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Charova SN, Dölfors F, Holmquist L, Moschou PN, Dixelius C, Tzelepis G. The RsRlpA Effector Is a Protease Inhibitor Promoting Rhizoctonia solani Virulence through Suppression of the Hypersensitive Response. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21218070. [PMID: 33138028 PMCID: PMC7662947 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21218070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Rhizoctonia solani (Rs) is a soil-borne pathogen with a broad host range. This pathogen incites a wide range of disease symptoms. Knowledge regarding its infection process is fragmented, a typical feature for basidiomycetes. In this study, we aimed at identifying potential fungal effectors and their function. From a group of 11 predicted single gene effectors, a rare lipoprotein A (RsRlpA), from a strain attacking sugar beet was analyzed. The RsRlpA gene was highly induced upon early-stage infection of sugar beet seedlings, and heterologous expression in Cercospora beticola demonstrated involvement in virulence. It was also able to suppress the hypersensitive response (HR) induced by the Avr4/Cf4 complex in transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plants and functioned as an active protease inhibitor able to suppress Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) burst. This effector contains a double-psi beta-barrel (DPBB) fold domain, and a conserved serine at position 120 in the DPBB fold domain was found to be crucial for HR suppression. Overall, R. solani seems to be capable of inducing an initial biotrophic stage upon infection, suppressing basal immune responses, followed by a switch to necrotrophic growth. However, regulatory mechanisms between the different lifestyles are still unknown.
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- Spyridoula N. Charova
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Foundation of Research and Technology-HELLAS, GR-70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece; (S.N.C.); (P.N.M.)
- Department of Biology, University of Crete, Voutes University Campus, P.O. Box 2208, GR-70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala BioCenter, Linnean Center for Plant Biology, P.O. Box 7080, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden; (F.D.); (C.D.)
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- MariboHilleshög Research AB, Säbyholmsvägen 24, S-26191 Landskrona, Sweden;
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Foundation of Research and Technology-HELLAS, GR-70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece; (S.N.C.); (P.N.M.)
- Department of Biology, University of Crete, Voutes University Campus, P.O. Box 2208, GR-70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala BioCenter, Linnean Center for Plant Biology, P.O. Box 7080, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden; (F.D.); (C.D.)
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- Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala BioCenter, Linnean Center for Plant Biology, P.O. Box 7080, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden; (F.D.); (C.D.)
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala BioCenter, Box 7026, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +46-18-67181503
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Van Nierop SNE, Rautenbach M, Axcell BC, Cantrell IC. The Impact of Microorganisms on Barley and Malt Quality—A Review. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BREWING CHEMISTS 2018. [DOI: 10.1094/asbcj-64-0069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Misas-Villamil JC, van der Hoorn RAL, Doehlemann G. Papain-like cysteine proteases as hubs in plant immunity. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 212:902-907. [PMID: 27488095 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2016] [Accepted: 06/11/2016] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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902 I. 902 II. 903 III. 903 IV. 903 V. 905 VI. 905 VII. 905 906 References 906 SUMMARY: Plants deploy a sophisticated immune system to cope with different microbial pathogens and other invaders. Recent research provides an increasing body of evidence for papain-like cysteine proteases (PLCPs) being central hubs in plant immunity. PLCPs are required for full resistance of plants to various pathogens. At the same time, PLCPs are targeted by secreted pathogen effectors to suppress immune responses. Consequently, they are subject to a co-evolutionary host-pathogen arms race. When activated, PLCPs induce a broad spectrum of defense responses including plant cell death. While the important role of PLCPs in plant immunity has become more evident, it remains largely elusive how these enzymes are activated and which signaling pathways are triggered to orchestrate different downstream responses.
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- Johana C Misas-Villamil
- Botanical Institute and Center of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne, BioCenter, Zuelpicher Str. 47a, D-50674, Cologne, Germany
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- The Plant Chemetics Laboratory, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Lane Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK
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- Botanical Institute and Center of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne, BioCenter, Zuelpicher Str. 47a, D-50674, Cologne, Germany
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Quain MD, Makgopa ME, Márquez-García B, Comadira G, Fernandez-Garcia N, Olmos E, Schnaubelt D, Kunert KJ, Foyer CH. Ectopic phytocystatin expression leads to enhanced drought stress tolerance in soybean (Glycine max) and Arabidopsis thaliana through effects on strigolactone pathways and can also result in improved seed traits. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2014; 12:903-13. [PMID: 24754628 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2013] [Accepted: 03/20/2014] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Ectopic cystatin expression has long been used in plant pest management, but the cysteine protease, targets of these inhibitors, might also have important functions in the control of plant lifespan and stress tolerance that remain poorly characterized. We therefore characterized the effects of expression of the rice cystatin, oryzacystatin-I (OCI), on the growth, development and stress tolerance of crop (soybean) and model (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants. Ectopic OCI expression in soybean enhanced shoot branching and leaf chlorophyll accumulation at later stages of vegetative development and enhanced seed protein contents and decreased the abundance of mRNAs encoding strigolactone synthesis enzymes. The OCI-expressing A. thaliana showed a slow-growth phenotype, with increased leaf numbers and enhanced shoot branching at flowering. The OCI-dependent inhibition of cysteine proteases enhanced drought tolerance in soybean and A. thaliana, photosynthetic CO2 assimilation being much less sensitive to drought-induced inhibition in the OCI-expressing soybean lines. Ectopic OCI expression or treatment with the cysteine protease inhibitor E64 increased lateral root densities in A. thaliana. E64 treatment also increased lateral root densities in the max2-1 mutants that are defective in strigolactone signalling, but not in the max3-9 mutants that are defective in strigolactone synthesis. Taken together, these data provide evidence that OCI-inhibited cysteine proteases participate in the control of growth and stress tolerance through effects on strigolactones. We conclude that cysteine proteases are important targets for manipulation of plant growth, development and stress tolerance, and also seed quality traits.
