The chloroplast CLPD chaperone: consequences of under- and overexpression, interaction with the CLP protease core, and candidate substrates

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2026
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Abstract
Expression of the chloroplast AAA+ chaperone CLPD gene increases during senescence and drought, but its function in chloroplast proteostasis is poorly understood. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of Arabidopsis CLPD protein accumulation across development from early seedlings to senescence, and compares results to its homologs CLPC1,2, as well as CLPB3 and cpHSP90. The developmental consequences of complete loss of CLPD expression (clpd-1), as well as overexpression of functional CLPD or CLPD impaired in ATP hydrolysis (CLPD-TRAP), were determined in Arabidopsis. clpd-1 has accelerated seedling development while functional CLPD overexpression lines, but not CLPD-TRAP, have delayed development. To determine if CLPD is a bona fide CLP chaperone associating with the CLPPRT protease and to identify in vivo candidate substrates, we employed the CLPD-TRAP line during vegetative and flowering (senescent) growth stages. Affinity purification of CLPD-TRAP followed by mass spectrometry showed high enrichment of all nine subunits of the CLP protease, suggesting that CLPD plays a role in substrate delivery to the CLP protease. CLPC1,2 were also highly enriched in the CLPD-TRAP interactome, and together with prior information, suggesting hetero-oligomerization of the three chaperones. Nine chloroplast candidate substrates were identified in the CLPD-interactomes, including: FHY2 involved in riboflavin synthesis, THI1 and THIC involved in thiamin metabolism, and four proteins of unknown function. Several of these were previously identified as potential CLP substrates based on CLPC1 trapping and comparative proteomics of clp mutants. Together, this suggests that CLPD acts in substrate selection within a heteromeric CLPC-CLPD hexamer, likely with unique contributions.
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Authors Marissa Y Annis, Pratyush Routray, Nazmul H. Bhuiyan, Bingjian Yuan, Klaas J. van Wijk
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Journal Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB
Year 2026
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10.1093/plphys/kiag681
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https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiag681
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