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1 Author for contact: Claus-Peter Witte 1 , Leibniz Universität Hannover, Department of 1 Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of Plants, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419 Hannover, 2 Germany 3 Update: Nucleotide Metabolism in Plants 4 Claus-Peter Witte a,2,3 and Marco Herde a 5 a Leibniz Universität Hannover, Department of Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of 6 Plants, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419 Hannover, Germany 7 2 Author for contact 8 3 Senior author 9 ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3617-7807 (C.-P.W.) 10 ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2804-0613 (M.H.) 11 One-sentence summary: Nucleotide metabolism is an essential function in plants. 12 13 Author contributions: C.-P.W. conceived the study, C.-P.W. and M.H. wrote the article 14 Funding: The authors acknowledge funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 15 (WI3411/4-1 to C.-P.W. and HE 5949/3-1 to M.H.) and the Bundesministerium für Bildung 16 und Forschung (Nutzpflanzen der Zukunft - 031B0540). 17 E-mail address of the author for contact: [email protected] 18 19 Nucleotide metabolism in plants 20 Nucleotides are essential for life. It is easy to validate this statement – one just needs to 21 recall that nucleotides are the building blocks of DNA and RNA, and that many molecules 22 which are central for metabolism, for example ATP, NADH, Co-A and UDP-glucose, are 23 nucleotides or contain nucleotide moieties. Generally, a nucleotide is defined as a 24 phosphorylated ribose or deoxyribose linked to a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group 25 called the nucleobase via a glycosidic bond (Figure 1). Because of the phosphate groups, 26 nucleotides are negatively charged, whereas at neutral pH nucleosides and nucleobases are 27 uncharged. The exception is xanthine, which is partially charged as a free base (pKa = 7.4) 28 but completely charged at the base in xanthosine (pKa = 5.5) or the corresponding 29 nucleotides (Figure 1, Sigel et al., 2009). 30 Many excellent reviews focus on general (Wagner and Backer, 1992; Zrenner et al., 2006; 31 Zrenner and Ashihara, 2011; Stasolla et al., 2003; Moffatt and Ashihara, 2002) or particular 32 Plant Physiology Preview. Published on October 22, 2019, as DOI:10.1104/pp.19.00955 Copyright 2019 by the American Society of Plant Biologists www.plantphysiol.org on April 24, 2020 - Published by Downloaded from Copyright © 2019 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved.

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Page 1: Nucleotide Metabolism in Plants - Plant physiology1 1 Author for contact: Claus-Peter Witte 1, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Department of 2 Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of

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Author for contact: Claus-Peter Witte 1, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Department of 1

Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of Plants, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419 Hannover, 2

Germany 3

Update: Nucleotide Metabolism in Plants 4

Claus-Peter Wittea,2,3 and Marco Herdea 5

a Leibniz Universität Hannover, Department of Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of 6

Plants, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419 Hannover, Germany 7

2 Author for contact 8 3 Senior author 9

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3617-7807 (C.-P.W.) 10

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2804-0613 (M.H.) 11

One-sentence summary: Nucleotide metabolism is an essential function in plants. 12

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Author contributions: C.-P.W. conceived the study, C.-P.W. and M.H. wrote the article 14

Funding: The authors acknowledge funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 15

(WI3411/4-1 to C.-P.W. and HE 5949/3-1 to M.H.) and the Bundesministerium für Bildung 16

und Forschung (Nutzpflanzen der Zukunft - 031B0540). 17

E-mail address of the author for contact: [email protected] 18

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Nucleotide metabolism in plants 20

Nucleotides are essential for life. It is easy to validate this statement – one just needs to 21

recall that nucleotides are the building blocks of DNA and RNA, and that many molecules 22

which are central for metabolism, for example ATP, NADH, Co-A and UDP-glucose, are 23

nucleotides or contain nucleotide moieties. Generally, a nucleotide is defined as a 24

phosphorylated ribose or deoxyribose linked to a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group 25

called the nucleobase via a glycosidic bond (Figure 1). Because of the phosphate groups, 26

nucleotides are negatively charged, whereas at neutral pH nucleosides and nucleobases are 27

uncharged. The exception is xanthine, which is partially charged as a free base (pKa = 7.4) 28

but completely charged at the base in xanthosine (pKa = 5.5) or the corresponding 29

nucleotides (Figure 1, Sigel et al., 2009). 30

Many excellent reviews focus on general (Wagner and Backer, 1992; Zrenner et al., 2006; 31

Zrenner and Ashihara, 2011; Stasolla et al., 2003; Moffatt and Ashihara, 2002) or particular 32

Plant Physiology Preview. Published on October 22, 2019, as DOI:10.1104/pp.19.00955

Copyright 2019 by the American Society of Plant Biologists

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aspects of (Smith and Atkins, 2002; Ashihara et al., 2018; Kafer et al., 2004) plant nucleotide 33

metabolism. The aim of this review is to provide an update on how nucleotide metabolism is 34

hardwired, mostly focusing on the cellular level, because our understanding of the 35

organization at the tissue and organ level remains very limited. The presented models are 36

mostly based on results from Arabidopsis thaliana. These will often be valid for most plants, 37

but certainly there will be species-dependent variations. We also cover extracellular 38

nucleotide metabolism and review the evidence for overlap between cytokinin metabolism 39

and central nucleotide metabolism. Figure 2 shows a general overview of plant nucleotide 40

metabolism. 41

DE NOVO SYNTHESIS 42

Purine de novo synthesis 43

Plants possess the metabolic pathways for the de novo synthesis of purine nucleotides 44

generating AMP as well as pyrimidine nucleotides yielding UMP. During de novo 45

biosynthesis, nucleotides are newly synthesized from the general metabolites activated 46

ribose (5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate, PRPP), glutamine, aspartate, and bicarbonate as 47

well as specifically for the purine nucleotides, glycine and formyl tetrahydrofolate (Figure 2). 48

There is strong evidence that AMP biosynthesis occurs entirely in the plastids, because the 49

11 enzymes (catalyzing 12 reactions; Smith and Atkins, 2002) required for AMP biosynthesis 50

in Arabidopsis all have an N-terminal organelle targeting peptide, and C-terminal yellow 51

fluorescent protein (YFP)-fusion proteins of several of these enzymes were observed 52

exclusively in the plastids when they were transiently expressed in Nicotiana benthamiana 53

in our laboratory (N. Medina Escobar and C.-P. Witte, unpublished data) (Figure 3A). In rice 54

(Oryza sativa), the pathway also seems to reside in plastids (Zhang et al., 2018). However, it 55

has been reported that in nodules of the tropical legume cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), 56

purine biosynthesis is targeted to plastids and mitochondria (Atkins et al., 1997; Smith and 57

Atkins, 2002). It may be worthwhile to reconfirm this special localization in nodules using 58

fluorescent tagged proteins. 59

AMP is exported from the plastids by the adenine nucleotide uniporter brittle1 (BT1, Figure 60

3A, number 1), which can also transport ADP and ATP (Hu et al., 2017; Kirchberger et al., 61

2008; Leroch et al., 2005). Interestingly, BT1 from Arabidopsis and maize (Zea mays) was 62

reported to be dual localized to the chloroplast and mitochondria (Bahaji et al., 2011b) and 63

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a bt1 mutant with a severe dwarf phenotype could be complemented with an N-terminally 64

truncated version of BT1 that is exclusively located in the mitochondria and not in the 65

plastids (Bahaji et al., 2011a). This either indicates that there are certain tissues or 66

developmental stages where purine nucleotide biosynthesis occurs mainly in mitochondria, 67

or that BT1 has an alternative and essential function in this organelle. In the latter case, BT1 68

might still also be involved in exporting adenylates from plastids, but the abrogation of the 69

plastidic variant would not cause the strong dwarf phenotype, indicating that de novo 70

synthesized AMP has an alternative, BT1 independent, way to leave the plastids. 71

GMP biosynthesis requires inosine monophosphate (IMP, Figure 3A), which can either be 72

derived from AMP deamination in the cytosolic compartment catalyzed by AMP deaminase 73

(AMPD, Figure 3A, #2) or from direct export of IMP from the plastids, because IMP is 74

generated there en route to AMP (Figure 3A). Mutation of AMPD is zygote lethal (Xu et al., 75

2005) and coformycin, an AMPD inhibitor, is a potent herbicide after its phosphorylation in 76

vivo (Dancer et al., 1997). These phenotypic effects might be caused by hampered GMP 77

biosynthesis, suggesting that AMPD could be required for this process. Consistent with this, 78

AMPD is strongly activated by ATP (Han et al., 2006) and this regulation might balance 79

cellular ATP and GTP concentrations. However, it has also been reported that AMPD 80

inhibition might be detrimental by severely altering the cellular energy charge and that the 81

GTP pool is not altered upon AMPD inhibition (Sabina et al., 2007), implying that GMP 82

biosynthesis is independent of AMPD and that there is an alternative IMP supply from the 83

plastids. The activity of AMPD likely resides in the cytosol, but the protein has an N-terminal 84

transmembrane domain and is clearly attached to a membrane (Han et al., 2006). 85

