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Sun AZ, Guo FQ. Chloroplast Retrograde Regulation of Heat Stress Responses in Plants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:398. [PMID: 27066042 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00398/full] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2015] [Accepted: 03/14/2016] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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It is well known that intracellular signaling from chloroplast to nucleus plays a vital role in stress responses to survive environmental perturbations. The chloroplasts were proposed as sensors to heat stress since components of the photosynthetic apparatus housed in the chloroplast are the major targets of thermal damage in plants. Thus, communicating subcellular perturbations to the nucleus is critical during exposure to extreme environmental conditions such as heat stress. By coordinating expression of stress specific nuclear genes essential for adaptive responses to hostile environment, plants optimize different cell functions and activate acclimation responses through retrograde signaling pathways. The efficient communication between plastids and the nucleus is highly required for such diverse metabolic and biosynthetic functions during adaptation processes to environmental stresses. In recent years, several putative retrograde signals released from plastids that regulate nuclear genes have been identified and signaling pathways have been proposed. In this review, we provide an update on retrograde signals derived from tetrapyrroles, carotenoids, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and organellar gene expression (OGE) in the context of heat stress responses and address their roles in retrograde regulation of heat-responsive gene expression, systemic acquired acclimation, and cellular coordination in plants.
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- Ai-Zhen Sun
- The National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Shanghai) and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, China
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- The National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Shanghai) and CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, China
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Kleine T, Leister D. Retrograde signaling: Organelles go networking. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2016; 1857:1313-1325. [PMID: 26997501 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2016.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2015] [Revised: 03/09/2016] [Accepted: 03/14/2016] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The term retrograde signaling refers to the fact that chloroplasts and mitochondria utilize specific signaling molecules to convey information on their developmental and physiological states to the nucleus and modulate the expression of nuclear genes accordingly. Signals emanating from plastids have been associated with two main networks: 'Biogenic control' is active during early stages of chloroplast development, while 'operational' control functions in response to environmental fluctuations. Early work focused on the former and its major players, the GUN proteins. However, our view of retrograde signaling has since been extended and revised. Elements of several 'operational' signaling circuits have come to light, including metabolites, signaling cascades in the cytosol and transcription factors. Here, we review recent advances in the identification and characterization of retrograde signaling components. We place particular emphasis on the strategies employed to define signaling components, spanning the entire spectrum of genetic screens, metabolite profiling and bioinformatics. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled 'EBEC 2016: 19th European Bioenergetics Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 2-6, 2016', edited by Prof. Paolo Bernardi.
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- Tatjana Kleine
- Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Department Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Department Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany; Copenhagen Plant Science Centre (CPSC), Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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Garcia L, Welchen E, Gey U, Arce AL, Steinebrunner I, Gonzalez DH. The cytochrome c oxidase biogenesis factor AtCOX17 modulates stress responses in Arabidopsis. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2016; 39:628-44. [PMID: 26436309 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2015] [Accepted: 09/22/2015] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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COX17 is a soluble protein from the mitochondrial intermembrane space that participates in the transfer of copper for cytochrome c oxidase (COX) assembly in eukaryotic organisms. In this work, we studied the function of both Arabidopsis thaliana AtCOX17 genes using plants with altered expression levels of these genes. Silencing of AtCOX17-1 in a cox17-2 knockout background generates plants with smaller rosettes and decreased expression of genes involved in the response of plants to different stress conditions, including several genes that are induced by mitochondrial dysfunctions. Silencing of either of the AtCOX17 genes does not affect plant development or COX activity but causes a decrease in the response of genes to salt stress. In addition, these plants contain higher reactive oxygen and lipid peroxidation levels after irrigation with high NaCl concentrations and are less sensitive to abscisic acid. In agreement with a role of AtCOX17 in stress and abscisic acid responses, both AtCOX17 genes are induced by several stress conditions, abscisic acid and mutation of the transcription factor ABI4. The results indicate that AtCOX17 is required for optimal expression of a group of stress-responsive genes, probably as a component of signalling pathways that link stress conditions to gene expression responses.
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- Lucila Garcia
- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Cátedra de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Cátedra de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Technische Universität Dresden, Department of Biology, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Cátedra de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Technische Universität Dresden, Department of Biology, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Cátedra de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Voesenek LACJ, Sasidharan R, Visser EJW, Bailey-Serres J. Flooding stress signaling through perturbations in oxygen, ethylene, nitric oxide and light. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 209:39-43. [PMID: 26625347 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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- Laurentius A C J Voesenek
- Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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Mathew IE, Das S, Mahto A, Agarwal P. Three Rice NAC Transcription Factors Heteromerize and Are Associated with Seed Size. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1638. [PMID: 27872632 PMCID: PMC5098391 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2016] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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NACs are plant-specific transcription factors (TFs) involved in multiple aspects of development and stress. In rice, three NAC TF encoding genes, namely ONAC020, ONAC026, and ONAC023 express specifically during seed development, at extremely high levels. They exhibit significantly strong association with seed size/weight with the sequence variations located in the upstream regulatory region. Concomitantly, their expression pattern/levels during seed development vary amongst different accessions with variation in seed size. The alterations in the promoter sequences of the three genes, amongst the five rice accessions, correlate with the expression levels to a certain extent only. In terms of transcriptional properties, the three NAC TFs can activate and/or suppress downstream genes, though to different extents. Only ONAC026 is localized to the nucleus while ONAC020 and ONAC023 are targeted to the ER and cytoplasm, respectively. Interestingly, these two proteins interact with ONAC026 and the dimers localize in the nucleus. Trans-splicing between ONAC020 and ONAC026 results in three additional forms of ONAC020. The transcriptional properties including activation, repression, subcellular localization and heterodimerization of trans-spliced forms of ONAC020 and ONAC026 are different, indicating toward their role as competitors. The analysis presented in this paper helps to conclude that the three NAC genes, which are associated with seed size, have independent as well as overlapping roles during the process and can be exploited as potential targets for crop improvement.
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Xu E, Vaahtera L, Brosché M. Roles of Defense Hormones in the Regulation of Ozone-Induced Changes in Gene Expression and Cell Death. MOLECULAR PLANT 2015; 8:1776-94. [PMID: 26348016 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2015.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2015] [Revised: 07/07/2015] [Accepted: 08/18/2015] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Apoplast, the diffusional space between plant cell plasma membranes, is an important medium for signaling within and between the cells. Apoplastic reactive oxygen species (ROS) are crucial signaling molecules in various biological processes. ROS signaling is interconnected with the response to several hormones, including jasmonic acid (JA), salicylic acid (SA) and ethylene. Using ozone (O3) to activate apoplastic ROS signaling, we performed global and targeted analysis of transcriptional changes and cell death assays to dissect the contribution of hormone signaling and various transcription factors (TFs) in the regulation of gene expression and cell death. The contributions of SA, JA, and ethylene were assessed through analysis of single, double, and triple mutants deficient in biosynthesis or signaling for all three hormones. Even in the triple mutant, the global gene expression responses to O3 were mostly similar to the wild-type. Cell death in the JA receptor mutant coi1-16 was suppressed by impairment of the NADPH oxidase RBOHF, suggesting a role for a ROS signal in limiting the spread of cell death. In response to apoplastic ROS, there is not a single signaling pathway that regulates gene expression or cell death. Instead, several pathways regulate the apoplastic ROS response via combinatorial or overlapping mechanisms.
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- Enjun Xu
- Division of Plant Biology, Department of Biosciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65 Viikinkaari 1, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Plant Biology, Department of Biosciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65 Viikinkaari 1, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Plant Biology, Department of Biosciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65 Viikinkaari 1, 00014 Helsinki, Finland; Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Nooruse 1, Tartu 50411, Estonia.
