungi Ascomycota and Basidiomycota , as stated above.

In previous work we hypothesized that a great event of genome deletion on which many of the intermediate enzymes for biosynthetic pathways for amino acids have vanished, ended up affecting the usage of EAAs in chordate proteomes [ 18 , 19 ].

In , Payne and Loomis [ 10 ] using pFam protein signatures reported that protists and animals share essentiality for the nine amino acids. Here we provide a broader analysis covering all genomes available today and trying to map how and when the Great Genomic Deletion has happened.

Evidence was found suggesting that this loss of capability to synthesize EAAs is conspicuous at the base of metazoan evolution, simultaneously affecting the complete set of EAAs. The phenomenon is characterized as an initial phenotypic deficiency, observed in Choanozoa, followed by multiple secondary gene losses.

Accordingly, some enzymes found in Chordata such as K14, M4 and M9 are missing in Arthropoda. Remarkably, some components such as VIL1 and M7 are maintained in most metazoan clades, despite of pathway loss. Actually, a Great Deletion causing concurrent phenotypic loss of amino acid biosynthesis capability affects both metazoan and non-metazoan eukaryotes.

Several clades containing complete genomes black filled symbols such as Rhodophyta, Euglenozoa and Apicomplexa, show similar EAAs pattern. Moreover, some evidence is provided suggesting the absence of complete pathways in the non-Dikarya Fungi Microsporidia and Neocallimastigomycota.

This gives support to separate events of Great Genomic Deletion for the origin of EAAs auxotrophy in at least three other branches. Similarly to Choanozoa, clades such as Heterokontophyta and Rhizaria present various enzymes and some complete pathways.

Evidences of complete pathways for all EAAs but histidine H were obtained in Heterokontophyta. Valine V , isoleucine I , lysine K and threonine T are potentially synthesized in Rhizaria as well as methionine M in Euglenozoa and Amoebozoa.

However it is possible that other EAAs may also be synthesized in some of these clades. The anabolic capabilities suggested by the current data might be underestimated because we have only draft genomes available for most of these organisms.

The Choanozoa clade contains only draft genomes. Though we observed more enzymes than in metazoan clades, a final picture of Choanozoan phenylalanine biosynthesis, for example, might require completion of genome sequencing.

Further gene loss occurs during metazoan evolution; however, for Placozoa, Porifera and Cnidaria, the Great Genomic Deletion seems to be well established. Since the first available sponge genome is still an ongoing project and its proteins are not yet deposited in UniProt, we manually inspected the deduced proteome using regular BLAST alignments see Methods and evidenced auxotrophy for all nine EAAs.

The same simple approach was applied to all phyla Figure 1 , triangles. Other clades that do not present any enzymes were omitted from Figure 1 , such as Apusozoa and Jakobida. Inspection of Figure 1 depicts a remarkable difference on lysine K biosynthesis pathways present in fungi and plants.

Since the occurrence of an α-aminoadipate AAA pathway K 1 in Fungi [ 20 ] as opposite to a diaminopimelate DAP pathway K 2 known to be present in plants, algae and bacteria [ 21 , 22 ] has already been reported, we set up to depict the complete scenario for K biosynthesis including prokaryotes Figure 2.

A third pathway K 3 preferentially used by Archaea but also reported to exist in bacterial groups [ 23 ] was also considered, therefore sequences from the Pyrococcus horikoshii archaea were also used as seed for homologue sequence clustering.

Data supports the view that the K 2 pathway, found to be complete in plants, is often present in prokaryotic clades of bacteria and archaea, in agreement with previous findings [ 21 , 22 ].

Curiously, nine bacterial clades Acidobacteria, Chlorobi, Deferribacteres, Deinococcus-Thermus, Fusobacteria, Chlamydiae, Synergistetes, Tenericutes and Thermotogae -- all of which contain complete genomes -- do not present K12 enzyme, but there are three other alternative subsets of enzymes present in prokaryotes that could circumvent this step in lysine biosynthesis.

Chlamydiae may represent an evidence of amino acid essentiality extended to prokaryotes, since diaminopimelate decarboxylase K14 is absent and there are no known alternatives to this reaction.

The set of enzymes responsible for the K 3 pathway, was found to occur in prokaryotes, and it is complete in the archaeal clades Crenarchaeota and Euryarcheota, as well as in the bacterial clades Chloroflexi and Proteobacteria, and probably in Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes.

