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Cao FY, DeFalco TA, Moeder W, Li B, Gong Y, Liu XM, Taniguchi M, Lumba S, Toh S, Shan L, Ellis B, Desveaux D, Yoshioka K. Arabidopsis ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR 8 (ERF8) has dual functions in ABA signaling and immunity. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 18:211. [PMID: 30261844 PMCID: PMC6161326 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-018-1402-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR (ERF) 8 is a member of one of the largest transcription factor families in plants, the APETALA2/ETHYLENE RESPONSIVE FACTOR (AP2/ERF) superfamily. Members of this superfamily have been implicated in a wide variety of processes such as development and environmental stress responses. RESULTS In this study we demonstrated that ERF8 is involved in both ABA and immune signaling. ERF8 overexpression induced programmed cell death (PCD) in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana. This PCD was salicylic acid (SA)-independent, suggesting that ERF8 acts downstream or independent of SA. ERF8-induced PCD was abolished by mutations within the ERF-associated amphiphilic repression (EAR) motif, indicating ERF8 induces cell death through its transcriptional repression activity. Two immunity-related mitogen-activated protein kinases, MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 4 (MPK4) and MPK11, were identified as ERF8-interacting proteins and directly phosphorylated ERF8 in vitro. Four putative MPK phosphorylation sites were identified in ERF8, one of which (Ser103) was determined to be the predominantly phosphorylated residue in vitro, while mutation of all four putative phosphorylation sites partially suppressed ERF8-induced cell death in N. benthamiana. Genome-wide transcriptomic analysis and pathogen growth assays confirmed a positive role of ERF8 in mediating immunity, as ERF8 knockdown or overexpression lines conferred compromised or enhanced resistance against the hemibiotrophic bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Together these data reveal that the ABA-inducible transcriptional repressor ERF8 has dual roles in ABA signaling and pathogen defense, and further highlight the complex influence of ABA on plant-microbe interactions.
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- Feng Yi Cao
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
- Present address: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
- Center for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function (CAGEF), University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, 2185 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
- Present address: Kyoto Research Laboratories, YMC CO., LTD., 59 Yonnotsubo-cho Iwakuraminami, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-0033 Japan
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
- Present address: Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, 1-1-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, 214-8571 Japan
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, 2185 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
- Center for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function (CAGEF), University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
- Center for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function (CAGEF), University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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Castro PH, Santos MÂ, Freitas S, Cana-Quijada P, Lourenço T, Rodrigues MAA, Fonseca F, Ruiz-Albert J, Azevedo JE, Tavares RM, Castillo AG, Bejarano ER, Azevedo H. Arabidopsis thaliana SPF1 and SPF2 are nuclear-located ULP2-like SUMO proteases that act downstream of SIZ1 in plant development. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2018; 69:4633-4649. [PMID: 30053161 PMCID: PMC6117582 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ery265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Post-translational modifiers such as the small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) peptide act as fast and reversible protein regulators. Functional characterization of the sumoylation machinery has determined the key regulatory role that SUMO plays in plant development. Unlike components of the SUMO conjugation pathway, SUMO proteases (ULPs) are encoded by a relatively large gene family and are potential sources of specificity within the pathway. This study reports a thorough comparative genomics and phylogenetic characterization of plant ULPs, revealing the presence of one ULP1-like and three ULP2-like SUMO protease subgroups within plant genomes. As representatives of an under-studied subgroup, Arabidopsis SPF1 and SPF2 were subjected to functional characterization. Loss-of-function mutants implicated both proteins with vegetative growth, flowering time, and seed size and yield. Mutants constitutively accumulated SUMO conjugates, and yeast complementation assays associated these proteins with the function of ScUlp2 but not ScUlp1. Fluorescence imaging placed both proteins in the plant cell nucleoplasm. Transcriptomics analysis indicated strong regulatory involvement in secondary metabolism, cell wall remodelling, and nitrate assimilation. Furthermore, developmental defects of the spf1-1 spf2-2 (spf1/2) double-mutant opposed those of the major E3 ligase siz1 mutant and, most significantly, developmental and transcriptomic characterization of the siz1 spf1/2 triple-mutant placed SIZ1 as epistatic to SPF1 and SPF2.
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- Pedro Humberto Castro
- Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Plant Functional Biology Center (CBFP), University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- Area de Genética, Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Campus Teatinos, Málaga, Spain
- CIBIO, InBIO—Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal
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- Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Plant Functional Biology Center (CBFP), University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
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- Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Plant Functional Biology Center (CBFP), University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- CIBIO, InBIO—Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal
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- Area de Genética, Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Campus Teatinos, Málaga, Spain
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- Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Plant Functional Biology Center (CBFP), University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
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- PRPlants Lab, GPlantS Unit, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica—Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Estação Agronómica Nacional, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Area de Genética, Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Campus Teatinos, Málaga, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Plant Functional Biology Center (CBFP), University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
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- Area de Genética, Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Campus Teatinos, Málaga, Spain
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- Area de Genética, Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Campus Teatinos, Málaga, Spain
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- CIBIO, InBIO—Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Arsova B, Watt M, Usadel B. Monitoring of Plant Protein Post-translational Modifications Using Targeted Proteomics. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1168. [PMID: 30174677 PMCID: PMC6107839 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2018] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) are among the fastest and earliest of plant responses to changes in the environment, making the mechanisms and dynamics of PTMs an important area of plant science. One of the most studied PTMs is protein phosphorylation. This review summarizes the use of targeted proteomics for the elucidation of the biological functioning of plant PTMs, and focuses primarily on phosphorylation. Since phosphorylated peptides have a low abundance, usually complex enrichment protocols are required for their research. Initial identification is usually performed with discovery phosphoproteomics, using high sensitivity mass spectrometers, where as many phosphopeptides are measured as possible. Once a PTM site is identified, biological characterization can be addressed with targeted proteomics. In targeted proteomics, Selected/Multiple Reaction Monitoring (S/MRM) is traditionally coupled to simple, standard protein digestion protocols, often omitting the enrichment step, and relying on triple-quadruple mass spectrometer. The use of synthetic peptides as internal standards allows accurate identification, avoiding cross-reactivity typical for some antibody based approaches. Importantly, internal standards allow absolute peptide quantitation, reported down to 0.1 femtomoles, also useful for determination of phospho-site occupancy. S/MRM is advantageous in situations where monitoring and diagnostics of peptide PTM status is needed for many samples, as it has faster sample processing times, higher throughput than other approaches, and excellent quantitation and reproducibility. Furthermore, the number of publicly available data-bases with plant PTM discovery data is growing, facilitating selection of modified peptides and design of targeted proteomics workflows. Recent instrument developments result in faster scanning times, inclusion of ion-trap instruments leading to parallel reaction monitoring- which further facilitates S/MRM experimental design. Finally, recent combination of data independent and data dependent spectra acquisition means that in addition to anticipated targeted data, spectra can now be queried for unanticipated information. The potential for future applications in plant biology is outlined.
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- Borjana Arsova
- Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften, IBG-2–Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften, IBG-2–Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften, IBG-2–Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- IBMG: Institute for Biology I, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Azevedo RF, Gonçalves‐Vidigal MC, Oblessuc PR, Melotto M. The common bean COK-4 and the Arabidopsis FER kinase domain share similar functions in plant growth and defence. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2018; 19:1765-1778. [PMID: 29352746 PMCID: PMC6638044 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Revised: 01/08/2018] [Accepted: 01/15/2018] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Receptor-like kinases are membrane proteins that can be shared by diverse signalling pathways. Among them, the Arabidopsis thaliana FERONIA (FER) plays a role in the balance between distinct signals to control growth and defence. We have found that COK-4, a putative kinase encoded in the common bean anthracnose resistance locus Co-4, which is transcriptionally regulated during the immune response, is highly similar to the kinase domain of FER. To assess whether COK-4 is a functional orthologue of FER, we expressed COK-4 in the wild-type Col-0 and the fer-5 mutant of Arabidopsis and evaluated FER-associated traits. We observed that fer-5 plants show an enhanced apoplastic and stomatal defence against Pseudomonas syringae. In addition, the fer-5 mutant shows reduced biomass, smaller guard cell size, greater number of stomata per leaf area, fewer leaves, faster transition to reproductive stage and lower seed weight per plant than the wild-type Col-0. Except for the stomatal complex length and number of stomata, COK-4 expression in fer-5 lines partially or completely rescued both defence and developmental defects of fer-5 to the wild-type level. Notably, COK-4 may have an additive effect to FER, as the expression of COK-4 in Col-0 resulted in enhanced defence and growth phenotypes in comparison with wild-type Col-0 plants. Altogether, these findings indicate that the common bean COK-4 shares at least some of the multiple functions of the Arabidopsis FER kinase domain, acting in both the induction of plant growth and regulation of plant defence.
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- Rafhael Felipin Azevedo
- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of California, DavisDavisCA 95616USA
- Departamento de AgronomiaUniversidade Estadual de MaringáMaringáPR 87020‐900Brazil
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of California, DavisDavisCA 95616USA
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PhosContext2vec: a distributed representation of residue-level sequence contexts and its application to general and kinase-specific phosphorylation site prediction. Sci Rep 2018; 8:8240. [PMID: 29844483 PMCID: PMC5974293 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26392-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Accepted: 05/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Phosphorylation is the most important type of protein post-translational modification. Accordingly, reliable identification of kinase-mediated phosphorylation has important implications for functional annotation of phosphorylated substrates and characterization of cellular signalling pathways. The local sequence context surrounding potential phosphorylation sites is considered to harbour the most relevant information for phosphorylation site prediction models. However, currently there is a lack of condensed vector representation for this important contextual information, despite the presence of varying residue-level features that can be constructed from sequence homology profiles, structural information, and physicochemical properties. To address this issue, we present PhosContext2vec which is a distributed representation of residue-level sequence contexts for potential phosphorylation sites and demonstrate its application in both general and kinase-specific phosphorylation site predictions. Benchmarking experiments indicate that PhosContext2vec could achieve promising predictive performance compared with several other existing methods for phosphorylation site prediction. We envisage that PhosContext2vec, as a new sequence context representation, can be used in combination with other informative residue-level features to improve the classification performance in a number of related bioinformatics tasks that require appropriate residue-level feature vector representation and extraction. The web server of PhosContext2vec is publicly available at http://phoscontext2vec.erc.monash.edu/.
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Shi S, Wang L, Cao M, Chen G, Yu J. Proteomic analysis and prediction of amino acid variations that influence protein posttranslational modifications. Brief Bioinform 2018; 20:1597-1606. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bby036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2018] [Revised: 03/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Accumulative studies have indicated that amino acid variations through changing the type of residues of the target sites or key flanking residues could directly or indirectly influence protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) and bring about a detrimental effect on protein function. Computational mutation analysis can greatly narrow down the efforts on experimental work. To increase the utilization of current computational resources, we first provide an overview of computational prediction of amino acid variations that influence protein PTMs and their functional analysis. We also discuss the challenges that are faced while developing novel in silico approaches in the future. The development of better methods for mutation analysis-related protein PTMs will help to facilitate the development of personalized precision medicine.