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Comparative Genomics of NAC Transcriptional Factors in Angiosperms: Implications for the Adaptation and Diversification of Flowering Plants. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0141866. [PMID: 26569117 PMCID: PMC4646352 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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NAC proteins constitute one of the largest groups of plant-specific transcription factors and are known to play essential roles in various developmental processes. They are also important in plant responses to stresses such as drought, soil salinity, cold, and heat, which adversely affect growth. The current knowledge regarding the distribution of NAC proteins in plant lineages comes from relatively small samplings from the available data. In the present study, we broadened the number of plant species containing the NAC family origin and evolution to shed new light on the evolutionary history of this family in angiosperms. A comparative genome analysis was performed on 24 land plant species, and NAC ortholog groups were identified by means of bidirectional BLAST hits. Large NAC gene families are found in those species that have experienced more whole-genome duplication events, pointing to an expansion of the NAC family with divergent functions in flowering plants. A total of 3,187 NAC transcription factors that clustered into six major groups were used in the phylogenetic analysis. Many orthologous groups were found in the monocot and eudicot lineages, but only five orthologous groups were found between P. patens and each representative taxa of flowering plants. These groups were called basal orthologous groups and likely expanded into more recent taxa to cope with their environmental needs. This analysis on the angiosperm NAC family represents an effort to grasp the evolutionary and functional diversity within this gene family while providing a basis for further functional research on vascular plant gene families.
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Unraveling the evolution and regulation of the alternative oxidase gene family in plants. Dev Genes Evol 2015; 225:331-9. [DOI: 10.1007/s00427-015-0515-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2015] [Accepted: 08/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Yao X, Li J, Liu J, Liu K. An Arabidopsis mitochondria-localized RRL protein mediates abscisic acid signal transduction through mitochondrial retrograde regulation involving ABI4. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2015; 66:6431-45. [PMID: 26163700 PMCID: PMC4588890 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erv356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The molecular mechanisms of abscisic acid (ABA) signalling have been studied for many years; however, how mitochondria-localized proteins play roles in ABA signalling remains unclear. Here an Arabidopsis mitochondria-localized protein RRL (RETARDED ROOT GROWTH-LIKE) was shown to function in ABA signalling. A previous study had revealed that the Arabidopsis mitochondria-localized protein RRG (RETARDED ROOT GROWTH) is required for cell division in the root meristem. RRL shares 54% and 57% identity at the nucleotide and amino acid sequences, respectively, with RRG; nevertheless, RRL shows a different function in Arabidopsis. In this study, disruption of RRL decreased ABA sensitivity whereas overexpression of RRL increased ABA sensitivity during seed germination and seedling growth. High expression levels of RRL were found in germinating seeds and developing seedlings, as revealed by β-glucuronidase (GUS) staining of ProRRL-GUS transgenic lines. The analyses of the structure and function of mitochondria in the knockout rrl mutant showed that the disruption of RRL causes extensively internally vacuolated mitochondria and reduced ABA-stimulated reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. Previous studies have revealed that the expression of alternative oxidase (AOX) in the alternative respiratory pathway is increased by mitochondrial retrograde regulation to regain ROS levels when the mitochondrial electron transport chain is impaired. The APETALA2 (AP2)-type transcription factor ABI4 is a regulator of ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE1a (AOX1a) in mitochondrial retrograde signalling. This study showed that ABA-induced AOX1a and ABI4 expression was inhibited in the rrl mutant, suggesting that RRL is probably involved in ABI4-mediated mitochondrial retrograde signalling. Furthermore, the results revealed that ABI4 is a downstream regulatory factor in RRL-mediated ABA signalling in seed germination and seedling growth.
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- Xuan Yao
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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Rogov AG, Sukhanova EI, Uralskaya LA, Aliverdieva DA, Zvyagilskaya RA. Alternative oxidase: distribution, induction, properties, structure, regulation, and functions. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2015; 79:1615-34. [PMID: 25749168 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297914130112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The respiratory chain in the majority of organisms with aerobic type metabolism features the concomitant existence of the phosphorylating cytochrome pathway and the cyanide- and antimycin A-insensitive oxidative route comprising a so-called alternative oxidase (AOX) as a terminal oxidase. In this review, the history of AOX discovery is described. Considerable evidence is presented that AOX occurs widely in organisms at various levels of organization and is not confined to the plant kingdom. This enzyme has not been found only in Archaea, mammals, some yeasts and protists. Bioinformatics research revealed the sequences characteristic of AOX in representatives of various taxonomic groups. Based on multiple alignments of these sequences, a phylogenetic tree was constructed to infer their possible evolution. The ways of AOX activation, as well as regulatory interactions between AOX and the main respiratory chain are described. Data are summarized concerning the properties of AOX and the AOX-encoding genes whose expression is either constitutive or induced by various factors. Information is presented on the structure of AOX, its active center, and the ubiquinone-binding site. The principal functions of AOX are analyzed, including the cases of cell survival, optimization of respiratory metabolism, protection against excess of reactive oxygen species, and adaptation to variable nutrition sources and to biotic and abiotic stress factors. It is emphasized that different AOX functions complement each other in many instances and are not mutually exclusive. Examples are given to demonstrate that AOX is an important tool to overcome the adverse aftereffects of restricted activity of the main respiratory chain in cells and whole animals. This is the first comprehensive review on alternative oxidases of various organisms ranging from yeasts and protists to vascular plants.
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- A G Rogov
- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071, Russia.
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Liang M, Li H, Zhou F, Li H, Liu J, Hao Y, Wang Y, Zhao H, Han S. Subcellular Distribution of NTL Transcription Factors inArabidopsis thaliana. Traffic 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/tra.12311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Mingwei Liang
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Gene Resource and Molecular Development, College of Life Sciences; Beijing Normal University; Beijing 100875 China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Gene Resource and Molecular Development, College of Life Sciences; Beijing Normal University; Beijing 100875 China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Gene Resource and Molecular Development, College of Life Sciences; Beijing Normal University; Beijing 100875 China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Gene Resource and Molecular Development, College of Life Sciences; Beijing Normal University; Beijing 100875 China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Gene Resource and Molecular Development, College of Life Sciences; Beijing Normal University; Beijing 100875 China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Gene Resource and Molecular Development, College of Life Sciences; Beijing Normal University; Beijing 100875 China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Gene Resource and Molecular Development, College of Life Sciences; Beijing Normal University; Beijing 100875 China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Gene Resource and Molecular Development, College of Life Sciences; Beijing Normal University; Beijing 100875 China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Gene Resource and Molecular Development, College of Life Sciences; Beijing Normal University; Beijing 100875 China
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Pu X, Lv X, Tan T, Fu F, Qin G, Lin H. Roles of mitochondrial energy dissipation systems in plant development and acclimation to stress. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2015; 116:583-600. [PMID: 25987710 PMCID: PMC4577992 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcv063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2014] [Revised: 02/16/2015] [Accepted: 03/27/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Plants are sessile organisms that have the ability to integrate external cues into metabolic and developmental signals. The cues initiate specific signal cascades that can enhance the tolerance of plants to stress, and these mechanisms are crucial to the survival and fitness of plants. The adaption of plants to stresses is a complex process that involves decoding stress inputs as energy-deficiency signals. The process functions through vast metabolic and/or transcriptional reprogramming to re-establish the cellular energy balance. Members of the mitochondrial energy dissipation pathway (MEDP), alternative oxidases (AOXs) and uncoupling proteins (UCPs), act as energy mediators and might play crucial roles in the adaption of plants to stresses. However, their roles in plant growth and development have been relatively less explored. SCOPE This review summarizes current knowledge about the role of members of the MEDP in plant development as well as recent advances in identifying molecular components that regulate the expression of AOXs and UCPs. Highlighted in particular is a comparative analysis of the expression, regulation and stress responses between AOXs and UCPs when plants are exposed to stresses, and a possible signal cross-talk that orchestrates the MEDP, reactive oxygen species (ROS), calcium signalling and hormone signalling. CONCLUSIONS The MEDP might act as a cellular energy/metabolic mediator that integrates ROS signalling, energy signalling and hormone signalling with plant development and stress accumulation. However, the regulation of MEDP members is complex and occurs at transcriptional, translational, post-translational and metabolic levels. How this regulation is linked to actual fluxes through the AOX/UCP in vivo remains elusive.