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- Marian D Quain
- Faculty of Biology, Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Crops Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Kumasi, Ghana
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Gholizadeh A. Maltose-binding protein switches programmed cell death in Nicotiana glutinosa leaf cells. CYTOL GENET+ 2014. [DOI: 10.3103/s0095452714020030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Moura HFN, Vasconcelos IM, Souza CEA, Silva FDA, Moreno FBMB, Lobo MDP, Monteiro-Moreira ACO, Moura AA, Costa JH, Oliveira JTA. Proteomics changes during the incompatible interaction between cowpea and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Penz and Sacc. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 217-218:158-175. [PMID: 24467908 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2013.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2013] [Revised: 11/14/2013] [Accepted: 12/10/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Anthracnose represents an important disease of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata L. (Walp.)] caused by the hemibiothrophic fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides that drastically reduces cowpea field production. In this study we investigated some biochemical aspects underlying the incompatible interaction between a resistant cowpea genotype and C. gloeosporioides using a proteomic approach. Analyses of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis patterns and protein identification indicate C. gloeosporioides infection-dependent cowpea leaf proteome changes associated with metabolism, photosynthesis, response to stress, oxidative burst and scavenging, defense signaling, and pathogenesis-related proteins. Moreover the C. gloeosporioides responsive proteins interaction network in cowpea revealed the interconnected modulation of key cellular processes involving particularly antioxidants proteins, photosynthetic apparatus forming proteins and proteins of the energetic metabolism that interact with each other suggesting that their expression changes are also important for resistance of cowpea to C. gloeosporioides.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
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- Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil.
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Doehlemann G, Hemetsberger C. Apoplastic immunity and its suppression by filamentous plant pathogens. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2013; 198:1001-1016. [PMID: 23594392 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2013] [Accepted: 03/07/2013] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Microbial plant pathogens have evolved a variety of strategies to enter plant hosts and cause disease. In particular, biotrophic pathogens, which parasitize living plant tissue, establish sophisticated interactions in which they modulate the plant's metabolism to their own good. The prime decision, whether or not a pathogen can accommodate itself in its host tissue, is made during the initial phase of infection. At this stage, the plant immune system recognizes conserved molecular patterns of the invading microbe, which initiate a set of basal immune responses. Induced plant defense proteins, toxic compounds and antimicrobial proteins encounter a broad arsenal of pathogen-derived virulence factors that aim to disarm host immunity. Crucial regulatory processes and protein-protein interactions take place in the apoplast, that is, intercellular spaces, plant cell walls and defined host-pathogen interfaces which are formed between the plant cytoplasm and the specialized infection structures of many biotrophic pathogens. This article aims to provide an insight into the most important principles and components of apoplastic plant immunity and its modulation by filamentous microbial pathogens.
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- Gunther Doehlemann
- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch Str. 10, D-35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch Str. 10, D-35043, Marburg, Germany
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Chivasa S, Tomé DFA, Slabas AR. UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase is a novel plant cell death regulator. J Proteome Res 2013; 12:1743-53. [PMID: 23438466 DOI: 10.1021/pr3010887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Programmed cell death (PCD) is an essential process that functions in plant organ sculpture, tissue differentiation, nutrient recycling, and defense against pathogen attack. A full understanding of the mechanism of PCD in plants is hindered by the limited identification of protein components of the complex signaling circuitry that underpins this important physiological process. Here we have used Arabidopsis thaliana and fumonisin B1 (FB1) to identify proteins that constitute part of the PCD signaling network. We made an inadvertent, but important observation that exogenous sucrose modulates FB1-induced cell death and identified sucrose-induced genes from publicly available transcriptomic data sets for reverse genetic analyses. Using transfer-DNA gene knockout plants, UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase 1 (UGP1), a sucrose-induced gene, was demonstrated to be a critical factor that regulates FB1-induced PCD. We employed 2D-DiGE to identify proteomic changes preceding PCD after exposure of Arabidopsis to FB1 and used UGP1 knockout plants to refine the analysis and isolate downstream candidate proteins with a putative PCD regulatory function. Our results reveal chloroplasts as the predominantly essential organelles in FB1-induced PCD. Overall, this study reveals a novel function of UGP1 as a cell death regulator and provides candidate proteins likely recruited downstream in the activation of plant PCD.
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- Stephen Chivasa
- School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University , Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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Pretsch K, Kemen A, Kemen E, Geiger M, Mendgen K, Voegele R. The rust transferred proteins-a new family of effector proteins exhibiting protease inhibitor function. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2013; 14:96-107. [PMID: 22998218 PMCID: PMC6638633 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2012.00832.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Only few fungal effectors have been described to be delivered into the host cell during obligate biotrophic interactions. RTP1p, from the rust fungi Uromyces fabae and U. striatus, was the first fungal protein for which localization within the host cytoplasm could be demonstrated directly. We investigated the occurrence of RTP1 homologues in rust fungi and examined the structural and biochemical characteristics of the corresponding gene products. The analysis of 28 homologues showed that members of the RTP family are most likely to occur ubiquitously in rust fungi and to be specific to the order Pucciniales. Sequence analyses indicated that the structure of the RTPp effectors is bipartite, consisting of a variable N-terminus and a conserved and structured C-terminus. The characterization of Uf-RTP1p mutants showed that four conserved cysteine residues sustain structural stability. Furthermore, the C-terminal domain exhibits similarities to that of cysteine protease inhibitors, and it was shown that Uf-RTP1p and Us-RTP1p are able to inhibit proteolytic activity in Pichia pastoris culture supernatants. We conclude that the RTP1p homologues constitute a rust fungi-specific family of modular effector proteins comprising an unstructured N-terminal domain and a structured C-terminal domain, which exhibit protease inhibitory activity possibly associated with effector function during biotrophic interactions.