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- Shaoping Shi
- Department of Mathematics and Numerical Simulation and High-Performance Computing Laboratory, School of Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330031, China
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- Department of Science, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330031, China
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- Department of Mathematics, School of Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330031, China
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- Department of Mathematics, School of Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330031, China
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- Department of Mathematics, School of Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330031, China
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Bolger ME, Arsova B, Usadel B. Plant genome and transcriptome annotations: from misconceptions to simple solutions. Brief Bioinform 2018; 19:437-449. [PMID: 28062412 PMCID: PMC5952960 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbw135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2016] [Revised: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Next-generation sequencing has triggered an explosion of available genomic and transcriptomic resources in the plant sciences. Although genome and transcriptome sequencing has become orders of magnitudes cheaper and more efficient, often the functional annotation process is lagging behind. This might be hampered by the lack of a comprehensive enumeration of simple-to-use tools available to the plant researcher. In this comprehensive review, we present (i) typical ontologies to be used in the plant sciences, (ii) useful databases and resources used for functional annotation, (iii) what to expect from an annotated plant genome, (iv) an automated annotation pipeline and (v) a recipe and reference chart outlining typical steps used to annotate plant genomes/transcriptomes using publicly available resources.
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- Marie E Bolger
- Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm Johnen Str, Jülich, Germany
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm Johnen Str, Jülich, Germany
- FRS-FNRS Chargé de Recherches, Functional Genomics and Plant Molecular Imaging Center for Protein Engineering (CIP), Dpt of Life Sciences, University of Liège, Quartier de la Vallée, 1, Chemin de la Vallée, 4 - Bât B22, 4000 LIEGE, Belgium
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm Johnen Str, Jülich, Germany
- RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Biology I Botany, BioSC, Worringer Weg 3, Aachen, Germany
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Rurek M, Czołpińska M, Pawłowski TA, Krzesiński W, Spiżewski T. Cold and Heat Stress Diversely Alter Both Cauliflower Respiration and Distinct Mitochondrial Proteins Including OXPHOS Components and Matrix Enzymes. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19030877. [PMID: 29547512 PMCID: PMC5877738 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19030877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Revised: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Complex proteomic and physiological approaches for studying cold and heat stress responses in plant mitochondria are still limited. Variations in the mitochondrial proteome of cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) curds after cold and heat and after stress recovery were assayed by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D PAGE) in relation to mRNA abundance and respiratory parameters. Quantitative analysis of the mitochondrial proteome revealed numerous stress-affected protein spots. In cold, major downregulations in the level of photorespiratory enzymes, porine isoforms, oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) and some low-abundant proteins were observed. In contrast, carbohydrate metabolism enzymes, heat-shock proteins, translation, protein import, and OXPHOS components were involved in heat response and recovery. Several transcriptomic and metabolic regulation mechanisms are also suggested. Cauliflower plants appeared less susceptible to heat; closed stomata in heat stress resulted in moderate photosynthetic, but only minor respiratory impairments, however, photosystem II performance was unaffected. Decreased photorespiration corresponded with proteomic alterations in cold. Our results show that cold and heat stress not only operate in diverse modes (exemplified by cold-specific accumulation of some heat shock proteins), but exert some associations at molecular and physiological levels. This implies a more complex model of action of investigated stresses on plant mitochondria.
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- Michał Rurek
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
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- Department of Vegetable Crops, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Dąbrowskiego 159, 60-594 Poznań, Poland.
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- Department of Vegetable Crops, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Dąbrowskiego 159, 60-594 Poznań, Poland.
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Arabidopsis TSO1 and MYB3R1 form a regulatory module to coordinate cell proliferation with differentiation in shoot and root. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018. [PMID: 29535223 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1715903115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Fundamental to plant and animal development is the regulated balance between cell proliferation and differentiation, a process intimately tied to cell cycle regulation. In Arabidopsis, mutations in TSO1, whose animal homolog is LIN54, resulted in severe developmental abnormalities both in shoot and root, including shoot meristem fasciation and reduced root meristematic zone. The molecular mechanism that could explain the tso1 mutant phenotype is absent. Through a genetic screen, we identified 32 suppressors that map to the MYB3R1 gene, encoding a conserved cell cycle regulator. Further analysis indicates that TSO1 transcriptionally represses MYB3R1, and the ectopic MYB3R1 activity mediates the tso1 mutant phenotype. Since animal homologs of TSO1 and MYB3R1 are components of a cell cycle regulatory complex, the DREAM complex, we tested and showed that TSO1 and MYB3R1 coimmunoprecipitated in tobacco leaf cells. Our work reveals a conserved cell cycle regulatory module, consisting of TSO1 and MYB3R1, for proper plant development.
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Liu S, Yu F, Yang Z, Wang T, Xiong H, Chang C, Yu W, Li N. Establishment of Dimethyl Labeling-based Quantitative Acetylproteomics in Arabidopsis. Mol Cell Proteomics 2018; 17:1010-1027. [PMID: 29440448 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.ra117.000530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2017] [Revised: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Protein acetylation, one of many types of post-translational modifications (PTMs), is involved in a variety of biological and cellular processes. In the present study, we applied both CsCl density gradient (CDG) centrifugation-based protein fractionation and a dimethyl-labeling-based 4C quantitative PTM proteomics workflow in the study of dynamic acetylproteomic changes in Arabidopsis. This workflow integrates the dimethyl chemical labeling with chromatography-based acetylpeptide separation and enrichment followed by mass spectrometry (MS) analysis, the extracted ion chromatogram (XIC) quantitation-based computational analysis of mass spectrometry data to measure dynamic changes of acetylpeptide level using an in-house software program, named Stable isotope-based Quantitation-Dimethyl labeling (SQUA-D), and finally the confirmation of ethylene hormone-regulated acetylation using immunoblot analysis. Eventually, using this proteomic approach, 7456 unambiguous acetylation sites were found from 2638 different acetylproteins, and 5250 acetylation sites, including 5233 sites on lysine side chain and 17 sites on protein N termini, were identified repetitively. Out of these repetitively discovered acetylation sites, 4228 sites on lysine side chain (i.e. 80.5%) are novel. These acetylproteins are exemplified by the histone superfamily, ribosomal and heat shock proteins, and proteins related to stress/stimulus responses and energy metabolism. The novel acetylproteins enriched by the CDG centrifugation fractionation contain many cellular trafficking proteins, membrane-bound receptors, and receptor-like kinases, which are mostly involved in brassinosteroid, light, gravity, and development signaling. In addition, we identified 12 highly conserved acetylation site motifs within histones, P-glycoproteins, actin depolymerizing factors, ATPases, transcription factors, and receptor-like kinases. Using SQUA-D software, we have quantified 33 ethylene hormone-enhanced and 31 hormone-suppressed acetylpeptide groups or called unique PTM peptide arrays (UPAs) that share the identical unique PTM site pattern (UPSP). This CDG centrifugation protein fractionation in combination with dimethyl labeling-based quantitative PTM proteomics, and SQUA-D may be applied in the quantitation of any PTM proteins in any model eukaryotes and agricultural crops as well as tissue samples of animals and human beings.
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- Shichang Liu
- From the ‡Division of Life Science, Energy Institute, Institute for the Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- §Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China.,¶Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- From the ‡Division of Life Science, Energy Institute, Institute for the Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China.,‖The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518057, China
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- **Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- ‡‡College of Life Science, South-central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- §§Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, Maryland 20742-5815
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- §Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China; .,¶Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- From the ‡Division of Life Science, Energy Institute, Institute for the Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China; .,‖The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518057, China
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Prediction of Protein Phosphorylation Sites by Integrating Secondary Structure Information and Other One-Dimensional Structural Properties. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1484:265-274. [PMID: 27787832 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6406-2_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Studies on phosphorylation are important but challenging for both wet-bench experiments and computational studies, and accurate non-kinase-specific prediction tools are highly desirable for whole-genome annotation in a wide variety of species. Here, we describe a phosphorylation site prediction webserver, PhosphoSVM, that employs Support Vector Machine to combine protein secondary structure information and seven other one-dimensional structural properties, including Shannon entropy, relative entropy, predicted protein disorder information, predicted solvent accessible area, amino acid overlapping properties, averaged cumulative hydrophobicity, and subsequence k-nearest neighbor profiles. This method achieved AUC values of 0.8405/0.8183/0.7383 for serine (S), threonine (T), and tyrosine (Y) phosphorylation sites, respectively, in animals with a tenfold cross-validation. The model trained by the animal phosphorylation sites was also applied to a plant phosphorylation site dataset as an independent test. The AUC values for the independent test data set were 0.7761/0.6652/0.5958 for S/T/Y phosphorylation sites, respectively. This algorithm with the optimally trained model was implemented as a webserver. The webserver, trained model, and all datasets used in the current study are available at http://sysbio.unl.edu/PhosphoSVM .
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Revisiting paradigms of Ca2+ signaling protein kinase regulation in plants. Biochem J 2018; 475:207-223. [DOI: 10.1042/bcj20170022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2017] [Revised: 12/07/2017] [Accepted: 12/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Calcium (Ca2+) serves as a universal second messenger in eukaryotic signal transduction. Understanding the Ca2+ activation kinetics of Ca2+ sensors is critical to understanding the cellular signaling mechanisms involved. In this review, we discuss the regulatory properties of two sensor classes: the Ca2+-dependent protein kinases (CPKs/CDPKs) and the calcineurin B-like (CBL) proteins that control the activity of CBL-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs) and identify emerging topics and some foundational points that are not well established experimentally. Most plant CPKs are activated by physiologically relevant Ca2+ concentrations except for those with degenerate EF hands, and new results suggest that the Ca2+-dependence of kinase activation may be modulated by both protein–protein interactions and CPK autophosphorylation. Early results indicated that activation of plant CPKs by Ca2+ occurred by relief of autoinhibition. However, recent studies of protist CDPKs suggest that intramolecular interactions between CDPK domains contribute allosteric control to CDPK activation. Further studies are required to elucidate the mechanisms regulating plant CPKs. With CBL–CIPKs, the two major activation mechanisms are thought to be (i) binding of Ca2+-bound CBL to the CIPK and (ii) phosphorylation of residues in the CIPK activation loop. However, the relative importance of these two mechanisms in regulating CIPK activity is unclear. Furthermore, information detailing activation by physiologically relevant [Ca2+] is lacking, such that the paradigm of CBLs as Ca2+ sensors still requires critical, experimental validation. Developing models of CPK and CIPK regulation is essential to understand how these kinases mediate Ca2+ signaling and to the design of experiments to test function in vivo.