The following enzymatic reactions for GMP biosynthesis, (i) the oxidation of IMP to 86

xanthosine monophosphate (XMP, Figure 1) by IMP dehydrogenase (IMPDH, Figure 3A, #3), 87

and (ii) the amination of XMP to GMP by GMP synthetase (GMPS, Figure 3A, #4) probably 88

take place in the cytosol. Both enzymes have no apparent subcellular targeting peptide and 89

were detected in the cytosolic proteome of Arabidopsis (Ito et al., 2011). Also, IMPDH from 90

cowpea nodules was associated with the cytosolic fraction (Shelp and Atkins, 1983). GMP is 91

a quite strong competitive inhibitor of IMPDH (Atkins et al., 1985) maybe resulting in 92

feedback regulation in vivo. 93

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Pyrimidine de novo synthesis 94

The first dedicated reaction of UMP biosynthesis (Figure 3B) is catalyzed by asparate 95

transcarbamoylase (ATCase, Figure 3B, #5). The enzyme is located in the plastids. The next 96

enzyme, dihydroorotatase (DHOase, Figure 3B, #6) was associated to plastids in cell 97

fractionation studies (Doremus and Jagendorf, 1985 and references on the SUBA web 98

server, Hooper et al., 2017) but was located in the cytosol when transiently overexpressed 99

in Arabidopsis protoplasts as a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged fusion protein (Witz 100

et al., 2012). Maybe DHOase is associated with the chloroplast membrane via a protein-101

protein interaction, and the interaction partner is overwhelmed by strong overexpression of 102

DHOase. The following enzyme, dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH, Figure 3B, #7), is 103

associated with mitochondria (Witz et al., 2012; Doremus and Jagendorf, 1985) and likely 104

located on the outer surface of the inner mitochondrial membrane as observed for the 105

mammalian orthologs (Ullrich et al., 2002). UMP synthase (UMPS, Figure 3B, #8), the final 106

enzyme, was associated with the plastids and the cytosol, as shown by cell fractionation of 107

pea (Pisum sativum) leaves (Doremus and Jagendorf, 1985) and was present in the cytosol 108

after overexpression in Arabidopsis protoplasts (Witz et al., 2012). Thus, UMP is generated 109

in the cytosol, while it appears that the responsible enzyme might have some affinity for the 110

chloroplast. Because ATCase (Figure 3B, #5) is feedback regulated by uridylates, in particular 111

UMP (Doremus and Jagendorf, 1985), the cytosolic uridine nucleotide pool must be tightly 112

connected to the plastidic pool. 113

CTP biosynthesis requires the phosphorylation of UMP to UTP (see below), which is the 114

substrate of CTP synthetase (CTPS, Figure 3B, #9). There are five CTPS isoenzymes in 115

Arabidopsis, and all reside in the cytosol. For one isoform (CTPS3) the activity and 116

stimulatory allosteric regulation by UTP and GTP has been recently shown (Daumann et al., 117

2018). Interestingly, some CTPS isoenzymes form filamentous aggregates, called 118

cytoophidia, inactivating the enzyme. In vitro, these are generated in particular in the 119

presence of CTP, indicating that the enzyme is feed-back regulated by this mechanism 120

(Daumann et al., 2018). Knockout mutants for each CTPS were characterized and except for 121

CTPS2, which showed a complete block of germination, no phenotypes were observed in the 122

single mutants (Daumann et al., 2018), indicating redundancy of the CTPS enzymes in most 123

situations. 124

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The generation of nucleoside triphosphates 125

The final steps of UMP, GMP and CTP biosynthesis occur in the cytosol. With the exception 126

of CTP, which is directly synthesized from UTP, purine and pyrimidine nucleoside 127

triphosphate synthesis is achieved by phosphorylation of the respective monophosphates 128

(Figure 4). 129

The plastids and the mitochondria, which possess their own transcription and translation 130

machineries, must be supplied with ribonucleotides and deoxyribonucleotides from the 131

cytosol. Not much is known about (i) the phosphorylation state in which nucleotides are 132

taken up, (ii) which transporters are involved, (iii) if the concentrations of (desoxy) 133

nucleotides differ in the distinct cellular compartments and how this may be regulated –134

subcellular distributions have been estimated only for the adenylates (Stitt et al., 1982). 135

Describing the subcellular distribution of the enzymes involved in the last two steps of 136

mononucleotide phosphorylation can help in building hypotheses regarding the exact 137

nucleotide species imported into organelles. 138

The pyrimidine nucleotides, UMP and CMP, are phosphorylated by UMP kinases (UMK, 139

Figure 4, A and B, #12) Arabidopsis possess two evolutionarily distinct families of such 140

enzymes (i) UMKs related to adenylate kinases (AMKs) encoded by four genes and (ii) UMKs 141

related to eubacterial UMP kinases encoded by two genes. The AMK-like UMKs have not yet 142

been characterized, except for a biochemical analysis of UMK3 (At5g26667), which was 143

shown to utilize UMP and CMP as the best substrates (Zhou et al., 1998). These enzymes 144

have been predicted to reside in the cytosol and the mitochondria (Lange et al., 2008). From 145

the eubacterial UMP kinase family, one member called ‘plastid UMP kinase’ (PUMKIN, 146

At3g18680) was shown to be located in chloroplasts, and to have UMK activity in vitro. 147

Interestingly, the enzyme binds certain plastidic transcripts and is involved in plastid RNA 148

metabolism, which may not require its enzymatic function. Mutants are small and 149

compromised in plastid translation and photosynthetic performance (Schmid et al., 2019). 150

The orthologous enzyme in rice is localized in chloroplasts, participates in RNA metabolism, 151

and the corresponding loss-of-function mutants are pale green (Chen et al., 2018a; Zhu et 152

al., 2016). Additionally, they contain less UDP and more UMP (Dong et al., 2019) suggesting 153

that UMP phosphorylation in the chloroplast is functionally important. The phosphorylation 154

of TMP is not catalyzed by UMKs, but by a dedicated thymidine monophosphate kinase 155

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(TMK, Figure 4B, #16). In Arabidopsis, a mitochondrial and a cytosolic version are generated 156

from a single gene by alternative splicing. Mutation of TMK leads to early seed abortion at 157

the zygote state (Ronceret et al., 2008). 158

The phosphorylation of GMP to GDP and dGMP to dGDP (Kumar et al., 2000) is catalyzed by 159

guanylate kinases (GMK, Figure 4C, #17) of which plants have two different types, a 160

cytosolic type (GKc), and a organelle type, dual targeted to plastids and mitochondria 161

(GKpm) (Figure 4C). The activity of GKpm in rice, pea, and Arabidopsis is regulated by 162

guanosine 3’, 5’-bisdiphosphate (ppGpp), a bacterial and plastid signaling molecule (Nomura 163

et al., 2014). Suppression of Arabidopsis GKpm (At3g06200) transcripts by RNA interference 164

(RNAi) results in a pale green or albino phenotype (Sugimoto et al., 2007) emphasizing the 165

importance of nucleotide monophosphate transport into organelles. Interestingly, the loss-166

of-function mutant of the rice GKpm gene is pale green, but does not exhibit DNA depletion 167

in the organelles, suggesting that deoxynucleotide and ribonucleotide metabolism are not 168

fully linked (Sugimoto et al., 2007). 169

Adenylate monophosphate is converted by adenylate kinase (AMK, Figure 4D, #18) into 170

adenosine diphosphate (ADP). Arabidopsis has seven AMK isoforms. AMK1, AMK2, and 171

AMK5 are located in the plastids, AMK3 and AMK4 reside in the cytosol, and AMK7 is 172

present in the mitochondria. For AMK1 a mitochondrial localization has also been observed 173

(Carrari et al., 2005; Lange et al., 2008). Because the plastids harbor the de novo synthesis 174

for AMP, they will not require net import of adenylates. Consistently, the loss-of-function 175

mutant for AMK2 has a bleached phenotype (Lange et al., 2008) suggesting that there is no 176

net ADP or ATP import to compensate for compromised adenlyate kinase activity in plastids. 177

A strong reduction of plastidic AMK activity in rice also results in an albino phenotype (Wei 178

et al., 2017). In potato (Solanum tuberosum), a reduction of plastidic AMK activity led to an 179

increase of the adenylate pool (AMP, ADP, ATP, and ADP-glucose) and increased starch 180

synthesis in tubers, but it is still not understood how plastidic AMK and adenylate de novo 181

synthesis are connected (Regierer et al., 2002). Interestingly, it was suggested that the 182

AMKs might contribute to protect RNA from random mis-incorporation of methyl-6 A marks. 183

AMKs are highly selective for AMP versus N6-methyl AMP released during the degradation 184

of RNA species carrying this abundant A modification. The selectivity of the AMKs possibly 185

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prevents the formation of N6-methyl ATP, which is a substrate of RNA polymerase II (Chen 186

et al., 2018b). 187

Recently, a broad spectrum mononucleotide kinase only distantly related to the AMKs, but 188

with relatively high adenylate kinase activity was described (At5g60340). This enzyme was 189

localized in the nucleus and a knockout mutant was affected in stem elongation (Feng et al., 190

2012). 191

Plastids and mitochondria possess nucleoside monophosphate kinases for all nucleotides. 192

Thus, nucleoside monophosphates are probably imported into these organelles and are 193

phosphorylated to dinucleotides. Enzymes catalyzing the next step to trinucleotides, the 194

nucleoside diphosphate kinases (NDPKs), should therefore be found in plastids and 195

mitochondria as well as in the cytosol. This has been indeed observed (Luzarowski et al., 196