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- Klara Pretsch
- Phytopathologie, Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Konstanz, 78457, Konstanz, Germany
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Briggs AG, Bent AF. Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation in plants. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2011; 16:372-80. [PMID: 21482174 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2011.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2010] [Revised: 03/07/2011] [Accepted: 03/09/2011] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs) and poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolases (PARGs) are the main enzymes responsible for the post-translational modification known as poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation. These enzymes play important roles in genotoxic stress tolerance and DNA repair, programmed cell death, transcription, and cell cycle control in animals. Similar impacts are being discovered in plants, as well as roles in plant-specific processes. In particular, we review recent work that has revealed significant roles for poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation in plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress, as well as roles for ADP-ribose pyrophosphatases (a subset of the nucleoside diphosphate linked to some moiety-X or NUDX hydrolases). Future challenges include identification of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation targets and interacting proteins, improved use of inhibitors and plant mutants, and field-based studies with economically valuable plant species.
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- Amy G Briggs
- Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI, USA
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Dutt S, Pandey D, Kumar A. Jasmonate signal induced expression of cystatin genes for providing resistance against Karnal bunt in wheat. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2011; 6:821-30. [PMID: 21849815 PMCID: PMC3218479 DOI: 10.4161/psb.6.6.14743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2010] [Revised: 12/25/2010] [Accepted: 01/05/2011] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Two wheat varieties HD-29 (resistant, R) and WH-542 (susceptible, S) were pretreated with jasmonic acid (JA) or jasmonate and then artificially inoculated with sporidial suspension of Tilletia indica to study its influence in reducing Karnal bunt (KB) infection by regulating cystatin gene expression. JA was found to improve the plant defense against KB as its exogenous application resulted in decrease in coefficient of infection (CI) in both susceptible and resistant varieties following pathogen inoculation. Transcript profiling of wheat cystatin genes at different days after inoculation (DAI) showed that JA pretreatment positively induced cystatin gene expression in both varieties with greater induction of expression in resistant variety than the susceptible one (P< 0.05). Different temporal expression of three wheat cystatin genes, WC2, WC3 and WCMD was observed with their increased expression at 1DAI in the boot emergence stage which is most susceptible to KB and then slowly declined gradually at 3, 7 and 15 DAI in both the varieties. Except WC2, higher expression of other two cystatins viz. WC3 and WCMD at 1DAI showed higher response (P< 0.05) to KB pathogenesis at the disease-prone boot emergence stage as also evident by decrease of CI in both varieties. The results of determination of specific activity of cystatin by inhibitor assay were found to be consistent with those of transcript profiling. These findings suggest that jasmonic acid (JA) may act as a potential activator of induced resistance against Karnal bunt of wheat by upregulating cystatin gene expression.
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- Shriparna Dutt
- Department of Molecular Biology & Genetic Engineering, College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand India
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McLellan H, Gilroy EM, Yun BW, Birch PRJ, Loake GJ. Functional redundancy in the Arabidopsis Cathepsin B gene family contributes to basal defence, the hypersensitive response and senescence. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2009; 183:408-418. [PMID: 19453434 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02865.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Cysteine proteases are required for programmed cell death (PCD) in animals. Recent work in Nicotiana benthamiana has implicated cathepsin B-like cysteine proteases in the hypersensitive response (HR) in plants, a form of PCD involved in disease resistance. Here, we investigate the function and regulation of Cathepsin B (CathB) genes in plant defence, and in both pathogen-inducible and developmental forms of PCD. Single, double and triple knockout mutants were isolated for the three Arabidopsis thaliana AtCathB genes. AtCathB genes were redundantly required for full basal resistance against the virulent bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) DC3000. By contrast, AtCathB genes were not required for R gene-mediated resistance to Pst DC3000 expressing AvrB or AvrRps4. Neither did they contribute to PCD triggered by AvrRps4, although they were crucial for the full development of PCD during HR triggered by AvrB. Cathepsin B has also been proposed to play a positive regulatory role in senescence. Atcathb triple mutants showed a delay in senescence and a seven-fold decrease in accumulation of senescence marker gene SAG12. Our results demonstrate a redundant function for AtCathB genes in basal defence as well as a potential regulatory role in distinct forms of plant PCD.
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- Hazel McLellan
- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK
- Plant Pathology Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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- Plant Pathology Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK
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- Plant Pathology Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
- Division of Plant Science, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee (at SCRI), Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK
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Peng SQ, Zhu JH, Li HL, Tian WM. Cloning and characterization of a novel cysteine protease gene (HbCP1) from Hevea brasiliensis. J Biosci 2009; 33:681-90. [PMID: 19179756 DOI: 10.1007/s12038-008-0088-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The full-length cDNA encoding a cysteine protease,designated HbCP1, was isolated for the first time from Hevea brasiliensis by the rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) method. HbCP1 contained a 1371 bp open reading frame encoding 457 amino acids.The deduced HbCP1 protein,which showed high identity to cysteine proteases of other plant species,was predicted to possess a putative repeat in toxin (RTX) domain at the N-terminal and a granulin (GRAN) domain at the C-terminal.Southern blot analysis indicated that the HbCP1 gene is present as a single copy in the rubber tree.Transcription pattern analysis revealed that HbCP1 had high transcription in laticifer,and low transcription in bark and leaf.The transcription of HbCP1 in latex was induced by ethylene and tapping.Cloning of the HbCP1 gene will enable us to further understand the molecular characterization of cysteine protease and its possible function in the rubber tree.