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- Xiaojun Pu
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource & Eco-Environment and Plant Physiology Laboratory, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource & Eco-Environment and Plant Physiology Laboratory, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource & Eco-Environment and Plant Physiology Laboratory, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource & Eco-Environment and Plant Physiology Laboratory, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource & Eco-Environment and Plant Physiology Laboratory, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-Resource & Eco-Environment and Plant Physiology Laboratory, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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Hu W, Wei Y, Xia Z, Yan Y, Hou X, Zou M, Lu C, Wang W, Peng M. Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of the NAC Transcription Factor Family in Cassava. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0136993. [PMID: 26317631 PMCID: PMC4552662 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2015] [Accepted: 08/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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NAC [no apical meristem (NAM), Arabidopsis transcription activation factor [ATAF1/2] and cup-shaped cotyledon (CUC2)] proteins is one of the largest groups of plant specific transcription factors and plays a crucial role in plant growth, development, and adaption to the environment. Currently, no information is known about the NAC family in cassava. In this study, 96 NAC genes (MeNACs) were identified from the cassava genome. Phylogenetic analysis of the NACs from cassava and Arabidopsis showed that MeNAC proteins can be clustered into 16 subgroups. Gene structure analysis found that the number of introns of MeNAC genes varied from 0 to 5, with the majority of MeNAC genes containing two introns, indicating a small gene structure diversity of cassava NAC genes. Conserved motif analysis revealed that all of the identified MeNACs had the conserved NAC domain and/or NAM domain. Global expression analysis suggested that MeNAC genes exhibited different expression profiles in different tissues between wild subspecies and cultivated varieties, indicating their involvement in the functional diversity of different accessions. Transcriptome analysis demonstrated that MeNACs had a widely transcriptional response to drought stress and that they had differential expression profiles in different accessions, implying their contribution to drought stress resistance in cassava. Finally, the expression of twelve MeNAC genes was analyzed under osmotic, salt, cold, ABA, and H2O2 treatments, indicating that cassava NACs may represent convergence points of different signaling pathways. Taken together, this work found some excellent tissue-specific and abiotic stress-responsive candidate MeNAC genes, which would provide a solid foundation for functional investigation of the NAC family, crop improvement and improved understanding of signal transduction in plants. These data bring new insight on the complexity of the transcriptional control of MeNAC genes and support the hypothesis that NACs play an important role in plant growth, development, and adaption of environment.
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- Wei Hu
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Xueyuan Road 4, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, People’s Republic of China
- * E-mail: (WH); (WQW); (MP)
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Xueyuan Road 4, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Xueyuan Road 4, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Xueyuan Road 4, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Xueyuan Road 4, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Xueyuan Road 4, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Xueyuan Road 4, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Xueyuan Road 4, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, People’s Republic of China
- * E-mail: (WH); (WQW); (MP)
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Xueyuan Road 4, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, People’s Republic of China
- * E-mail: (WH); (WQW); (MP)
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Dietzel L, Gläßer C, Liebers M, Hiekel S, Courtois F, Czarnecki O, Schlicke H, Zubo Y, Börner T, Mayer K, Grimm B, Pfannschmidt T. Identification of Early Nuclear Target Genes of Plastidial Redox Signals that Trigger the Long-Term Response of Arabidopsis to Light Quality Shifts. MOLECULAR PLANT 2015; 8:1237-52. [PMID: 25778986 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2015.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2014] [Revised: 03/06/2015] [Accepted: 03/08/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Natural illumination conditions are highly variable and because of their sessile life style, plants are forced to acclimate to them at the cellular and molecular level. Changes in light intensity or quality induce changes in the reduction/oxidation (redox) state of the photosynthetic electron chain that acts as a trigger for compensatory acclimation responses comprising functional and structural adjustments of photosynthesis and metabolism. Such responses include redox-controlled changes in plant gene expression in the nucleus and organelles. Here we describe a strategy for the identification of early redox-regulated genes (ERGs) in the nucleus of the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana that respond significantly 30 or 60 min after the generation of a reduction signal in the photosynthetic electron transport chain. By comparing the response of wild-type plants with that of the acclimation mutant stn7, we could specifically identify ERGs. The results reveal a significant impact of chloroplast redox signals on distinct nuclear gene groups including genes for the mitochondrial electron transport chain, tetrapyrrole biosynthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, and signaling lipid synthesis. These expression profiles are clearly different from those observed in response to the reduction of photosynthetic electron transport by high light treatments. Thus, the ERGs identified are unique to redox imbalances in photosynthetic electron transport and were then used for analyzing potential redox-responsive cis-elements, trans-factors, and chromosomal regulatory hot spots. The data identify a novel redox-responsive element and indicate extensive redox control at transcriptional and chromosomal levels that point to an unprecedented impact of redox signals on epigenetic processes.
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- Lars Dietzel
- Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, 07743 Jena, Germany; Present address: Institut für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Pflanzliche Zellphysiologie, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 9, Biozentrum Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- MIPS/IBI, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Present address: Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie an der Universität zu Heidelberg (ZMBH), Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, 07743 Jena, Germany; Present address: Université Grenoble-Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; Present address: CNRS, UMR5168, F-38054 Grenoble, France; Present address: CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale, F-38054 Grenoble, France; Present address: INRA, USC1359, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, 07743 Jena, Germany; Present address: Plant Reproductive Biology Group, Department of Physiology and Cell-Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), OT Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany
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- Present address: Université Grenoble-Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; Present address: CNRS, UMR5168, F-38054 Grenoble, France; Present address: CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale, F-38054 Grenoble, France; Present address: INRA, USC1359, F-38054 Grenoble, France
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- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, Building 12, 10115 Berlin, Germany; Present address: KWS Saat AG, Grimsehlstrasse 31, 37555 Einbeck, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, Building 12, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Genetics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Chausseestrasse 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany; Present address: Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Center, 78 College Street, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Institute of Biology, Genetics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Chausseestrasse 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- MIPS/IBI, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Plant Physiology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, Building 12, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, 07743 Jena, Germany; Present address: Université Grenoble-Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; Present address: CNRS, UMR5168, F-38054 Grenoble, France; Present address: CEA, iRTSV, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale, F-38054 Grenoble, France; Present address: INRA, USC1359, F-38054 Grenoble, France.
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Zwack PJ, Rashotte AM. Interactions between cytokinin signalling and abiotic stress responses. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2015; 66:4863-71. [PMID: 25911740 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erv172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Plants have evolved elaborate mechanisms for sensing and responding to sub-optimal environmental conditions. Abiotic stresses caused by these conditions trigger a wide range of local and long-distance signals which must be co-ordinated and integrated into whole-plant processes, such as development, in order for the plant to respond properly and survive. Several hormones function as key regulators of stress tolerance, connecting local stimuli to systemic responses. Cytokinin is a hormone well known for its role in numerous aspects of growth and development, although abundant evidence also indicates that cytokinin functions in stress responses as well. At present, a full understanding of the effects of cytokinin on plant resistance to stress is lacking, possibly as a result of the complex interactions between cytokinin and stress signalling. Current knowledge of the physiological relationship between cytokinin and abiotic stress, based on measurements of cytokinin levels under stress conditions and the effects of cytokinin treatment on stress tolerance, has been examined here. A pattern of transcriptional regulation of stress-related genes by cytokinin in different plant species has also been identified. In addition, research regarding the role of specific cytokinin signalling components in a variety of stress responses is presented. We discuss what this body of research collectively implies with regard to cross-talk between cytokinin and abiotic stress tolerance.