2017). The exact locations of the enzymes have been debated and a detailed phylogenetic 197

analysis suggests the presence of a fourth enzyme type in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) 198

(Dorion and Rivoal, 2015). The NDPKs are multi-substrate enzymes accepting all nucleoside / 199

deoxynucleoside diphosphates (Zrenner et al., 2006) but there is a preference for generating 200

GTP (Kihara et al., 2011), which in the chloroplast may assist in repairing photosystem II 201

(Spetea and Lundin, 2012). Mutation of the gene for the plastidic NDPK in rice results in a 202

pale green phenotype and a lower photosynthetic rate (Zhou et al., 2017; Ye et al., 2016), 203

but since the chloroplast function is partially retained, there must be also nucleoside 204

triphosphate import into this organelle. Interestingly, NDPKs can also have moonlighting 205

activity as modulators of gene expression (Dorion and Rivoal, 2018). 206

Besides nucleotides, the nucleus and organelles need deoxynucleotides (dNTPs) for DNA 207

synthesis. Deoxynucleotide synthesis requires the reduction of the hydroxyl moiety on the 208

2’ carbon of the ribose by an enzyme complex called ribonucleotide reductase (RNR, Figure 209

4, #10). The RNR complex is comprised of two large regulatory (R1) and two small catalytic 210

(R2) subunits. Mutation of the major R2 subunit gene (tso2) results in lower dNTP 211

concentrations and abnormal plant development, while the additional mutation of a further 212

R2 subunit gene (Arabidopsis has three R2 subunit genes in total) is lethal (Wang and Liu, 213

2006). The substrates of RNR are the ribonucleotide diphosphates, suggesting that for CTP a 214

dedicated phosphatase might exist to support dCDP synthesis (Figure 4A). Alternatively, CDP 215

for dCTP synthesis might be generated from salvage of cytidine (see below). Interestingly, 216

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RNR is subject to a complex allosteric regulation to adjust the correct dNTP pool sizes 217

(Sauge-Merle et al., 1999). In plants, RNR resides exclusively in the cytosol with the potential 218

to relocate to the nucleus upon exposure to UV radiation (Lincker et al., 2004). Especially 219

the plastidic DNA replication seems to rely strongly on sufficient RNR activity, because 220

partially compromising the function of the large RNR subunit by different mutations in the 221

corresponding gene resulted in reduced dNTP levels and impaired chloroplast division in 222

Arabidopsis (Garton et al., 2007). Consistently, chlorophyll biosynthesis in rice is reduced in 223

mutants of the small RNR subunit genes (Chen et al., 2015). All dNDPs can be synthesized 224

directly by RNR, except thymidine diphosphate, because it has no ribonucleotide 225

counterpart. Instead, RNR catalyzes the formation of dUDP from UDP (Figure 4B) and dUMP 226

is methylated at C5 to TMP catalyzed by thymidilate synthase. In Arabidopsis, three 227

enzymes were recently characterized as thymidylate synthases, which are also dihydrofolate 228

reductases (DHFR-TS, Figure 4B, #15) with only two isoforms displaying thymidylate 229

synthase activity (Gorelova et al., 2017). Interestingly, in roots all isoforms can reside either 230

in the cytosol, the nucleus, or the mitochondria depending on the developmental state of 231

the cell, but not in plastids. The two active isoforms seem to be redundant, since only a 232

double mutant of the respective genes is lethal, whereas single gene loss-of-function 233

mutants are phenotypically inconspicuous (Gorelova et al., 2017). The substrate for DHAFR-234

TS is dUMP (Gorelova et al., 2017), but the RNR provides dUDP. It is unknown which enzyme 235

links these two processes in vivo. An alternative dUMP source in mitochondria is the 236

deamination of dCMP as shown recently in rice (Niu et al., 2017; Xu et al., 2014). 237

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SALVAGE AND DEGRADATION 239

Metabolic sources of nucleosides and nucleobases 240

Nucleosides and nucleobases can be released from nucleotides or nucleic acids in 241

metabolism (Figures 2, 5 and 6) or can be taken up from the environment (Girke et al., 242

2014), where they can occur in substantial amounts (Phillips et al., 1997). 243

The main metabolic source for most nucleosides is probably the turnover of RNA, in 244

particular in the vacuole. Vacuolar RNA degradation, for example of ribosomal RNA after 245

ribophagy (Floyd et al., 2015), generates nucleotides which likely are degraded to 246

nucleosides by vacuolar phosphatases. The details of this process have not been 247

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investigated so far. The tonoplast membrane possesses a nucleoside exporter (equilabrative 248

nucleoside transporter 1, ENT1, At1g70330; Bernard et al., 2011) for the release of 249

nucleosides into the cytoplasm. For adenosine, the turnover of S-adenosyl methionine 250

(SAM), used for methylation reactions, is another important source (Figures 2 and 5). After 251

transfer of the methyl group from SAM, the resulting S-adenosyl homocysteine (SAH) is 252

hydrolyzed to homocysteine and adenosine (Sauter et al., 2013). 253

There are no strong sources for nucleobases in plant metabolism, except for adenine, which 254

is released during polyamine, nicotianamine, and ethylene biosynthesis (Sauter et al., 2013). 255

In all three pathways SAM is used and 5’-methylthioadenosine is generated, which is 256

hydrolyzed to 5-methylthioribose and adenine (Siu et al., 2008). Also the degradation of 257

cytokinins produces small amounts of adenine (Schmülling et al., 2003). Purine bases are 258

released from nucleic acids by spontaneous depurination (Barbado et al., 2018) resulting in 259

low amounts of adenine and guanine. The metabolic source of hypoxanthine is likely the 260

spontaneous deamination of adenine in DNA, resulting in a hypoxanthine base, which is 261

removed from the DNA by base excision repair (Karran and Lindahl, 1980). Similarly, the 262

non-enzymatic deamination of cytosine in DNA generates uracil, which is removed by base 263

excision repair (Figure 2). 264

Purine and Pyrimidine Salvage Metabolism 265

Nucleosides and nucleobases can be converted into nucleotides, which is called ‘salvage’ 266

(Figures 2, 5 and 6). In contrast to de novo biosynthesis of nucleotides, which generates 267

nucleotides from basic metabolites (see above), the salvage reactions recycle nucleobases 268

and nucleosides derived from metabolism or uptake (see previous section) to nucleotides. 269

Nucleobases react with activated phosphoribose (5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate, PRPP) 270

to the respective nucleotides - a reaction catalyzed by phosphoribosyltransferases (PRTs). 271

Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT, Figure 5A, #19), hypoxanthine guanine 272

phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT, Figure 5A, #21) and uracil phosphoribosyltransferase 273

(UPRT, Figure 6, #39) are the three types of nucleobase-specific enzymes present in plants. 274

Nucleosides are phosphorylated to nucleoside monophosphates by kinases. Adenosine 275

kinase (ADK, Figure 5A, #20), inosine guanosine kinase (IGK, Figure 5A, #22), and uridine 276

cytidine kinase (UCK, Figure 6, #35) salvage ribonucleotides, whereas thymidine kinase (TK, 277

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Figure 4B, #14) and deoxynucleoside kinase (dNK, Figure 4, #11) phosphorylate thymidine 278

and the other three deoxynucleosides, respectively. 279

Several salvage enzymes have a critical function for plant metabolism and their mutation 280

has severe consequences. Mutation of the gene for the main APRT (Figure 5, #19) activity, 281

APT1 (At1g27450), results in male sterility (Gaillard et al., 1998b), whereas a strong 282

downregulation increases the resistance to oxidative stress (Sukrong et al., 2012). Deletion 283

or strong downregulation of the gene for the main ADK (Figure 5, #20) enzyme, ADK1 284

(At3g09820), compromises transmethylation reactions, because the accumulating 285

adenosine inhibits S-adenosylhomocystein (SAH) hydrolase – an enzyme of the SAM cycle. It 286

has been shown that ADK1 and SAH hydrolase interact and partially reside in the nucleus 287

probably mediated by nuclear methyltransferases (Lee et al., 2012). Reduced 288

transmethylation causes a range of developmental abnormalities (Young et al., 2006; 289

Moffatt et al., 2002). Guanine and hypoxanthine salvage seems to be less critical, because 290

HGPRT (Figure 5, #21) mutants are phenotypically normal except for a slight delay in 291

germination (Schroeder et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2007). Mutation of HGPRT leads to guanine 292

but not hypoxanthine accumulation in vivo, probably reflecting that guanine can only be 293

salvaged, whereas hypoxanthine can also be degraded (Baccolini and Witte, 2019). Kinase 294

activity for inosine and guanosine has been measured in plant extracts (Deng and Ashihara, 295

2010; Katahira and Ashihara, 2006) (IGK, Figure 5A, #22) but the corresponding gene is still 296

unknown. Some evidence has been provided that the activity is associated with the 297

intermembrane space of mitochondria (Combes et al., 1989). 298

The only uracil salvage activity in Arabidopsis is located in plastids and encoded by UPP 299