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- Shi-Qing Peng
- State Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Biotechnology,Institute of Tropical Biosciences and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China.
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Li Y, Yin H, Wang Q, Zhao X, Du Y, Li F. Oligochitosan induced Brassica napus L. production of NO and H2O2 and their physiological function. Carbohydr Polym 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2008.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Heath MC. Look before you leap: memoirs of a "cell biological" plant pathologist. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2009; 47:1-13. [PMID: 19385731 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080508-081857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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In this article, I recount how I became a plant pathologist and used clues derived from light and electron microscopy to direct my research on the interactions between plants and biotrophic fungi. Examples of the value of microscopic examination are described for investigations of host compatibility, the hypersensitive response, nonhost resistance, and the evolution of host-parasite specificity.
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- Michèle C Heath
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada.
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Bernoux M, Timmers T, Jauneau A, Brière C, de Wit PJGM, Marco Y, Deslandes L. RD19, an Arabidopsis cysteine protease required for RRS1-R-mediated resistance, is relocalized to the nucleus by the Ralstonia solanacearum PopP2 effector. THE PLANT CELL 2008; 20:2252-64. [PMID: 18708476 PMCID: PMC2553607 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.108.058685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2008] [Revised: 07/18/2008] [Accepted: 07/31/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Bacterial wilt, a disease impacting cultivated crops worldwide, is caused by the pathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum. PopP2 (for Pseudomonas outer protein P2) is an R. solanacearum type III effector that belongs to the YopJ/AvrRxv protein family and interacts with the Arabidopsis thaliana RESISTANT TO RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM 1-R (RRS1-R) resistance protein. RRS1-R contains the Toll/Interleukin1 receptor-nucleotide binding site-Leu-rich repeat domains found in several cytoplasmic R proteins and a C-terminal WRKY DNA binding domain. In this study, we identified the Arabidopsis Cys protease RESPONSIVE TO DEHYDRATION19 (RD19) as being a PopP2-interacting protein whose expression is induced during infection by R. solanacearum. An Arabidopsis rd19 mutant in an RRS1-R genetic background is compromised in resistance to the bacterium, indicating that RD19 is required for RRS1-R-mediated resistance. RD19 normally localizes in mobile vacuole-associated compartments and, upon coexpression with PopP2, is specifically relocalized to the plant nucleus, where the two proteins physically interact. No direct physical interaction between RRS1-R and RD19 in the presence of PopP2 was detected in the nucleus as determined by Förster resonance energy transfer. We propose that RD19 associates with PopP2 to form a nuclear complex that is required for activation of the RRS1-R-mediated resistance response.
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- Maud Bernoux
- Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes Microorganismes, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique 2594/441, F-31320 Castanet-Tolosan, France
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van Esse HP, Van't Klooster JW, Bolton MD, Yadeta KA, van Baarlen P, Boeren S, Vervoort J, de Wit PJGM, Thomma BPHJ. The Cladosporium fulvum virulence protein Avr2 inhibits host proteases required for basal defense. THE PLANT CELL 2008; 20:1948-63. [PMID: 18660430 PMCID: PMC2518240 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.108.059394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2008] [Revised: 06/30/2008] [Accepted: 07/08/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Cladosporium fulvum (syn. Passalora fulva) is a biotrophic fungal pathogen that causes leaf mold of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). During growth in the apoplast, the fungus establishes disease by secreting effector proteins, 10 of which have been characterized. We have previously shown that the Avr2 effector interacts with the apoplastic tomato Cys protease Rcr3, which is required for Cf-2-mediated immunity. We now show that Avr2 is a genuine virulence factor of C. fulvum. Heterologous expression of Avr2 in Arabidopsis thaliana causes enhanced susceptibility toward extracellular fungal pathogens, including Botrytis cinerea and Verticillium dahliae, and microarray analysis showed that Avr2 expression triggers a global transcriptome reflecting pathogen challenge. Cys protease activity profiling showed that Avr2 inhibits multiple extracellular Arabidopsis Cys proteases. In tomato, Avr2 expression caused enhanced susceptibility toward Avr2-defective C. fulvum strains and also toward B. cinerea and V. dahliae. Cys protease activity profiling in tomato revealed that, in this plant also, Avr2 inhibits multiple extracellular Cys proteases, including Rcr3 and its close relative Pip1. Finally, silencing of Avr2 significantly compromised C. fulvum virulence on tomato. We conclude that Avr2 is a genuine virulence factor of C. fulvum that inhibits several Cys proteases required for plant basal defense.
