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Sánchez C, Gates AJ, Meakin GE, Uchiumi T, Girard L, Richardson DJ, Bedmar EJ, Delgado MJ. Production of nitric oxide and nitrosylleghemoglobin complexes in soybean nodules in response to flooding. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2010; 23:702-11. [PMID: 20367476 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-23-5-0702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) has gained interest as a major signaling molecule during plant development and in response to environmental cues. Formation of NO during symbiotic interactions has been reported, but the role and sources of NO in nodules remain unclear. In this work, the involvement of denitrification, performed by the symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum, in NO formation in soybean nodules in response to flooding conditions has been investigated by inoculating plants with napA-, nirK-, or norC-deficient mutants. Levels of nitrosylleghemoglobin (LbNO) in flooded nirK and norC nodules were significantly higher than those observed in wild-type nodules. In addition, nirK and norC nodules accumulated more nitrite and NO, respectively, than wild-type nodules. By contrast, levels of LbNO, nitrite, and NO in flooded napA nodules were lower than in wild-type nodules. These results suggest that LbNO formation in soybean nodules in response to flooding conditions is caused by nitrite and NO generated from periplasmic nitrate reductase (Nap) and also containing nitrite reductase (NirK) denitrification enzymes. Flooding caused a decrease of nifH expression and nitrogenase activity in wild-type and norC nodules but not in napA or nirK nodules. Incubation of wild-type and norC nodules with a NO scavenger counteracted the effect of flooding. Under free-living conditions, beta-galactosidase activity from a nifD'-'lacZ fusion decreased in a norC mutant, which also accumulated NO in the medium. These results suggest that NO formed by Cu-containing nitrite reductase in soybean nodules in response to flooding has a negative effect on expression of nitrogenase. We propose that Lb has a major role in detoxifying NO and nitrite produced by bacteroidal denitrification in response to flooding conditions.
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Cytoplasmic Alkalization Mediates Exogenous Nitric Oxide-Induced Stomatal Closure in Vicia faba. ZUOWU XUEBAO 2010. [DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1006.2010.00533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Viktorova LV, Maksyutova NN, Trifonova TV, Andrianov VV. Production of hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide following introduction of nitrate and nitrite into wheat leaf apoplast. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2010; 75:95-100. [PMID: 20331429 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297910010128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Infiltration of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedling leaves with excess of nitrate, nitrite, or the NO donor sodium nitroprusside leads to increase both in content of hydroperoxide and activity of peroxidase and decrease in superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity in the leaf apoplast. Polymorphism of extracellular peroxidases and the presence of Cu/Zn-SOD have been shown in apoplast. Using an ESR assay, a considerable increase in the level of NO following infiltration of leaf tissues with nitrite has been demonstrated. These data suggest development of both oxidative and nitrosative stresses in leaves exposed to high levels of nitrate or nitrite. A possible interplay of NO and reactive oxygen species in plant cells is discussed.
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- L V Viktorova
- Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan, 420111, Russia
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Hao F, Zhao S, Dong H, Zhang H, Sun L, Miao C. Nia1 and Nia2 are involved in exogenous salicylic acid-induced nitric oxide generation and stomatal closure in Arabidopsis. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2010; 52:298-307. [PMID: 20377690 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2010.00920.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Phytohormone salicylic acid (SA) plays important roles in plant responses to environmental stress. However, knowledge about the molecular mechanisms for SA affecting the stomatal movements is limited. In this paper, we demonstrated that exogenous SA significantly induced stomatal closure and nitric oxide (NO) generation in Arabidopsis guard cells based on genetic and physiological data. These effects were significantly inhibited by the NO scavenger c-PTIO, NO synthase (NOS) inhibitor L-NAME or nitrate reductase suppressor tungstate respectively, implying that NOS and nitrate reductase (NR) participate in SA-evoked stomatal closing. Furthermore, the effects of SA promotion of stomatal closure and NO synthesis are significantly suppressed in NR single mutants of nia1, nia2 or double mutant nia1/nia2, compared with the wild type plants. This suggests that both Nia1 and Nia2 are involved in SA-stimulated stomatal closure. In addition, pharmacological experiments showed that protein kinases, cGMP and cADPR are involved in SA-mediated NO accumulation and stomatal closure induced by SA in Arabidopsis.
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- Fushun Hao
- Henan Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, College of Life Science, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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Involvement of ethylene and nitric oxide in cell death in mastoparan-treated unicellular algaChlamydomonas reinhardtii. Cell Biol Int 2010; 34:301-8. [DOI: 10.1042/cbi20090138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Kumar P, Tewari RK, Sharma PN. Sodium nitroprusside-mediated alleviation of iron deficiency and modulation of antioxidant responses in maize plants. AOB PLANTS 2010; 2010:plq002. [PMID: 22476060 PMCID: PMC2965042 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plq002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2009] [Revised: 12/19/2009] [Accepted: 01/09/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Nitric oxide (NO) has been reported to alleviate Fe-deficiency effects, possibly by enhancing the functional Fe status of plants. This study examines changes in tissue Fe status and oxidative metabolism in Fe-deficient maize (Zea mays L.) plants enriched with NO using sodium nitroprusside (SNP) as a source. METHODOLOGY Measurements included changes in concentrations of H(2)O(2), non-protein thiols, levels of lipid peroxidation and activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and of the Fe-requiring antioxidant haem enzymes catalase, peroxidase and ascorbate peroxidases. Internal NO in Fe-deficient maize plants was manipulated with SNP and the NO scavenger, methylene blue (MB). A key control was treatment with sodium ferrocyanide (SF), a non-NO-supplying analogue of SNP. PRINCIPAL RESULTS SNP but not SF caused re-greening of leaves in Fe-deficient maize plants over 10-20 days, increased in vivo NO content, raised chlorophyll and carotenoid concentrations, promoted growth in dry weight, increased the activities of H(2)O(2)-scavenging haem enzymes and enhanced lipid peroxidation, while decreasing SOD activity and H(2)O(2) concentrations. The NO scavenger, MB, blocked the effects of the SNP. Although SNP and SF each donated Fe and increased active Fe, only SNP increased leaf chlorophyll. CONCLUSIONS NO plays a role in Fe nutrition, independently of its effect on total or active Fe status. The most probable mechanism of NO involvement is to increase the intracellular availability of Fe by means of modulating redox. This is likely to be achieved by enhancing the chemical reduction of foliar Fe(III) to Fe(II).
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Nitric oxide: promoter or suppressor of programmed cell death? Protein Cell 2010; 1:133-42. [PMID: 21203983 DOI: 10.1007/s13238-010-0018-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2009] [Accepted: 12/01/2009] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Nitric oxide (NO) is a short-lived gaseous free radical that predominantly functions as a messenger and effector molecule. It affects a variety of physiological processes, including programmed cell death (PCD) through cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)-dependent and - independent pathways. In this field, dominant discoveries are the diverse apoptosis networks in mammalian cells, which involve signals primarily via death receptors (extrinsic pathway) or the mitochondria (intrinsic pathway) that recruit caspases as effector molecules. In plants, PCD shares some similarities with animal cells, but NO is involved in PCD induction via interacting with pathways of phytohormones. NO has both promoting and suppressing effects on cell death, depending on a variety of factors, such as cell type, cellular redox status, and the flux and dose of local NO. In this article, we focus on how NO regulates the apoptotic signal cascade through protein S-nitrosylation and review the recent progress on mechanisms of PCD in both mammalian and plant cells.
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Lozano-Juste J, León J. Enhanced abscisic acid-mediated responses in nia1nia2noa1-2 triple mutant impaired in NIA/NR- and AtNOA1-dependent nitric oxide biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2010; 152:891-903. [PMID: 20007448 PMCID: PMC2815865 DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.148023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2009] [Accepted: 12/02/2009] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) regulates a wide range of plant processes from development to environmental adaptation. Despite its reported regulatory functions, it remains unclear how NO is synthesized in plants. We have generated a triple nia1nia2noa1-2 mutant that is impaired in nitrate reductase (NIA/NR)- and Nitric Oxide-Associated1 (AtNOA1)-mediated NO biosynthetic pathways. NO content in roots of nia1nia2 and noa1-2 plants was lower than in wild-type plants and below the detection limit in nia1nia2noa1-2 plants. NIA/NR- and AtNOA1-mediated biosynthesis of NO were thus active and responsible for most of the NO production in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). The nia1nia2noa1-2 plants displayed reduced size, fertility, and seed germination potential but increased dormancy and resistance to water deficit. The increasing deficiency in NO of nia1nia2, noa1-2, and nia1nia2noa1-2 plants correlated with increased seed dormancy, hypersensitivity to abscisic acid (ABA) in seed germination and establishment, as well as dehydration resistance. In nia1nia2noa1-2 plants, enhanced drought tolerance was due to a very efficient stomata closure and inhibition of opening by ABA, thus uncoupling NO from ABA-triggered responses in NO-deficient guard cells. The NO-deficient mutants in NIA/NR- and AtNOA1-mediated pathways in combination with the triple mutant will be useful tools to functionally characterize the role of NO and the contribution of both biosynthetic pathways in regulating plant development and defense.