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Dolata J, Taube M, Bajczyk M, Jarmolowski A, Szweykowska-Kulinska Z, Bielewicz D. Regulation of Plant Microprocessor Function in Shaping microRNA Landscape. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:753. [PMID: 29922322 PMCID: PMC5996484 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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MicroRNAs are small molecules (∼21 nucleotides long) that are key regulators of gene expression. They originate from long stem-loop RNAs as a product of cleavage by a protein complex called Microprocessor. The core components of the plant Microprocessor are the RNase type III enzyme Dicer-Like 1 (DCL1), the zinc finger protein Serrate (SE), and the double-stranded RNA binding protein Hyponastic Leaves 1 (HYL1). Microprocessor assembly and its processing of microRNA precursors have been reported to occur in discrete nuclear bodies called Dicing bodies. The accessibility of and modifications to Microprocessor components affect microRNA levels and may have dramatic consequences in plant development. Currently, numerous lines of evidence indicate that plant Microprocessor activity is tightly regulated. The cellular localization of HYL1 is dependent on a specific KETCH1 importin, and the E3 ubiquitin ligase COP1 indirectly protects HYL1 from degradation in a light-dependent manner. Furthermore, proper localization of HYL1 in Dicing bodies is regulated by MOS2. On the other hand, the Dicing body localization of DCL1 is regulated by NOT2b, which also interacts with SE in the nucleus. Post-translational modifications are substantial factors that contribute to protein functional diversity and provide a fine-tuning system for the regulation of protein activity. The phosphorylation status of HYL1 is crucial for its activity/stability and is a result of the interplay between kinases (MPK3 and SnRK2) and phosphatases (CPL1 and PP4). Additionally, MPK3 and SnRK2 are known to phosphorylate SE. Several other proteins (e.g., TGH, CDF2, SIC, and RCF3) that interact with Microprocessor have been found to influence its RNA-binding and processing activities. In this minireview, recent findings on the various modes of Microprocessor activity regulation are discussed.
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- *Correspondence: Zofia Szweykowska-Kulinska, Dawid Bielewicz,
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Robertlee J, Kobayashi K, Tang J, Suzuki M, Muranaka T. Evidence that the Arabidopsis thaliana 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase 1 is phosphorylated at Ser577 in planta. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY (TOKYO, JAPAN) 2018; 35:1-7. [PMID: 31275031 PMCID: PMC6543733 DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.17.1208a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 12/08/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMGR) is an essential enzyme in the mevalonate pathway. In higher plants, mevalonate pathway involves in the production of precursor for isoprenoids biosynthesis, including essential components for cell functions. Previously, we confirmed that the Arabidopsis thaliana HMGR1S (AtHMGR1S) is phosphorylated at S577 by the combination of sucrose non-fermenting related kinase-1 (SnRK1) and geminivirus rep-interacting kinase-1 (GRIK1) in vitro. However, even in quantitative phosphoproteomics studies that were directed to find SnRK1 target substrates, AtHMGR1S phosphorylation at S577 has never been detected in planta. In this study, we expressed AtHMGR1S as a C-terminal FLAG-fusion protein in A. thaliana hmg1 mutant to confirm its phosphorylation in planta. Our results provide the first direct evidence that AtHMGR1S is phosphorylated at S577 in planta. Moreover, phosphatase inhibitors treatment to the A. thaliana seedlings induced AtHMGR1S phosphorylation at sites other than S577, suggesting the presence of a novel HMGR regulatory mechanism in planta.
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- Jekson Robertlee
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo 112-8681, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- E-mail: Tel: +81-6-6879-7423 Fax: +81-6-6879-7426
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Bigeard J, Hirt H. Nuclear Signaling of Plant MAPKs. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:469. [PMID: 29696029 PMCID: PMC5905223 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2017] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are conserved protein kinases in eukaryotes that establish signaling modules where MAPK kinase kinases (MAPKKKs) activate MAPK kinases (MAPKKs) which in turn activate MAPKs. In plants, they are involved in the signaling of multiple environmental stresses and developmental programs. MAPKs phosphorylate their substrates and this post-translational modification (PTM) contributes to the regulation of proteins. PTMs may indeed modify the activity, subcellular localization, stability or trans-interactions of modified proteins. Plant MAPKs usually localize to the cytosol and/or nucleus, and in some instances they may also translocate from the cytosol to the nucleus. Upon the detection of environmental changes at the cell surface, MAPKs participate in the signal transduction to the nucleus, allowing an adequate transcriptional reprogramming. The identification of plant MAPK substrates largely contributed to a better understanding of the underlying signaling mechanisms. In this review, we highlight the nuclear signaling of plant MAPKs. We discuss the activation, regulation and activity of plant MAPKs, as well as their nuclear re-localization. We also describe and discuss known nuclear substrates of plant MAPKs in the context of biotic stress, abiotic stress and development and consider future research directions in the field of plant MAPKs.
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- Jean Bigeard
- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay IPS2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Paris-Sud, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay IPS2, Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France
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- Center for Desert Agriculture, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- *Correspondence: Heribert Hirt
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Liu H, Ravichandran S, Teh OK, McVey S, Lilley C, Teresinski HJ, Gonzalez-Ferrer C, Mullen RT, Hofius D, Prithiviraj B, Stone SL. The RING-Type E3 Ligase XBAT35.2 Is Involved in Cell Death Induction and Pathogen Response. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 175:1469-1483. [PMID: 28951488 PMCID: PMC5664480 DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.01071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2017] [Accepted: 09/23/2017] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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XBAT35 belongs to a subfamily of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) RING-type E3s that are similar in domain architecture to the rice (Oryza sativa) XA21 Binding Protein3, a defense protein. The XBAT35 transcript undergoes alternative splicing to produce two protein isoforms, XBAT35.1 and XBAT35.2. Here, we demonstrate that XBAT35.2 localizes predominantly to the Golgi and is involved in cell death induction and pathogen response. XBAT35.2, but not XBAT35.1, was found to trigger cell death when overexpressed in tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) leaves and does so in a manner that requires its RING domain. Loss of XBAT35 gene function disrupts the plant's ability to defend against pathogen attack, whereas overexpression of XBAT35.2 enhances resistance to pathogens. XBAT35.2 was found to be unstable and promotes its own degradation, suggesting self-regulation. Inoculation with virulent and avirulent strains of the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000 results in a drastic reduction in the levels of ubiquitinated XBAT35.2 and an increase in the abundance of the E3. This implies that pathogen infection prohibits XBAT35.2 self-regulation and stabilizes the E3. In agreement with a role in defending against pathogens, XBAT35.2 interacts with defense-related Accelerated Cell Death11 (ACD11) in planta and promotes the proteasome-dependent turnover of ACD11 in cell-free degradation assays. In accordance with regulation by a stabilized XBAT35.2, the levels of ubiquitinated ACD11 increased considerably, and the abundance of ACD11 was reduced following pathogen infection. In addition, treatment of transgenic seedlings with a proteasome inhibitor results in the accumulation of ACD11, confirming proteasome-dependent degradation. Collectively, these results highlight a novel role for XBAT35.2 in cell death induction and defense against pathogens.
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- Hongxia Liu
- Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R4
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- Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Campus, Dalhousie University, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada B2N 5E3
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- Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Linnean Center for Plant Biology, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R4
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- Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R4
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Summerlee Science Complex, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Summerlee Science Complex, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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- Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Linnean Center for Plant Biology, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Campus, Dalhousie University, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada B2N 5E3
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- Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R4
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Quantitative Phosphoproteomic Analysis Provides Insight into the Response to Short-Term Drought Stress in Ammopiptanthus mongolicus Roots. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:ijms18102158. [PMID: 29039783 PMCID: PMC5666839 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18102158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2017] [Revised: 10/11/2017] [Accepted: 10/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Drought is one of the major abiotic stresses that negatively affects plant growth and development. Ammopiptanthus mongolicus is an ecologically important shrub in the mid-Asia desert region and used as a model for abiotic tolerance research in trees. Protein phosphorylation participates in the regulation of various biological processes, however, phosphorylation events associated with drought stress signaling and response in plants is still limited. Here, we conducted a quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis of the response of A. mongolicus roots to short-term drought stress. Data are available via the iProx database with project ID IPX0000971000. In total, 7841 phosphorylation sites were found from the 2019 identified phosphopeptides, corresponding to 1060 phosphoproteins. Drought stress results in significant changes in the abundance of 103 phosphopeptides, corresponding to 90 differentially-phosphorylated phosphoproteins (DPPs). Motif-x analysis identified two motifs, including [pSP] and [RXXpS], from these DPPs. Functional enrichment and protein-protein interaction analysis showed that the DPPs were mainly involved in signal transduction and transcriptional regulation, osmotic adjustment, stress response and defense, RNA splicing and transport, protein synthesis, folding and degradation, and epigenetic regulation. These drought-corresponsive phosphoproteins, and the related signaling and metabolic pathways probably play important roles in drought stress signaling and response in A. mongolicus roots. Our results provide new information for understanding the molecular mechanism of the abiotic stress response in plants at the posttranslational level.
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Park SY, Scranton MA, Stajich JE, Yee A, Walling LL. Chlorophyte aspartyl aminopeptidases: Ancient origins, expanded families, new locations, and secondary functions. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0185492. [PMID: 29023459 PMCID: PMC5638241 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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M18 aspartyl aminopeptidases (DAPs) are well characterized in microbes and animals with likely functions in peptide processing and vesicle trafficking. In contrast, there is a dearth of knowledge on plant aminopeptidases with a preference for proteins and peptides with N-terminal acidic residues. During evolution of the Plantae, there was an expansion and diversification of the M18 DAPs. After divergence of the ancestral green algae from red and glaucophyte algae, a duplication yielded the DAP1 and DAP2 lineages. Subsequently DAP1 genes were lost in chlorophyte algae. A duplication of DAP2-related genes occurred early in green plant evolution. DAP2 genes were retained in land plants and picoeukaryotic algae and lost in green algae. In contrast, DAP2-like genes persisted in picoeukaryotic and green algae, while this lineage was lost in land plants. Consistent with this evolutionary path, Arabidopsis thaliana has two DAP gene lineages (AtDAP1 and AtDAP2). Similar to animal and yeast DAPs, AtDAP1 is localized to the cytosol or vacuole; while AtDAP2 harbors an N-terminal transit peptide and is chloroplast localized. His6-DAP1 and His6-DAP2 expressed in Escherichia coli were enzymatically active and dodecameric with masses exceeding 600 kDa. His6-DAP1 and His6-DAP2 preferentially hydrolyzed Asp-p-nitroanilide and Glu-p-nitroanilide. AtDAPs are highly conserved metallopeptidases activated by MnCl2 and inhibited by ZnCl2 and divalent ion chelators. The protease inhibitor PMSF inhibited and DTT stimulated both His6-DAP1 and His6-DAP2 activities suggesting a role for thiols in the AtDAP catalytic mechanism. The enzymes had distinct pH and temperature optima, as well as distinct kinetic parameters. Both enzymes had high catalytic efficiencies (kcat/Km) exceeding 1.0 x 107 M-1 sec-1. Using established molecular chaperone assays, AtDAP1 and AtDAP2 prevented thermal denaturation. AtDAP1 also prevented protein aggregation and promoted protein refolding. Collectively, these data indicate that plant DAPs have a complex evolutionary history and have evolved new biochemical features that may enable their role in vivo.