(UPRT, Figure 6, #39). Mutation of UPP leads to growth arrest in the seedling stage and an 300

albino phenotype (Mainguet et al., 2009). Interestingly, it was recently shown that this 301

phenotype is unrelated to the lack of UPRT activity in the mutant, but is caused by the 302

absence of the UPP protein per se, demonstrating that uracil salvage does not play such an 303

essential role for Arabidopsis as previously thought (Ohler et al., 2019). Salvage of uridine is 304

more prominent than salvage of uracil in Arabidopsis. Uridine and cytidine salvage are 305

performed by dual-specific uridine and cytidine kinases (UCK) (Ohler et al., 2019). These 306

enzymes also possess a UPRT-like domain, but do not have UPRT activity (Chen and Thelen, 307

2011). Simultaneous mutation of UCK1 and UCK2 results in dwarf plants that fail to reach 308

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maturity (Chen and Thelen, 2011). Previously, UCK1 and UCK2 were found to localize in 309

plastids (Chen and Thelen, 2011), but Ohler et al. (2019) demonstrated that these enzymes 310

reside in the cytosol, which was also confirmed in our laboratory (M. Chen and C.-P. Witte, 311

unpublished data). 312

Interestingly, deoxynucleoside-specific salvage enzymes also exist (Figure 4) and the 313

abrogation of thymidine salvage by thymidine kinase (TK, Figure 4B, #14) is lethal for plants 314

(Clausen et al., 2012). However, it is unclear, why thymidine salvage is of such importance. 315

Thymidine kinase occurs in the cytosol, the mitochondria, and the plastids (Xu et al., 2015) 316

and is of particular importance for chloroplast maintenance when germinating seedlings 317

turn autotrophic (Pedroza-García et al., 2019). The other deoxynucleosides are salvaged by 318

an enzyme with broad deoxynucleoside specificity (Clausen et al., 2012) (dNK, Figure 4, 319

#11), potentially associated with mitochondria (Clausen et al., 2014). 320

Purine Nucleotide Degradation 321

Instead of being salvaged, nucleobases and nucleosides can also be fully degraded by plants, 322

but for guanine, adenine, and adenosine a salvage reaction needs to precede degradation. 323

Adenine and adenosine first must be converted to AMP, which can then be deaminated by 324

AMP deaminase (AMPD, Figure 5A, #2) to IMP as a first step into degradation. This is 325

necessary because Arabidopsis and plants in general lack adenosine deaminase (Chen et al., 326

2018b; Dancer et al., 1997). Interestingly, for N6-methyl AMP, plants as well as many other 327

eukaryotes possess a special deaminase, called N6-methyl-AMP deaminase (MAPDA) (Chen 328

et al., 2018b). N6-methylated adenine is the most frequent modification in mRNA, but is 329

also present in other RNA species (Chen and Witte, 2019). MAPDA is phylogenetically 330

related to adenosine deaminases and hydrolyzes N6-methyl AMP to IMP removing the 331

aminomethyl group. This example shows that modified nucleotides must also have an 332

access route to general nucleotide degradation. 333

From IMP, the purine nucleotide degradation pathway cannot be entered directly in 334

Arabidopsis, but conversion to XMP and apparently even to GMP is required (Baccolini and 335

Witte, 2019). These recent results show that the route for AMP catabolism and the route for 336

GMP biosynthesis (partially) overlap. Therefore, branch points of both routes must be 337

controlled, but it is not yet clear how this is achieved. GMP dephoshorylation by a so far 338

unknown phosphatase (GMPP, Figure 5A, #23) initiates purine nucleotide catabolism. At the 339

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stage of guanosine, salvage back to the nucleotide level via IGK (Figure 5A, #22) is still 340

possible, but the GMPP and IGK reactions might be spatially or temporarily separated to 341

avoid a futile cycle. The deamination of guanosine to xanthosine by guanosine deaminase 342

(GSDA, Figure 5A, #24; Dahncke and Witte, 2013) marks the point of no return, because 343

xanthosine cannot be salvaged and is dedicated for degradation (Yin et al., 2014). Although 344

xanthosine appears to be generated mainly by GSDA, there is strong evidence for an 345

alternative route directly from XMP to xanthosine catalyzed by an XMP phosphatase (XMPP, 346

Figure 5A, #25) (Baccolini and Witte, 2019). An XMP-specific phosphatase, which may 347

represent this XMPP, is currently under investigation in our laboratory. In summary, GMP 348

catabolism begins with dephosphorylation and deamination of guanosine, and most AMP is 349

apparently also degraded via GMP, while some might be dephosphorylated already at the 350

stage of XMP. 351

In clear contrast to purine metabolism in many other organisms, guanine is not an 352

intermediate of purine nucleotide catabolism in Arabidopsis and probably most plants. For 353

degradation, guanine must first be salvaged to GMP (Dahncke and Witte, 2013; Baccolini 354

and Witte, 2019). As well in contrast to purine metabolism in many other organisms, inosine 355

and hypoxanthine are not major intermediates of purine nucleotide catabolism in 356

Arabidopsis, because they are not derived from IMP dephosphorylation (Baccolini and 357

Witte, 2019), but possibly from t-RNA turnover and base excision repair of deaminated 358

adenine in DNA (Figure 5A). Because guanine and hypoxanthine do not play an important 359

role in purine nucleotide degradation, HGPRT (Figure 5A, #21) is decoupled from purine 360

catabolism in plants (Baccolini and Witte, 2019), which is in stark contrast to humans, where 361

mutation of HGPRT results in accumulation of purine nucleotide breakdown products and 362

severe phenotypic consequences (Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome) (Torres and Puig, 2007). 363

Purine catabolism can lead to the complete disintegration of the purine ring in plants 364

(Werner and Witte, 2011) (Figure 5B) to recycle nitrogen (Soltabayeva et al., 2018), but is 365

also used to generate the intermediates uric acid and especially allantoin, which counteract 366

stress by reducing reactive oxygen species (Brychkova et al., 2008; Irani and Todd, 2016; 367

Irani and Todd, 2018; Nourimand and Todd, 2019; Lescano et al., 2016; Watanabe et al., 368

2014; Casartelli et al., 2019; Ma et al., 2016). Sometimes also the accumulation of allantoate 369

has been observed (Alamillo et al., 2010). In tropical legumes like soybean (Glycine max) or 370

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common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), the ureides allantoin and allantoate are used as long 371

distance nitrogen transport compounds for the export of fixed nitrogen from the nodules 372

(Carter and Tegeder, 2016; Tegeder, 2014) mediated by the ureide permease (UPS) 373

transporters (Collier and Tegeder, 2012; Desimone et al., 2002; Schmidt et al., 2006). 374

Ureides also function in long distance transport in non-nodulated legumes (Diaz-Leal et al., 375

2012; Quiles et al., 2019) and are probably used in many plants for this purpose (Redillas et 376

al., 2019; Lescano et al., 2016). 377

It has recently been shown that xanthosine hydrolysis to xanthine and ribose is catalyzed by 378

a cytosolic nucleoside hydrolase heteromer consisting of nucleoside hydrolase 1 (NSH1, 379

Figure 5A, #26) and nucleoside hydrolase 2 (NSH2, Figure 5A, #27) in vivo (Baccolini and 380

Witte, 2019). NSH1 has only weak xanthosine and inosine but strong uridine hydrolase 381

activity (Jung et al., 2009; Jung et al., 2011; Baccolini and Witte, 2019; Riegler et al., 2011). 382

However, NSH1 is required to activate NSH2, which is the stronger xanthosine and inosine 383

hydrolase in the complex. Nucleoside catabolism is the major metabolic source of ribose, 384

which is recycled to ribose-5-phosphate by ribokinase in the plastids (Riggs et al., 2016; 385

Schroeder et al., 2018). Xanthine and hypoxanthine are catabolized by the same enzyme, 386

xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH, Figure 5A, #28; Urarte et al., 2015) finally to uric acid in the 387

cytosol. Arabidopsis has a second gene encoding XDH (At4g34900) with no apparent 388

xanthine dehydrogenase activity in vivo (Hauck et al., 2014). Interestingly, XDH has been 389

shown to play a dual role during powdery mildew pathogen attack on Arabidopsis (Ma et al., 390

2016). In the epidermis the enzyme is postulated to operate as an NADH oxidase generating 391

superoxide (Zarepour et al., 2010) to prevent fungal entry, whereas in the mesophyll it 392

works as a xanthine dehydrogenase producing urate, which is suggested to function as a 393

reactive oxygen species scavenger. It was proposed that by this mechanism the reactive 394

oxygen species are confined to the infection site. For further degradation, uric acid must be 395

imported into the peroxisomes, but molecular details about this import are still unknown. In 396

the peroxisome, urate is oxidized by urate oxidase (UOX, Figure 5B, #29) as well as 397

hydrolyzed and decarboxylated by allantoin synthase (ALNS, Figure 5B, #30) to (S)-allantoin 398

(Lamberto et al., 2010; Pessoa et al., 2010). Mutation of UOX leads to strong accumulation 399

of uric acid, which is deleterious for peroxisome maintenance in the embryo, leading to a 400

severe suppression of germination and seedling establishment (Hauck et al., 2014) – 401

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surprisingly, accumulation of similar amounts of xanthine in Arabidopsis plants lacking XDH 402

does not lead to strong phenotypic alterations under standard growth conditions (Hauck et 403

al., 2014; Schroeder et al., 2018; Soltabayeva et al., 2018). Allantoin must be transported 404

from the peroxisomes to the ER for further degradation, but it is unclear how this is 405

achieved. One may speculate that allantoin accumulation under certain stress conditions 406

may be in part caused by altered peroxisome to ER transport efficiency. However, one 407

apparent reason for allantoin accumulation is an altered catalytic capacity for allantoin 408

generation and degradation under stress (Irani and Todd, 2016; Irani and Todd, 2018; 409