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Wang Y, Ries A, Wu K, Yang A, Crawford NM. The Arabidopsis Prohibitin Gene PHB3 Functions in Nitric Oxide-Mediated Responses and in Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced Nitric Oxide Accumulation. THE PLANT CELL 2010; 22:249-59. [PMID: 20068191 PMCID: PMC2828708 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.072066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2009] [Revised: 12/10/2009] [Accepted: 12/21/2009] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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To discover genes involved in nitric oxide (NO) metabolism, a genetic screen was employed to identify mutants defective in NO accumulation after treatment with the physiological inducer hydrogen peroxide. In wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana plants, NO levels increase eightfold in roots after H(2)O(2) treatment for 30 min. A mutant defective in H(2)O(2)-induced NO accumulation was identified, and the corresponding mutation was mapped to the prohibitin gene PHB3, converting the highly conserved Gly-37 to an Asp in the protein's SPFH domain. This point mutant and a T-DNA insertion mutant were examined for other NO-related phenotypes. Both mutants were defective in abscisic acid-induced NO accumulation and stomatal closure and in auxin-induced lateral root formation. Both mutants were less sensitive to salt stress, showing no increase in NO accumulation and less inhibition of primary root growth in response to NaCl treatment. In addition, light-induced NO accumulation was dramatically reduced in cotyledons. We found no evidence for impaired H(2)O(2) metabolism or signaling in the mutants as H(2)O(2) levels and H(2)O(2)-induced gene expression were unaffected by the mutations. These findings identify a component of the NO homeostasis system in plants and expand the function of prohibitin genes to include regulation of NO accumulation and NO-mediated responses.
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- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
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The Function of Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channels in Biotic Stress. ION CHANNELS AND PLANT STRESS RESPONSES 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10494-7_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Cecconi D, Orzetti S, Vandelle E, Rinalducci S, Zolla L, Delledonne M. Protein nitration during defense response in Arabidopsis thaliana. Electrophoresis 2009; 30:2460-8. [PMID: 19598157 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200800826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species play a key role in the plant hypersensitive disease resistance response, and protein tyrosine nitration is emerging as an important mechanism of their co-operative interaction. Up to now, the proteins targeted by this post-translational modification in plants are still totally unknown. In this study, we analyzed for the first time proteins undergoing nitration during the hypersensitive response by analyzing via 1D- and 2D-western blot the protein extracts from Arabidopsis thaliana plants challenged with an avirulent bacterial pathogen (Pseudomonas syringae pv. Tomato). We show that the plant disease resistance response is correlated with a modulation of nitration of proteins involved in important cellular process, such as photosynthesis, glycolysis and nitrate assimilation. These findings shed new light on the signaling functions of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species, paving the way on studies on the role of this post-translational modification in plants.
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- Daniela Cecconi
- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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The Arabidopsis PARAQUAT RESISTANT2 gene encodes an S-nitrosoglutathione reductase that is a key regulator of cell death. Cell Res 2009; 19:1377-87. [DOI: 10.1038/cr.2009.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Liu Y, Zhang J. Rapid accumulation of NO regulates ABA catabolism and seed dormancy during imbibition in Arabidopsis. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2009; 4:905-7. [PMID: 19847111 PMCID: PMC2802802 DOI: 10.4161/psb.4.9.9532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2009] [Accepted: 07/10/2009] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Nitric oxide's (NO) involvement in breaking seed dormancy has been demonstrated in previous research but its action mechanism remains to be clarified. We observed that a rapid accumulation of NO induces an equally rapid decrease of abscisic acid (ABA) that is required for the NO's action in Arabidopsis. In addition, the NO-induced ABA decrease correlates with the regulation of CYP707A2 transcription and the (+)-abscisic acid 8'-hydroxylase (encoded by CYP707A2) protein expression. By analyzing cyp707a1, cyp707a2 and cyp707a3 mutants, we found that CYP707A2 plays a major role in ABA catabolism during the first stage of imbibition. Fluorescent images demonstrate that NO is released rapidly in the early hours at the endosperm layer during imbibition. Evidently such response precedes the enhancement of ABA catabolism which is required for subsequent seed germination.
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- Yinggao Liu
- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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Ahlfors R, Brosché M, Kangasjärvi J. Ozone and nitric oxide interaction in Arabidopsis thaliana: a role for ethylene? PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2009; 4:878-9. [PMID: 19847097 PMCID: PMC2802800 DOI: 10.4161/psb.4.9.9428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2009] [Accepted: 07/03/2009] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is involved together with reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the activation of various stress responses in plants. However, the biochemical mechanisms by which ROS and NO participate, and the potential interaction between these molecules are still unclear. Ozone (O(3)) can be used as a tool to elicit ROS-activated stress responses and to activate cell death in plant leaves. We have recently shown that O(3) induced a rapid accumulation of NO in Arabidopsis leaves and at late time points NO production coincided with the formation of hypersensitive response like lesions. Experiments using O(3) and the NO-donor SNP alone or in combination indicated that both molecules are capable of activating a large set of stress related genes. In combined treatment, NO attenuated O(3)-induction of salicylic acid (SA) biosynthetic and signaling genes, and reduced SA accumulation. In addition, NO can elevate the levels of ethylene in several mutants. Thus, NO is a modifier of ROS signaling.
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- Reetta Ahlfors
- Plant Biology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Soto MJ, Domínguez-Ferreras A, Pérez-Mendoza D, Sanjuán J, Olivares J. Mutualism versus pathogenesis: the give-and-take in plant-bacteria interactions. Cell Microbiol 2009; 11:381-8. [PMID: 19134114 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2009.01282.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pathogenic bacteria and mutualistic rhizobia are able to invade and establish chronic infections within their host plants. The success of these plant-bacteria interactions requires evasion of the plant innate immunity by either avoiding recognition or by suppressing host defences. The primary plant innate immunity is triggered upon recognition of common microbe-associated molecular patterns. Different studies reveal striking similarities between the molecular bases underlying the perception of rhizobial nodulation factors and microbe-associated molecular patterns from plant pathogens. However, in contrast to general elicitors, nodulation factors can control plant defences when recognized by their cognate legumes. Nevertheless, in response to rhizobial infection, legumes show transient or local defence-like responses suggesting that Rhizobium is perceived as an intruder although the plant immunity is controlled. Whether these responses are involved in limiting the number of infections or whether they are required for the progression of the interaction is not yet clear. Further similarities in both plant-pathogen and Rhizobium-legume associations are factors such as surface polysaccharides, quorum sensing signals and secreted proteins, which play important roles in modulating plant defence responses and determining the outcome of the interactions.
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- María J Soto
- Departamento de Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Granada, Spain.
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Dordas C. Nonsymbiotic hemoglobins and stress tolerance in plants. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2009; 176:433-40. [PMID: 26493132 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2009.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2008] [Revised: 01/09/2009] [Accepted: 01/09/2009] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Hemoglobins (Hbs) are heme containing proteins found in most organisms including animals, bacteria, and plants. Their structure, size, and function are quite diverse among the different organisms. There are three different types of hemoglobins in plants: symbiotic (sHb), nonsymbiotic (nsHb), and truncated hemoglobins (trHb). The nonsymbiotic hemoglobins are divided into: class 1 hemoglobins (nsHb-1s), which have a very high affinity for oxygen: and class 2 hemoglobins (nsHb-2s), which have lower affinity for oxygen, are similar to the sHbs. nsHb-1s are expressed under hypoxia, osmotic stress, nutrient deprivation, cold stress, rhizobial infection, nitric oxide exposure, and fungal infection. Tolerance to stress is very important for the survival of the plant. Hemoglobins are one of many different strategies that plants have evolved to overcome stress conditions and survive. Hbs also react with NO produced under different stress conditions. Class 1 nsHbs are involved in a metabolic pathway involving NO. Those hemoglobins provide an alternative type of respiration to mitochondrial electron transport under limiting oxygen concentrations. Class 1 nsHbs in hypoxic plants act as part of a soluble, terminal, NO dioxygenase system, yielding nitrate from the reaction of oxyHb with NO. The overall reaction sequence, referred to as the nsHb/NO cycle, consumes NADH and maintains ATP levels via an as yet unknown mechanism. Class 2 nsHbs seem to scavenge NO in a similar fashion as class 1 Hbs and are involved in reducing flowering time in Arabidopsis. nsHbs also show peroxidase-like activity and NO metabolism and possibly protect against nitrosative stress in plant-pathogen interaction and in symbiotic interactions. nsHbs may be involved in other stress conditions such as osmotic, nutrient and cold stress together with NO and the function of nsHbs can be in NO metabolism and signal transduction. However, other possible functions cannot be precluded as Hbs have many different functions in other organisms.