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- Sang-Youl Park
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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Jha SK, Malik S, Sharma M, Pandey A, Pandey GK. Recent Advances in Substrate Identification of Protein Kinases in Plants and Their Role in Stress Management. Curr Genomics 2017; 18:523-541. [PMID: 29204081 PMCID: PMC5684648 DOI: 10.2174/1389202918666170228142703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2016] [Revised: 10/13/2016] [Accepted: 11/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Protein phosphorylation-dephosphorylation is a well-known regulatory mechanism in biological systems and has become one of the significant means of protein function regulation, modulating most of the biological processes. Protein kinases play vital role in numerous cellular processes. Kinases transduce external signal into responses such as growth, immunity and stress tolerance through phosphorylation of their target proteins. In order to understand these cellular processes at the molecular level, one needs to be aware of the different substrates targeted by protein kinases. Advancement in tools and techniques has bestowed practice of multiple approaches that enable target identification of kinases. However, so far none of the methodologies has been proved to be as good as a panacea for the substrate identification. In this review, the recent advances that have been made in the identifications of putative substrates and the implications of these kinases and their substrates in stress management are discussed.
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- Saroj K Jha
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi-110021, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi-110021, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi-110021, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi-110021, India
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Wu XN, Xi L, Pertl-Obermeyer H, Li Z, Chu LC, Schulze WX. Highly Efficient Single-Step Enrichment of Low Abundance Phosphopeptides from Plant Membrane Preparations. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:1673. [PMID: 29042862 PMCID: PMC5632542 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Mass spectrometry (MS)-based large scale phosphoproteomics has facilitated the investigation of plant phosphorylation dynamics on a system-wide scale. However, generating large scale data sets for membrane phosphoproteins usually requires fractionation of samples and extended hands-on laboratory time. To overcome these limitations, we developed "ShortPhos," an efficient and simple phosphoproteomics protocol optimized for research on plant membrane proteins. The optimized workflow allows fast and efficient identification and quantification of phosphopeptides, even from small amounts of starting plant materials. "ShortPhos" can produce label-free datasets with a high quantitative reproducibility. In addition, the "ShortPhos" protocol recovered more phosphorylation sites from membrane proteins, especially plasma membrane and vacuolar proteins, when compared to our previous workflow and other membrane-based data in the PhosPhAt 4.0 database. We applied "ShortPhos" to study kinase-substrate relationships within a nitrate-induction experiment on Arabidopsis roots. The "ShortPhos" identified significantly more known kinase-substrate relationships compared to previous phosphoproteomics workflows, producing new insights into nitrate-induced signaling pathways.
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Takatani S, Ozawa S, Yagi N, Hotta T, Hashimoto T, Takahashi Y, Takahashi T, Motose H. Directional cell expansion requires NIMA-related kinase 6 (NEK6)-mediated cortical microtubule destabilization. Sci Rep 2017; 7:7826. [PMID: 28798328 PMCID: PMC5552743 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08453-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2017] [Accepted: 07/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Plant cortical microtubules align perpendicular to the growth axis to determine the direction of cell growth. However, it remains unclear how plant cells form well-organized cortical microtubule arrays in the absence of a centrosome. In this study, we investigated the functions of Arabidopsis NIMA-related kinase 6 (NEK6), which regulates microtubule organization during anisotropic cell expansion. Quantitative analysis of hypocotyl cell growth in the nek6-1 mutant demonstrated that NEK6 suppresses ectopic outgrowth and promotes cell elongation in different regions of the hypocotyl. Loss of NEK6 function led to excessive microtubule waving and distortion, implying that NEK6 suppresses the aberrant cortical microtubules. Live cell imaging showed that NEK6 localizes to the microtubule lattice and to the shrinking plus and minus ends of microtubules. In agreement with this observation, the induced overexpression of NEK6 reduced and disorganized cortical microtubules and suppressed cell elongation. Furthermore, we identified five phosphorylation sites in β-tubulin that serve as substrates for NEK6 in vitro. Alanine substitution of the phosphorylation site Thr166 promoted incorporation of mutant β-tubulin into microtubules. Taken together, these results suggest that NEK6 promotes directional cell growth through phosphorylation of β-tubulin and the resulting destabilization of cortical microtubules.
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- Shogo Takatani
- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan.,Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, 630-0192, Japan.,Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, 630-0192, Japan.,Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 3520 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Graduate School of Biological Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, 630-0192, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan.,Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan.
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Significant and unique changes in phosphorylation levels of four phosphoproteins in two apple rootstock genotypes under drought stress. Mol Genet Genomics 2017; 292:1307-1322. [PMID: 28710562 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-017-1348-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Drought stress is a major problem around the world and there is still little molecular mechanism about how fruit crops deal with moderate drought stress. Here, the physiological and phosphoproteomic responses of drought-sensitive genotype (M26) and drought-tolerant genotype (MBB) under moderate drought stress were investigated. Our results of the physiology analysis indicated that the MBB genotype could produce more osmosis-regulating substances. Furthermore, phosphoproteins from leaves of both genotypes under moderate drought stress were analyzed using the isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantification technology. A total of 595 unique phosphopeptides, 682 phosphorylated sites, and 446 phosphoproteins were quantitatively analyzed in the two genotypes. Five and thirty-five phosphoproteins with the phosphorylation levels significantly changed (PLSC) were identified in M26 and MBB, respectively. Among these, four PLSC phosphoproteins were common to both genotypes, perhaps indicating a partial overlap of the mechanisms to moderate drought stress. Gene ontology analyses revealed that the PLSC phosphoproteins represent a unique combination of metabolism, transcription, translation, and protein processing, suggesting that the response in apple to moderate drought stress encompasses a new and unique homeostasis of major cellular processes. The basic trend was an increase in protein and organic molecules abundance related to drought. These increases were higher in MBB than in M26. Our study is the first to address the phosphoproteome of apple rootstocks in response to moderate drought stress, and provide insights into the molecular regulation mechanisms of apple rootstock under moderate drought stress.
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Li J, Wu L, Foster R, Ruan YL. Molecular regulation of sucrose catabolism and sugar transport for development, defence and phloem function. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2017; 59:322-335. [PMID: 28304127 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.12539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Sucrose (Suc) is the major end product of photosynthesis in mesophyll cells of most vascular plants. It is loaded into phloem of mature leaves for long-distance translocation to non-photosynthetic organs where it is unloaded for diverse uses. Clearly, Suc transport and metabolism is central to plant growth and development and the functionality of the entire vascular system. Despite vast information in the literature about the physiological roles of individual sugar metabolic enzymes and transporters, there is a lack of systematic evaluation about their molecular regulation from transcriptional to post-translational levels. Knowledge on this topic is essential for understanding and improving plant development, optimizing resource distribution and increasing crop productivity. We therefore focused our analyses on molecular control of key players in Suc metabolism and transport, including: (i) the identification of promoter elements responsive to sugars and hormones or targeted by transcription factors and microRNAs degrading transcripts of target genes; and (ii) modulation of enzyme and transporter activities through protein-protein interactions and other post-translational modifications. We have highlighted major remaining questions and discussed opportunities to exploit current understanding to gain new insights into molecular control of carbon partitioning for improving plant performance.
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- Jun Li
- Australia-China Research Centre for Crop Improvement and School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Australia-China Research Centre for Crop Improvement and School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
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- Australia-China Research Centre for Crop Improvement and School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
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Undurraga SF, Ibarra-Henríquez C, Fredes I, Álvarez JM, Gutiérrez RA. Nitrate signaling and early responses in Arabidopsis roots. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:2541-2551. [PMID: 28369507 PMCID: PMC5854014 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2016] [Accepted: 01/25/2017] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Nitrogen (N) is an essential macronutrient that impacts many aspects of plant physiology, growth, and development. Besides its nutritional role, N nutrient and metabolites act as signaling molecules that regulate the expression of a wide range of genes and biological processes. In this review, we describe recent advances in the understanding of components of the nitrate signaling pathway. Recent evidence posits that in one nitrate signaling pathway, nitrate sensed by NRT1.1 activates a phospholipase C activity that is necessary for increased cytosolic calcium levels. The nitrate-elicited calcium increase presumably activates calcium sensors, kinases, or phosphatases, resulting in changes in expression of primary nitrate response genes. Consistent with this model, nitrate treatments elicit proteome-wide changes in phosphorylation patterns in a wide range of proteins, including transporters, metabolic enzymes, kinases, phosphatases, and other regulatory proteins. Identifying and characterizing the function of the different players involved in this and other nitrate signaling pathways and their functional relationships is the next step to understand N responses in plants.
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- Soledad F Undurraga
- FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation. Millennium Nucleus Center for Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology. Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago, Chile
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- FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation. Millennium Nucleus Center for Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology. Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago, Chile
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- FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation. Millennium Nucleus Center for Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology. Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago, Chile
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- FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation. Millennium Nucleus Center for Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology. Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago, Chile
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- FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation. Millennium Nucleus Center for Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology. Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago, Chile
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Jacquot A, Li Z, Gojon A, Schulze W, Lejay L. Post-translational regulation of nitrogen transporters in plants and microorganisms. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:2567-2580. [PMID: 28369438 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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For microorganisms and plants, nitrate and ammonium are the main nitrogen sources and they are also important signaling molecules controlling several aspects of metabolism and development. Over the past decade, numerous studies revealed that nitrogen transporters are strongly regulated at the transcriptional level. However, more and more reports are now showing that nitrate and ammonium transporters are also subjected to post-translational regulations in response to nitrogen availability. Phosphorylation is so far the most well studied post-translational modification for these transporters and it affects both the regulation of nitrogen uptake and nitrogen sensing. For example, in Arabidopsis thaliana, phosphorylation was shown to activate the sensing function of the root nitrate transporter NRT1.1 and to switch the transport affinity. Also, for ammonium transporters, a phosphorylation-dependent activation/inactivation mechanism was elucidated in recent years in both plants and microorganisms. However, despite the fact that these regulatory mechanisms are starting to be thoroughly described, the signaling pathways involved and their action on nitrogen transporters remain largely unknown. In this review, we highlight the inorganic nitrogen transporters regulated at the post-translational level and we compare the known mechanisms in plants and microorganisms. We then discuss how these mechanisms could contribute to the regulation of nitrogen uptake and/or nitrogen sensing.