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- H Peter van Esse
- Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, 6709 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Hano C, Addi M, Fliniaux O, Bensaddek L, Duverger E, Mesnard F, Lamblin F, Lainé E. Molecular characterization of cell death induced by a compatible interaction between Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. linii and flax (Linum usitatissimum) cells. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2008; 46:590-600. [PMID: 18396055 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2008.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2007] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The cellular and molecular events associated with cell death during compatible interaction between Fusarium oxysporum sp. linii and a susceptible flax (Linum usitatissimum) cell suspension are reported here. In order to determine the physiological and molecular sequence of cell death of inoculated cells, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, mitochondrial potential, lipoxygenase, DNase, protease and caspase-3-like activities, lipid peroxidation and secondary metabolite production were monitored. We also used microscopy, in situ terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labelling (TUNEL) and DNA fragmentation assay. Cell death was associated with specific morphological and biochemical changes that are generally noticed in hypersensitive (incompatible) reaction. An oxidative burst as well as a loss of mitochondrial potential of inoculated cells, an activation of lipoxygenase and lipid peroxidation were noted. Enzyme-mediated nuclear DNA degradation was detectable but oligonucleosomal fragmentation was not observed. Caspase-3-like activity was dramatically increased in inoculated cells. Phenylpropanoid metabolism was also affected as demonstrated by activation of PAL and PCBER gene expressions and reduced soluble lignan and neolignan contents. These results obtained in flax suggest that compatible interaction triggers a cell death sequence sharing a number of common features with the hypersensitive response observed in incompatible interaction and in animal apoptosis.
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- Christophe Hano
- Laboratoire de Biologie des Ligneux et des Grandes Cultures, UPRES EA 1207, Antenne Scientifique Universitaire de Chartres, 21 rue de Loigny la Bataille, 28000 Chartres, France.
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Programmed cell death (PCD) is now accepted as a fundamental cellular process in plants. It is involved in defence, development and response to stress, and our understanding of these processes would be greatly improved through a greater knowledge of the regulation of plant PCD. However, there may be several types of PCD that operate in plants, and PCD research findings can be confusing if they are not assigned to a specific type of PCD. The various cell-death mechanisms need therefore to be carefully described and defined. This review describes one of these plant cell death processes, namely the apoptotic-like PCD (AL-PCD). We begin by examining the hallmark 'apoptotic-like' features (protoplast condensation, DNA degradation) of the cell's destruction that are characteristic of AL-PCD, and include examples of AL-PCD during the plant life cycle. The review explores the possible cellular 'executioners' (caspase-like molecules; mitochondria; de novo protein synthesis) that are responsible for the hallmark features of the cellular destruction. Finally, senescence is used as a case study to show that a rigorous definition of cell-death processes in plant cells can help to resolve arguments that occur in the scientific literature regarding the timing and control of plant cell death.
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- Theresa J Reape
- School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Gilroy EM, Hein I, van der Hoorn R, Boevink PC, Venter E, McLellan H, Kaffarnik F, Hrubikova K, Shaw J, Holeva M, López EC, Borras-Hidalgo O, Pritchard L, Loake GJ, Lacomme C, Birch PRJ. Involvement of cathepsin B in the plant disease resistance hypersensitive response. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2007; 52:1-13. [PMID: 17697096 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2007.03226.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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A diverse range of plant proteases are implicated in pathogen perception and in subsequent signalling and execution of disease resistance. We demonstrate, using protease inhibitors and virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS), that the plant papain cysteine protease cathepsin B is required for the disease resistance hypersensitive response (HR). VIGS of cathepsin B prevented programmed cell death (PCD) and compromised disease resistance induced by two distinct non-host bacterial pathogens. It also suppressed the HR triggered by transient co-expression of potato R3a and Phytophthora infestans Avr3a genes. However, VIGS of cathepsin B did not compromise HR following recognition of Cladosporium fulvum AVR4 by tomato Cf-4, indicating that plant PCD can be independent of cathepsin B. The non-host HR to Erwinia amylovora was accompanied by a transient increase in cathepsin B transcript level and enzymatic activity and induction of the HR marker gene Hsr203. VIGS of cathepsin B significantly reduced the induction of Hsr203 following E. amylovora challenge, further demonstrating a role for this protease in PCD. Whereas cathepsin B is often relocalized from the lysosome to the cytosol during animal PCD, plant cathepsin B is secreted into the apoplast, and is activated upon secretion in the absence of pathogen challenge.
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- Eleanor M Gilroy
- Plant Pathology Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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Fu Y, Zhao W, Peng Y. Induced expression of oryzain alpha gene encoding a cysteine proteinase under stress conditions. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2007; 120:465-9. [PMID: 17404686 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-007-0080-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2006] [Accepted: 02/05/2007] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Oryzain alpha-A, a cysteine proteinase gene was cloned from rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. Aichi-asahi) leaves infected with Magnaporthe grisea. The protein sequence deduced for oryzain alpha-A shares high identity with that of oryzain alpha, a gene expressed in germinating rice seed. Oryzain alpha-A gene expression was induced by the blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea, and the transcript level was even higher in the compatible interaction with rice than in the incompatible interaction. Expression of oryzain alpha-A was also inducible by wounding, ultraviolet radiation, and treatment with salicylic acid and abscisic acid, with no expression induced by methyl jasmonate. The function of oryzain alpha-A in cell death in rice is discussed.