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- Christos Dordas
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Agronomy, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Ahlfors R, Brosché M, Kollist H, Kangasjärvi J. Nitric oxide modulates ozone-induced cell death, hormone biosynthesis and gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 58:1-12. [PMID: 19054359 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2008.03756.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is involved together with reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the activation of various stress responses in plants. We have used ozone (O₃) as a tool to elicit ROS-activated stress responses, and to activate cell death in plant leaves. Here, we have investigated the roles and interactions of ROS and NO in the induction and regulation of O₃-induced cell death. Treatment with O₃ induced a rapid accumulation of NO, which started from guard cells, spread to adjacent epidermal cells and eventually moved to mesophyll cells. During the later time points, NO production coincided with the formation of hypersensitive response (HR)-like lesions. The NO donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and O₃ individually induced a large set of defence-related genes; however, in a combined treatment SNP attenuated the O₃ induction of salicylic acid (SA) biosynthesis and other defence-related genes. Consistent with this, SNP treatment also decreased O₃-induced SA accumulation. The O₃-sensitive mutant rcd1 was found to be an NO overproducer; in contrast, Atnoa1/rif1 (Arabidopsis nitric oxide associated 1/resistant to inhibition by FSM1), a mutant with decreased production of NO, was also O₃ sensitive. This, together with experiments combining O₃ and the NO donor SNP suggested that NO can modify signalling, hormone biosynthesis and gene expression in plants during O₃ exposure, and that a functional NO production is needed for a proper O₃ response. In summary, NO is an important signalling molecule in the response to O₃.
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- Reetta Ahlfors
- Plant Biology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1), FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Nooruse 1, Tartu 50411, Estonia
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Meier S, Madeo L, Ederli L, Donaldson L, Pasqualini S, Gehring C. Deciphering cGMP signatures and cGMP-dependent pathways in plant defence. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2009; 4:307-9. [PMID: 19794847 PMCID: PMC2664491 DOI: 10.4161/psb.4.4.8066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2009] [Accepted: 02/02/2009] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The second messenger, 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP), is a critical component of many different processes in plants while guanylyl cyclases that catalyse the formation of cGMP from GTP have remained somewhat elusive in higher plants. Consequently, two major aims are the discovery of novel GCs and the identification of cGMP mediated processes. Recently, we have reported temporal signatures of ozone (O3)-induced hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and nitric oxide (NO) generation, their effect on cGMP generation, and consequent transcriptional changes of genes diagnostic for stress responses in tobacco. We demonstrated that O3 and NO induced early transcriptional activation of the scavenger encoding proteins, alternative oxidase (AOX1a ), glutathione peroxidase (GPX ) and the induction of ethylene production through aminocyclopropancarboxylic acid synthase (ACS2 ) are cGMP-independent. By contrast, the early response of the phenylalanine ammonia lyase gene (PALa ) and the late response of the gene encoding the pathogenesis-related protein (PR1a ) show critical dependence on cGMP. Here we show differential cGMP responses to virulent and avirulent Pseudomonas syringae strains and propose that host-pathogen recognition and/or down-stream processes are transduced by complex cGMP signatures. This is in accordance with the identification of a growing number of multi-domain molecules in Arabidopsis that are reported to contain putative functional GC catalytic centers.
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- Stuart Meier
- South African National Institute of Bioinformatics, Bellville, South Africa
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- Department of Applied Biology; University of Perugia; Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Applied Biology; University of Perugia; Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology; University of the Western Cape; Bellville, South Africa
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- Department of Biotechnology; University of the Western Cape; Bellville, South Africa
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Pasqualini S, Meier S, Gehring C, Madeo L, Fornaciari M, Romano B, Ederli L. Ozone and nitric oxide induce cGMP-dependent and -independent transcription of defence genes in tobacco. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2009; 181:860-870. [PMID: 19140946 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02711.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Here, we analyse the temporal signatures of ozone (O3)-induced hydrogen peroxide(H2O2) and nitric oxide (NO) and the role of the second messenger guanosine3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) in transcriptional changes of genes diagnostic for biotic and abiotic stress responses. Within 90 min O3 induced H2O2 and NO peaks and we demonstrate that NO donors cause rapid H2O2 accumulation in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) leaf. Ozone also causes highly significant, late (> 2 h) and sustained cGMP increases, suggesting that the second messenger may not be required in all early (< 2 h) responses to O3,but is essential and sufficient for the induction of some O3-dependent pathways.This hypothesis was tested resolving the time course of O3-induced transcript accumulation of alternative oxidase (AOX1a), glutathione peroxidase (GPX),aminocyclopropancarboxylic acid synthase (ACS2) that is critical for the synthesis of ethylene, phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PALa) and the pathogenesis-related protein PR1a.The data show that early O3 and NO caused transcriptional activation of the scavenger encoding proteins AOX1a, GPX and the induction of ethylene production through ACS2 are cGMP independent. By contrast, the early response of PALa and the late response of PR1a show critical dependence on cGMP.
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 7535, South Africa
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- Department of Applied Biology, University of Perugia, I-06121 Italy
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- Department of Applied Biology, University of Perugia, I-06121 Italy
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- Department of Applied Biology, University of Perugia, I-06121 Italy
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- Department of Applied Biology, University of Perugia, I-06121 Italy
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Besson-Bard A, Gravot A, Richaud P, Auroy P, Duc C, Gaymard F, Taconnat L, Renou JP, Pugin A, Wendehenne D. Nitric oxide contributes to cadmium toxicity in Arabidopsis by promoting cadmium accumulation in roots and by up-regulating genes related to iron uptake. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2009; 149:1302-15. [PMID: 19168643 PMCID: PMC2649387 DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.133348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2008] [Accepted: 01/20/2009] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) functions as a cell-signaling molecule in plants. In particular, a role for NO in the regulation of iron homeostasis and in the plant response to toxic metals has been proposed. Here, we investigated the synthesis and the role of NO in plants exposed to cadmium (Cd(2+)), a nonessential and toxic metal. We demonstrate that Cd(2+) induces NO synthesis in roots and leaves of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) seedlings. This production, which is sensitive to NO synthase inhibitors, does not involve nitrate reductase and AtNOA1 but requires IRT1, encoding a major plasma membrane transporter for iron but also Cd(2+). By analyzing the incidence of NO scavenging or inhibition of its synthesis during Cd(2+) treatment, we demonstrated that NO contributes to Cd(2+)-triggered inhibition of root growth. To understand the mechanisms underlying this process, a microarray analysis was performed in order to identify NO-modulated root genes up- and down-regulated during Cd(2+) treatment. Forty-three genes were identified encoding proteins related to iron homeostasis, proteolysis, nitrogen assimilation/metabolism, and root growth. These genes include IRT1. Investigation of the metal and ion contents in Cd(2+)-treated roots in which NO synthesis was impaired indicates that IRT1 up-regulation by NO was consistently correlated to NO's ability to promote Cd(2+) accumulation in roots. This analysis also highlights that NO is responsible for Cd(2+)-induced inhibition of root Ca(2+) accumulation. Taken together, our results suggest that NO contributes to Cd(2+) toxicity by favoring Cd(2+) versus Ca(2+) uptake and by initiating a cellular pathway resembling those activated upon iron deprivation.