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- Aurore Jacquot
- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Plantes 'Claude Grignon', UMR CNRS/INRA/SupAgro/UM2, Place Viala, 34060 Montpellier cedex, France
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- Institute of Physiology and Biotechnology of plants, Plant Systems Biology, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstrasse 30, D-70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Plantes 'Claude Grignon', UMR CNRS/INRA/SupAgro/UM2, Place Viala, 34060 Montpellier cedex, France
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- Institute of Physiology and Biotechnology of plants, Plant Systems Biology, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstrasse 30, D-70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Plantes 'Claude Grignon', UMR CNRS/INRA/SupAgro/UM2, Place Viala, 34060 Montpellier cedex, France
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Gerth K, Lin F, Menzel W, Krishnamoorthy P, Stenzel I, Heilmann M, Heilmann I. Guilt by Association: A Phenotype-Based View of the Plant Phosphoinositide Network. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2017; 68:349-374. [PMID: 28125287 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042916-041022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Eukaryotic membranes contain small amounts of phospholipids that have regulatory effects on the physiological functions of cells, tissues, and organs. Phosphoinositides (PIs)-the phosphorylated derivatives of phosphatidylinositol-are one example of such regulatory lipids. Although PIs were described in plants decades ago, their contribution to the regulation of physiological processes in plants is not well understood. In the past few years, evidence has emerged that PIs are essential for plant function and development. Recently reported phenotypes associated with the perturbation of different PIs suggest that some subgroups of PIs influence specific processes. Although the molecular targets of PI-dependent regulation in plants are largely unknown, the effects of perturbed PI metabolism can be used to propose regulatory modules that involve particular downstream targets of PI regulation. This review summarizes phenotypes associated with the perturbation of the plant PI network to categorize functions and suggest possible downstream targets of plant PI regulation.
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- Katharina Gerth
- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany; , , , , , ,
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany; , , , , , ,
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany; , , , , , ,
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany; , , , , , ,
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany; , , , , , ,
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany; , , , , , ,
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany; , , , , , ,
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Jin Y, Ye N, Zhu F, Li H, Wang J, Jiang L, Zhang J. Calcium-dependent protein kinase CPK28 targets the methionine adenosyltransferases for degradation by the 26S proteasome and affects ethylene biosynthesis and lignin deposition in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 90:304-318. [PMID: 28112445 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2016] [Revised: 12/30/2016] [Accepted: 01/11/2017] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) is synthesized by methionine adenosyltransferase (MAT), and plays an essential role in ethylene biosynthesis and other methylation reactions. Despite increasing knowledge of MAT regulation at transcriptional levels, how MAT is post-translationally regulated remains unknown in plant cells. Phosphorylation is an important post-translational modification for regulating the activity of enzymes, protein function and signaling transduction. Using molecular and biochemical approaches, we have identified the phosphorylation of MAT proteins by calcium-dependent protein kinase (CPK28). Phenotypically, both MAT2-overexpressing transgenic plants and cpk28 mutants display short hypocotyls and ectopic lignifications. Their shortened hypocotyl phenotypes are caused by ethylene overproduction and rescued by ethylene biosynthesis inhibitor aminoethoxyvinylglycine treatment. Genetic evidence reveals that MAT2 mutation restores the phenotype of ectopic lignification in CPK28-deficient plants. We find that total MAT proteins and AdoMet are increased in cpk28 mutants, but decreased in CPK28-overexpressing seedlings. We also find that MATs in OE::CPK28 are degraded through the 26S proteasome pathway. Our work suggests that CPK28 targets MATs (MAT1, MAT2 and MAT3) for degradation by the 26S proteasome pathway, and thus affects ethylene biosynthesis and lignin deposition in Arabidopsis.
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- Yu Jin
- School of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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- Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
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Kosentka PZ, Zhang L, Simon YA, Satpathy B, Maradiaga R, Mitoubsi O, Shpak ED. Identification of critical functional residues of receptor-like kinase ERECTA. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:1507-1518. [PMID: 28207053 PMCID: PMC5441908 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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In plants, extracellular signals are primarily sensed by plasma membrane-localized receptor-like kinases (RLKs). ERECTA is a leucine-rich repeat RLK that together with its paralogs ERECTA-like 1 (ERL1) and ERL2 regulates multiple aspects of plant development. ERECTA forms complexes with a range of co-receptors and senses secreted cysteine-rich small proteins from the EPF/EPFL family. Currently the mechanism of the cytoplasmic domain activation and transmission of the signal by ERECTA is unclear. To gain a better understanding we performed a structure-function analysis by introducing altered ERECTA genes into erecta and erecta erl1 erl2 mutants. These experiments indicated that ERECTA's ability to phosphorylate is functionally significant, and that while the cytoplasmic juxtamembrane domain is important for ERECTA function, the C-terminal tail is not. An analysis of multiple putative phosphorylation sites identified four amino acids in the activation segment of the kinase domain as functionally important. Homology of those residues to functionally significant amino acids in multiple other plant RLKs emphasizes similarities in RLK function. Specifically, our data predicts Thr812 as a primary site of phosphor-activation and potential inhibitory phosphorylation of Tyr815 and Tyr820. In addition, our experiments suggest that there are differences in the molecular mechanism of ERECTA function during regulation of stomata development and in elongation of above-ground organs.
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- Pawel Z Kosentka
- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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Menard GN, Moreno JM, Bryant FM, Munoz-Azcarate O, Kelly AA, Hassani-Pak K, Kurup S, Eastmond PJ. Genome Wide Analysis of Fatty Acid Desaturation and Its Response to Temperature. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 173:1594-1605. [PMID: 28108698 PMCID: PMC5338679 DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.01907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2016] [Accepted: 01/20/2017] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Plants modify the polyunsaturated fatty acid content of their membrane and storage lipids in order to adapt to changes in temperature. In developing seeds, this response is largely controlled by the activities of the microsomal ω-6 and ω-3 fatty acid desaturases, FAD2 and FAD3. Although temperature regulation of desaturation has been studied at the molecular and biochemical levels, the genetic control of this trait is poorly understood. Here, we have characterized the response of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) seed lipids to variation in ambient temperature and found that heat inhibits both ω-6 and ω-3 desaturation in phosphatidylcholine, leading to a proportional change in triacylglycerol composition. Analysis of the 19 parental accessions of the multiparent advanced generation intercross (MAGIC) population showed that significant natural variation exists in the temperature responsiveness of ω-6 desaturation. A combination of quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using the MAGIC population suggests that ω-6 desaturation is largely controlled by cis-acting sequence variants in the FAD2 5' untranslated region intron that determine the expression level of the gene. However, the temperature responsiveness of ω-6 desaturation is controlled by a separate QTL on chromosome 2. The identity of this locus is unknown, but genome-wide association studies identified potentially causal sequence variants within ∼40 genes in an ∼450-kb region of the QTL.
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- Guillaume N Menard
- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom (G.N.M., J.M.M., F.M.B., O.M.-A., K.H.-P., S.K., P.J.E.); and
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom (A.A.K.)
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom (G.N.M., J.M.M., F.M.B., O.M.-A., K.H.-P., S.K., P.J.E.); and
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom (A.A.K.)
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom (G.N.M., J.M.M., F.M.B., O.M.-A., K.H.-P., S.K., P.J.E.); and
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom (A.A.K.)
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom (G.N.M., J.M.M., F.M.B., O.M.-A., K.H.-P., S.K., P.J.E.); and
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom (A.A.K.)
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom (G.N.M., J.M.M., F.M.B., O.M.-A., K.H.-P., S.K., P.J.E.); and
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom (A.A.K.)
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom (G.N.M., J.M.M., F.M.B., O.M.-A., K.H.-P., S.K., P.J.E.); and
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom (A.A.K.)
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom (G.N.M., J.M.M., F.M.B., O.M.-A., K.H.-P., S.K., P.J.E.); and
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom (A.A.K.)
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom (G.N.M., J.M.M., F.M.B., O.M.-A., K.H.-P., S.K., P.J.E.); and
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom (A.A.K.)
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Gao J, Zhang S, He WD, Shao XH, Li CY, Wei YR, Deng GM, Kuang RB, Hu CH, Yi GJ, Yang QS. Comparative Phosphoproteomics Reveals an Important Role of MKK2 in Banana (Musa spp.) Cold Signal Network. Sci Rep 2017; 7:40852. [PMID: 28106078 PMCID: PMC5247763 DOI: 10.1038/srep40852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 12/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Low temperature is one of the key environmental stresses, which greatly affects global banana production. However, little is known about the global phosphoproteomes in Musa spp. and their regulatory roles in response to cold stress. In this study, we conducted a comparative phosphoproteomic profiling of cold-sensitive Cavendish Banana and relatively cold tolerant Dajiao under cold stress. Phosphopeptide abundances of five phosphoproteins involved in MKK2 interaction network, including MKK2, HY5, CaSR, STN7 and kinesin-like protein, show a remarkable difference between Cavendish Banana and Dajiao in response to cold stress. Western blotting of MKK2 protein and its T31 phosphorylated peptide verified the phosphoproteomic results of increased T31 phosphopeptide abundance with decreased MKK2 abundance in Daojiao for a time course of cold stress. Meanwhile increased expression of MKK2 with no detectable T31 phosphorylation was found in Cavendish Banana. These results suggest that the MKK2 pathway in Dajiao, along with other cold-specific phosphoproteins, appears to be associated with the molecular mechanisms of high tolerance to cold stress in Dajiao. The results also provide new evidence that the signaling pathway of cellular MKK2 phosphorylation plays an important role in abiotic stress tolerance that likely serves as a universal plant cold tolerance mechanism.
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- Jie Gao
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro- bioresources, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,The Guangzhou Research Branch of the National Banana Improvement Center, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,The Guangzhou Research Branch of the National Banana Improvement Center, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology of the Ministry of Education, College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,The Guangzhou Research Branch of the National Banana Improvement Center, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,The Guangzhou Research Branch of the National Banana Improvement Center, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,The Guangzhou Research Branch of the National Banana Improvement Center, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,The Guangzhou Research Branch of the National Banana Improvement Center, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,The Guangzhou Research Branch of the National Banana Improvement Center, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,The Guangzhou Research Branch of the National Banana Improvement Center, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,The Guangzhou Research Branch of the National Banana Improvement Center, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510640, China.,The Guangzhou Research Branch of the National Banana Improvement Center, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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Oehlenschlæger CB, Gersby LBA, Ahsan N, Pedersen JT, Kristensen A, Solakova TV, Thelen JJ, Fuglsang AT. Activation of the LRR Receptor-Like Kinase PSY1R Requires Transphosphorylation of Residues in the Activation Loop. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:2005. [PMID: 29230231 PMCID: PMC5712095 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2017] [Accepted: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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PSY1R is a leucine-rich repeat (LRR) receptor-like kinase (RLK) previously shown to act as receptor for the plant peptide hormone PSY1 (peptide containing sulfated tyrosine 1) and to regulate cell expansion. PSY1R phosphorylates and thereby regulates the activity of plasma membrane-localized H+-ATPases. While this mechanism has been studied in detail, little is known about how PSY1R itself is activated. Here we studied the activation mechanism of PSY1R. We show that full-length PSY1R interacts with members of the SERK co-receptor family in planta. We identified seven in vitro autophosphorylation sites on serine and threonine residues within the kinase domain of PSY1R using mass spectrometry. We furthermore show that PSY1R autophosphorylation occurs in trans and that the initial transphosphorylation takes place within the activation loop at residues Ser951, Thr959, and Thr963. While Thr959 and Thr963 are conserved among other related plant LRR RLKs, Ser951 is unique to PSY1R. Based on homology modeling we propose that phosphorylation of Ser951 stabilize the inactive conformation of PSY1R.