Lescano et al., 2016; Casartelli et al., 2019). 410

In the ER, allantoin is hydrolyzed by four enzymes (Figure 5B, #31 to #34) completely 411

releasing the ring nitrogen as ammonia (Werner et al., 2008; Werner et al., 2010; Serventi et 412

al., 2010; Todd and Polacco, 2006). These enzymes are also responsible for supplying the 413

shoot of tropical legumes with nitrogen exported from the nodules as allantoin and 414

allantoate (Werner et al., 2013; Díaz-Leal et al., 2014). 415

Pyrimidine Nucleotide Degradation 416

Pyrimidine nucleotide catabolism is initiated by UMP / CMP phosphatase(s) (UCPP, Figure 6, 417

#36) which have not yet been identified. Their activity might be temporarily and / or 418

spatially separated from uridine cytidine kinases (UCKs, Figure 6, #35; Ohler et al., 2019) to 419

avoid a futile cycle of pyrimidine nucleotide dephosphorylation and pyrimidine nucleoside 420

salvage. Cytidine is deaminated to uridine by a cytosolic cytidine deaminase (CDA, Figure 6, 421

#37). Interestingly, plants can neither degrade nor salvage the free base cytosine (Katahira 422

and Ashihara, 2002). Arabidopsis contains several copies of cytidine deaminase, but only 423

one copy is functional. The mutation of CDA results in smaller plants probably because 424

cytidine accumulation is toxic (Chen et al., 2016). Generally, the accumulation of nucleosides 425

can reduce plant performance as has been shown for GSDA (Figure 5A, #24) mutants 426

(Schroeder et al., 2018). Consistently, transgenic lines with increased vacuolar nucleoside 427

export (Bernard et al., 2011) are smaller than the wild type. 428

Uridine is hydrolyzed by the cytosolic nucleoside hydrolase 1 (NSH1, Figure 6, #26) to uracil 429

and ribose (Jung et al., 2009). NSH2 is not involved in uridine hydrolysis. NSH1 occurs in two 430

forms in vivo, either as a homomer (probably a homodimer: Kopecná et al., 2013) for uridine 431

hydrolysis, and as a heteromer interacting with NSH2 for xanthosine and inosine hydrolysis 432

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(Baccolini and Witte, 2019). One should note that these nucleoside hydrolases usually do 433

not hydrolyze cytidine (Jung et al., 2009) or guanosine in vivo unless these compounds 434

accumulate in catabolic mutants (Chen et al., 2016; Dahncke and Witte, 2013; Baccolini and 435

Witte, 2019). Adenosine is a substrate of NSH1 and also of 5′-methylthioadenosine 436

nucleosidase 2 (MTAN2; Siu et al., 2008) in vitro, but both enzymes hydrolyze adenosine 437

with very low catalytic efficiency. The main adenosine hydrolytic activity of Arabidopsis 438

resides probably in the apoplast (see below). 439

The plastidic nucleobase transporter (PLUTO, Figure 6, #38) reallocates uracil probably in 440

symport with protons from the cytosol into the plastids for further metabolic conversion 441

(Witz et al., 2012). PLUTO belongs to the Nucleobase:Cation Symporter 1 (NCS1) family and 442

transports guanine and adenine as well, albeit with lower efficiency than uracil. There are 443

indications that a thiamine precursor, hydroxymethylpyrimidine, is also a PLUTO substrate 444

(Beaudoin et al., 2018). Interestingly, it was recently reported that PLUTO orthologs from 445

two grasses do not transport uracil, but only adenine and guanine next to a few other 446

substrates (Rapp et al., 2016), indicating that uracil metabolism might be organized 447

differently in these species. However, one should note that definite evidence for a function 448

of PLUTO in uracil transport into plastids in vivo has not yet been presented in any plant. 449

Other transporters capable of uracil transport have been identified, but these are located in 450

the plasma membrane (Niopek-Witz et al., 2014; Schmidt et al., 2004). 451

In the plastid, there is a branch point: uracil can either be salvaged by UPRT (Figure 6, #39, 452

see above) or be degraded. When uracil is applied from outside, strong catabolic activity is 453

usually observed (Ashihara et al., 2001; Katahira and Ashihara, 2002). The first reaction, in 454

which the uracil ring is reduced to dihydrouracil by dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPYD 455

/ PYD1, Figure 5, #40) residing in plastids, was shown to be rate limiting (Tintemann et al., 456

1985). Compared to mammalian DPYD, the plant enzyme lacks C-terminal domains for 457

cofactor binding, which are involved in electron delivery to the active site. Therefore the 458

plant enzyme is probably incomplete and might require a so far unknown interaction 459

partner for activity. The loss of activity, when the enzyme is expressed in the cytosol instead 460

of the plastid, is in agreement with this hypothesis (Cornelius et al., 2011). Mutants of DPYD 461

/ PYD1 show delayed germination and a misregulation of ABA responsive genes, whereas 462

constitutive overexpression results in an increase in growth and seed number (Cornelius et 463

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al., 2011). In the next enzymatic steps, the dihydrouracil ring is opened by 464

dihydropyrimidine hydrolase (DPYH / PYD2, Figure 6, #41) and then the carbamino group is 465

hydrolytically released by -ureidopropionase (-UP / PYD3, Figure 6, #42; Walsh et al., 466

2001) generating -alanine. Not only uracil but also 5-methyluracil (thymine) is degraded in 467

this pathway (Cornelius et al., 2011) resulting in -aminoisobutyrate instead of -alanine. 468

The first reaction (DPYD, Figure 6, #40) is located in the plastids, the second (DPYH, Figure 6, 469

#41) in the ER, and the third (-UP, Figure 6, #42) in the cytosol, but it is unclear why such a 470

distribution is favorable, and how the metabolites are shuttled to these different locations 471

(Zrenner et al., 2009). Recently, the combination of genome-wide association data with 472

correlation networks built from metabolite and transcriptome data identified an 473

aminotransferase correlated with -alanine. The corresponding mutants accumulated -474

alanine, indicating that this might be the missing -alanine aminotransferase (BAAT / PYD4, 475

Figure 6, #43) of pyrimidine catabolism in plants (Wu et al., 2016). 476

Pyrimidine catabolism is induced by nitrogen starvation and in senescence (Cornelius et al., 477

2011; Zrenner et al., 2009) suggesting that similar to purine nitrogen also pyrimidine 478

nitrogen is recycled by plants. When uracil is given as the sole nitrogen source, its 479

degradation can support the growth of Arabidopsis to a limited extent (Zrenner et al., 2009). 480

EXTRACELLUAR ATP 481

Extracellular ATP (eATP) is a signal molecule, which is either actively released upon a 482

stimulus by plant cells via exocytosis or transport, or which is derived from damaged cells 483

(Cao et al., 2014) (Figure 7). A plasma-membrane based nucleotide transporter belonging to 484

the mitochondrial carrier family (pmANT1, Figure 7, #44) is involved in ATP export with 485

physiological relevance at least in pollen (Rieder and Neuhaus, 2011). eATP plays a role in 486

stress responses and is perceived by the receptor-like kinase ‘does not respond to 487

nucleotides 1’ (DORN1, Figure 7, #50), which recognizes ATP, GTP, and ADP but not AMP 488

and adenosine (Choi et al., 2014). Interestingly, CTP and NAD are also sensed by plant cells 489

and a potential receptor for NAD has been identified recently (Wang et al., 2017). 490

The ATP signal might be quenched by an apoplastic apyrase (Riewe et al., 2008a), an enzyme 491

which hydrolyzes NTPs or NDPs to NMPs. Seven apyrases are encoded by the Arabidopsis 492

genome (APY1 to APY7) and APY1 and APY2 were believed to represent these extracellular 493

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enzymes (Lim et al., 2014). However, by scanning the substrate spectra of the apyrases, only 494

APY3 (Figure 7, #45) showed strong activity with ATP (and other NTPs) but also APY5 and 495

APY6 were slightly active with NTPs (Chiu et al., 2015). These apyrases are therefore 496

possible candidates for the apolastic enzymes in Arabidopsis. However, other secreted 497

phosphatases might also be involved, for example members of the unspecific purple acid 498

phosphatases (Del Vecchio et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2011). 499

The AMP resulting from ATP dephosphorylation is hydrolyzed in the apoplast to adenosine 500

by a 5’ nucleotidase (Figure 7, #46). An AMP-specific extracellular 5’ nucleotidase associated 501

to the plasma membrane was purified from peanut (Arachis hypogaea) (Sharma et al., 1986; 502

Gupta and Sharma, 1996), but the corresponding gene has not been identified. Adenosine 503

can be either taken up via the adenosine proton symporter ‘equilibrative nucleoside 504

transporter 3’ (ENT3, Figure 7, #47) (Cornelius et al., 2012; Traub et al., 2007) or further 505

hydrolyzed by the apoplastic purine-specific nucleoside hydrolase 3 (NSH3, Figure 7, #48) 506