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- Angélique Besson-Bard
- UMR INRA 1088/CNRS 5184/Université de Bourgogne, Plante-Microbe-Environnement, 21065 Dijon cedex, France
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Besson-Bard A, Wendehenne D. NO contributes to cadmium toxicity in Arabidopsis thaliana by mediating an iron deprivation response. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2009; 4:252-4. [PMID: 19721766 PMCID: PMC2652545 DOI: 10.4161/psb.4.3.8032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2009] [Accepted: 02/02/2009] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Several studies have revealed that nitric oxide (NO), an endogenous mediator in diverse physiological processes, is produced in plants exposed to the toxic metal cadmium (Cd). It was first shown that exogenously applied NO protects plant tissues against the oxidative damages triggered by Cd, suggesting a putative role for NO in counteracting the deleterious effects of Cd. More recently, our team as well as other laboratories challenged this view and demonstrated that endogenously produced NO promotes the metal-induced reduction of root growth. We investigated more thoroughly the role of NO in mediating Cd effects in roots. We have shown that in Arabidopsis thaliana, the Cd-mediated NO production is sensitive to mammalian NO synthase inhibitors and occurs downstream of IRT1, a major iron transporter also involved in the uptake of Cd. Our data support a model in which this production might be related to the iron deprivation caused by Cd. Accordingly, we found that NO upregulates the expression of genes encoding proteins related to iron acquisition, including IRT1. This process might explain the ability of NO to amplify Cd uptake and, consequently, the toxic effects of the metal.
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- Angélique Besson-Bard
- UMR INRA 1088/CNRS 5184/Université de Bourgogne, Plante-Microbe-Environnement, Dijon, France
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Tossi V, Lamattina L, Cassia R. An increase in the concentration of abscisic acid is critical for nitric oxide-mediated plant adaptive responses to UV-B irradiation. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2009; 181:871-879. [PMID: 19140950 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02722.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Here, the link between UV-B stimulus and the abscisic acid (ABA)-induced nitricoxide (NO) synthesis pathway was studied in leaves of maize (Zea mays).The ABA concentration increased by 100% in UV-B irradiated leaves. Leaves of viviparous 14 (vp14), a mutant defective in ABA synthesis, were more sensitive to UV-B-induced damage than those of the wild type (wt). ABA supplementation attenuated UV-B-induced damage in both the wt and vp14. The hydrogen peroxide(H2O2) concentration increased in the irradiated wt, but changed only slightly in vp14. This increase was prevented by diphenylene iodonium (DPI), an inhibitor of NADPH oxidase (pNOX).NO was detected using the fluorophore 4,5-diamino-fluorescein diacetate(DAF-2DA). DAF-2DA fluorescence increased twofold in UV-B-irradiated wt leaves but not in vp14 leaves. H2O2 and NO production was restored in vp14 plants supplied with 100 μM ABA. Catalase, DPI and the NO synthase (NOS) inhibitor NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) partially blocked UV-B-induced NO accumulation, suggesting that H2O2 as well as NOS-like activity is required for a full plant response to UV-B. NO protects against UV-B-induced cell damage.Our results suggest that UV-B perception triggers an increase in ABA concentration,which activates pNOX and H2O2 generation, and that an NOS-like-dependent mechanism increases NO production to maintain cell homeostasis and attenuate UV-B-derived cell damage.
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- Vanesa Tossi
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, CC1245 (7600) Mar del Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, CC1245 (7600) Mar del Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, CC1245 (7600) Mar del Plata, Argentina
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Reactive Oxygen Species and Signaling in Cadmium Toxicity. REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES IN PLANT SIGNALING 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00390-5_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Liu Y, Shi L, Ye N, Liu R, Jia W, Zhang J. Nitric oxide-induced rapid decrease of abscisic acid concentration is required in breaking seed dormancy in Arabidopsis. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2009; 183:1030-1042. [PMID: 19522839 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02899.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) has been reported to be involved in breaking seed dormancy but its mechanism of action is unclear. Here, we report that a rapid accumulation of NO induced an equally rapid decrease of abscisic acid (ABA) that is required for this action in Arabidopsis. Results of quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (QRT-PCR) and Western blotting indicate that the NO-induced ABA decrease correlates with the regulation of CYP707A2 transcription and (+)-abscisic acid 8'-hydroxylase (encoded by CYP707A2) protein expression. By analysing cyp707a1, cyp707a2 and cyp707a3 mutants, we found that CYP707A2 plays a major role in ABA catabolism during the first stage of imbibition. Fluorescent images demonstrate that NO is released rapidly in the early hours at the endosperm layer during imbibition. Evidently, such response precedes the enhancement of ABA catabolism which is required for subsequent seed germination.
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- Yinggao Liu
- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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- College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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Xie Y, Ling T, Han Y, Liu K, Zheng Q, Huang L, Yuan X, He Z, Hu B, Fang L, Shen Z, Yang Q, Shen W. Carbon monoxide enhances salt tolerance by nitric oxide-mediated maintenance of ion homeostasis and up-regulation of antioxidant defence in wheat seedling roots. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2008; 31:1864-81. [PMID: 18811735 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01888.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Salt stress induced an increase in endogenous carbon monoxide (CO) production and the activity of the CO synthetic enzyme haem oxygenase (HO) in wheat seedling roots. In addition, a 50% CO aqueous solution, applied daily, not only resulted in the enhancement of CO release, but led to a significant reversal in dry weight (DW) and water loss caused by 150 mm NaCl treatment, which was mimicked by the application of two nitric oxide (NO) donors sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and diethylenetriamine NO adduct (DETA/NO). Further analyses showed that CO, as well as SNP, apparently up-regulated H(+)-pump and antioxidant enzyme activities or related transcripts, thus resulting in the increase of K/Na ratio and the alleviation of oxidative damage. Whereas, the CO/NO scavenger haemoglobin (Hb), NO scavenger or synthetic inhibitor methylene blue (MB) or N(G)-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester hydrochloride (l-NAME) differentially blocked these effects. Furthermore, CO was able to mimic the effect of SNP by strongly increasing NO release in the root tips, whereas the CO-induced NO signal was quenched by the addition of l-NAME or cPTIO, the specific scavenger of NO. The results suggested that CO might confer an increased tolerance to salinity stress by maintaining ion homeostasis and enhancing antioxidant system parameters in wheat seedling roots, both of which were partially mediated by NO signal.
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- Yanjie Xie
- College of Life Sciences, Laboratory Centre of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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Torres J, Rivera A, Clark G, Roux SJ. PARTICIPATION OF EXTRACELLULAR NUCLEOTIDES IN THE WOUND RESPONSE OF DASYCLADUS VERMICULARIS AND ACETABULARIA ACETABULUM (DASYCLADALES, CHLOROPHYTA)(1). JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2008; 44:1504-11. [PMID: 27039864 DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00602.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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As assayed by fluorescent reporter dyes, nitric oxide (NO) and H2 O2 , two downstream signaling agents induced by wounding in the alga Dasycladus vermicularis (Scop.) Krasser, can also be induced in unwounded Dasycladus cells by μM Adenosine 5'[γ-thio]triphosphate (ATPγS) and Adenosine 5'-[β-thio]diphosphate (ADPβS), but not by Adenosine 5'-O-thiomonophosphate (AMPS). These nucleotide-induced responses are blocked by pyridoxalphosphate-6-azophenyl-2',4'-disulphonic acid (PPADS), an antagonist of animal purinoceptors, and by adenosine, a feed-back inhibitor of extracellular nucleotide responses in animals. Similar nucleotide- and nucleotide-antagonist responses were observed in Acetabularia acetabulum (L.) P. C. Silva. Significant levels of ATP released from Dasycladus cells were measured at wound sites by a sensitive luciferin-luciferase assay. Additionally, the normal wound-induced production of NO and H2 O2 in Dasycladus can be blocked by pretreating the cells with PPADS. Our results indicate that nucleotides released from wounds can serve as a signal to trigger wound responses in algae, and that coordinated signaling between extracellular nucleotides and the NO pathway may have been established early during the evolution of plants.
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- Jonathan Torres
- Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Zhang H, Hu LY, Hu KD, He YD, Wang SH, Luo JP. Hydrogen sulfide promotes wheat seed germination and alleviates oxidative damage against copper stress. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2008; 50:1518-29. [PMID: 19093970 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2008.00769.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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With the enhancement of copper (Cu) stress, the germination percentage of wheat seeds decreased gradually. Pretreatment with sodium hydrosulfide (NaHS), hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) donor alleviated the inhibitory effect of Cu stress in a dose-dependent manner; whereas little visible symptom was observed in germinating seeds and radicle tips cultured in NaHS solutions. It was verified that H(2)S or HS(-) rather than other sulfur-containing components derived from NaHS attribute to the potential role in promoting seed germination against Cu stress. Further studies showed that NaHS could promote amylase and esterase activities, reduce Cu-induced disturbance of plasma membrane integrity in the radicle tips, and sustain lower levels of malondialdehyde and H(2)O(2) in germinating seeds. Furthermore, NaHS pretreatment increased activities of superoxide dismutase and catalase and decreased that of lipoxygenase, but showed no significant effect on ascorbate peroxidase. Alternatively, NaHS prevented uptake of Cu and promoted the accumulation of free amino acids in seeds exposed to Cu. In addition, a rapid accumulation of endogenous H(2)S in seeds was observed at the early stage of germination, and higher level of H(2)S in NaHS-pretreated seeds. These data indicated that H(2)S was involved in the mechanism of germinating seeds' responses to Cu stress.