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- Christian B. Oehlenschlæger
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- *Correspondence: Anja T. Fuglsang,
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Enganti R, Cho SK, Toperzer JD, Urquidi-Camacho RA, Cakir OS, Ray AP, Abraham PE, Hettich RL, von Arnim AG. Phosphorylation of Ribosomal Protein RPS6 Integrates Light Signals and Circadian Clock Signals. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:2210. [PMID: 29403507 PMCID: PMC5780430 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 12/15/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The translation of mRNA into protein is tightly regulated by the light environment as well as by the circadian clock. Although changes in translational efficiency have been well documented at the level of mRNA-ribosome loading, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. The reversible phosphorylation of RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN OF THE SMALL SUBUNIT 6 (RPS6) has been known for 40 years, but the biochemical significance of this event remains unclear to this day. Here, we confirm using a clock-deficient strain of Arabidopsis thaliana that RPS6 phosphorylation (RPS6-P) is controlled by the diel light-dark cycle with a peak during the day. Strikingly, when wild-type, clock-enabled, seedlings that have been entrained to a light-dark cycle are placed under free-running conditions, the circadian clock drives a cycle of RPS6-P with an opposite phase, peaking during the subjective night. We show that in wild-type seedlings under a light-dark cycle, the incoherent light and clock signals are integrated by the plant to cause an oscillation in RPS6-P with a reduced amplitude with a peak during the day. Sucrose can stimulate RPS6-P, as seen when sucrose in the medium masks the light response of etiolated seedlings. However, the diel cycles of RPS6-P are observed in the presence of 1% sucrose and in its absence. Sucrose at a high concentration of 3% appears to interfere with the robust integration of light and clock signals at the level of RPS6-P. Finally, we addressed whether RPS6-P occurs uniformly in polysomes, non-polysomal ribosomes and their subunits, and non-ribosomal protein. It is the polysomal RPS6 whose phosphorylation is most highly stimulated by light and repressed by darkness. These data exemplify a striking case of contrasting biochemical regulation between clock signals and light signals. Although the physiological significance of RPS6-P remains unknown, our data provide a mechanistic basis for the future understanding of this enigmatic event.
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- Ramya Enganti
- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
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- Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
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- Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
- Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
- *Correspondence: Albrecht G. von Arnim,
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Bhaskara GB, Nguyen TT, Yang TH, Verslues PE. Comparative Analysis of Phosphoproteome Remodeling After Short Term Water Stress and ABA Treatments versus Longer Term Water Stress Acclimation. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:523. [PMID: 28443116 PMCID: PMC5386979 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2017] [Accepted: 03/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Several studies have used short term dehydration, osmotic stress or Abscisic Acid (ABA) treatments to identify the initial protein phosphorylation-dephosphorylation responses to drought and low water potential or ABA treatments. However, longer term drought acclimation leads to altered expression of many kinases and phosphatases suggesting that it may also produce unique changes in phosphoproteome composition. To get a better overview of the state of drought-related phosphoproteomics and investigate this question of short versus longer term phosphoproteome regulation, we compared three Arabidopsis thaliana studies analyzing short term phosphoproteome changes to recent data from our laboratory analyzing phosphoproteome changes after a longer drought acclimation treatment. There was very little overlap of phosphoproteins with putative stress-induced phosphorylation or dephosphorylation among these studies. While some of this is due to technical limitations and limited coverage of the phosphoproteome achieved by each study, biological differences and the type of stress treatment used also play a role. This comparative analysis emphasized how both short and long term analysis of physiologically relevant stress treatments, as well as validation of phosphoproteomic data, will be needed to move past just scratching the surface of the stress phosphoproteome. In drought acclimation experiments, distinguishing between changes in protein abundance versus phosphorylation stoichiometry is a key challenge. We discuss initial work in using Arabidopsis seedling transient expression combined with Phos-tag gel analysis as a way to validate drought-induced phosphorylation-dephosphorylation of candidate proteins.
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Craddock CP, Adams N, Kroon JT, Bryant FM, Hussey PJ, Kurup S, Eastmond PJ. Cyclin-dependent kinase activity enhances phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis by repressing phosphatidic acid phosphohydrolase activity. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 89:3-14. [PMID: 27595588 PMCID: PMC5299491 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2016] [Revised: 08/22/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Coordination of endomembrane biogenesis with cell cycle progression is considered to be important in maintaining cell function during growth and development. We previously showed that the disruption of PHOSPHATIDIC ACID PHOSPHOHYDROLASE (PAH) activity in Arabidopsis thaliana stimulates biosynthesis of the major phospholipid phosphatidylcholine (PC) and causes expansion of the endoplasmic reticulum. Here we show that PC biosynthesis is repressed by disruption of the core cell cycle regulator CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE A;1 (CDKA;1) and that this repression is reliant on PAH. Furthermore, we show that cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) phosphorylate PAH1 at serine 162, which reduces both its activity and membrane association. Expression of a CDK-insensitive version of PAH1 with a serine 162 to alanine substitution represses PC biosynthesis and also reduces the rate of cell division in early leaf development. Together our findings reveal a physiologically important mechanism that couples the rate of phospholipid biosynthesis and endomembrane biogenesis to cell cycle progression in Arabidopsis.
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- Christian P. Craddock
- School of Life SciencesUniversity of WarwickCoventryCV4 7ALUK
- Present address: Center for Plant Cell BiologyDepartment of Botany and Plant SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaRiverside92521USA
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- School of Life SciencesUniversity of WarwickCoventryCV4 7ALUK
- Present address: Centre for Proteomic and Genomic ResearchUpper LevelSt Peter's MallCorner Anzio and Main Road ObservatoryCape Town7925South Africa
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- School of Biological and Biomedical SciencesDurham UniversityDurhamDH1 3LEUK
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireAL5 2JQUK
- Present address: School of Biological and Biomedical SciencesDurham UniversityDurhamDH1 3LEUK
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- School of Biological and Biomedical SciencesDurham UniversityDurhamDH1 3LEUK
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireAL5 2JQUK
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireAL5 2JQUK
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Lyzenga WJ, Sullivan V, Liu H, Stone SL. The Kinase Activity of Calcineurin B-like Interacting Protein Kinase 26 (CIPK26) Influences Its Own Stability and that of the ABA-regulated Ubiquitin Ligase, Keep on Going (KEG). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:502. [PMID: 28443108 PMCID: PMC5385374 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/22/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The Really Interesting New Gene (RING)-type E3 ligase, Keep on Going (KEG) plays a critical role in Arabidopsis growth after germination and the connections between KEG and hormone signaling pathways are expanding. With regards to abscisic acid (ABA) signaling, KEG targets ABA-responsive transcription factors abscisic acid insensitive 5, ABF1 and ABF3 for ubiquitination and subsequent degradation through the 26S proteasome. Regulation of E3 ligases through self-ubiquitination is common to RING-type E3 ligases and ABA promotes KEG self-ubiquitination and degradation. ABA-mediated degradation of KEG is phosphorylation-dependent; however, upstream signaling proteins that may regulate KEG stability have not been characterized. In this report, we show that CBL-Interacting Protein Kinase (CIPK) 26 can phosphorylate KEG in vitro. Using both in vitro and in planta degradation assays we provide evidence which suggests that the kinase activity of CIPK26 promotes the degradation of KEG. Furthermore, we found that the kinase activity of CIPK26 also influences its own stability; a constitutively active version is more stable than a wild type or a kinase dead version. Our results suggest a reciprocal regulation model wherein an activated and stable CIPK26 phosphorylates KEG to promote degradation of the E3.
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Vu LD, Verstraeten I, Stes E, Van Bel M, Coppens F, Gevaert K, De Smet I. Proteome Profiling of Wheat Shoots from Different Cultivars. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:332. [PMID: 28348574 PMCID: PMC5346552 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2016] [Accepted: 02/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Wheat is a cereal grain and one of the world's major food crops. Recent advances in wheat genome sequencing are by now facilitating its genomic and proteomic analyses. However, little is known about possible differences in total protein levels of hexaploid versus tetraploid wheat cultivars, and also knowledge of phosphorylated wheat proteins is still limited. Here, we performed a detailed analysis of the proteome of seedling leaves from two hexaploid wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L. Pavon 76 and USU-Apogee) and one tetraploid wheat (T. turgidum ssp. durum cv. Senatore Cappelli). Our shotgun proteomics data revealed that, whereas we observed some significant differences, overall a high similarity between hexaploid and tetraploid varieties with respect to protein abundance was observed. In addition, already at the seedling stage, a small set of proteins was differential between the small (USU-Apogee) and larger hexaploid wheat cultivars (Pavon 76), which could potentially act as growth predictors. Finally, the phosphosites identified in this study can be retrieved from the in-house developed plant PTM-Viewer (bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/webtools/ptm_viewer/), making this the first searchable repository for phosphorylated wheat proteins. This paves the way for further in depth, quantitative (phospho)proteome-wide differential analyses upon a specific trigger or environmental change.
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- Lam Dai Vu
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIBGhent, Belgium
- Medical Biotechnology Center, VIBGhent, Belgium
- Department of Biochemistry, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIBGhent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIBGhent, Belgium
- Medical Biotechnology Center, VIBGhent, Belgium
- Department of Biochemistry, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIBGhent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIBGhent, Belgium
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- Medical Biotechnology Center, VIBGhent, Belgium
- Department of Biochemistry, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent UniversityGhent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIBGhent, Belgium
- *Correspondence: Ive De Smet,
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Pizzio GA, Hirschi KD, Gaxiola RA. Conjecture Regarding Posttranslational Modifications to the Arabidopsis Type I Proton-Pumping Pyrophosphatase (AVP1). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:1572. [PMID: 28955362 PMCID: PMC5601048 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2017] [Accepted: 08/28/2017] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Agbiotechnology uses genetic engineering to improve the output and value of crops. Altering the expression of the plant Type I Proton-pumping Pyrophosphatase (H+-PPase) has already proven to be a useful tool to enhance crop productivity. Despite the effective use of this gene in translational research, information regarding the intracellular localization and functional plasticity of the pump remain largely enigmatic. Using computer modeling several putative phosphorylation, ubiquitination and sumoylation target sites were identified that may regulate Arabidopsis H+-PPase (AVP1- Arabidopsis Vacuolar Proton-pump 1) subcellular trafficking and activity. These putative regulatory sites will direct future research that specifically addresses the partitioning and transport characteristics of this pump. We posit that fine-tuning H+-PPases activity and cellular distribution will facilitate rationale strategies for further genetic improvements in crop productivity.