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- Paul J Zwack
- 101 Rouse Life Sciences Building, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5407, USA
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- 101 Rouse Life Sciences Building, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5407, USA
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Sakuraba Y, Kim YS, Han SH, Lee BD, Paek NC. The Arabidopsis Transcription Factor NAC016 Promotes Drought Stress Responses by Repressing AREB1 Transcription through a Trifurcate Feed-Forward Regulatory Loop Involving NAP. THE PLANT CELL 2015; 27:1771-87. [PMID: 26059204 PMCID: PMC4498208 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.00222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2015] [Revised: 05/17/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Drought and other abiotic stresses negatively affect plant growth and development and thus reduce productivity. The plant-specific NAM/ATAF1/2/CUC2 (NAC) transcription factors have important roles in abiotic stress-responsive signaling. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana NAC016 is involved in drought stress responses; nac016 mutants have high drought tolerance, and NAC016-overexpressing (NAC016-OX) plants have low drought tolerance. Using genome-wide gene expression microarray analysis and MEME motif searches, we identified the NAC016-specific binding motif (NAC16BM), GATTGGAT[AT]CA, in the promoters of genes downregulated in nac016-1 mutants. The NAC16BM sequence does not contain the core NAC binding motif CACG (or its reverse complement CGTG). NAC016 directly binds to the NAC16BM in the promoter of ABSCISIC ACID-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN1 (AREB1), which encodes a central transcription factor in the stress-responsive abscisic acid signaling pathway and represses AREB1 transcription. We found that knockout mutants of the NAC016 target gene NAC-LIKE, ACTIVATED BY AP3/PI (NAP) also exhibited strong drought tolerance; moreover, NAP binds to the AREB1 promoter and suppresses AREB1 transcription. Taking these results together, we propose that a trifurcate feed-forward pathway involving NAC016, NAP, and AREB1 functions in the drought stress response, in addition to affecting leaf senescence in Arabidopsis.
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- Yasuhito Sakuraba
- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea
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- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea
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- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea
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- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea
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- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea Crop Biotechnology Institute, GreenBio Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang 232-916, Korea
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Mróz TL, Havey MJ, Bartoszewski G. Cucumber Possesses a Single Terminal Alternative Oxidase Gene That is Upregulated by Cold Stress and in the Mosaic (MSC) Mitochondrial Mutants. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTER 2015; 33:1893-1906. [PMID: 26752808 PMCID: PMC4695503 DOI: 10.1007/s11105-015-0883-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Alternative oxidase (AOX) is a mitochondrial terminal oxidase which is responsible for an alternative route of electron transport in the respiratory chain. This nuclear-encoded enzyme is involved in a major path of survival under adverse conditions by transfer of electrons from ubiquinol instead of the main cytochrome pathway. AOX protects against unexpected inhibition of the cytochrome c oxidase pathway and plays an important role in stress tolerance. Two AOX subfamilies (AOX1 and AOX2) exist in higher plants and are usually encoded by small gene families. In this study, genome-wide searches and cloning were completed to identify and characterize AOX genes in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Our results revealed that cucumber possesses no AOX1 gene(s) and only a single AOX2 gene located on chromosome 4. Expression studies showed that AOX2 in wild-type cucumber is constitutively expressed at low levels and is upregulated by cold stress. AOX2 transcripts and protein were detected in leaves and flowers of wild-type plants, with higher levels in the three independently derived mosaic (MSC) mitochondrial mutants. Because cucumber possesses a single AOX gene and its expression increases under cold stress and in the MSC mutants, this plant is a unique and intriguing model to study AOX expression and regulation particularly in the context of mitochondria-to-nucleus retrograde signaling.
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- Tomasz L. Mróz
- />Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, ul. Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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- />Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Vegetable Crops Unit, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, 1575 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706 USA
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- />Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, ul. Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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You J, Zhang L, Song B, Qi X, Chan Z. Systematic analysis and identification of stress-responsive genes of the NAC gene family in Brachypodium distachyon. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0122027. [PMID: 25815771 PMCID: PMC4376915 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 02/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Plant-specific NAC proteins are one of the largest families of transcription factors in plants, and members of this family have been characterized with roles in the regulation of diverse biological processes, including development and stress responses. In the present study, we identified 101 putative NAC domain-encoding genes (BdNACs) through systematic sequence analysis in Brachypodium distachyon, a new model plant of family Poaceae. BdNAC proteins were phylogenetically clustered into 13 groups, and each group possesses similar motif compositions. Phylogenetic analysis using known stress-related NACs from Arabidopsis and rice as query sequences identified 18 BdNACs as putative stress-responsive genes. In silico promoter analysis showed that almost all BdNAC genes contain putative stress-related cis-elements in their promoter regions. Expression profile of BdNAC genes in response to abiotic stresses and phytohormones was analyzed by quantitative real-time RT-PCR. Several putative stress-responsive BdNAC genes, including BdNAC003 and BdNAC044 which is ortholog of known stress-responsive rice gene SNAC1 and SNAC2, respectively, were highly regulated by multiple abiotic stresses and stress-related phytohormone treatments. Taken together, our results presented here would be helpful in laying the foundation for understanding of the complex mechanisms of NAC mediated abiotic stress signaling transduction pathways in B. distachyon.
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- Jun You
- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Pireyre M, Burow M. Regulation of MYB and bHLH transcription factors: a glance at the protein level. MOLECULAR PLANT 2015; 8:378-88. [PMID: 25667003 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2014.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2014] [Revised: 11/10/2014] [Accepted: 11/24/2014] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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In complex, constantly changing environments, plants have developed astonishing survival strategies. These elaborated strategies rely on rapid and precise gene regulation mediated by transcription factors (TFs). TFs represent a large fraction of plant genomes and among them, MYBs and basic helix-loop-helix (bHLHs) have unique inherent properties specific to plants. Proteins of these two TF families can act as homo- or heterodimers, associate with proteins from other protein families, or form MYB/bHLH complexes to regulate distinct cellular processes. The ability of MYBs and bHLHs to interact with multiple protein partners has evolved to keep up with the increased metabolic complexity of multi-cellular organisms. Association and disassociation of dynamic TF complexes in response to developmental and environmental cues are controlled through a plethora of regulatory mechanisms specifically modulating TF activity. Regulation of TFs at the protein level is critical for efficient and precise control of their activity, and thus provides the mechanistic basis for a rapid on-and-off switch of TF activity. In this review, examples of post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions, and subcellular mobilization of TFs are discussed with regard to the relevance of these regulatory mechanisms for the specific activation of MYBs and bHLHs in response to a given environmental stimulus.
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- Marie Pireyre
- DynaMo DNRF Center of Excellence, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- DynaMo DNRF Center of Excellence, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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Kühn K, Yin G, Duncan O, Law SR, Kubiszewski-Jakubiak S, Kaur P, Meyer E, Wang Y, Small CCDF, Giraud E, Narsai R, Whelan J. Decreasing electron flux through the cytochrome and/or alternative respiratory pathways triggers common and distinct cellular responses dependent on growth conditions. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 167:228-50. [PMID: 25378695 PMCID: PMC4281006 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.249946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2014] [Accepted: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Diverse signaling pathways are activated by perturbation of mitochondrial function under different growth conditions.Mitochondria have emerged as an important organelle for sensing and coping with stress in addition to being the sites of important metabolic pathways. Here, responses to moderate light and drought stress were examined in different Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) mutant plants lacking a functional alternative oxidase (alternative oxidase1a [aox1a]), those with reduced cytochrome electron transport chain capacity (T3/T7 bacteriophage-type RNA polymerase, mitochondrial, and plastidial [rpoTmp]), and double mutants impaired in both pathways (aox1a:rpoTmp). Under conditions considered optimal for growth, transcriptomes of aox1a and rpoTmp were distinct. Under adverse growth conditions, however, transcriptome changes in aox1a and rpoTmp displayed a highly significant overlap and were indicative of a common mitochondrial stress response and down-regulation of photosynthesis. This suggests that the role of mitochondria to support photosynthesis is provided through either the alternative pathway or the cytochrome pathway, and when either pathway is inhibited, such as under environmental stress, a common, dramatic, and succinct mitochondrial signal is activated to alter energy metabolism in both organelles. aox1a:rpoTmp double mutants grown under optimal conditions showed dramatic reductions in biomass production compared with aox1a and rpoTmp and a transcriptome that was distinct from aox1a or rpoTmp. Transcript data indicating activation of mitochondrial biogenesis in aox1a:rpoTmp were supported by a proteomic analysis of over 200 proteins. Under optimal conditions, aox1a:rpoTmp plants seemed to switch on many of the typical mitochondrial stress regulators. Under adverse conditions, aox1a:rpoTmp turned off these responses and displayed a biotic stress response. Taken together, these results highlight the diverse signaling pathways activated by the perturbation of mitochondrial function under different growth conditions.