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- Hua Zhang
- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
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Velikova V, Fares S, Loreto F. Isoprene and nitric oxide reduce damages in leaves exposed to oxidative stress. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2008; 31:1882-1894. [PMID: 18811730 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01893.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Isoprene and nitric oxide (NO) are two volatile molecules that are produced in leaves. Both compounds were suggested to have an important protective role against stresses. We tested, in two isoprene-emitting species, Populus nigra and Phragmites australis, whether: (1) NO emission outside leaves is measurable and is affected by oxidative stresses; and (2) isoprene and NO protect leaves against oxidative stresses, both singularly and in combination. The emission of NO was undetectable, and the compensation point was very low in control poplar leaves. Both emission and compensation point increased dramatically in stressed leaves. NO emission was inversely associated with stomatal conductance. More NO was emitted in leaves that were isoprene-inhibited, and more isoprene was emitted when NO was reduced by NO scavenger c-PTIO. Both isoprene and NO reduced oxidative damages. Isoprene-emitting leaves which were also fumigated with NO, or treated with NO donor, showed low damage to photosynthesis, a reduced accumulation of H(2)O(2) and a reduced membrane denaturation. We conclude that measurable amounts of NO are only produced and emitted by stressed leaves, that both isoprene and NO are effective antioxidant molecules and that an additional protection is achieved when both molecules are released.
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- Violeta Velikova
- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Institute of Plant Physiology, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Tedman-Jones JD, Lei R, Jay F, Fabro G, Li X, Reiter WD, Brearley C, Jones JDG. Characterization of Arabidopsis mur3 mutations that result in constitutive activation of defence in petioles, but not leaves. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 56:691-703. [PMID: 18657237 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2008.03636.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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A screen was established for mutants in which the plant defence response is de-repressed. The pathogen-inducible isochorismate synthase (ICS1) promoter was fused to firefly luciferase (luc) and a homozygous transgenic line generated in which the ICS1:luc fusion is co-regulated with ICS1. This line was mutagenized and M(2) seedlings screened for constitutive ICS1:luc expression (cie). The cie mutants fall into distinct phenotypic classes based on tissue-specific localization of luciferase activity. One mutant, cie1, that shows constitutive luciferase activity specifically in petioles, was chosen for further analysis. In addition to ICS1, PR and other defence-related genes are constitutively expressed in cie1 plants. The cie1 mutant is also characterized by an increased production of conjugated salicylic acid and reactive oxygen intermediates, as well as spontaneous lesion formation, all confined to petiole tissue. Significantly, defences activated in cie1 are sufficient to prevent infection by a virulent isolate of Hyaloperonospora parasitica, and this enhanced resistance response protects petiole tissue alone. Furthermore, cie1-mediated resistance, along with PR gene expression, is abolished in a sid2-1 mutant background, consistent with a requirement for salicylic acid. A positional cloning approach was used to identify cie1, which carries two point mutations in a gene required for cell wall biosynthesis and actin organization, MUR3. A mur3 knockout mutant also resists infection by H. parasitica in its petioles and this phenotype is complemented by transformation with wild-type MUR3. We propose that perturbed cell wall biosynthesis may activate plant defence and provide a rationale for the cie1 and the mur3 knockout phenotypes.
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MESH Headings
- Actins/metabolism
- Alleles
- Arabidopsis/genetics
- Arabidopsis/immunology
- Arabidopsis/metabolism
- Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics
- Arabidopsis Proteins/metabolism
- Cell Wall/genetics
- Cell Wall/metabolism
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- Galactosyltransferases/genetics
- Galactosyltransferases/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Gene Knockout Techniques
- Genes, Plant
- Genes, Reporter
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Immunity, Innate
- Intramolecular Transferases/genetics
- Intramolecular Transferases/metabolism
- Mutagenesis
- Plant Leaves/genetics
- Plant Leaves/immunology
- Plant Leaves/metabolism
- Plants, Genetically Modified/genetics
- Plants, Genetically Modified/immunology
- Plants, Genetically Modified/metabolism
- Point Mutation
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA, Plant/genetics
- Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Salicylic Acid/metabolism
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Mukhtar MS, Deslandes L, Auriac MC, Marco Y, Somssich IE. The Arabidopsis transcription factor WRKY27 influences wilt disease symptom development caused by Ralstonia solanacearum. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 56:935-47. [PMID: 18702671 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2008.03651.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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WRKY transcription factors play a key role in modulating the plant defense transcriptome. Here we show that the Arabidopsis mutant wrky27-1, which lacks a functional WRKY27 transcription factor, showed delayed symptom development in response to the bacterial wilt pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum. Additionally, wrky27-1 plants did not express PR marker genes upon infection, as also observed in resistant Nd-1 plants. Spatial expression of WRKY27 correlated well with the route of bacterial infection and propagation in planta. Complementation experiments restored both the early wilting phenotype of wild-type Col-1 plants and activation of PR genes, not only when the WRKY27 cDNA is expressed under the control of the native promoter, but also when the SUC2 promoter was used, suggesting that WRKY27 exerts its function in phloem companion cells. Expression studies identified genes involved in nitrogen metabolism and nitric oxide (NO) generation as potential targets of negative regulation by WRKY27. Our results show that WRKY27 negatively influences symptom development of a vascular pathogen, possibly by affecting signaling or trafficking between the phloem and the xylem.
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- M Shahid Mukhtar
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Abteilung Molekulare Phytopathologie, Carl-von-Linné Weg 10, D-50829 Cologne, Germany
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Sudhamsu J, Lee GI, Klessig DF, Crane BR. The structure of YqeH. An AtNOS1/AtNOA1 ortholog that couples GTP hydrolysis to molecular recognition. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:32968-76. [PMID: 18801747 PMCID: PMC2583316 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m804837200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2008] [Revised: 09/08/2008] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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AtNOS1/AtNOA1 was identified as a nitric oxide-generating enzyme in plants, but that function has recently been questioned. To resolve issues surrounding AtNOA1 activity, we report the biochemical properties and a 2.36 A resolution crystal structure of a bacterial AtNOA1 ortholog (YqeH). Geobacillus YqeH fused to a putative AtNOA1 leader peptide complements growth and morphological defects of Atnoa1 mutant plants. YqeH does not synthesize nitric oxide from L-arginine but rather hydrolyzes GTP. The YqeH structure reveals a circularly permuted GTPase domain and an unusual C-terminal beta-domain. A small N-terminal domain, disordered in the structure, binds zinc. Structural homology among the C-terminal domain, the RNA-binding regulator TRAP, and the hypoxia factor pVHL define a recognition module for peptides and nucleic acids. TRAP residues important for RNA binding are conserved by the YqeH C-terminal domain, whose positioning is coupled to GTP hydrolysis. YqeH and AtNOA1 probably act as G-proteins that regulate nucleic acid recognition and not as nitric-oxide synthases.
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- Jawahar Sudhamsu
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Schmidlin L, DE Bruyne E, Weyens G, Lefebvre M, Gilmer D. Identification of differentially expressed root genes upon rhizomania disease. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2008; 9:741-51. [PMID: 19019003 PMCID: PMC6640463 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2008.00498.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Rhizomania is one of the most devastating sugar beet diseases. It is caused by Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV), which induces abnormal rootlet proliferation. To understand better the physiological and molecular basis of the disorder, transcriptome analysis was performed by restriction fragment differential display polymerase chain reaction (RFDD-PCR), which provided differential gene expression profiles between non-infected and infected sugar beet roots. Two distinct viral isolates were used to detect specific or general virus-induced genes. Differentially expressed genes were selected and identified by sequence analysis, followed by reverse Northern and reverse transcriptase PCR experiments. These latter analyses of different plants (Beta vulgaris and Beta macrocarpa) infected under distinct standardized conditions revealed specific and variable expressions. Candidate genes were linked to cell development, metabolism, defence signalling and oxidative stress. In addition, the expression of already characterized genes linked to defence response (pathogenesis-related protein genes), auxin signalling and cell elongation was also studied to further examine some aspects of the disease. Differential expression was retrieved in both B. vulgaris and B. macrocarpa. However, some candidate genes were found to be deregulated in only one plant species, suggesting differential response to BNYVV or specific responses to the BNYVV vector.