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- Yanping Fu
- Department of Plant Pathology and the MOA Key Laboratory for Molecular Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Tian M, Win J, Song J, van der Hoorn R, van der Knaap E, Kamoun S. A Phytophthora infestans cystatin-like protein targets a novel tomato papain-like apoplastic protease. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 143:364-77. [PMID: 17085509 PMCID: PMC1761951 DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.090050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2006] [Accepted: 10/24/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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There is emerging evidence that the proteolytic machinery of plants plays important roles in defense against pathogens. The oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans, the agent of the devastating late blight disease of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) and potato (Solanum tuberosum), has evolved an arsenal of protease inhibitors to overcome the action of host proteases. Previously, we described a family of 14 Kazal-like extracellular serine protease inhibitors from P. infestans. Among these, EPI1 and EPI10 bind and inhibit the pathogenesis-related (PR) P69B subtilisin-like serine protease of tomato. Here, we describe EPIC1 to EPIC4, a new family of P. infestans secreted proteins with similarity to cystatin-like protease inhibitor domains. Among these, the epiC1 and epiC2 genes lacked orthologs in Phytophthora sojae and Phytophthora ramorum, were relatively fast-evolving within P. infestans, and were up-regulated during infection of tomato, suggesting a role during P. infestans-host interactions. Biochemical functional analyses revealed that EPIC2B interacts with and inhibits a novel papain-like extracellular cysteine protease, termed Phytophthora Inhibited Protease 1 (PIP1). Characterization of PIP1 revealed that it is a PR protein closely related to Rcr3, a tomato apoplastic cysteine protease that functions in fungal resistance. Altogether, this and earlier studies suggest that interplay between host proteases of diverse catalytic families and pathogen inhibitors is a general defense-counterdefense process in plant-pathogen interactions.
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- Miaoying Tian
- Department of Plant Pathology , The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA
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Many plant-associated microbes are pathogens that impair plant growth and reproduction. Plants respond to infection using a two-branched innate immune system. The first branch recognizes and responds to molecules common to many classes of microbes, including non-pathogens. The second responds to pathogen virulence factors, either directly or through their effects on host targets. These plant immune systems, and the pathogen molecules to which they respond, provide extraordinary insights into molecular recognition, cell biology and evolution across biological kingdoms. A detailed understanding of plant immune function will underpin crop improvement for food, fibre and biofuels production.
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- Jonathan D G Jones
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
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Kiba A, Takata O, Ohnishi K, Hikichi Y. Comparative analysis of induction pattern of programmed cell death and defense-related responses during hypersensitive cell death and development of bacterial necrotic leaf spots in eggplant. PLANTA 2006; 224:981-94. [PMID: 16614819 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-006-0277-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2006] [Accepted: 03/25/2006] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Pseudomonas cichorii causes necrotic leaf spots (NLS), while Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci induces a hypersensitive response (HR) in eggplant. P. cichorii induced cell death at 9 h after inoculation (HAI), reaching a maximum of around 24-30 HAI. On the other hand, cell death was induced 6 HAI with P. syringae pv. tabaci, reaching a maximum of around 12-18 HAI. Superoxide generation was observed in eggplant inoculated with both bacteria. DNA fragmentation, cytochrome c release into the cytosol and expression of defense-related genes such as PR-1 and hsr203J was also induced by inoculation with both bacteria, but these plant reactions were more rapidly induced in eggplant inoculated with P. syringae pv. tabaci rather than those with P. cichorii. Lipid peroxidation and induction of lipoxygenase (LOX) was drastically induced in eggplant inoculated with P. syringae pv. tabaci compared to P. cichorii-inoculated eggplant. Pharmacological studies showed that induction of the cell death, and the NLS or the HR in response to both bacteria was commonly associated with de novo protein synthesis, reactive oxygen species and caspase III-like protease. Interestingly, involvement of lipid peroxidation, LOX, serine protease, and DNase differed between induction of NLS and HR. These results suggest that programmed cell death might be closely associated not only with the HR but also NLS. However, there may be differences not only in the induction kinetics and level of plant responses but also in the infection-related responses between HR and NLS.
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- Akinori Kiba
- Laboratory of Plant Pathology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi University, Nankoku, 783-8502, Japan.
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Chen HJ, Huang DJ, Hou WC, Liu JS, Lin YH. Molecular cloning and characterization of a granulin-containing cysteine protease SPCP3 from sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) senescent leaves. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2006; 163:863-76. [PMID: 16777534 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2005.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2005] [Accepted: 08/29/2005] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Granulins are a family of evolutionarily ancient proteins that are involved in regulating cell growth and division in animals. In this report a full-length cDNA, SPCP3, was isolated from senescent leaves of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). SPCP3 contains 1389 nucleotides (462 amino acids) in its open reading frame, and exhibits high amino acid sequence homologies (ca. 64-73.6%) with several plant granulin-containing cysteine proteases, including potato, tomato, soybean, kidney bean, pea, maize, rice, cabbage, and Arabidopsis. Gene structural analysis shows that SPCP3 encodes a putative precursor protein. Via cleavage of the N-terminal propeptide, it generates a protein with 324 amino acids (from the 139th to the 462nd amino acid residues), which contains two main domains: the conserved catalytic domain with the putative catalytic residues (the 163rd Cys, 299th His and 319th Asn) and the C-terminal granulin domain (from the 375th to the 462nd amino acid residues). Semi-quantitative RT-PCR and protein gel blot hybridization showed that SPCP3 gene expression was enhanced significantly in natural senescent leaves and in dark- and ethephon-induced senescent leaves, but was almost undetectable in mature green leaves, veins, and roots. Phylogenic analysis showed that SPCP3 displayed close association with a group of plant granulin-containing cysteine proteases which have been implied to be involved in programmed cell death. In conclusion, sweet potato SPCP3 is a functional, senescence-associated gene. Its mRNA and protein levels were significantly enhanced in natural and induced senescing leaves. The physiological role and/or function of SPCP3 associated with programmed cell death during leaf senescence were also discussed.