Remarkably, the first four enzymes that constitute this pathway are coincident with the K 1 pathway indicated by gray shading. The complete K 1 pathway occurs in Proteobacteria and possibly in Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes, as evidenced by regular BLAST and fungi.

The eukaryotic clades Rhizaria and Heterokontophyta, which present the K 2 pathway, appear to group with plants. Lysine anabolic pathways. K 1 represents Fungi α-aminoadipate AAA pathway; K 2 bacteria, plants, and algae diaminopimelate DAP pathway; K 3 archaea α-aminoadipate AAA variant pathway.

Taxonomic tree displayed at phyla level. Colors are as for Figure 1. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ascomycota , Arabidopsis thaliana Streptophyta and Pyrococcus horikoshii Euryarchaeota were used as seeds. Consumption of amino acids is an important route for nitrogen assimilation in other biological compounds for heterotrophic organisms, such as those comprised by some of the clades shown in Figure 1 e.

Assimilation of free ammonium in eukaryotes is done by a cytoplasmatic reaction catalyzed by glutamate dehydrogenase EC Two isoforms are present in fungi and one in plants, the latter having the additional option to not only assimilate nitrogen, but also to fixate it, often with the association of nitrogen-fixating bacteria.

Thus, to investigate if the Great Genomic Deletion of biosynthetic enzymes for EAAs co-occurred with the heterotrophy for nitrogen, we generated clusters of the assimilative isoforms EC In yeast, the cytoplasmic assimilative isoforms are named GDH1 and GDH3 , and the catabolic mitochondrial is known as GDH2.

Arabidopsis thaliana proteins were also used as seed together with the Saccharomyces cerevisiae sequences: one known as putative GDH which grouped with the fungi assimilative ones, and three catabolic GDHs , that grouped with the human mitochondrial GLUD1 , though not with the yeast catabolic GHD2.

Results are shown in Figure 3A. The left column shows a cluster that groups assimilative isoforms with the two from yeast and the putative GDH from A. The catabolic mitochondrial isoforms from yeast central column and plant right column formed two independent clusters.

In metazoan organisms, an assimilative enzyme was found in the basal group Cnidaria, all others being dependent on amino acid consumption to build nitrogenated compounds such as DNA, Porifera included.

Assimilative isoforms were also lacking in Choanozoa although complete genomes are unavailable. The same was observed for Placozoa.

Comparing these results with those shown in Figure 1 , it is remarkable that Choanozoa, while still registering many amino acid biosynthetic enzymes 37 out of 61, redundancy eliminated shows a simultaneous deletion in both EAAs biosynthesis and nitrogen assimilation.

It is also apparent that the Great Genomic Deletion attains its almost final broad distribution in Cnidaria, which may be the last metazoan clade still capable to assimilate nitrogen from free ammonium.

Therefore a few biosynthetic enzymes remain, in this clade and other Metazoa, probably by connective functions in metabolism e.

EC: 1. We have also observed that mammalian GDH GLUD1 presents a specialized allosteric control [ 24 ] which might have turned the enzyme toward glutamate catabolism rather than anabolism. Such control was first observed in Ciliophora [ 25 ] and it is thought to have been transferred by lateral gene transfer to the metazoan ancestor [ 26 ].

To confirm the grouping in three clusters of enzymes with so similar activities, Figure 3B shows a phylogenetic tree built with eukaryotic glutamate dehydrogenase sequences, which clustered the isoforms in total accordance with data shown in Figure 3A. Glutamate dehydrogenases. A: Left column: assimilative GDH1 and GDH3 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and putative GDH from Arabdopsis thaliana ; Central column: catabolic GDH2 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Right column: catabolic GDH1 , GDH2 and GDH3 from Arabdopsis thaliana.

B: Phylogenetic tree with eukaryotic sequences from glutamate dehydrogenase isoforms. Green branches: EC1. The non-Metazoa eukaryotes with complete genomes, such as Alveolata, Apicomplexa and Euglenozoa, lack EAA biosynthetic enzymes Figure 1 but keep the capability of nitrogen assimilation Figure 3.

Fornicata and Parabasalia, although represented only by draft genomes, have shown to contain the nitrogen assimilation enzyme even if they appear to be auxotrophic for all EAAs. Lacking detection of any isoform of glutamate dehydrogenase and with available draft genomes is Rhizaria no complete genomes available , which still presents some EAA biosynthetic capability.

It is possible that the dependency of organic nitrogen has been attained earlier in Rhizaria, although complete sequencing is required for a sound conclusion. In general, data support a tendency for nitrogen heterotrophy succeeding the amino acid essentiality.

