{"doi":"10.1101/2022.01.31.478510","title":"Lipid-mediated nuclear moonlighting of cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in plant heat response","abstract":"Abstract Cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPC) is a glycolytic enzyme, but it undergoes stress-induced nuclear translocation for moonlighting and regulating gene expression. To elucidate how the cytosolic enzyme moves into the nuclei under stress, we show that the plasma membrane-associated phospholipase Dδ(PLDδ) and its product phosphatidic acid (PA) promote heat-induced nuclear translocation of GAPC. The GAPC nuclear accumulation and Arabidopsis seedling tolerance to heat stress were reduced in pldδ , which was restored by genetic complementation with intact PLDδ , but not with catalytically inactive enzyme. GAPC overexpression enhanced the seedling thermotolerance and the expression of heat-inducible genes, but this was not observed when GAPC was overexpressed in the pldδ background. The GAPC nuclear accumulation and seedling thermotolerance were also decreased by application with a vesicle trafficking inhibitor brefeldin A (BFA) or zinc that inhibited the PA-GAPC interaction. Heat stress elevated PA levels in nuclei from wild-type, but not from pldδ and BFA-treated plants. Lipid labeling and fluorescence resonance energy transfer analyses demonstrated heat-induced nuclear co-localization of PA and GAPC, which was impaired by BFA or zinc treatment. Taken together, our data suggest that PLDδ-produced PA mediates nuclear translocation of GAPC via lipid-protein interaction and vesicle trafficking for plants to cope with heat. One sentence summary The lipid mediator phosphatidic acid produced by a plasma membrane-associated phospholipase D mediates the nuclear moonlighting of cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase under heat.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2022,"id":305770,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9539,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":886999,"name":"Shuaibing Yao","orcid":"0009-0009-8318-2359","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":887000,"name":"Qun Zhang","orcid":"0000-0002-4477-1478","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":589411,"name":"Xuemin Wang","orcid":"0000-0002-6251-6745","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":887604,"name":"Sang‐Chul Kim","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":62,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:32:44.983506Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}