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- Hsien-Jung Chen
- Department of Horticulture, Chinese Culture University, 111 Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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Kiba A, Sangawa Y, Ohnishi K, Yao N, Park P, Nakayashiki H, Tosa Y, Mayama S, Hikichi Y. Induction of apoptotic cell death leads to the development of bacterial rot caused by Pseudomonas cichorii. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2006; 19:112-22. [PMID: 16529373 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-19-0112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Pseudomonas cichorii is the major causal agent of bacterial rot of lettuce. Collapse and browning symptoms were observed in lettuce leaf tissue from 15 to 24 h after inoculation (HAI) with P. cichorii; superoxide anion generation was detected at 1 to 6 HAI; and cell death was induced at 6 HAI, reaching a maximum at approximately 9 and 12 HAI. Heterochromatin condensation and DNA laddering also were observed within 3 HAI. Pharmacological studies showed that induction of cell death and DNA laddering was closely associated with de novo protein synthesis, protein kinase, intracellular reactive oxygen species, DNase, serine protease, and caspase III-like protease. Moreover, chemicals, which inhibited the induction of cell death and DNA laddering, also suppressed the development of disease symptoms. These results suggest that apoptotic cell death might be closely associated with the development of bacterial rot caused by P. cichorii.
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- Akinori Kiba
- Laboratory of Plant Pathology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi University, Nankoku, 783-8502 Japan.
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Mur LAJ, Carver TLW, Prats E. NO way to live; the various roles of nitric oxide in plant-pathogen interactions. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2006; 57:489-505. [PMID: 16377733 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erj052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Nitric oxide has attracted considerable interest from plant pathologists due its established role in regulating mammalian anti-microbial defences, particularly via programmed cell death (PCD). Although NO plays a major role in plant PCD elicited in response to certain types of pathogenic challenge, the race-specific hypersensitive response (HR), it is now evident that NO also acts in the regulation of non-specific, papilla-based resistance to penetration by plant cells that survive attack and, possibly, in systemic acquired resistance. Equally, the potential roles of NO signalling/scavenging within the pathogen are being recognized. This review will consider key defensive roles played by NO in living cells during plant-pathogen interactions, as well as in those undergoing PCD.
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- Luis A J Mur
- University of Wales Aberystwyth, Institute of Biological Sciences, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2DA, UK.
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van der Hoorn RAL, Jones JDG. The plant proteolytic machinery and its role in defence. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2004; 7:400-7. [PMID: 15231262 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The diverse roles of plant proteases in defence responses that are triggered by pathogens or pests are becoming clearer. Some proteases, such as papain in latex, execute the attack on the invading organism. Other proteases seem to be part of a signalling cascade, as indicated by protease inhibitor studies. Such a role has also been suggested for the recently discovered metacaspases and CDR1. Some proteases, such as RCR3, even act in perceiving the invader. These exciting recent reports are probably just the first examples of what lies beneath. More roles for plant proteases in defence, as well as the regulation and substrates of these enzymes, are waiting to be discovered.
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Thrane C, Kaufmann U, Stummann BM, Olsson S. Activation of caspase-like activity and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase degradation during sporulation in Aspergillus nidulans. Fungal Genet Biol 2004; 41:361-8. [PMID: 14761796 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2003.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2003] [Accepted: 11/10/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Mycelium vacuolization, protein degradation, and as the final stage autolysis, often accompanies developmental changes in fungi and similarities between autolysis and apoptosis have previously been suggested. Caspases are the key executors of apoptosis and in this study caspase-like activities were detected in protein extracts from Aspergillus nidulans during sporulation. This was shown by hydrolysis of the fluorescent DEVD- and IETD-AFC peptide substrates specific for caspase 3- and 8-like activities, respectively. These activities were repressed by the caspase 3 and 8 specific irreversible peptide inhibitors DEVD-fmk and IETD-fmk, but were not affected by the unspecific inhibitor E-64. Isoelectric focusing of protein extracts followed by activity staining revealed the presence of two bands with caspase-like activity. One of the proteins degraded both caspase 3 and caspase 8 specific substrates whereas the other only degraded the caspase 8 substrate. Searches in an A. nidulans genome database revealed two genes encoding metacaspase proteins with predicted sizes of 45 kDa that could be responsible for the measured caspase-like activities. The searches also found a single gene encoding a poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) protein with a predicted size of 81 kDa. PARP is one of the known target proteins inactivated by caspase degradation in animal cells. Western blotting of fungal extracts using a bovine PARP antibody confirmed the presence of a fungal PARP-like protein of about 81 kDa. By Western blotting it was shown that this PARP-like protein band was present only at early time points until the start of conidia formation and the accompanying increase in caspase-like activity. Thereafter, a degradation product of about 60 kDa appeared indicating that the degradation of the fungal PARP-like protein was specific. The PARP antibody also recognized an 85 kDa protein band that was not degraded, and which conceivably represents a modified form of the 81 kDa PARP. Fungal extracts high in caspase-like activity could degrade both the fungal 81 kDa PARP and bovine PARP. In the presence of the caspase 3 inhibitor DEVD-fmk this degradation was delayed. Thus, as in animal apoptotic cells, caspase activities are involved in fungal mycelium self-activated proteolysis.