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- Kristina Kühn
- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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- Molekulare Zellbiologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (K.K.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (G.Y., O.D., S.K.-J., C.C.d.F.S.) andCentre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (P.K.), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;National Genebank, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China (G.Y.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia (S.R.L., Y.W., R.N., J.W.);Department of Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany (E.M.); andIllumina, Inc., Scoresby, Victoria 3179, Australia (E.G.)
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Stender EG, O'Shea C, Skriver K. Subgroup-specific intrinsic disorder profiles of Arabidopsis NAC transcription factors: Identification of functional hotspots. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2015; 10:e1010967. [PMID: 26107850 PMCID: PMC4622513 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2015.1010967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2014] [Accepted: 01/07/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Protein intrinsic disorder (ID), referring to the lack of a fixed tertiary structure, is significant in signaling and transcription. We recently characterized ID in 6 phylogenetically representative Arabidopsis thaliana NAC transcription factors. Their transcription regulatory domains are mostly disordered but contain short, functionally important regions with structure propensities known as molecular recognition features. Here, we analyze for NAC subgroup-specific ID patterns. Some subgroups, such as the VND subgroup implicated in secondary cell wall biosynthesis, and the NAP/SHYG subgroup have highly conserved ID profiles. For the stress-associated ATAF1 subgroup and the CUC/ORE1 subgroup involved in development, only sub clades have similar ID patterns. For similar ID profiles, conserved molecular recognition features and sequence motifs represent likely functional determinants of e.g. transcriptional activation and interactions. Based on our analysis, we suggest that ID profiling of regulatory proteins in general can be used to guide identification of interaction partners of network proteins.
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- Department of Biology; University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biology; University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biology; University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen, Denmark
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Stael S, Kmiecik P, Willems P, Van Der Kelen K, Coll NS, Teige M, Van Breusegem F. Plant innate immunity--sunny side up? TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 20:3-11. [PMID: 25457110 PMCID: PMC4817832 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2014] [Revised: 09/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/02/2014] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS)- and calcium- dependent signaling pathways play well-established roles during plant innate immunity. Chloroplasts host major biosynthetic pathways and have central roles in energy production, redox homeostasis, and retrograde signaling. However, the organelle's importance in immunity has been somehow overlooked. Recent findings suggest that the chloroplast also has an unanticipated function as a hub for ROS- and calcium-signaling that affects immunity responses at an early stage after pathogen attack. In this opinion article, we discuss a chloroplastic calcium-ROS signaling branch of plant innate immunity. We propose that this chloroplastic branch acts as a light-dependent rheostat that, through the production of ROS, influences the severity of the immune response.
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- Simon Stael
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Medical Protein Research, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Biochemistry, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Vienna University, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Medical Protein Research, VIB, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Biochemistry, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB Consortium, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Vienna University, Vienna, Austria; Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
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Bobik K, Burch-Smith TM. Chloroplast signaling within, between and beyond cells. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:781. [PMID: 26500659 PMCID: PMC4593955 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 09/10/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The most conspicuous function of plastids is the oxygenic photosynthesis of chloroplasts, yet plastids are super-factories that produce a plethora of compounds that are indispensable for proper plant physiology and development. Given their origins as free-living prokaryotes, it is not surprising that plastids possess their own genomes whose expression is essential to plastid function. This semi-autonomous character of plastids requires the existence of sophisticated regulatory mechanisms that provide reliable communication between them and other cellular compartments. Such intracellular signaling is necessary for coordinating whole-cell responses to constantly varying environmental cues and cellular metabolic needs. This is achieved by plastids acting as receivers and transmitters of specific signals that coordinate expression of the nuclear and plastid genomes according to particular needs. In this review we will consider the so-called retrograde signaling occurring between plastids and nuclei, and between plastids and other organelles. Another important role of the plastid we will discuss is the involvement of plastid signaling in biotic and abiotic stress that, in addition to influencing retrograde signaling, has direct effects on several cellular compartments including the cell wall. We will also review recent evidence pointing to an intriguing function of chloroplasts in regulating intercellular symplasmic transport. Finally, we consider an intriguing yet less widely known aspect of plant biology, chloroplast signaling from the perspective of the entire plant. Thus, accumulating evidence highlights that chloroplasts, with their complex signaling pathways, provide a mechanism for exquisite regulation of plant development, metabolism and responses to the environment. As chloroplast processes are targeted for engineering for improved productivity the effect of such modifications on chloroplast signaling will have to be carefully considered in order to avoid unintended consequences on plant growth and development.
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- *Correspondence: Tessa M. Burch-Smith, Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, 1414 Cumberland Avenue, M407 Walters Life Science, Knoxville, TN 37932, USA,
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Zhang B, Van Aken O, Thatcher L, De Clercq I, Duncan O, Law SR, Murcha MW, van der Merwe M, Seifi HS, Carrie C, Cazzonelli C, Radomiljac J, Höfte M, Singh KB, Van Breusegem F, Whelan J. The mitochondrial outer membrane AAA ATPase AtOM66 affects cell death and pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 80:709-727. [PMID: 25227923 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2014] [Revised: 08/27/2014] [Accepted: 08/29/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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One of the most stress-responsive genes encoding a mitochondrial protein in Arabidopsis (At3g50930) has been annotated as AtBCS1 (cytochrome bc1 synthase 1), but was previously functionally uncharacterised. Here, we show that the protein encoded by At3g50930 is present as a homo-multimeric protein complex on the outer mitochondrial membrane and lacks the BCS1 domain present in yeast and mammalian BCS1 proteins, with the sequence similarity restricted to the AAA ATPase domain. Thus we propose to re-annotate this protein as AtOM66 (Outer Mitochondrial membrane protein of 66 kDa). While transgenic plants with reduced AtOM66 expression appear to be phenotypically normal, AtOM66 over-expression lines have a distinct phenotype, showing strong leaf curling and reduced starch content. Analysis of mitochondrial protein content demonstrated no detectable changes in mitochondrial respiratory complex protein abundance. Consistent with the stress inducible expression pattern, over-expression lines of AtOM66 are more tolerant to drought stress but undergo stress-induced senescence earlier than wild type. Genome-wide expression analysis revealed a constitutive induction of salicylic acid-related (SA) pathogen defence and cell death genes in over-expression lines. Conversely, expression of SA marker gene PR-1 was reduced in atom66 plants, while jasmonic acid response genes PDF1.2 and VSP2 have increased transcript abundance. In agreement with the expression profile, AtOM66 over-expression plants show increased SA content, accelerated cell death rates and are more tolerant to the biotrophic pathogen Pseudomonas syringae, but more susceptible to the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea. In conclusion, our results demonstrate a role for AtOM66 in cell death and amplifying SA signalling.