(Jung et al., 2011) to adenine and ribose. NSH3 hydrolyzes inosine more efficiently than 507

adenosine, whereas a cell wall bound nucleoside hydrolase of potato, probably the ortholog 508

of NSH3 in this plant, was highly specific for adenosine and did not hydrolyze inosine (Riewe 509

et al., 2008b). 510

Simultaneous genetic blockage of nucleoside uptake and hydrolysis leads to an 511

accumulation of adenosine and uridine in the apoplast, a reduction of photosystem II 512

efficiency, and a higher susceptibility to the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea possibly 513

caused by reduced expression of WRKY33 (Daumann et al., 2015), known to be essential for 514

Botrytis resistance (Liu et al., 2015). Treatment with eATP increases the resistance to 515

Botrytis (Tripathi et al., 2017) and the expression of WRKY33 and other defense related 516

genes is reduced in a dorn1 mutant and boosted in a DORN1 overexpression line upon 517

challenge with eATP (Jewell et al., 2019). Taken together it appears that adenosine 518

accumulation in the apoplast dampens the DORN1 mediated response, indicating that ENT3 519

and NSH3 are required to remove the breakdown products of eATP signaling. Also the 520

adenine resulting from adenosine hydrolysis by NSH3 is taken up by plant cells. It is not 521

entirely clear which transporters mediate this uptake. Possible candidates are azaguanine 522

resistant 1 and 2 (AZG1 and 2; Figure 7, #49), which have been shown to facilitate adenine 523

and guanine uptake into Arabidopsis seedlings (Mansfield et al., 2009), or members of the 524

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nucleobase-ascorbate transporter (NAT) family (Niopek-Witz et al., 2014) as well as of the 525

purine permease (PUP) family (Girke et al., 2014). Interestingly, fungi seem to be able to 526

influence the purinergic signaling in the apoplast by interfering with apoplastic nucleotide 527

metabolism via the excretion of nucleotidases to improve colonization (Nizam et al., 2019). 528

CONNECTIONS TO CYTOKININ HOMEOSTASIS 529

The biosynthesis of the cytokinins involves the generation of N6-modified AMP, carrying an 530

isoprenoid group (Sakakibara, 2005). However, cytokinin ribotides or ribosides are inactive – 531

the free modified base is the active hormone binding to the receptors (Romanov et al., 532

2018; Yamada et al., 2001). The question arises whether the enzymes that are employed for 533

cytokinin homeostasis (activation from ribotides and inactivation to ribosides / ribotides) 534

are the same as for the metabolism of adenine nucleotides. 535

It was shown that a cytokinin ribotide-specific enzyme (cytokinin riboside 5′-536

monophosphate phosphoribohydrolase, called lonely guy (LOG)) can release the active 537

cytokinin from the ribotide (Kurakawa et al., 2007; Kuroha et al., 2009). A recent report 538

demonstrated that the mutation of the seven genes coding for functional LOGs in 539

Arabidopsis resulted in a phenotype that cannot be attenuated by exogenous cytokinin 540

ribotides, suggesting that the hydrolysis by LOGs is the main pathway of cytokinin activation 541

(Osugi et al., 2017). Therefore, the cytosolic nucleoside hydrolases do not seem to be 542

involved in cytokinin activation, although it could be shown that cytokinin ribosides are 543

substrates in vitro, catalyzed with comparatively low efficiency (Kopecná et al., 2013; Jung 544

et al., 2009). Consistently, cytokinin-related phenotypes were not observed in nucleoside 545

hydrolase mutants (Riegler et al., 2011). However, long-distance transport of cytokinins may 546

involve an activation of cytokinin ribosides / ribotides in the apoplast prior to uptake or 547

perception (Romanov et al., 2018). In Arabidopsis, a third nucleoside hydrolase (NSH3) that 548

is located in the apoplast (see section on extracellular ATP) has been shown to hydrolyze 549

adenosine, but cytokinin ribosides have not been assessed (Jung et al., 2011). Interestingly, 550

an apoplastic nucleoside phosphorylase was isolated from potato that converted cytokinin 551

ribosides to cytokinins and ribose-1-phosphate in the presence of phosphate, and can also 552

work in the synthesis direction of ribosides (Bromley et al., 2014). The enzyme preferred 553

cytokinins / cytokinin ribosides over adenine / adenosine as substrates and is supposedly 554

involved in cytokinin-mediated tuber endodormancy. Close homologs in Arabidopsis (e.g. 555

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At4g28940) are predicted to be located in the apoplast (SUBA web server, Hooper et al., 556

2017), but have not yet been characterized. 557

The inactivation of cytokinins is inter alia achieved by transferring a phosphoribosyl moiety 558

on the active cytokinin resulting in an inactive cytokinin-ribotide. This reaction is at least 559

partially performed by an adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT, Figure 5A, #19) 560

because (i) APT1 mutants convert cytokinins less efficiently to the respective ribotides 561

(Moffatt et al., 1991), (ii) APT1 loss-of-function plants contain more active cytokinins (Zhang 562

et al., 2013), and (iii) APT1 mutants have cytokinin-related phenotypes (Gaillard et al., 563

1998a). APT1 is also clearly involved in the salvage of adenine, which is less efficiently 564

converted to AMP in an APT1 mutant (Moffatt et al., 1991) and is slightly more abundant in 565

a mutant plant with reduced APT1 activity (Sukrong et al., 2012). In conclusion, APT1 566

participates in adenine and cytokinin metabolism and the question arises how one enzyme 567

can serve both distinct metabolic roles adequately. There is also some evidence that 568

adenosine kinase (ADK, Figure 5A, #20) contributes to cytokinin homeostasis, because plants 569

with reduced ADK activity show cytokinin-related phenotypes and contain more cytokinin 570

ribosides (Schoor et al., 2011). However, ADK is also involved in the maintenance of 571

transmethylation activity, therefore an indirect impact of reduced ADK activity on cytokinin 572

homeostasis cannot be fully excluded. 573

Conclusions 574

The synthesis, interconversion, and degradation of nucleotides is intrinsically linked with the 575

propagation and reading of genetic information, with energy metabolism including the 576

metabolic activation of many biomolecules, but also with methylation reactions, signal 577

transduction, the recycling of nitrogen, and the modification of oxidative stress. We are 578

getting closer to completing a full inventory of enzymes involved in plant nucleotide 579

metabolism, but we are far from understanding how these enzymes operate together to 580

achieve nucleotide homeostasis. There is only fragmentary information about regulation on 581

all levels, transport processes are incompletely defined, and the organization of nucleotide 582

metabolism on tissue and organ level is not well understood (see outstanding questions). 583

These issues need to be addressed to allow a better integration of nucleotide metabolism 584

into a molecular model of plant physiology. 585

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Acknowledgements 587

The authors thank Henryk Straube for critical reading of the manuscript. 588

589

590

Figure Legends 591

Figure 1. Structural composition of nucleobases, nucleosides, and nucleotides. 592

For the nucleobases ‘R’ is simply a proton. For the nucleosides ‘R’ is a sugar moiety which 593

can be ribose or deoxyribose (carrying a proton instead of a hydroxyl group at the 2’ carbon 594

of the ribose). Nucleotides have up to three phosphate groups esterified to the hydroxyl 595

group of the 5’ carbon of the nucleoside sugar determining the prefix mono-, di-, and 596

triphosphate in the name of the molecule. The terminal phosphate always carries two 597

charges irrespective of the number of phosphates present. The pyrimidine nucleobases 598

(upper row) and the purine nucleobases (lower row) are shown with the groups attached to 599

the heterocycles highlighted in red (oxo groups), blue (amino groups), and grey shading 600

(methyl group). 601

602

Figure 2. Schematic overview of plant nucleotide metabolism. 603

Nucleotides are synthesized ‘de novo’ from precursor molecules listed in the upper left box 604

(PRPP, 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate). The phosphorylation of nucleoside 605

monophosphates via nucleoside diphosphates (NDPs) generates nucleoside triphosphates 606

(NTPs), which serve as building blocks for RNA synthesis and as precursors for the 607

biosynthesis of the metabolites shown in the center (S-adenosyl methionine (SAM), UDP-608

glucose (UDP-Glc), and NADH are given as examples). However, the nucleoside 609

triphosphates, in particular ATP and GTP, are not only precursors for other metabolites, but 610

are also essential stores of chemical energy in the phosphoanhydride bonds used in a 611

multitude of energetic coupling reactions, as well as important donors of phosphate in 612

kinase reactions (not shown). NDPs can be reduced to dNDPs (deoxynucleoside 613

diphosphates), which after phosphorylation to dNTPs serve as precursors for DNA 614

biosynthesis. RNA degradation in the cytosol releases nucleoside monophosphates, whereas 615

nucleosides are produced during vacuolar RNA degradation. Adenosine and adenine are 616

products of biochemical reactions involving S-adenosyl methionine (SAM). Non-enzymatic 617

decay (depurination) and enzymatic repair reactions result in nucleoside and nucleobase 618

release from DNA. Nucleobases and nucleosides can be recycled to nucleotides in so called 619

‘salvage’ reactions. Plants are also capable of full nucleotide degradation via certain 620

nucleosides and nucleobases releasing the nitrogen of the nucleobases as ammonia. 621

Figure 3. Purine and pyrimidine de novo biosynthesis. 622

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(A) Purine de novo biosynthesis. (B) Pyrimidine de novo biosynthesis. Enzymes and 623

transporters: BT1 (1), brittle1; AMPD (2), AMP deaminase; IMPDH (3), IMP dehydrogenase; 624

