Proteome-Wide Identification of Lysine Succinylation in the Proteins of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

PLoS One. 2016 Feb 1;11(2):e0147586. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147586. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

Post-translational modification of proteins through lysine succinylation plays important regulatory roles in living cells. Lysine succinylation was recently identified as a novel post-translational modification in Escherichia coli, yeast, Toxoplasma gondii, HeLa cells, and mouse liver. Interestingly, only a few sites of lysine succinylation have been detected in plants to date. In this study, we identified 347 sites of lysine succinylation in 202 proteins in tomato by using high-resolution mass spectrometry. Succinylated proteins are implicated in the regulation of diverse metabolic processes, including chloroplast and mitochondrial metabolism. Bioinformatic analysis showed that succinylated proteins are evolutionarily conserved and involved in various cellular functions such as metabolism and epigenetic regulation. Moreover, succinylated proteins exhibit diverse subcellular localizations. We also defined six types of definitively conserved succinylation motifs. These results provide the first in-depth analysis of the lysine succinylome and novel insights into the role of succinylation in tomato, thereby elucidating lysine succinylation in the context of cellular physiology and metabolite biosynthesis in plants.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Motifs
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Chromatography, Liquid
  • Citric Acid Cycle
  • Gene Ontology
  • Histones / metabolism
  • Lysine / metabolism*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Peptides / metabolism
  • Plant Proteins / metabolism*
  • Protein Transport
  • Proteome / metabolism*
  • Solanum lycopersicum / metabolism*
  • Species Specificity
  • Subcellular Fractions / metabolism
  • Succinic Acid / metabolism*
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Substances

  • Histones
  • Peptides
  • Plant Proteins
  • Proteome
  • Succinic Acid
  • Lysine

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the grants of the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant No. 31372075), and the website is (http://isisn.nsfc.gov.cn/). This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (grant No. LQ15C140021), and the website is (http://www.zjnsf.gov.cn/). This work was supported by the 521 Talent Foundation of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, and the website is (http://www.zstu.edu.cn/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.