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Bayliss Building M316, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia; Department of Botany, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic., 3086, Australia
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El Zawily AM, Schwarzländer M, Finkemeier I, Johnston IG, Benamar A, Cao Y, Gissot C, Meyer AJ, Wilson K, Datla R, Macherel D, Jones NS, Logan DC. FRIENDLY regulates mitochondrial distribution, fusion, and quality control in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 166:808-28. [PMID: 25165398 PMCID: PMC4213110 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.243824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2014] [Accepted: 08/27/2014] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Mitochondria are defining components of most eukaryotes. However, higher plant mitochondria differ biochemically, morphologically, and dynamically from those in other eukaryotes. FRIENDLY, a member of the CLUSTERED MITOCHONDRIA superfamily, is conserved among eukaryotes and is required for correct distribution of mitochondria within the cell. We sought to understand how disruption of FRIENDLY function in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) leads to mitochondrial clustering and the effects of this aberrant chondriome on cell and whole-plant physiology. We present evidence for a role of FRIENDLY in mediating intermitochondrial association, which is a necessary prelude to mitochondrial fusion. We demonstrate that disruption of mitochondrial association, motility, and chondriome structure in friendly affects mitochondrial quality control and leads to mitochondrial stress, cell death, and strong growth phenotypes.
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- Amr M El Zawily
- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 (A.M.E.Z., K.W., D.C.L.);Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22516, Egypt (A.M.E.Z.);Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany (M.S., A.J.M.);Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Plant Proteomics Group, 50829 Cologne, Germany (I.F.);Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom (I.G.J., C.G., N.S.J.);Université d'Angers, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Agrocampus Ouest, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1345, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences, Angers F-49045, France (A.B., D.M., D.C.L.); andPlant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W9, Canada (Y.C., R.D.)
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Yang ZT, Lu SJ, Wang MJ, Bi DL, Sun L, Zhou SF, Song ZT, Liu JX. A plasma membrane-tethered transcription factor, NAC062/ANAC062/NTL6, mediates the unfolded protein response in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 79:1033-43. [PMID: 24961665 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2014] [Revised: 06/16/2014] [Accepted: 06/19/2014] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The accumulation of unfolded or misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) triggers a well conserved pathway called the unfolded protein response (UPR) in eukaryotic cells to mitigate ER stress. Two signaling pathways, S2P-bZIP28 and IRE1-bZIP60, play important roles in transmitting ER stress signals from the ER to the nucleus in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). It is not known whether other components in the secretory pathway also contribute to the alleviation of ER stress. Here we report the identification of a plasma membrane-associated transcription factor, NAC062 (also known as ANAC062/NTL6), as another important UPR mediator in Arabidopsis plants. NAC062 relocates from the plasma membrane to the nucleus and regulates the expression of ER stress responsive genes in Arabidopsis. Knock-down of NAC062 in the wild-type background confers ER stress sensitivity, while inducible expression of a nucleus-localized form of NAC062, NAC062D, in the bZIP28 and bZIP60 double mutant (zip28zip60) background increases ER stress tolerance. Knock-down of NAC062 impairs ER-stress-induced expression of UPR downstream genes while over-expression of NAC062D-MYC induces the expression of UPR downstream genes under normal growth condition. CHIP-qPCR reveals that NAC062D-MYC is enriched at the promoter regions of several UPR downstream genes such as BiP2. Furthermore, NAC062 itself is also up-regulated by ER stress, which is dependent on bZIP60 but not on bZIP28. Thus, our results have uncovered an alternative UPR pathway in plants in which the membrane-associated transcription factor NAC062 relays ER stress signaling from the plasma membrane to the nucleus and plays important roles in regulating UPR downstream gene expression.
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- Zheng-Ting Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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Garcia-Molina A, Xing S, Huijser P. Functional characterisation of Arabidopsis SPL7 conserved protein domains suggests novel regulatory mechanisms in the Cu deficiency response. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 14:231. [PMID: 25207797 PMCID: PMC4158090 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-014-0231-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2014] [Accepted: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND The Arabidopsis SQUAMOSA PROMOTER-BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE (SPL) transcription factor SPL7 reprograms cellular gene expression to adapt plant growth and cellular metabolism to copper (Cu) limited culture conditions. Plant cells require Cu to maintain essential processes, such as photosynthesis, scavenging reactive oxygen species, cell wall lignification and hormone sensing. More specifically, SPL7 activity promotes a high-affinity Cu-uptake system and optimizes Cu (re-)distribution to essential Cu-proteins by means of specific miRNAs targeting mRNA transcripts for those dispensable. However, the functional mechanism underlying SPL7 activation is still to be elucidated. As SPL7 transcript levels are largely non-responsive to Cu availability, post-translational modification seems an obvious possibility. Previously, it was reported that the SPL7 SBP domain does not bind to DNA in vitro in the presence of Cu ions and that SPL7 interacts with a kin17 domain protein to raise SPL7-target gene expression upon Cu deprivation. Here we report how additional conserved SPL7 protein domains may contribute to the Cu deficiency response in Arabidopsis. RESULTS Cytological and biochemical approaches confirmed an operative transmembrane domain (TMD) and uncovered a dual localisation of SPL7 between the nucleus and an endomembrane system, most likely the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This new perspective unveiled a possible link between Cu deficit and ER stress, a metabolic dysfunction found capable of inducing SPL7 targets in an SPL7-dependent manner. Moreover, in vivo protein-protein interaction assays revealed that SPL7 is able to homodimerize, probably mediated by the IRPGC domain. These observations, in combination with the constitutive activation of SPL7 targets, when ectopically expressing the N-terminal part of SPL7 including the SBP domain, shed some light on the mechanisms governing SPL7 function. CONCLUSIONS Here, we propose a revised model of SPL7 activation and regulation. According to our results, SPL7 would be initially located to endomembranes and activated during ER stress as a result of Cu deficiency. Furthermore, we added the SPL7 dimerization in the presence of Cu ions as an additional regulatory mechanism to modulate the Cu deficiency response.
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- Antoni Garcia-Molina
- />Department of Comparative Development and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, 50829 Germany
- />Current address: Lehrstuhl für Systembiologie der Pflanzen, Technische Universität München, Emil-Ramann-Strasse 4, Freising, 85354 Germany
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- />Department of Comparative Development and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, 50829 Germany
- />Current address: Department of Developmental Genetics, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, Tübingen, 72076 Germany
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- />Department of Comparative Development and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, 50829 Germany
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Liu B, Ouyang Z, Zhang Y, Li X, Hong Y, Huang L, Liu S, Zhang H, Li D, Song F. Tomato NAC transcription factor SlSRN1 positively regulates defense response against biotic stress but negatively regulates abiotic stress response. PLoS One 2014; 9:e102067. [PMID: 25010573 PMCID: PMC4092073 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2014] [Accepted: 06/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Biotic and abiotic stresses are major unfavorable factors that affect crop productivity worldwide. NAC proteins comprise a large family of transcription factors that play important roles in plant growth and development as well as in responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. In a virus-induced gene silencing-based screening to identify genes that are involved in defense response against Botrytis cinerea, we identified a tomato NAC gene SlSRN1 (Solanum lycopersicumStress-related NAC1). SlSRN1 is a plasma membrane-localized protein with transactivation activity in yeast. Expression of SlSRN1 was significantly induced by infection with B. cinerea or Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) DC3000, leading to 6–8 folds higher than that in the mock-inoculated plants. Expression of SlSRN1 was also induced by salicylic acid, jasmonic acid and 1-amino cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid and by drought stress. Silencing of SlSRN1 resulted in increased severity of diseases caused by B. cinerea and Pst DC3000. However, silencing of SlSRN1 resulted in increased tolerance against oxidative and drought stresses. Furthermore, silencing of SlSRN1 accelerated accumulation of reactive oxygen species but attenuated expression of defense genes after infection by B. cinerea. Our results demonstrate that SlSRN1 is a positive regulator of defense response against B. cinerea and Pst DC3000 but is a negative regulator for oxidative and drought stress response in tomato.