GMPS (4), GMP synthetase; ATCase (5), asparate transcarbamoylase; DHOase (6), 625

dihydroorotatase; DHODH (7), dihydroorotate dehydrogenase; UMPS (8), UMP synthase; 626

CTPS (9), CTP synthetase. An anchor symbol denotes an association with the respective 627

membrane. 628

629

Figure 4. Synthesis of nucleoside and deoxynucleoside triphosphates. 630

Synthesis of (A) cytidylates, (B) uridylates and thymidylates, (C) guanylates, and (D) 631

adenylates. RNR (10), ribonucleotide reductase; dNK (11), deoxynucleoside kinase; UMK 632

(12), UMP kinase; NDPK (13), nucleoside diphosphate kinase; TK (14), thymidine kinase; 633

DHFR-TS (15), dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase; TMK (16), thymidylate kinase; 634

GMK (17), guanylate kinase; AMK (18), adenylate kinase. The subcellular locations where 635

enzymes with these activities are found are indicated. For TMK, a location in the plastids is 636

only assumed. The mononucleotides (AMP, GMP, UMP, and CMP) may also be derived from 637

salvage reactions (see Figures 5 and 6). 638

639

Figure 5. Salvage and degradation of purines. 640

(A) The reactions of purine nucleobase and nucleoside salvage as well as purine nucleotide 641

degradation, which overlaps partially with GMP synthesis. The salvage pathways are 642

highlighted by light grey shading, degradation reactions are encircled in dark gray. 643

Metabolites that can only undergo degradation and cannot be salvaged are shown with 644

brown shading. (B) Purine ring catabolism. The transport steps for urate and (S)-allantoin 645

are not shown explicitly. APRT (19), adenine phosphoribosyltransferase; ADK (20), 646

adenosine kinase; AMPD (2), AMP deaminase; IMPDH (3), IMP dehydrogenase; GMPS (4), 647

GMP synthetase; HGPRT (21), hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase; IGK (22), 648

inosine guanosine kinase; GMPP (23), GMP phosphatase; GSDA (24), guanosine deaminase; 649

XMPP (25), XMP phosphatase; NSH1 (26), nucleoside hydrolase 1; NSH2 (27), nucleoside 650

hydrolase 2; XDH (28), xanthine dehydrogenase; UOX (29), urate oxidase; ALNS (30), 651

allantoin synthase; ALN (31), allantoinase; AAH (32), allantoate amidohydrolase; UGAH (33), 652

ureidoglycine aminohydrolase; UAH (34), ureidoglycolate amidohydrolase. 653

654

Figure 6. Salvage and degradation of pyrimidines. 655

NC--alanine, N-carbamyl--alanine; malonate-SA, malonate semialdehyde. UCK (35), 656

uridine cytidine kinase; UCPP (36), UMP CMP phosphatase; CDA (37), cytidine deaminase; 657

NSH1 (26), nucleoside hydrolase 1; PLUTO (38), plastidic nucleobase transporter; UPRT (39), 658

uracil phosphoribosyltransferase; DPYD (40), dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase; DPYH (41), 659

dihydropyrimidine hydrolase; β-UP (42), -ureidopropionase; BAAT (43) -alanine 660

aminotransferase. 661

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662

Figure 7. Excretion, perception, and degradation of extracellular ATP 663

pmANT1 (44), plasma membrane adenine nucleotide transporter; APY3 (45), apyrase 3; 5‘ 664

NT (46), 5’ nucleotidase; ENT3 (47), equilibrative nucleoside transporter 3; NSH3 (48), 665

nucleoside hydrolase 3, AZG1/2 (49), azaguanine resistant 1 / azaguanine resistant 2, 666

DORN1 (50), does not respond to nucleotides 1 . 667

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ADVANCES

• The pathways of plant nucleotide metabolism have been better defined through the detailed analyses of mutants and the discovery of many new genes / proteins involved, for example the plastid uracil transporter, the nucleoside hydrolases, the CTP synthases, and guanosine deaminase.

• It has become clear that purine nucleotide catabolism may not only be involved in recycling nitrogen, but also in producing catabolic intermediates which dampen stress responses.

• Extracellular ATP has emerged as a new signaling molecule.

• Cells contain many modified nucleotides. A first enzyme for the degradation of a modified nucleotide, N6-methyl-AMP, has been discovered.

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OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS

• How is nucleotide metabolism regulated (i) on the enzymatic level (ii) by transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms (iii) by compartmentalization or organization in protein complexes (iv) by transport (v) by tissue-specific gene expression?

• Which transporters mediate purine and pyrimidine metabolite movement, specifically (i) catabolic intermediates between different cellular compartments (ii) nucleotides into the organelles (iii) metabolites over long distances?

• How are the nucleotide and deoxynucleotide species in the distinct cellular compartments balanced? Is this adjusted upon developmental and environmental stimuli, and how is this achieved?

• Which nucleotide phosphatases mediate dephosphorylation in vivo, for example dephosphorylation of mononucleotides to nucleosides?

• How are modified and damaged nucleotides degraded, and how do they re-enter nucleotide metabolism?

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N

NN

N 6

6

5

79

1

NH2

HN

NN

N

O

H2N

HN

NN

N

O

HN

NR

R R R R

O

O

HN

N

O

O

H C3N

N

NH2

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O

HNN

NN O

adenineadenosine / deoxyadenosineAMP / dAMP

uracil

R = HR = ribose /

dexoyriboseR = ribose monophosphate /

deoxyribose monophosphate

uridine / dexoyuridineUMP / dUMP

cytosinecytidine / deoxycytidineCMP / dCMP

hypoxanthineinosine / deoxyinosineIMP /dIMP

guanineguanosine / deoxyguanosineGMP /dGMP

xanthinexanthosine / deoxyxanthosineXMP /dXMP

thyminethymidine= deoxythymidineTMP= dTMP

2’3’

= ribose

nucleoside / deoxynucleoside

nucleoside monophosphate (nucleoside mononucleotide)

nucleoside diphosphate

nucleoside triphosphate

nucleotides

= dexoyribose

nucleobase

O

OH OHH

OPO

O

O

OP

O

O

OP

O

O

R R

Figure 1. Structural composi�on of nucleobases, nucleosides, and nucleo�des.

For the nucleobases ‘R’ is simply a proton. For the nucleosides ‘R’ is a sugar moiety which can be ribose or deoxyribose (carrying a proton instead of a hydroxyl group at the 2’ carbon of the ribose). Nucleo�des have up to three phosphate groups esterified to the hydroxyl group of the 5’ carbon of the nucleoside sugar determining the prefix mono- di- and triphosphate in the name of the molecule. The terminal phosphate always carries two charges irrespec�ve of the number of phosphates present. The pyrimidine nucleobases (upper row) and the purine nucleobases (lower row) are shown with the groups a�ached to the heterocycles highlighted in red (oxo groups), blue (amino groups), and grey shading (methyl group).

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AMPPRPPglutamineaspartatebicarbonateglycineformyl-tetrahydrofolate

NDPsNTPs

dNDPsdNTPs

DNA

RNA

nucleobasesnucleosides

UDP-GlcNADHetc.

S-adenosylmethionine

GMPUMP CTP

de novobiosynthesis

degradation

SAM metabolismribose

carbon dioxideammoniaglyoxylatemalonate- semialdehyde

biosynthesisdegradation

degradation

biosynthesis

phosphorylation

degradation

salvage

reduction

(via dNDPs)

(to nucleosides) decay, repair

AAAAA

Figure 2. Schema�c overview of plant nucleo�de metabolism.

Nucleo�des are synthesized ‘de novo’ from precursor molecules listed in the upper le� box. The phosphoryla�on of nucleoside monophosphates via nucleoside diphosphates (NDPs) generates nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs), which serve as building blocks for RNA synthesis and as precursors for the biosynthesis of the metabolites shown in the center (S-adenosyl methionine, UDP-glucose, and NADH are given as examples). However, the nucleoside triphosphates, in par�cular ATP and GTP, are not only precursors for other metabolites, but are also essen�al stores of chemical energy in the phosphoanhydride bonds used in a mul�tude of energe�c coupling reac�ons, as well as important donors of phosphate in kinase reac�ons (not shown). NDPs can be reduced to dNDPs (deoxynucleoside diphosphates), which a�er phosphoryla�on to dNTPs serve as precursors for DNA biosynthesis. RNA degrada�on in the cytosol releases nucleoside monophosphates, whereas nucleosides are produced during vacuolar RNA degrada�on. Adenosine and adenine are products of biochemical reac�ons involving S-adenosyl methionine (SAM). Non-enzyma�c decay (depurina�on) and enzyma�c repair reac�ons result in nucleoside and nucleobase release from DNA. Nucleobases and nucleosides can be recycled to nucleo�des in so called ‘salvage’ reac�ons. Plants are also capable of full nucleo�de degrada�on via certain nucleosides and nucleobases releasing the nitrogen of the nucleobases as ammonia.

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AMP AMP

PLASTIDSA B MITOCHONDRIA

outer membrane

IMP IMP

XMP

GMP

purine de novo biosynthesis

2 reactions

At4g32400At3g20330

At4g22930

At5g23300

At3g54470

At1g30820CTPS1 to 5

At3g12670At4g02120At4g20320At4g34890

2 reactions

carbamoylasparate

carbamoylasparate

dihydroorotate

dihydroorotate

?

