The Arabidopsis thaliana METACASPASE IIf Regulates Sugar Metabolism and Delays Dark-Induced Leaf Senescence. Nagahage, I. S. P., Carrio-Segui, A., Pandey, S. K., & Tuominen, H. Physiologia Plantarum, 178(2):e70888, 2026. _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ppl.70888![The Arabidopsis thaliana METACASPASE IIf Regulates Sugar Metabolism and Delays Dark-Induced Leaf Senescence [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex The Arabidopsis thaliana METACASPASE IIf (AtMCA-IIf) is expressed during both developmental cell death and leaf senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana. It has been shown to contribute to developmental cell death but its role in regulating leaf senescence has remained unclear. To investigate this, we conducted dark-induced senescence assays using atmca-IIf mutant lines, which exhibited an accelerated senescence phenotype accompanied by increased levels of glycolytic sugars in light and slow degradation of starch in dark-incubated leaves. Our findings therefore support AtMCA-IIf function in leaf senescence through modulation of sugar metabolism. We propose, on the basis of both in vitro and in vivo data, that one of the proteolytic targets of AtMCA-IIf in this process is PFPβ1, a subunit of the pyrophosphate-dependent fructose-6-phosphate phosphotransferase β1 (PFPβ1), a key enzyme in the glycolytic pathway. Accordingly, pfpβ1 mutants displayed accelerated senescence of dark-incubated leaves. Together, our results suggest that AtMCA-IIf mitigates leaf senescence through targeted modulation of sugar metabolism, thereby delaying the progression of senescence under dark conditions.
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title = {The {Arabidopsis} thaliana {METACASPASE} {IIf} {Regulates} {Sugar} {Metabolism} and {Delays} {Dark}-{Induced} {Leaf} {Senescence}},
volume = {178},
copyright = {© 2026 The Author(s). Physiologia Plantarum published by John Wiley \& Sons Ltd on behalf of Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society.},
issn = {1399-3054},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ppl.70888},
doi = {10.1111/ppl.70888},
abstract = {The Arabidopsis thaliana METACASPASE IIf (AtMCA-IIf) is expressed during both developmental cell death and leaf senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana. It has been shown to contribute to developmental cell death but its role in regulating leaf senescence has remained unclear. To investigate this, we conducted dark-induced senescence assays using atmca-IIf mutant lines, which exhibited an accelerated senescence phenotype accompanied by increased levels of glycolytic sugars in light and slow degradation of starch in dark-incubated leaves. Our findings therefore support AtMCA-IIf function in leaf senescence through modulation of sugar metabolism. We propose, on the basis of both in vitro and in vivo data, that one of the proteolytic targets of AtMCA-IIf in this process is PFPβ1, a subunit of the pyrophosphate-dependent fructose-6-phosphate phosphotransferase β1 (PFPβ1), a key enzyme in the glycolytic pathway. Accordingly, pfpβ1 mutants displayed accelerated senescence of dark-incubated leaves. Together, our results suggest that AtMCA-IIf mitigates leaf senescence through targeted modulation of sugar metabolism, thereby delaying the progression of senescence under dark conditions.},
language = {en},
number = {2},
urldate = {2026-04-24},
journal = {Physiologia Plantarum},
author = {Nagahage, Isura Sumeda Priyadarshana and Carrio-Segui, Angela and Pandey, Shashank K. and Tuominen, Hannele},
year = {2026},
note = {\_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ppl.70888},
keywords = {Arabidopsis thaliana, leaf senescence, metacaspase, metacaspase-dependent proteolysis, sugar metabolism},
pages = {e70888},
}
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