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- Gaston A. Pizzio
- Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasBarcelona, Spain
- *Correspondence: Gaston A. Pizzio, ; Roberto A. Gaxiola,
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- USDA ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, HoustonTX, United States
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, TempeAZ, United States
- *Correspondence: Gaston A. Pizzio, ; Roberto A. Gaxiola,
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Many publicly available data repositories and resources have been developed to support protein-related information management, data-driven hypothesis generation, and biological knowledge discovery. To help researchers quickly find the appropriate protein-related informatics resources, we present a comprehensive review (with categorization and description) of major protein bioinformatics databases in this chapter. We also discuss the challenges and opportunities for developing next-generation protein bioinformatics databases and resources to support data integration and data analytics in the Big Data era.
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- Chuming Chen
- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711, USA.
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711, USA
- Protein Information Resource, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
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Zhen S, Deng X, Zhang M, Zhu G, Lv D, Wang Y, Zhu D, Yan Y. Comparative Phosphoproteomic Analysis under High-Nitrogen Fertilizer Reveals Central Phosphoproteins Promoting Wheat Grain Starch and Protein Synthesis. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:67. [PMID: 28194157 PMCID: PMC5277015 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2016] [Accepted: 01/12/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Nitrogen (N) is a macronutrient important for plant growth and development. It also strongly influences starch and protein synthesis, closely related to grain yield and quality. We performed the first comparative phosphoproteomic analysis of developing wheat grains in response to high-N fertilizer. Physiological and biochemical analyses showed that application of high-N fertilizer resulted in significant increases in leaf length and area, chlorophyll content, the activity of key enzymes in leaves such as nitrate reductase (NR), and in grains such as sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS), sucrose synthase (SuSy), and ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase). This enhanced enzyme activity led to significant improvements in starch content, grain yield, and ultimately, bread making quality. Comparative phosphoproteomic analysis of developing grains under the application of high-N fertilizer performed 15 and 25 days post-anthesis identified 2470 phosphosites among 1372 phosphoproteins, of which 411 unique proteins displayed significant changes in phosphorylation level (>2-fold or <0.5-fold). These phosphoproteins are involved mainly in signaling transduction, starch synthesis, energy metabolism. Pro-Q diamond staining and Western blotting confirmed our phosphoproteomic results. We propose a putative pathway to elucidate the important roles of the central phosphoproteins regulating grain starch and protein synthesis. Our results provide new insights into the molecular mechanisms of protein phosphorylation modifications involved in grain development, yield and quality formation.
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- Shoumin Zhen
- College of Life Science, Capital Normal UniversityBeijing, China
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- College of Life Science, Capital Normal UniversityBeijing, China
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- College of Life Science, Capital Normal UniversityBeijing, China
- College of Life Science, Heze UniversityShandong, China
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- College of Life Science, Capital Normal UniversityBeijing, China
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- College of Life Science, Capital Normal UniversityBeijing, China
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- College of Life Science, Capital Normal UniversityBeijing, China
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- College of Life Science, Capital Normal UniversityBeijing, China
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- College of Life Science, Capital Normal UniversityBeijing, China
- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain IndustryJingzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Yueming Yan
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Li J, Yin J, Rong C, Li KE, Wu JX, Huang LQ, Zeng HY, Sahu SK, Yao N. Orosomucoid Proteins Interact with the Small Subunit of Serine Palmitoyltransferase and Contribute to Sphingolipid Homeostasis and Stress Responses in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2016; 28:3038-3051. [PMID: 27923879 PMCID: PMC5240739 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2016] [Revised: 10/15/2016] [Accepted: 12/01/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT), a pyridoxyl-5'-phosphate-dependent enzyme, catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step in sphingolipid biosynthesis. In humans and yeast, orosomucoid proteins (ORMs) negatively regulate SPT and thus play an important role in maintaining sphingolipid levels. Despite the importance of sphingoid intermediates as bioactive molecules, the regulation of sphingolipid biosynthesis through SPT is not well understood in plants. Here, we identified and characterized the Arabidopsis thaliana ORMs, ORM1 and ORM2. Loss of function of both ORM1 and ORM2 (orm1 amiR-ORM2) stimulated de novo sphingolipid biosynthesis, leading to strong sphingolipid accumulation, especially of long-chain bases and ceramides. Yeast two-hybrid, bimolecular fluorescence complementation, and coimmunoprecipitation assays confirmed that ORM1 and ORM2 physically interact with the small subunit of SPT (ssSPT), indicating that ORMs inhibit ssSPT function. We found that orm1 amiR-ORM2 plants exhibited an early-senescence phenotype accompanied by H2O2 production at the cell wall and in mitochondria, active vesicular trafficking, and formation of cell wall appositions. Strikingly, the orm1 amiR-ORM2 plants showed increased expression of genes related to endoplasmic reticulum stress and defenses and also had enhanced resistance to oxidative stress and pathogen infection. Taken together, our findings indicate that ORMs interact with SPT to regulate sphingolipid homeostasis and play a pivotal role in environmental stress tolerance in plants.
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- Jian Li
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China
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Chiu RS, Pan S, Zhao R, Gazzarrini S. ABA-dependent inhibition of the ubiquitin proteasome system during germination at high temperature in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 88:749-761. [PMID: 27496613 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2016] [Revised: 07/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/29/2016] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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During germination, endogenous and environmental factors trigger changes in the transcriptome, translatome and proteome to break dormancy. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) degrades proteins that promote dormancy to allow germination. While research on the UPS has focused on the identification of proteasomal substrates, little information is known about the regulation of its activity. Here we characterized the activity of the UPS during dormancy release and maintenance by monitoring protein ubiquitination and degradation of two proteasomal substrates: Suc-LLVY-AMC, a well characterized synthetic substrate, and FUSCA3 (FUS3), a dormancy-promoting transcription factor degraded by the 26S proteasome. Our data indicate that proteasome activity and protein ubiquitination increase during imbibition at optimal temperature (21°C), and are required for seed germination. However, abscisic acid (ABA) and supraoptimal temperature (32°C) inhibit germination by dampening both protein ubiquitination and proteasome activity. Inhibition of UPS function by high temperature is reduced by the ABA biosynthesis inhibitor, fluridone, and in ABA biosynthetic mutants, suggesting that it is ABA dependent. Accordingly, inhibition of FUS3 degradation at 32°C is also dependent on ABA. Native gels show that inhibition of proteasome activity is caused by interference with the 26S/30S ratio as well as free 19S and 20S levels, impacting the proteasome degradation cycle. Transfer experiments show that ABA-mediated inhibition of proteasome activity at 21°C is restricted to the first 2 days of germination, a time window corresponding to seed sensitivity to environmental and ABA-mediated growth inhibition. Our data show that ABA and high temperature inhibit germination under unfavourable growth conditions by repressing the UPS.
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- Rex Shun Chiu
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G5, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G5, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, Canada
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G5, Canada
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Vu LD, Stes E, Van Bel M, Nelissen H, Maddelein D, Inzé D, Coppens F, Martens L, Gevaert K, De Smet I. Up-to-Date Workflow for Plant (Phospho)proteomics Identifies Differential Drought-Responsive Phosphorylation Events in Maize Leaves. J Proteome Res 2016; 15:4304-4317. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Lam Dai Vu
- Department
of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Medical
Biotechnology Center, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biochemistry, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department
of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Medical
Biotechnology Center, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biochemistry, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department
of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department
of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Medical
Biotechnology Center, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biochemistry, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department
of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department
of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Medical
Biotechnology Center, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biochemistry, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Medical
Biotechnology Center, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Biochemistry, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department
of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department
of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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Harashima H, Dissmeyer N, Hammann P, Nomura Y, Kramer K, Nakagami H, Schnittger A. Modulation of plant growth in vivo and identification of kinase substrates using an analog-sensitive variant of CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE A;1. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 16:209. [PMID: 27669979 PMCID: PMC5037886 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-016-0900-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Accepted: 09/16/2016] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Modulation of protein activity by phosphorylation through kinases and subsequent de-phosphorylation by phosphatases is one of the most prominent cellular control mechanisms. Thus, identification of kinase substrates is pivotal for the understanding of many - if not all - molecular biological processes. Equally, the possibility to deliberately tune kinase activity is of great value to analyze the biological process controlled by a particular kinase. RESULTS Here we have applied a chemical genetic approach and generated an analog-sensitive version of CDKA;1, the central cell-cycle regulator in Arabidopsis and homolog of the yeast Cdc2/CDC28 kinases. This variant could largely rescue a cdka;1 mutant and is biochemically active, albeit less than the wild type. Applying bulky kinase inhibitors allowed the reduction of kinase activity in an organismic context in vivo and the modulation of plant growth. To isolate CDK substrates, we have adopted a two-dimensional differential gel electrophoresis strategy, and searched for proteins that showed mobility changes in fluorescently labeled extracts from plants expressing the analog-sensitive version of CDKA;1 with and without adding a bulky ATP variant. A pilot set of five proteins involved in a range of different processes could be confirmed in independent kinase assays to be phosphorylated by CDKA;1 approving the applicability of the here-developed method to identify substrates. CONCLUSION The here presented generation of an analog-sensitive CDKA;1 version is functional and represent a novel tool to modulate kinase activity in vivo and identify kinase substrates. Our here performed pilot screen led to the identification of CDK targets that link cell proliferation control to sugar metabolism, proline proteolysis, and glucosinolate production providing a hint how cell proliferation and growth are integrated with plant development and physiology.
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- Hirofumi Harashima
- Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, IBMP-CNRS - UPR2357, Université de Strasbourg, F-67084 Strasbourg, France
- Trinationales Institut für Pflanzenforschung, F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
- Present address: RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan
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- Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, IBMP-CNRS - UPR2357, Université de Strasbourg, F-67084 Strasbourg, France
- Trinationales Institut für Pflanzenforschung, F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
- Present address: Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Independent Junior Research Group on Protein Recognition and Degradation, Weinberg 3, D-06120 Halle, (Saale) Germany
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- Plateforme protéomique Strasbourg Esplanade, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire FRC1589-CNRS, F-67084 Strasbourg, France
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- Plant Proteomics Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi Yokohama, 230-0045 Japan
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Basic Immune System of Plants / Protein Mass Spectrometry, Carl-von-Linne-Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany
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- Plant Proteomics Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi Yokohama, 230-0045 Japan
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Basic Immune System of Plants / Protein Mass Spectrometry, Carl-von-Linne-Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, IBMP-CNRS - UPR2357, Université de Strasbourg, F-67084 Strasbourg, France
- Trinationales Institut für Pflanzenforschung, F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
- Department of Developmental Biology, University of Hamburg, Biozentrum Klein Flottbek, Ohnhorststr. 18, D-22609 Hamburg, Germany
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DAO1 catalyzes temporal and tissue-specific oxidative inactivation of auxin in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:11010-5. [PMID: 27651492 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604769113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Tight homeostatic regulation of the phytohormone auxin [indole-3-acetic acid (IAA)] is essential to plant growth. Auxin biosynthetic pathways and the processes that inactivate auxin by conjugation to amino acids and sugars have been thoroughly characterized. However, the enzyme that catalyzes oxidation of IAA to its primary catabolite 2-oxindole-3-acetic acid (oxIAA) remains uncharacterized. Here, we show that DIOXYGENASE FOR AUXIN OXIDATION 1 (DAO1) catalyzes formation of oxIAA in vitro and in vivo and that this mechanism regulates auxin homeostasis and plant growth. Null dao1-1 mutants contain 95% less oxIAA compared with wild type, and complementation of dao1 restores wild-type oxIAA levels, indicating that DAO1 is the primary IAA oxidase in seedlings. Furthermore, dao1 loss of function plants have altered morphology, including larger cotyledons, increased lateral root density, delayed sepal opening, elongated pistils, and reduced fertility in the primary inflorescence stem. These phenotypes are tightly correlated with DAO1 spatiotemporal expression patterns as shown by DAO1pro:β-glucuronidase (GUS) activity and DAO1pro:YFP-DAO1 signals, and transformation with DAO1pro:YFP-DAO1 complemented the mutant phenotypes. The dominant dao1-2D mutant has increased oxIAA levels and decreased stature with shorter leaves and inflorescence stems, thus supporting DAO1 IAA oxidase function in vivo. A second isoform, DAO2, is very weakly expressed in seedling root apices. Together, these data confirm that IAA oxidation by DAO1 is the principal auxin catabolic process in Arabidopsis and that localized IAA oxidation plays a role in plant morphogenesis.
