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Honglin Feng a ,
Noel Edwards b ,
Catriona M. H. Anderson b ,
Mike Althaus c ,
Rebecca P. Duncan a ,
Yu-Ching Hsu a ,
Charles W. Luetje d ,
Daniel R. G. Price a ,
Alex C. C. Wilson a , 5 ,
David T. Thwaites b , 5
Publication date (Electronic): 23 July 2019
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Keywords: symbiosis, amino acid transport, metabolic integration
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Plant sap-feeding insects thrive despite feeding exclusively on a diet lacking in essential amino acids. This nutritional deficit is countered through endosymbiotic relationships with microbial symbionts. Nonessential amino acids, vital for microbial symbionts, are utilized by symbiont metabolic pathways and yield essential amino acids required by their eukaryotic hosts. Symbionts are completely dependent on their host to meet nutritional requirements. The endosymbionts are surrounded individually by host-derived symbiosomal membranes and are housed within specialized host bacteriocyte cells. The transport capabilities of the symbiosomal membrane remain unknown. Here, we identify a transport system that mediates a crucial step in this metabolic complementarity: a transporter capable of transporting nonessential amino acids across the symbiosomal membrane of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Plant sap-feeding insects are widespread, having evolved to occupy diverse environmental niches despite exclusive feeding on an impoverished diet lacking in essential amino acids and vitamins. Success depends exquisitely on their symbiotic relationships with microbial symbionts housed within specialized eukaryotic bacteriocyte cells. Each bacteriocyte is packed with symbionts that are individually surrounded by a host-derived symbiosomal membrane representing the absolute host–symbiont interface. The symbiosomal membrane must be a dynamic and selectively permeable structure to enable bidirectional and differential movement of essential nutrients, metabolites, and biosynthetic intermediates, vital for growth and survival of host and symbiont. However, despite this crucial role, the molecular basis of membrane transport across the symbiosomal membrane remains unresolved in all bacteriocyte-containing insects. A transport protein was immunolocalized to the symbiosomal membrane separating the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum from its intracellular symbiont Buchnera aphidicola. The transporter, A. pisum nonessential amino acid transporter 1, or ApNEAAT1 (gene: ACYPI008971), was characterized functionally following heterologous expression in Xenopus oocytes, and mediates both inward and outward transport of small dipolar amino acids (serine, proline, cysteine, alanine, glycine). Electroneutral ApNEAAT1 transport is driven by amino acid concentration gradients and is not coupled to transmembrane ion gradients. Previous metabolite profiling of hemolymph and bacteriocyte, alongside metabolic pathway analysis in host and symbiont, enable prediction of a physiological role for ApNEAAT1 in bidirectional host–symbiont amino acid transfer, supplying both host and symbiont with indispensable nutrients and biosynthetic precursors to facilitate metabolic complementarity. Significance
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