iScience (Jul 2024)

Δ4-dn-iso-OPDA, a bioactive plant hormone of Marchantia polymorpha

  • Takuya Kaji,
  • Yuho Nishizato,
  • Hidenori Yoshimatsu,
  • Akiyoshi Yoda,
  • Wenting Liang,
  • Andrea Chini,
  • Gemma Fernández-Barbero,
  • Kei Nozawa,
  • Junko Kyozuka,
  • Roberto Solano,
  • Minoru Ueda

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 7
p. 110191

Abstract

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Summary: Significant progress has been recently made in our understanding of the evolution of jasmonates biosynthesis and signaling. The bioactive jasmonate activating COI1-JAZ co-receptor differs in bryophytes and vascular plants. Dinor-iso-12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (dn-iso-OPDA) is the bioactive hormone in bryophytes and lycophytes. However, further studies showed that the full activation of hormone signaling in Marchantia polymorpha requires additional unidentified hormones. Δ4-dn-OPDAs were previously identified as novel bioactive jasmonates in M. polymorpha. In this paper, we describe the major bioactive isomer of Δ4-dn-OPDAs as Δ4-dn-iso-OPDA through chemical synthesis, receptor binding assay, and biological activity in M. polymorpha. In addition, we disclosed that Δ4-dn-cis-OPDA is a biosynthetic precursor of Δ4-dn-iso-OPDA. We demonstrated that in planta cis-to-iso conversion of Δ4-dn-cis-OPDA occurs in the biosynthesis of Δ4-dn-iso-OPDA, defining a key biosynthetic step in the chemical evolution of hormone structure. We predict that these findings will facilitate further understanding of the molecular evolution of plant hormone signaling.

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