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- Laure Schmidlin
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, laboratoire propre du CNRS (UPR 2357) conventionné avec l'Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg 1), 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France
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Di C, Zhang M, Xu S, Cheng T, An L. Role of Poly-Galacturonase Inhibiting Protein in Plant Defense. Crit Rev Microbiol 2008; 32:91-100. [PMID: 16809233 DOI: 10.1080/10408410600709834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins (PGIPs) are plant proteins believed to play an important role in the defense against plant pathogen fungals. PGIPs are glycoproteins located in plant cell wall which reduce the hydrolytic activity of polygalacturonases (PGs), limit the growth of plant pathogens, and also elicit defense responses in plant. Furthermore, PGIPs belong to the super family of leucine reach repeat (LRR) proteins which also include the products of several plant resistance genes. Many of the studies show the PGIP properties, molecular characteristics, and PGIP gene expression induced by some elicitors. Some of the studies review individual PGIP gene expression in different signal transduction pathways. This article summarizes the properties, different signal transduction mechanisms, detecting methods, transgenic plants, and function of PGIP. It also presents PGIP gene expression in different stages of maturity, tissues, and varieties. The review especially reports the particular PGIP gene expression induced by different biotic and abiotic stresses, offers some questions, and prospects the future study, which are needed in order to develop efficient strategies for disease-resistant plants. They may be useful for genetic engineering to obtain transgenic plants with increased tolerance to fungal infection, which decrease the use of insecticide.
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- Cuixia Di
- State Key Laboratory of Arid Agroecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China
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Qiao W, Fan LM. Nitric oxide signaling in plant responses to abiotic stresses. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2008; 50:1238-46. [PMID: 19017111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2008.00759.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) plays important roles in diverse physiological processes in plants. NO can provoke both beneficial and harmful effects, which depend on the concentration and location of NO in plant cells. This review is focused on NO synthesis and the functions of NO in plant responses to abiotic environmental stresses. Abiotic stresses mostly induce NO production in plants. NO alleviates the harmfulness of reactive oxygen species, and reacts with other target molecules, and regulates the expression of stress responsive genes under various stress conditions.
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- Weihua Qiao
- Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-Biotechnology, National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Ma W, Smigel A, Tsai YC, Braam J, Berkowitz GA. Innate immunity signaling: cytosolic Ca2+ elevation is linked to downstream nitric oxide generation through the action of calmodulin or a calmodulin-like protein. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 148:818-28. [PMID: 18689446 PMCID: PMC2556846 DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.125104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2008] [Accepted: 07/28/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Ca(2+) rise and nitric oxide (NO) generation are essential early steps in plant innate immunity and initiate the hypersensitive response (HR) to avirulent pathogens. Previous work from this laboratory has demonstrated that a loss-of-function mutation of an Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plasma membrane Ca(2+)-permeable inwardly conducting ion channel impairs HR and that this phenotype could be rescued by the application of a NO donor. At present, the mechanism linking cytosolic Ca(2+) rise to NO generation during pathogen response signaling in plants is still unclear. Animal nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activation is Ca(2+)/calmodulin (CaM) dependent. Here, we present biochemical and genetic evidence consistent with a similar regulatory mechanism in plants: a pathogen-induced Ca(2+) signal leads to CaM and/or a CaM-like protein (CML) activation of NOS. In wild-type Arabidopsis plants, the use of a CaM antagonist prevents NO generation and the HR. Application of a CaM antagonist does not prevent pathogen-induced cytosolic Ca(2+) elevation, excluding the possibility of CaM acting upstream from Ca(2+). The CaM antagonist and Ca(2+) chelation abolish NO generation in wild-type Arabidopsis leaf protein extracts as well, suggesting that plant NOS activity is Ca(2+)/CaM dependent in vitro. The CaM-like protein CML24 has been previously associated with NO-related phenotypes in Arabidopsis. Here, we find that innate immune response phenotypes (HR and [avirulent] pathogen-induced NO elevation in leaves) are inhibited in loss-of-function cml24-4 mutant plants. Pathogen-associated molecular pattern-mediated NO generation in cells of cml24-4 mutants is impaired as well. Our work suggests that the initial pathogen recognition signal of Ca(2+) influx into the cytosol activates CaM and/or a CML, which then acts to induce downstream NO synthesis as intermediary steps in a pathogen perception signaling cascade, leading to innate immune responses, including the HR.
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- Wei Ma
- Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-4163, USA
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Meyer AJ. The integration of glutathione homeostasis and redox signaling. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 165:1390-403. [PMID: 18171593 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2007.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2007] [Revised: 10/10/2007] [Accepted: 10/11/2007] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a common feature of abiotic and biotic stress reactions. ROS need to be detoxified to avoid deleterious reactions, but at the same time, the increased formation of ROS can also be exploited for redox signaling. Glutathione, as the most abundant low-molecular weight thiol in the cellular redox system, is used for both detoxification of ROS and transmission of redox signals. Detoxification of H(2)O(2) through the glutathione-ascorbate cycle leads to a transient change in the degree of oxidation of the cellular glutathione pool, and thus a change in the glutathione redox potential. The shift in the glutathione redox potential can be sensed by glutaredoxins (GRXs), small ubiquitous oxidoreductases, which reversibly transfer electrons between the glutathione redox buffer and thiol groups of target proteins. While very little is known about native GRX target proteins and their behavior in vivo, it is shown here that reduction-oxidation-sensitive GFP (roGFP), when expressed in plants, is an artificial target protein of GRXs. The specific interaction of roGFP with GRX results in continuous formation and release of the roGFP disulfide bridge depending on the actual redox potential of the cellular glutathione buffer. Ratiometric analysis of redox-dependent fluorescence allows dynamic imaging of the glutathione redox potential. It was hypothesized that a similar equilibration occurs between the glutathione buffer and native target proteins of GRXs. As a consequence, even minor deviations in the glutathione redox potential due to either depletion of reduced glutathione (GSH) or increasing oxidation can be exploited for fine tuning the activity of target proteins. The integration of the glutathione buffer with redox-active target proteins is a local reaction in specific subcellular compartments. This observation emphasizes the importance of subcellular compartmentalization in understanding the biology of the cellular redox system in plants.
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- Andreas J Meyer
- Heidelberg Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Nitric oxide as a signaling factor to upregulate the death-specific protein in a marine diatom, Skeletonema costatum, during blockage of electron flow in photosynthesis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2008; 74:6521-7. [PMID: 18776028 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01481-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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To determine the physiological functions of a novel death-specific protein gene, Skeletonema costatum DSP-1 (ScDSP-1) in a marine diatom, Skeletonema costatum, the mRNA abundance of ScDSP-1 was measured in cultures subjected to light manipulation and treatments with various chemicals. When cells were transferred to a dim light intensity of 15 micromol m(-2) s(-1), ScDSP-1 mRNA levels showed a transient increase of 1 to 17.2 micromol (mol 18S rRNA)(-1) in 60 h. Furthermore, treatments with the photoinhibitors 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) and 2,5-dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropyl-p-benzoquinone (DBMIB) resulted in high ScDSP-1 mRNA levels, which reached 943 and 72 micromol (mol 18S rRNA)(-1), respectively. Treatment with the nitric oxide (NO) donor diethylamine nitric oxide also induced ScDSP-1 expression, and this inducible expression was inhibited by the NO scavenger hemoglobin. Additionally, the expression of ScDSP-1 mRNA elicited by DCMU and DBMIB was efficiently reduced when cultures were pretreated with the cell-penetrating NO scavenger 2-(4-carboxyphenyl)-4,5-dihydro-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide. In contrast, treatment with another photoinhibitor, paraquat, had no effect on ScDSP-1 expression. Our results indicated that NO is the crucial secondary messenger which signals the expression of ScDSP-1 when electron flow between photosystem II and photosystem I is blocked in S. costatum cells. In addition, the discovery of a similar gene, ScDSP-2, is briefly described.