?

( )

10 reactions

orotate

orotate

UMP

pyrimidine de novo biosynthesis

UTP CTP

AMPDAt2g38280

IMPDH

At1g79470At1g16350

GMPS

ATCase

DHODH

DHOase

At1g63660

BT1

?

?

CYTOSOL PLASTIDS CYTOSOL

UMPS

CTPS

1

2

4 8

9

7

6

5

3

Figure 3. Purine and pyrimidine de novo biosynthesis.

(A) Purine de novo biosynthesis. (B) Pyrimidine de novo biosynthesis. Enzymes and transporters: BT1 (1), bri�le1; AMPD (2), AMP deaminase; IMPDH (3), IMP dehydrogenase; GMPS (4), GMP synthetase; ATCase (5), asparate transcarbamoylase; DHOase (6), dihydroorotatase; DHODH (7), dihydroorotate dehydrogenase; UMPS (8), UMP synthase; CTPS (9), CTP synthetase. An anchor symbol denotes an associa�on with the respec�ve membrane.

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GMP

GDP

GTP

GMK

de novovia IMP

de novo

from synthesis

NDPK

deoxy adenosine AMP

ADP ADPdADP

dAMP

dATPATP

dGDP

dGMP

dGTP

AMK

dNK

synthesis

salvage

RNR

substrate level and oxidativephosphorylation

GDPsynthesis

RNR

NDPK

At2g37250

At1g72040

At3g07800At5g23070

At5g59440

At2g16370At4g34570At2g21550

deoxy guanosine dNK

salvage

salvage

At1g72040

At5g47840At5g50370At5g63400At5g35170

At4g09320At5g63310

At3g27060At2g21790

At3g23580At5g40942

At4g11010At4g23900At4g23895

At2g39270At3g01820

At3g60180At4g25280At5g26667At3g60961At3g18680At3g10030

CYTOSOL CYTOSOL

CYTOSOLCYTOSOL

CYTOSOLPLASTIDSMITOCHONDRIA

CYTOSOLPLASTIDSMITOCHONDRIA

de novovia UTP

de novo

AMK1 to 7

UMK1 to 6

NDPK1 to 5

RNR1RNR2 (tso2)RNR2ARNR2B

DC

BA

CMP

CDP

CTP CTP

UMK

NDPK

dCDP

dCMP

dCTP

CDPsynthesisRNR

deoxy cytidine dNK

salvage

At1g72040

CYTOSOLPLASTIDSMITOCHONDRIA

RNR

CYTOSOLPLASTIDSMITOCHONDRIA

CYTOSOLMITOCHONDRIA

UMP

UDP

dUDP dUMP TMP

TMP

TDP

TTPUTP

UMK

DHFR-TS

TMKTK

NDPK

?

?

thymidine

de novovia UTP

10

10

10

10

11 11

11

1212

1313

1313

14

15

16

1817

At2g41880

At3g06200At3g57550

GMK 1 to 3

Figure 4. Synthesis of nucleoside and deoxynucleoside triphosphates. 1

Synthesis of (A) cy�dylates, (B) uridylates and thymidylates, (C) guanylates, and (D) 2 adenylates. RNR (10), ribonucleo�de reductase; dNK (11), deoxynucleoside kinase; UMK (12), 3 UMP kinase; NDPK (13), nucleoside diphosphate kinase; TK (14), thymidine kinase; DHFR-TS 4 (15), dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase; TMK (16), thymidylate kinase; GMK (17), 5 guanylate kinase; AMK (18), adenylate kinase. The subcellular loca�ons where enzymes with 6 these ac�vi�es are found are indicated. For TMK, a loca�on in the plas�ds is only assumed. 7 The mononucleo�des (AMP, GMP, UMP, and CMP) may also be derived from salvage 8 reac�ons (see Figures 5 and 6). 9

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IMPadenosine AMP guanosine

xanthosineinosine

hypoxantine xanthine

urate

ringcatabolism

XMP GMP

adenine guanine

At4g34890

At2g36310At1g05620

XDHXDH

NSH1NSH2

NSH1NSH2

GSDA

ADK IGK

IGK

IMPDH

HGPRT

HGPRT

GMPS

XMPP

AMPD

GMPP

At5g28050

At1g71750APRT

At1g71750

At2g38280 At1g63660At1g79470At1g16350

At3g09820

At1g27450At1g80050At4g22570At4g12440At5g11160

At5g03300

At?

At?

At?

At?

CYTOSOL

urate

HIU

OHCU

(S)-allantoin

At2g26230

allantoate

(S)-ureidoglycine

glyoxylate

(S)-ureidoglycolate

UOX

At5g43600UAH

At4g17050

At4g20070

At4g04955 ALN

AAHNH3

NH3

NH32

At5g58220 ALNS

At5g58220 ALNS

UGAH

PERO

XISOM

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DO

PLASM

IC R

ETICU

LUM

2. SAM, ethylene biosynthesis1. SAM, polyamine + nicotianamine biosynthesis

4. cytokinin degradation5. uptake

4. uptake

2. SAM, methylation reactions 3. AMP phosphotransferase

1. (vacuolar) RNA turnover

3. spontaneous depurination

1. (vacuolar) RNA turnover2. uptake

1. spontaneous depurination2. uptake

t-RNA turnover

‚A‘ deamination in DNAand base excision repair

sources

NH

O

NH

NH2

O H O

NH2O-NH

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NH2

O H

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NH

O

HOH O

NH2O-

A

B

19

20

21

21

22

22 23

2425

26

27

29

30

30

31

32

33

34

2828

2 3 4

Figure 5. Salvage and degrada�on of purines.

(A) The reac�ons of purine nucleobase and nucleoside salvage as well as purine nucleo�de degrada�on, which overlaps par�ally with GMP synthesis. The salvage pathways are highlighted by light grey shading, degrada�on reac�ons are encircled in dark gray. Metabolites that can only undergo degrada�on and cannot be salvaged are shown with brown shading. (B) Purine ring catabolism. The transport steps for urate and (S)-allantoin are not shown explicitly. APRT (19), adenine phosphoribosyltransferase; ADK (20), adenosine kinase; AMPD (2), AMP deaminase; IMPDH (3), IMP dehydrogenase; GMPS (4), GMP synthetase; HGPRT (21), hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase; IGK (22), inosine guanosine kinase; GMPP (23), GMP phosphatase; GSDA (24), guanosine deaminase; XMPP (25), XMP phosphatase; NSH1 (26), nucleoside hydrolase 1; NSH2 (27), nucleoside hydrolase 2; XDH (28), xanthine dehydrogenase; UOX (29), urate oxidase; ALNS (30), allantoin synthase; ALN (31), allantoinase; AAH (32), allantoate amidohydrolase; UGAH (33), ureidoglycine aminohydrolase; UAH (34), ureidoglycolate amidohydrolase.

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PLASTIDS CYTOSOL

ER

UMPUMP

UCK1 to 5

At3g17810

At2g36310At3g53900 At2g19570

At5g03555

At5g12200

At5g64370

DPYH

DPYD

NSH1

UCPP

UPRT

β-UP

uracil uracil

uridine

CMP

cytidine

dihydrouracil

NC-β-alanine

malonate-SA

β-alanine

PLUTO

At?

CDA

UCK UCKUCPPAt?

At5g40870At3g27190At1g55810At4g26510At3g27440

H/

H

N

N O

OHCH

53

*H

/CH3

*

H2

H

HN

N

O

O

OH

H

/CH3*

H

O

H2N

OH

H

/CH3 H

O

O

O

H

H

1. (vacuolar) RNA turnover2. uptake

sources

2. uptake

1. ‚C‘ deamination in DNA and base excision repair

BAATAt?

3535 3636

37

38

26

41

42

43

39

40

Figure 6. Salvage and degrada�on of pyrimidines.

NC-β-alanine, N-carbamyl-β-alanine; malonate-SA, malonate semialdehyde. UCK (35), uridine cy�dine kinase; UCPP (36), UMP CMP phosphatase; CDA (37), cy�dine deaminase; NSH1 (26), nucleoside hydrolase 1; PLUTO (38), plas�dic nucleobase transporter; UPRT (39), uracil phosphoribosyltransferase; DPYD (40), dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase; DPYH (41), dihydropyrimidine hydrolase; β-UP (42), β-ureidopropionase; BAAT (43) β-alanine aminotransferase.

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ATPATP

AMP

APOPLAST

signals

CELL

At1g14240

At5g18860

At4g05120

At5g56450

exocytosis

rupture

At3g10960At5g50300

NSH3

?

?

?

DORN1

adenosine

adenine

5‘ NT

APY3

AZG1/2NSH3

ENT3

pmANT1

4544

46

48

47

49

50

Figure 7. Excre�on, percep�on, and degrada�on of extracellular ATP

pmANT1 (44), plasma membrane adenine nucleo�de transporter; APY3 (45), apyrase 3; 5‘ NT (46), 5’ nucleo�dase; ENT3 (47), equilibra�ve nucleoside transporter 3; NSH3 (48), nucleoside hydrolase 3, AZG1/2 (49), azaguanine resistant 1 / azaguanine resistant 2, DORN1 (50), does not respond to nucleo�des 1 .

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