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- Bo Liu
- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Kerchev PI, De Clercq I, Denecker J, Mühlenbock P, Kumpf R, Nguyen L, Audenaert D, Dejonghe W, Van Breusegem F. Mitochondrial perturbation negatively affects auxin signaling. MOLECULAR PLANT 2014; 7:1138-50. [PMID: 24903751 DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssu071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Mitochondria are crucial players in the signaling and metabolic homeostasis of the plant cell. The molecular components that orchestrate the underlying processes, however, are largely unknown. Using a chemical biology approach, we exploited the responsiveness of Arabidopsis UDP-glucosyltransferase-encoding UGT74E2 towards mitochondrial perturbation in order to look for novel mechanisms regulating mitochondria-to-nucleus communication. The most potent inducers of UGT74E2 shared a (2-furyl)acrylate (FAA) substructure that negatively affected mitochondrial function and was identified before as an auxin transcriptional inhibitor. Based on these premises, we demonstrated that perturbed mitochondria negatively affect the auxin signaling machinery. Moreover, chemical perturbation of polar auxin transport and auxin biosynthesis was sufficient to induce mitochondrial retrograde markers and their transcript abundance was constitutively elevated in the absence of the auxin transcriptional activators ARF7 and ARF19.
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- Pavel Ivanov Kerchev
- a Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium b Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- a Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium b Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- a Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium b Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- a Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium b Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- d VIB Compound Screening Facility, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- a Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium b Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium d VIB Compound Screening Facility, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- a Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium b Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- a Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium b Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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Sewelam N, Jaspert N, Van Der Kelen K, Tognetti VB, Schmitz J, Frerigmann H, Stahl E, Zeier J, Van Breusegem F, Maurino VG. Spatial H2O2 signaling specificity: H2O2 from chloroplasts and peroxisomes modulates the plant transcriptome differentially. MOLECULAR PLANT 2014; 7:1191-210. [PMID: 24908268 DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssu070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) operates as a signaling molecule in eukaryotes, but the specificity of its signaling capacities remains largely unrevealed. Here, we analyzed whether a moderate production of H2O2 from two different plant cellular compartments has divergent effects on the plant transcriptome. Arabidopsis thaliana overexpressing glycolate oxidase in the chloroplast (Fahnenstich et al., 2008; Balazadeh et al., 2012) and plants deficient in peroxisomal catalase (Queval et al., 2007; Inzé et al., 2012) were grown under non-photorespiratory conditions and then transferred to photorespiratory conditions to foster the production of H2O2 in both organelles. We show that H2O2 originating in a specific organelle induces two types of responses: one that integrates signals independently from the subcellular site of H2O2 production and another that is dependent on the H2O2 production site. H2O2 produced in peroxisomes induces transcripts involved in protein repair responses, while H2O2 produced in chloroplasts induces early signaling responses, including transcription factors and biosynthetic genes involved in production of secondary signaling messengers. There is a significant bias towards the induction of genes involved in responses to wounding and pathogen attack by chloroplastic-produced H2O2, including indolic glucosinolates-, camalexin-, and stigmasterol-biosynthetic genes. These transcriptional responses were accompanied by the accumulation of 4-methoxy-indol-3-ylmethyl glucosinolate and stigmasterol.
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- Nasser Sewelam
- Institut of Developmental and Molecular Biology of Plants, Plant Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology Group, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, 31527, Tanta, Egypt
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- Institut of Developmental and Molecular Biology of Plants, Plant Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology Group, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Gent, Belgium Present address: Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, CEITEC-Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ-62500 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institut of Developmental and Molecular Biology of Plants, Plant Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology Group, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), 40225 Düsseldorf and 50674 Cologne, Germany
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- Molecular Ecophysiology of Plants, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), 40225 Düsseldorf and 50674 Cologne, Germany Molecular Ecophysiology of Plants, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Gent, Belgium
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- Institut of Developmental and Molecular Biology of Plants, Plant Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology Group, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), 40225 Düsseldorf and 50674 Cologne, Germany
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Ng S, De Clercq I, Van Aken O, Law SR, Ivanova A, Willems P, Giraud E, Van Breusegem F, Whelan J. Anterograde and retrograde regulation of nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins during growth, development, and stress. MOLECULAR PLANT 2014; 7:1075-93. [PMID: 24711293 DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssu037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Mitochondrial biogenesis and function in plants require the expression of over 1000 nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins (NGEMPs). The expression of these genes is regulated by tissue-specific, developmental, internal, and external stimuli that result in a dynamic organelle involved in both metabolic and a variety of signaling processes. Although the metabolic and biosynthetic machinery of mitochondria is relatively well understood, the factors that regulate these processes and the various signaling pathways involved are only beginning to be identified at a molecular level. The molecular components of anterograde (nuclear to mitochondrial) and retrograde (mitochondrial to nuclear) signaling pathways that regulate the expression of NGEMPs interact with chloroplast-, growth-, and stress-signaling pathways in the cell at a variety of levels, with common components involved in transmission and execution of these signals. This positions mitochondria as important hubs for signaling in the cell, not only in direct signaling of mitochondrial function per se, but also in sensing and/or integrating a variety of other internal and external signals. This integrates and optimizes growth with energy metabolism and stress responses, which is required in both photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic cells.
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- Sophia Ng
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Australia Joint Research Laboratory in Genomics and Nutriomics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, P.R. China
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Botany, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Botany, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent, Belgium Department of Medical Protein Research and Department of Biochemistry, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Australia Present address: Illumina, ANZ, 1 International Court, Scoresby Victoria 3179, Australia
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Botany, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, Victoria, Australia
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Leister D, Romani I, Mittermayr L, Paieri F, Fenino E, Kleine T. Identification of target genes and transcription factors implicated in translation-dependent retrograde signaling in Arabidopsis. MOLECULAR PLANT 2014; 7:1228-47. [PMID: 24874869 DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssu066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Changes in organellar gene expression (OGE) trigger retrograde signaling. The molecular dissection of OGE-dependent retrograde signaling based on analyses of mutants with altered OGE is complicated by compensatory responses that mask the primary signaling defect and by secondary effects that influence other retrograde signaling pathways. Therefore, to identify the earliest effects of altered OGE on nuclear transcript accumulation, we have induced OGE defects in adult plants by ethanol-dependent repression of PRORS1, which encodes a prolyl-tRNA synthetase located in chloroplasts and mitochondria. After 32h of PRORS1 repression, the translational capacity of chloroplasts was reduced, and this effect subsequently intensified, while basic photosynthetic parameters were still unchanged at 51h. Analysis of changes in whole-genome transcriptomes during exposure to ethanol revealed that induced PRORS1 silencing affects the expression of 1020 genes in all. Some of these encode photosynthesis-related proteins, including several down-regulated light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b binding (LHC) proteins. Interestingly, genes for presumptive endoplasmic reticulum proteins are transiently up-regulated. Furthermore, several NAC-domain-containing proteins are among the transcription factors regulated. Candidate cis-acting elements which may coordinate the transcriptional co-regulation of genes sets include both G-box variants and sequence motifs with no similarity to known plant cis-elements.
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- Dario Leister
- Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Department Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Department Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Department Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Department Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Department Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Plant Molecular Biology (Botany), Department Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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Ivanova A, Law SR, Narsai R, Duncan O, Lee JH, Zhang B, Van Aken O, Radomiljac JD, van der Merwe M, Yi K, Whelan J. A Functional Antagonistic Relationship between Auxin and Mitochondrial Retrograde Signaling Regulates Alternative Oxidase1a Expression in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 165:1233-1254. [PMID: 24820025 PMCID: PMC4081334 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.237495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2014] [Accepted: 05/04/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The perception and integration of stress stimuli with that of mitochondrion function are important during periods of perturbed cellular homeostasis. In a continuous effort to delineate these mitochondrial/stress-interacting networks, forward genetic screens using the mitochondrial stress response marker alternative oxidase 1a (AOX1a) provide a useful molecular tool to identify and characterize regulators of mitochondrial stress signaling (referred to as regulators of alternative oxidase 1a [RAOs] components). In this study, we reveal that mutations in genes coding for proteins associated with auxin transport and distribution resulted in a greater induction of AOX1a in terms of magnitude and longevity. Three independent mutants for polarized auxin transport, rao3/big, rao4/pin-formed1, and rao5/multidrug-resistance1/abcb19, as well as the Myb transcription factor rao6/asymmetric leaves1 (that displays altered auxin patterns) were identified and resulted in an acute sensitivity toward mitochondrial dysfunction. Induction of the AOX1a reporter system could be inhibited by the application of auxin analogs or reciprocally potentiated by blocking auxin transport. Promoter activation studies with AOX1a::GUS and DR5::GUS lines further confirmed a clear antagonistic relationship between the spatial distribution of mitochondrial stress and auxin response kinetics, respectively. Genome-wide transcriptome analyses revealed that mitochondrial stress stimuli, such as antimycin A, caused a transient suppression of auxin signaling and conversely, that auxin treatment repressed a part of the response to antimycin A treatment, including AOX1a induction. We conclude that mitochondrial stress signaling and auxin signaling are reciprocally regulated, balancing growth and stress response(s).