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Li QY, Niu HB, Yin J, Wang MB, Shao HB, Deng DZ, Chen XX, Ren JP, Li YC. Protective role of exogenous nitric oxide against oxidative-stress induced by salt stress in barley (Hordeum vulgare). Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2008; 65:220-5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2008.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2008] [Revised: 04/08/2008] [Accepted: 04/11/2008] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Nagata M, Murakami EI, Shimoda Y, Shimoda-Sasakura F, Kucho KI, Suzuki A, Abe M, Higashi S, Uchiumi T. Expression of a class 1 hemoglobin gene and production of nitric oxide in response to symbiotic and pathogenic bacteria in Lotus japonicus. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2008; 21:1175-83. [PMID: 18700822 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-21-9-1175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Symbiotic nitrogen fixation by the collaboration between leguminous plants and rhizobia is an important system in the global nitrogen cycle, and some molecular aspects during the early stage of host-symbiont recognition have been revealed. To understand the responses of a host plant against various bacteria, we examined expression of hemoglobin (Hb) genes and production of nitric oxide (NO) in Lotus japonicus after inoculation with rhizobia or plant pathogens. When the symbiotic rhizobium Mesorhizobium loti was inoculated, expression of LjHb1 and NO production were induced transiently in the roots at 4 h after inoculation. In contrast, inoculation with the nonsymbiotic rhizobia Sinorhizobium meliloti and Bradyrhizobium japonicum induced neither expression of LjHb1 nor NO production. When L. japonicus was inoculated with plant pathogens (Ralstonia solanacearum or Pseudomonas syringae), continuous NO production was observed in roots but induction of LjHb1 did not occur. These results suggest that modulation of NO levels and expression of class 1 Hb are involved in the establishment of the symbiosis.
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- Maki Nagata
- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
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Thompson SEM, Taylor AR, Brownlee C, Callow ME, Callow JA. THE ROLE OF NITRIC OXIDE IN DIATOM ADHESION IN RELATION TO SUBSTRATUM PROPERTIES(1). JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2008; 44:967-976. [PMID: 27041615 DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00531.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Adhesion of raphid diatoms to surfaces, mediated by the secretion of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), is an important strategy for growth and survival. Diatom biofilms are also important in the context of biofouling. Diatoms exhibit selectivity in adhering to surfaces, but little is understood about how they perceive the properties of a substratum and translate that perception into altered adhesion properties. In this study, we demonstrate that Seminavis robusta Danielidis et D. G. Mann, like many other pennate diatoms, adheres more strongly to hydrophobic surfaces (such as silicone elastomer foul-release coatings) than to hydrophilic surfaces. To explore the cellular mechanisms that may underlie this selectivity, we tested the hypothesis that diatoms may perceive a hydrophilic surface as unconducive to adhesion through a form of stress response involving nitric oxide (NO) production. Single-cell imaging with the fluorescent indicator DAF-FM DA (4-amino-5-methylamino-2',7'-difluorofluorescein diacetate), revealed NO levels that were 4-fold higher in cells adhered to a hydrophilic surface (acid-washed glass) compared with a hydrophobic surface (polydimethylsiloxane elastomer, PDMSE). Elevated levels of NO caused by the addition of the NO donor S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) did not affect growth, but cells showed reduced adhesion strength to both glass and PDMSE. Addition of the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor NG-monomethyl-l-arginine (NMMA) caused a small but significant increase in adhesion strength. Overall, the results suggest that NO acts as a signal of the wettability properties of substrata for Seminavis.
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- Stephanie E M Thompson
- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UKMarine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UKSchool of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UKMarine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UKSchool of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UKMarine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UKSchool of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UKMarine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UKSchool of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UKMarine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UKSchool of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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Besson-Bard A, Griveau S, Bedioui F, Wendehenne D. Real-time electrochemical detection of extracellular nitric oxide in tobacco cells exposed to cryptogein, an elicitor of defence responses. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2008; 59:3407-14. [PMID: 18653691 PMCID: PMC2529233 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2008] [Accepted: 06/25/2008] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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It was previously reported that cryptogein, an elicitor of defence responses, induces an intracellular production of nitric oxide (NO) in tobacco. Here, the possibility was explored that cryptogein might also trigger an increase of NO extracellular content through two distinct approaches, an indirect method using the NO probe 4,5-diaminofluorescein (DAF-2) and an electrochemical method involving a chemically modified microelectrode probing free NO in biological media. While the chemical nature of DAF-2-reactive compound(s) is still uncertain, the electrochemical modified microelectrodes provide real-time evidence that cryptogein induces an increase of extracellular NO. Direct measurement of free extracellular NO might offer important new insights into its role in plants challenged by biotic stresses.
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- Angélique Besson-Bard
- UMR INRA 1088/CNRS 5184/Université de Bourgogne, Plante-Microbe-Environnement, BP 86510, 17 rue Sully, 21000 Dijon, France
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- CNRS, UMR 8151, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, INSERM, U640, University Paris Descartes. ENSCP, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
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- CNRS, UMR 8151, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, INSERM, U640, University Paris Descartes. ENSCP, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
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- UMR INRA 1088/CNRS 5184/Université de Bourgogne, Plante-Microbe-Environnement, BP 86510, 17 rue Sully, 21000 Dijon, France
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Seligman K, Saviani EE, Oliveira HC, Pinto-Maglio CAF, Salgado I. Floral transition and nitric oxide emission during flower development in Arabidopsis thaliana is affected in nitrate reductase-deficient plants. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 49:1112-21. [PMID: 18540030 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcn089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The nitrate reductase (NR)-defective double mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (nia1 nia2) has previously been shown to present a low endogenous content of NO in its leaves compared with the wild-type plants. In the present study, we analyzed the effect of NR mutation on floral induction and development of A. thaliana, as NO was recently described as one of the signals involved in the flowering process. The NO fluorescent probes diaminofluorescein-2 diacetate (DAF-2DA) and 1,2-diaminoanthraquinone (1,2-DAA) were used to localize NO production in situ by fluorescence microscopy in the floral structures of A. thaliana during floral development. Data were validated by incubating the intact tissues with DAF-2 and quantifying the DAF-2 triazole by fluorescence spectrometry. The results showed that NO is synthesized in specific cells and tissues in the floral structure and its production increases with floral development until anthesis. In the gynoecium, NO synthesis occurs only in differentiated stigmatic papillae of the floral bud, and, in the stamen, only anthers that are producing pollen grains synthesize NO. Sepals and petals do not show NO production. NR-deficient plants emitted less NO, although they showed the same pattern of NO emission in their floral organs. This mutant blossomed precociously when compared with wild-type plants, as measured by the increased caulinar/rosette leaf number and the decrease in the number of days to bolting and anthesis, and this phenotype seems to result from the markedly reduced NO levels in roots and leaves during vegetative growth. Overall, the results reveal a role for NR in the flowering process.
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- K Seligman
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, CP 6109, Universidade Estadual de Campinas-UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brasil
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Stulemeijer IJE, Joosten MHAJ. Post-translational modification of host proteins in pathogen-triggered defence signalling in plants. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2008; 9:545-60. [PMID: 18705867 PMCID: PMC6640405 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2008.00468.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Microbial plant pathogens impose a continuous threat to global food production. Similar to animals, an innate immune system allows plants to recognize pathogens and swiftly activate defence. To activate a rapid response, receptor-mediated pathogen perception and subsequent downstream signalling depends on post-translational modification (PTM) of components essential for defence signalling. We discuss different types of PTMs that play a role in mounting plant immunity, which include phosphorylation, glycosylation, ubiquitination, sumoylation, nitrosylation, myristoylation, palmitoylation and glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchoring. PTMs are rapid, reversible, controlled and highly specific, and provide a tool to regulate protein stability, activity and localization. Here, we give an overview of PTMs that modify components essential for defence signalling at the site of signal perception, during secondary messenger production and during signalling in the cytoplasm. In addition, we discuss effectors from pathogens that suppress plant defence responses by interfering with host PTMs.
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- Iris J E Stulemeijer
- Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Ferrarini A, De Stefano M, Baudouin E, Pucciariello C, Polverari A, Puppo A, Delledonne M. Expression of Medicago truncatula genes responsive to nitric oxide in pathogenic and symbiotic conditions. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2008; 21:781-90. [PMID: 18624641 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-21-6-0781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is involved in diverse physiological processes in plants, including growth, development, response to pathogens, and interactions with beneficial microorganisms. In this work, a dedicated microarray representing the widest database available of NO-related transcripts in plants has been produced with 999 genes identified by a cDNA amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis as modulated in Medicago truncatula roots treated with two NO donors. The microarray then was used to monitor the expression of NO-responsive genes in M. truncatula during the incompatible interaction with the foliar pathogen Colletotrichum trifolii race 1 and during the symbiotic interaction with Sinorhizobium meliloti 1,021. A wide modulation of NO-related genes has been detected during the hypersensitive reaction or during nodule formation and is discussed with special emphasis on the physiological relevance of these genes in the context of the two biotic interactions. This work clearly shows that NO-responsive genes behave differently depending on the plant organ and on the type of interaction, strengthening the need to consider regulatory networks, including different signaling molecules.