In Rhodophyta, a clade containing complete genomes sequenced, surprisingly no catabolic homologues were found; however a sequence that clusters with the assimilative isoforms has been found. We also investigated nitrogen assimilation in prokaryotes. Homologues of assimilative enzymes are present and detected by our clustering procedure, but besides finding homologues of the catabolic seeds in bacterial clades, assimilative enzymes were not found in Aquificae, Chlamydiae and Synergistetes, all of them containing complete genomes available.

This absence is consistent with the lysine auxotrophy suggested in Chlamydiae Figure 2 and support the idea that EAA auxotrophy is associated with the lack of nitrogen assimilation even in the prokaryotic clades.

It is hard to infer differential enzymatic activity in prokaryotes, since the annotated sequences available often report mixed use of coenzyme, either NADPH or NAD, although the homologous tools had grouped them distinctively. If the homology is related to function, it may indicate that these organisms also demand the consumption of NEAA to constitute a source of organic nitrogen.

The presented scenario suggests that the loss of nitrogen assimilation forcing consumption of NEAA shortly succeeds the Great Genomic Deletion of EAA biosynthetic enzymes in metazoans. If this hypothesis is true, the Cnidaria would be an exception. The remaining EAA biosynthetic enzymes in organisms that do not have the complete amino acid pathway Figure 1 are more susceptible to evolutionary modifications.

It is also possible that paralogue subfunctionalization occurred in the common ancestor of animals, fungi and plants, and thus the divergent copy has remained in detriment of the original gene. Considering both hypothesis we set up to analyze enzymes from EAA and functional NEAA pathways present in metazoans.

Phylogenetic trees for acetolactate synthase VIL1 code in Figure 1 and for a group of alanine-glyoxylate, serine-glyoxylate and serine-pyruvate transaminases G1 code in Figure 1 are represented in Figure 4.

As expected, the distance between the ancestors of the two prototrophic groups varies, plant green circles and fungi yellow circles : 0.

The distance from the ancestors of plant green circles to metazoans red circles are relatively higher for the remaining enzyme VIL1: 1.

Thus, the remaining EAA enzymes are experiencing higher divergence after the attainment of amino acids auxotrophy. Phylogenetic analyses for EAA and NEAA enzymes. Phylogenetic trees for A acetolactate synthase VIL1 code in Figure 1 , an enzyme for EAA valine, isoleucine and leucine biosynthesis and B a group of alanine-glyoxylate, serine-glyoxylate and serine-pyruvate transaminases G1 code in Figure 1 , a NEAA biosynthetic enzyme for glycine biosynthesis.

The green, yellow and red circles are marking the plant Streptophyta , fungi Dikarya and animals Metazoa branches, respectively. In A , the distance given by substitutions per site from the green circle to the yellow and red circles are, respectively, 0.

In B , these values are, respectively, 0. To support this observation, Figure 5 shows the ratios calculated for 12 enzymes. Only trees that show significant bootstraps for the branches of interest were considered.

Enzyme codes in bars are described as in Figure 1. The Y axis at the right side corresponds to the distance measured from plant Streptophyta to the ancestor of fungi Dikarya.

The three enzymes on the right, S1, G1 and G2, belong to NEAA pathways, and the ratios are low. For the enzymes H5, FW7, F8, VIL1, VIL3, MT3 and M7, the ratio shown by green bars are conversely high, ranging from around 1.

These preliminary data suggest that the additional evolutionary modifications have occurred in distinct levels in the enzymes maintained after the loss of biosynthetic capability. M 2 pathway appears as incomplete in Basidiomycota Figure 1 ; M8 is absent , however MT3 enzyme used here is present in threonine pathway which is complete in this clade.

K6 and K10 are involved in incomplete pathways, respectively, in plants and fungi. Accordingly, the distance measured from plant to fungi is high, and so is the drift between plant to Chordata K6 or to Arthropoda K10 , therefore yielding balanced lower ratios.

VIL1, MT3, G1. Furthermore, a detailed inspection of phylogenetic trees seems to indicate that subfunctionalized paralogues have appeared in basal clades such as Fungi, and those divergent paralogues remain in the more recent groups of organisms, while the copy that previously participated in the biosynthesis was actually deleted in animals.

Thus, the enzymes remaining from biosynthetic pathways show higher divergence, and this might have been acquired due to subfunctionalization in ancient clades. Relative distance of Metazoa enzymes from homologues of EAA and from NEAA biosynthetic enzymes present in plant and fungi.

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