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- Aneta Ivanova
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia (A.I., S.R.L., O.D., B.Z., J.D.R., J.W.);Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia (A.I., R.N., J.-H.L., O.V.A., J.D.R., M.v.d.M.); andState Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China (K.Y.)
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The membrane-associated transcription factor NAC089 controls ER-stress-induced programmed cell death in plants. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004243. [PMID: 24675811 PMCID: PMC3967986 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2013] [Accepted: 02/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The unfolded protein response (UPR) is activated to sustain cell survival by reducing misfolded protein accumulation in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The UPR also promotes programmed cell death (PCD) when the ER stress is severe; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms are less understood, especially in plants. Previously, two membrane-associated transcriptions factors (MTFs), bZIP28 and bZIP60, were identified as the key regulators for cell survival in the plant ER stress response. Here, we report the identification of another MTF, NAC089, as an important PCD regulator in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants. NAC089 relocates from the ER membrane to the nucleus under ER stress conditions. Inducible expression of a truncated form of NAC089, in which the transmembrane domain is deleted, induces PCD with increased caspase 3/7-like activity and DNA fragmentation. Knock-down NAC089 in Arabidopsis confers ER stress tolerance and impairs ER-stress-induced caspase-like activity. Transcriptional regulation analysis and ChIP-qPCR reveal that NAC089 plays important role in regulating downstream genes involved in PCD, such as NAC094, MC5 and BAG6. Furthermore, NAC089 is up-regulated by ER stress, which is directly controlled by bZIP28 and bZIP60. These results show that nuclear relocation of NAC089 promotes ER-stress-induced PCD, and both pro-survival and pro-death signals are elicited by bZIP28 and bZIP60 during plant ER stress response. Protein folding is fundamentally important for development and responses to environmental stresses in eukaryotes. When excess misfolded proteins are accumulated in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the unfolded protein response (UPR) is triggered to promote cell survival through optimizing protein folding, and also promote programmed cell death (PCD) when the stress is severe. However, the link from ER-stress-sensing to PCD is largely unknown. Here, we report the identification of one membrane-associated transcription factor NAC089 as an important regulator of ER stress-induced PCD in plants. We have established a previously unrecognized molecular connection between ER stress sensors and PCD regulators. We have shown that organelle-to-organelle translocation of a transcription factor is important for its function in transcriptional regulation. Our results have provided novel insights into the molecular mechanisms of PCD in plants, especially under ER stress conditions.
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Welchen E, García L, Mansilla N, Gonzalez DH. Coordination of plant mitochondrial biogenesis: keeping pace with cellular requirements. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 4:551. [PMID: 24409193 PMCID: PMC3884152 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2013] [Accepted: 12/23/2013] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Plant mitochondria are complex organelles that carry out numerous metabolic processes related with the generation of energy for cellular functions and the synthesis and degradation of several compounds. Mitochondria are semiautonomous and dynamic organelles changing in shape, number, and composition depending on tissue or developmental stage. The biogenesis of functional mitochondria requires the coordination of genes present both in the nucleus and the organelle. In addition, due to their central role, all processes held inside mitochondria must be finely coordinated with those in other organelles according to cellular demands. Coordination is achieved by transcriptional control of nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins by specific transcription factors that recognize conserved elements in their promoter regions. In turn, the expression of most of these transcription factors is linked to developmental and environmental cues, according to the availability of nutrients, light-dark cycles, and warning signals generated in response to stress conditions. Among the signals impacting in the expression of nuclear genes, retrograde signals that originate inside mitochondria help to adjust mitochondrial biogenesis to organelle demands. Adding more complexity, several nuclear encoded proteins are dual localized to mitochondria and either chloroplasts or the nucleus. Dual targeting might establish a crosstalk between the nucleus and cell organelles to ensure a fine coordination of cellular activities. In this article, we discuss how the different levels of coordination of mitochondrial biogenesis interconnect to optimize the function of the organelle according to both internal and external demands.
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- Elina Welchen
- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral–Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional del LitoralSanta Fe, Argentina
- Cátedra de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del LitoralSanta Fe, Argentina
- *Correspondence: Elina Welchen and Daniel H. Gonzalez, Cátedra de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, CC 242 Paraje El Pozo, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina e-mail: ;
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral–Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional del LitoralSanta Fe, Argentina
- Cátedra de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del LitoralSanta Fe, Argentina
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral–Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional del LitoralSanta Fe, Argentina
- Cátedra de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del LitoralSanta Fe, Argentina
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral–Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional del LitoralSanta Fe, Argentina
- Cátedra de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del LitoralSanta Fe, Argentina
- *Correspondence: Elina Welchen and Daniel H. Gonzalez, Cátedra de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, CC 242 Paraje El Pozo, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina e-mail: ;
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Hofmann NR. Endoplasmic reticulum-localized transcription factors and mitochondrial retrograde regulation. THE PLANT CELL 2013; 25:3151. [PMID: 24045018 PMCID: PMC3809523 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.250912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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De Clercq I, Vermeirssen V, Van Aken O, Vandepoele K, Murcha MW, Law SR, Inzé A, Ng S, Ivanova A, Rombaut D, van de Cotte B, Jaspers P, Van de Peer Y, Kangasjärvi J, Whelan J, Van Breusegem F. The membrane-bound NAC transcription factor ANAC013 functions in mitochondrial retrograde regulation of the oxidative stress response in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2013; 25:3472-90. [PMID: 24045019 PMCID: PMC3809544 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.117168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 246] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2013] [Revised: 08/06/2013] [Accepted: 08/26/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Upon disturbance of their function by stress, mitochondria can signal to the nucleus to steer the expression of responsive genes. This mitochondria-to-nucleus communication is often referred to as mitochondrial retrograde regulation (MRR). Although reactive oxygen species and calcium are likely candidate signaling molecules for MRR, the protein signaling components in plants remain largely unknown. Through meta-analysis of transcriptome data, we detected a set of genes that are common and robust targets of MRR and used them as a bait to identify its transcriptional regulators. In the upstream regions of these mitochondrial dysfunction stimulon (MDS) genes, we found a cis-regulatory element, the mitochondrial dysfunction motif (MDM), which is necessary and sufficient for gene expression under various mitochondrial perturbation conditions. Yeast one-hybrid analysis and electrophoretic mobility shift assays revealed that the transmembrane domain-containing no apical meristem/Arabidopsis transcription activation factor/cup-shaped cotyledon transcription factors (ANAC013, ANAC016, ANAC017, ANAC053, and ANAC078) bound to the MDM cis-regulatory element. We demonstrate that ANAC013 mediates MRR-induced expression of the MDS genes by direct interaction with the MDM cis-regulatory element and triggers increased oxidative stress tolerance. In conclusion, we characterized ANAC013 as a regulator of MRR upon stress in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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- Inge De Clercq
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Plant Biology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Plant Biology, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia
- Department of Botany, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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