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- Alberto Ferrarini
- Dipartimento Scientifico e Tecnologico, Università degli Studi di Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy
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Borges RM. Plasticity comparisons between plants and animals: Concepts and mechanisms. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2008; 3:367-75. [PMID: 19513224 PMCID: PMC2634305 DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.6.5823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2008] [Accepted: 03/03/2008] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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This review attempts to present an integrated update of the issue of comparisons of phenotypic plasticity between plants and animals by presenting the problem and its integrated solutions via a whole-organism perspective within an evolutionary framework. Plants and animals differ in two important aspects: mobility and longevity. These features can have important implications for plasticity, and plasticity may even have facilitated greater longevity in plants. Furthermore, somatic genetic mosaicism, intra-organismal selection, and genomic instability contribute to the maintenance of an adaptive phenotype that is especially relevant to long-lived plants. It is contended that a cross-kingdom phylogenetic examination of sensors, messengers and responses that constitute the plasticity repertoire would be more useful than dichotomizing the plant and animal kingdoms. Furthermore, physicochemical factors must be viewed cohesively in the signal reception and transduction pathways leading to plastic responses. Comparison of unitary versus modular organisms could also provide useful insights into the range of expected plastic responses. An integrated approach that combines evolutionary theory and evolutionary history with signal-response mechanisms will yield the most insights into phenotypic plasticity in all its forms.
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- Renee M Borges
- Centre for Ecological Sciences; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore, India
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Malerba M, Contran N, Tonelli M, Crosti P, Cerana R. Role of nitric oxide in actin depolymerization and programmed cell death induced by fusicoccin in sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) cultured cells. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2008; 133:449-57. [PMID: 18346076 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2008.01085.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Programmed cell death (PCD) plays a vital role in plant development and is involved in defence mechanisms against biotic and abiotic stresses. Different forms of PCD have been described in plants on the basis of the cell organelle first involved. In sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) cultured cells, the phytotoxin fusicoccin (FC) induces cell death. However, only a fraction of the dead cells shows the typical hallmarks of animal apoptosis, including cell shrinkage, chromatin condensation, DNA fragmentation and release of cytochrome c from the mitochondrion. In this work, we show that the scavenging of nitric oxide (NO), produced in the presence of FC, by 2-(4-carboxyphenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide (cPTIO) and rutin inhibits cell death without affecting DNA fragmentation and cytochrome c release. In addition, we show that FC induces a massive depolymerization of actin filaments that is prevented by the NO scavengers. Finally, the addition of actin-depolymerizing drugs induces PCD in control cells and overcomes the inhibiting effect of cPTIO on FC-induced cell death. Vice versa, the addition of actin-stabilizing drugs to FC-treated cells partially inhibits the phytotoxin-induced PCD. These results suggest that besides an apoptotic-like form of PCD involving the release of cytochrome c, FC induces at least another form of cell death, likely mediated by NO and independent of cytochrome c release, and they make it tempting to speculate that changes in actin cytoskeleton are involved in this form of PCD.
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- Massimo Malerba
- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza, 20126 Milano, Italy.
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Romero-Puertas MC, Campostrini N, Mattè A, Righetti PG, Perazzolli M, Zolla L, Roepstorff P, Delledonne M. Proteomic analysis of S-nitrosylated proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana undergoing hypersensitive response. Proteomics 2008; 8:1459-69. [PMID: 18297659 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200700536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 221] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) has a fundamental role in the plant hypersensitive disease resistance response (HR), and S-nitrosylation is emerging as an important mechanism for the transduction of its bioactivity. A key step toward elucidating the mechanisms by which NO functions during the HR is the identification of the proteins that are subjected to this PTM. By using a proteomic approach involving 2-DE and MS we characterized, for the first time, changes in S-nitrosylated proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana undergoing HR. The 16 S-nitrosylated proteins identified are mostly enzymes serving intermediary metabolism, signaling and antioxidant defense. The study of the effects of S-nitrosylation on the activity of the identified proteins and its role during the execution of the disease resistance response will help to understand S-nitrosylation function and significance in plants.
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Lazar EE, Wills RBH, Ho BT, Harris AM, Spohr LJ. Antifungal effect of gaseous nitric oxide on mycelium growth, sporulation and spore germination of the postharvest horticulture pathogens, Aspergillus niger, Monilinia fructicola and Penicillium italicum. Lett Appl Microbiol 2008; 46:688-92. [PMID: 18444976 DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765x.2008.02373.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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AIM To evaluate the antifungal activity of nitric oxide (NO) against the growth of the postharvest horticulture pathogens Aspergillus niger, Monilinia fructicola and Penicillium italicum under in vitro conditions. METHODS AND RESULTS Different volumes of NO gas were injected into the Petri dish headspace to obtain the desired concentrations of 50-500 microl l(-1). The growth of the fungi was measured for 8 days of incubation in air at 25 degrees C. All concentrations of NO were found to produce an antifungal effect on spore germination, sporulation and mycelial growth of the three fungi, with the most effective concentration for A. niger and P. italicum being 100 and 500 microl l(-1) for M. fructicola. CONCLUSIONS Short-term exposure to a low concentration of NO gas was able to inhibit the subsequent growth of A. niger, M. fructicola and P. italicum. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY NO gas has potential use as a natural fungicide to inhibit microbial growth on postharvest fruit and vegetables.
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- E E Lazar
- Gosford Horticultural Institute, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Gosford, NSW, Australia.
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Abat JK, Mattoo AK, Deswal R. S-nitrosylated proteins of a medicinal CAM plant Kalanchoe pinnata- ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase activity targeted for inhibition. FEBS J 2008; 275:2862-72. [PMID: 18445036 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06425.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is a signaling molecule that affects a myriad of processes in plants. However, the mechanistic details are limited. NO post-translationally modifies proteins by S-nitrosylation of cysteines. The soluble S-nitrosoproteome of a medicinal, crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plant, Kalanchoe pinnata, was purified using the biotin switch technique. Nineteen targets were identified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, including proteins associated with carbon, nitrogen and sulfur metabolism, the cytoskeleton, stress and photosynthesis. Some were similar to those previously identified in Arabidopsis thaliana, but kinesin-like protein, glycolate oxidase, putative UDP glucose 4-epimerase and putative DNA topoisomerase II had not been identified as targets previously for any organism. In vitro and in vivo nitrosylation of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco), one of the targets, was confirmed by immunoblotting. Rubisco plays a central role in photosynthesis, and the effect of S-nitrosylation on its enzymatic activity was determined using NaH14CO3. The NO-releasing compound S-nitrosoglutathione inhibited its activity in a dose-dependent manner suggesting Rubisco inactivation by nitrosylation for the first time.
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- Jasmeet K Abat
- Department of Botany, Plant Molecular Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, University of Delhi, India
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Song XG, She XP, Zhang B. Carbon monoxide-induced stomatal closure in Vicia faba is dependent on nitric oxide synthesis. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2008; 132:514-25. [PMID: 18334004 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2007.01026.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
Abstract
Recently, in animals, carbon monoxide (CO), like nitric oxide (NO), was implicated as another important physiological messenger or bioactive molecule. Previous researches indicate that heme oxygenase (HO)-1 (EC 1.14.99.3) catalyzes the oxidative conversion of heme to CO and biliverdin IXa (BV) with the concomitant release of iron. However, little is known about the physiological roles of CO in plant, especially in stomatal movement of guard cells. In the present paper, the regulatory role of CO during stomatal movement in Vicia faba was surveyed. Results indicated that, like sodium nitroprusside (SNP), CO donor hematin induced stomatal closure in dose- and time-dependent manners. These responses were also proved by the addition of gaseous CO aqueous solution with different concentrations, showing for the first time that CO and NO exhibit similar regulation role in the stomatal movement. Moreover, our data showed that 2,4-carboxyphenyl-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide (cPTIO)/N(G)-nitro-L-arginine-methyl ester (L-NAME) not only reversed stomatal closure by CO, but also suppressed the NO fluorescence induced by CO, implying that CO-induced stomatal closure probably involves NO/nitric oxide synthase (NOS) signal system. Additionally, the CO/NO scavenger hemoglobin (Hb) and CO-specific synthetic inhibitor zinc protoporphyrin IX (ZnPPIX), NO scavenger cPTIO and NOS inhibitor L-NAME reversed the darkness-induced stomatal closure and NO fluorescence. These results show that, maybe like NO, the levels of CO in guard cells of V. faba is higher in dark than that in light, HO-1 and NOS are the enzyme systems responsible for generating endogenous CO and NO in darkness, respectively, and that CO being from HO-1 mediates darkness-induced NO synthesis in guard cells' stomatal closure of V. faba.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xi-Gui Song
- School of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China
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