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Bush MS, Pierrat O, Nibau C, Mikitova V, Zheng T, Corke FMK, Vlachonasios K, Mayberry LK, Browning KS, Doonan JH. eIF4A RNA Helicase Associates with Cyclin-Dependent Protein Kinase A in Proliferating Cells and Is Modulated by Phosphorylation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 172:128-40. [PMID: 27388680 PMCID: PMC5074640 DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Accepted: 07/05/2016] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Eukaryotic initiation factor 4A (eIF4A) is a highly conserved RNA-stimulated ATPase and helicase involved in the initiation of messenger RNA translation. Previously, we found that eIF4A interacts with cyclin-dependent kinase A (CDKA), the plant ortholog of mammalian CDK1. Here, we show that this interaction occurs only in proliferating cells where the two proteins coassociate with 5'-cap-binding protein complexes, eIF4F or the plant-specific eIFiso4F. CDKA phosphorylates eIF4A on a conserved threonine residue (threonine-164) within the RNA-binding motif 1b TPGR. In vivo, a phospho-null (APGR) variant of the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) eIF4A1 protein retains the ability to functionally complement a mutant (eif4a1) plant line lacking eIF4A1, whereas a phosphomimetic (EPGR) variant fails to complement. The phospho-null variant (APGR) rescues the slow growth rate of roots and rosettes, together with the ovule-abortion and late-flowering phenotypes. In vitro, wild-type recombinant eIF4A1 and its phospho-null variant both support translation in cell-free wheat germ extracts dependent upon eIF4A, but the phosphomimetic variant does not support translation and also was deficient in ATP hydrolysis and helicase activity. These observations suggest a mechanism whereby CDK phosphorylation has the potential to down-regulate eIF4A activity and thereby affect translation.
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- Maxwell S Bush
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.S.B., O.P., V.M.);Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom (C.N., F.M.K.C., K.V., J.H.D.);Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province 310021, China (T.Z.);Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, Department of Botany, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (K.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (L.K.M., K.S.B.)
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.S.B., O.P., V.M.);Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom (C.N., F.M.K.C., K.V., J.H.D.);Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province 310021, China (T.Z.);Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, Department of Botany, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (K.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (L.K.M., K.S.B.)
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.S.B., O.P., V.M.);Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom (C.N., F.M.K.C., K.V., J.H.D.);Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province 310021, China (T.Z.);Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, Department of Botany, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (K.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (L.K.M., K.S.B.)
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.S.B., O.P., V.M.);Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom (C.N., F.M.K.C., K.V., J.H.D.);Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province 310021, China (T.Z.);Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, Department of Botany, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (K.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (L.K.M., K.S.B.)
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.S.B., O.P., V.M.);Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom (C.N., F.M.K.C., K.V., J.H.D.);Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province 310021, China (T.Z.);Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, Department of Botany, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (K.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (L.K.M., K.S.B.)
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.S.B., O.P., V.M.);Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom (C.N., F.M.K.C., K.V., J.H.D.);Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province 310021, China (T.Z.);Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, Department of Botany, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (K.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (L.K.M., K.S.B.)
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.S.B., O.P., V.M.);Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom (C.N., F.M.K.C., K.V., J.H.D.);Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province 310021, China (T.Z.);Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, Department of Botany, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (K.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (L.K.M., K.S.B.)
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.S.B., O.P., V.M.);Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom (C.N., F.M.K.C., K.V., J.H.D.);Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province 310021, China (T.Z.);Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, Department of Botany, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (K.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (L.K.M., K.S.B.)
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.S.B., O.P., V.M.);Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom (C.N., F.M.K.C., K.V., J.H.D.);Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province 310021, China (T.Z.);Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, Department of Botany, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (K.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (L.K.M., K.S.B.)
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (M.S.B., O.P., V.M.);Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3EE, United Kingdom (C.N., F.M.K.C., K.V., J.H.D.);Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province 310021, China (T.Z.);Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, Department of Botany, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (K.V.); andDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (L.K.M., K.S.B.)
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Goossens J, Fernández-Calvo P, Schweizer F, Goossens A. Jasmonates: signal transduction components and their roles in environmental stress responses. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 68:1333-1347. [PMID: 27927998 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Jasmonates, oxylipin-type plant hormones, are implicated in diverse aspects of plant growth development and interaction with the environment. Following diverse developmental and environmental cues, jasmonate is produced, conjugated to the amino acid isoleucine and perceived by a co-receptor complex composed of the Jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) repressor proteins and an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex containing the F-box CORONATINE INSENSITIVE 1 (COI1). This event triggers the degradation of the JAZ proteins and the release of numerous transcription factors, including MYC2 and its homologues, which are otherwise bound and inhibited by the JAZ repressors. Here, we will review the role of the COI1, JAZ and MYC2 proteins in the interaction of the plant with its environment, illustrating the significance of jasmonate signalling, and of the proteins involved, for responses to both biotic stresses caused by insects and numerous microbial pathogens and abiotic stresses caused by adverse climatic conditions. It has also become evident that crosstalk with other hormone signals, as well as light and clock signals, plays an important role in the control and fine-tuning of these stress responses. Finally, we will discuss how several pathogens exploit the jasmonate perception and early signalling machinery to decoy the plants defence systems.
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- Jonas Goossens
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium.
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium.
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Goossens J, Fernández-Calvo P, Schweizer F, Goossens A. Jasmonates: signal transduction components and their roles in environmental stress responses. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 91:673-89. [PMID: 27086135 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-016-0480-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2015] [Accepted: 04/09/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Jasmonates, oxylipin-type plant hormones, are implicated in diverse aspects of plant growth development and interaction with the environment. Following diverse developmental and environmental cues, jasmonate is produced, conjugated to the amino acid isoleucine and perceived by a co-receptor complex composed of the Jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) repressor proteins and an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex containing the F-box CORONATINE INSENSITIVE 1 (COI1). This event triggers the degradation of the JAZ proteins and the release of numerous transcription factors, including MYC2 and its homologues, which are otherwise bound and inhibited by the JAZ repressors. Here, we will review the role of the COI1, JAZ and MYC2 proteins in the interaction of the plant with its environment, illustrating the significance of jasmonate signalling, and of the proteins involved, for responses to both biotic stresses caused by insects and numerous microbial pathogens and abiotic stresses caused by adverse climatic conditions. It has also become evident that crosstalk with other hormone signals, as well as light and clock signals, plays an important role in the control and fine-tuning of these stress responses. Finally, we will discuss how several pathogens exploit the jasmonate perception and early signalling machinery to decoy the plants defence systems.
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- Jonas Goossens
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium.
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium.
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Suzuki T, Matsushima C, Nishimura S, Higashiyama T, Sasabe M, Machida Y. Identification of Phosphoinositide-Binding Protein PATELLIN2 as a Substrate of Arabidopsis MPK4 MAP Kinase during Septum Formation in Cytokinesis. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 57:1744-55. [PMID: 27335345 PMCID: PMC4970614 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2015] [Accepted: 05/05/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The phosphorylation of proteins by protein kinases controls many cellular and physiological processes, which include intracellular signal transduction. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of such controls and numerous substrates of protein kinases remain to be characterized. The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade is of particular importance in a variety of extracellular and intracellular signaling processes. In plant cells, the progression of cytokinesis is an excellent example of an intracellular phenomenon that requires the MAPK cascade. However, the way in which MAPKs control downstream processes during cytokinesis in plant cells remains to be fully determined. We show here that comparisons, by two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis, of phosphorylated proteins from wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana and mutant plants defective in a MAPK cascade allow identification of substrates of a specific MAPK. Using this method, we identified the PATELLIN2 (PATL2) protein, which has a SEC14 domain, as a substrate of MPK4 MAP kinase. PATL2 was concentrated at the cell division plane, as is MPK4, and had binding affinity for phosphoinositides. This binding affinity was altered after phosphorylation of PATL2 by MPK4, suggesting a role for the MAPK cascade in the formation of cell plates via regeneration of membranes during cytokinesis.
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- Takamasa Suzuki
- Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan JST, ERATO, Higashiyama Live-Holonics Project, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan Present address: College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chubu University, 1200 Matsumoto-cho, Kasugai, Aichi 487-8501 Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan JST, ERATO, Higashiyama Live-Holonics Project, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, 036-8561 Japan
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602 Japan
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Trost B, Maleki F, Kusalik A, Napper S. DAPPLE 2: a Tool for the Homology-Based Prediction of Post-Translational Modification Sites. J Proteome Res 2016; 15:2760-7. [PMID: 27367363 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The post-translational modification of proteins is critical for regulating their function. Although many post-translational modification sites have been experimentally determined, particularly in certain model organisms, experimental knowledge of these sites is severely lacking for many species. Thus, it is important to be able to predict sites of post-translational modification in such species. Previously, we described DAPPLE, a tool that facilitates the homology-based prediction of one particular post-translational modification, phosphorylation, in an organism of interest using known phosphorylation sites from other organisms. Here, we describe DAPPLE 2, which expands and improves upon DAPPLE in three major ways. First, it predicts sites for many post-translational modifications (20 different types) using data from several sources (15 online databases). Second, it has the ability to make predictions approximately 2-7 times faster than DAPPLE depending on the database size and the organism of interest. Third, it simplifies and accelerates the process of selecting predicted sites of interest by categorizing them based on gene ontology terms, keywords, and signaling pathways. We show that DAPPLE 2 can successfully predict known human post-translational modification sites using, as input, known sites from species that are either closely (e.g., mouse) or distantly (e.g., yeast) related to humans. DAPPLE 2 can be accessed at http://saphire.usask.ca/saphire/dapple2 .
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- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, ‡Department of Computer Science, and §Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A2, Canada
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- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, ‡Department of Computer Science, and §Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A2, Canada
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- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, ‡Department of Computer Science, and §Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A2, Canada
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- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, ‡Department of Computer Science, and §Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A2, Canada
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