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- C Thrane
- Department of Ecology, Section of Genetics and Microbiology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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Avrova AO, Taleb N, Rokka VM, Heilbronn J, Campbell E, Hein I, Gilroy EM, Cardle L, Bradshaw JE, Stewart HE, Fakim YJ, Loake G, Birch PRJ. Potato oxysterol binding protein and cathepsin B are rapidly up-regulated in independent defence pathways that distinguish R gene-mediated and field resistances to Phytophthora infestans. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2004; 5:45-56. [PMID: 20565581 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2004.00205.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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SUMMARY Suppression subtractive hybridization was used to isolate the genes which are specifically up-regulated in the biotrophic phase of the incompatible interaction between a potato genotype, 1512 c(16), containing the resistance gene R2, and a Phytophthora infestans isolate containing the avirulence gene Avr2. Eight cDNAs were up-regulated in the biotrophic phase of the incompatible interaction. Seven of these were also up-regulated in the compatible interaction, but not until late in the necrotrophic phase. Amongst the sequences to be isolated were genes encoding the cysteine protease cathepsin B, StCathB, and an oxysterol binding protein, StOBP1; equivalent genes are involved in programmed cell death (PCD) processes in animals, but have yet to be implicated in such processes in plants. Whereas StOBP1 was up-regulated early in potato plants containing either R gene-mediated or moderate to high levels of field resistance, the highest levels of up-regulation of StCathB were observed early in R gene-mediated resistance but gradually increased from the early to late stages of field resistance, revealing these genes to be components of independent defence pathways and providing a means of distinguishing between these forms of resistance. StOBP1 was up-regulated by oligogalacturonides (plant cell wall breakdown products generated by pectinase activities), indicating that it is also a component of a general, non-specific defence pathway and is unlikely to play a role in PCD. In contrast, the expression of StCathB was unaffected by oligogalacturonide treatment, further associating its up-regulation specifically with the gene-for-gene interaction.
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- Anna O Avrova
- Plant-Pathogen Interactions Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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Bozhkov PV, Filonova LH, Suarez MF, Helmersson A, Smertenko AP, Zhivotovsky B, von Arnold S. VEIDase is a principal caspase-like activity involved in plant programmed cell death and essential for embryonic pattern formation. Cell Death Differ 2003; 11:175-82. [PMID: 14576770 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4401330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Plant embryogenesis is intimately associated with programmed cell death. The mechanisms of initiation and control of programmed cell death during plant embryo development are not known. Proteolytic activity associated with caspase-like proteins is paramount for control of programmed cell death in animals and yeasts. Caspase family of proteases has unique strong preference for cleavage of the target proteins next to asparagine residue. In this work, we have used synthetic peptide substrates containing caspase recognition sites and corresponding specific inhibitors to analyse the role of caspase-like activity in the regulation of programmed cell death during plant embryogenesis. We demonstrate that VEIDase is a principal caspase-like activity implicated in plant embryogenesis. This activity increases at the early stages of embryo development that coincide with massive cell death during shape remodeling. The VEIDase activity exhibits high sensitivity to pH, ionic strength and Zn(2+) concentration. Altogether, biochemical assays show that VEIDase plant caspase-like activity resembles that of both mammalian caspase-6 and yeast metacaspase, YCA1. In vivo, VEIDase activity is localised specifically in the embryonic cells during both the commitment and in the beginning of the execution phase of programmed cell death. Inhibition of VEIDase prevents normal embryo development via blocking the embryo-suspensor differentiation. Our data indicate that the VEIDase activity is an integral part in the control of plant developmental cell death programme, and that this activity is essential for the embryo pattern formation.
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- P V Bozhkov
- 1Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7080, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Franklin-Tong VE, Franklin FCH. The different mechanisms of gametophytic self-incompatibility. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2003; 358:1025-32. [PMID: 12831468 PMCID: PMC1693207 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Self-incompatibility (SI) involves the recognition and rejection of self or genetically identical pollen. Gametophytic SI is probably the most widespread of the SI systems and, so far, two completely different SI mechanisms, which appear to have evolved separately, have been identified. One mechanism is the RNase system, which is found in the Solanaceae, Rosaceae and Scrophulariaceae. The other is a complex system, so far found only in the Papaveraceae, which involves the triggering of signal transduction cascade(s) that result in rapid pollen tube inhibition and cell death. Here, we present an overview of what is currently known about the mechanisms involved in controlling pollen tube inhibition in these two systems.
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Kim M, Ahn JW, Jin UH, Choi D, Paek KH, Pai HS. Activation of the programmed cell death pathway by inhibition of proteasome function in plants. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:19406-15. [PMID: 12637532 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m210539200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Proteasomes constitute the major machinery to degrade or process proteins by ATP/ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis. Recent findings suggest a pivotal role of the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway in the regulation of apoptosis in animal cells. Here we show that virus-induced gene silencing of two different subunits of the 26 S proteasome, the alpha 6 subunit of the 20 S proteasome and RPN9 subunit of 19 S regulatory complex, both activated the programmed cell death (PCD) program, accompanied by reduced proteasome activity and accumulation of polyubiquitinated proteins. These results demonstrate that disruption of proteasome function leads to PCD in plant cells. The affected cells showed morphological markers of PCD, including nuclear condensation and DNA fragmentation, accompanied by the 10-fold higher production of reactive oxygen species and increased ion leakage for 3-fold. Similar to apoptosis in animal system, mitochondrial membrane potential was decreased, cytochrome c released from mitochondria to cytosol, and caspase 9- and caspase 3-like proteolytic activities detected in the cells. Interestingly, this proteasome-mediated PCD stimulated the expression of only a subset of transcripts that are highly induced during pathogen-mediated hypersensitive response cell death, indicating that the two PCD pathways are differentially regulated. Taken together, these results provide the first direct evidence that proteasomes play a role in the regulatory program of PCD in plants. Controlled inhibition of proteasome activities may be involved in developmentally or environmentally activated plant cell death programs.
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- Moonil Kim
- Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, P. O. Box 115, Yusong, Taejon 305-600, Korea
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Rudd JJ, Franklin-Tong VE. Signals and targets of the self-incompatibility response in pollen of Papaver rhoeas. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2003; 54:141-148. [PMID: 12456764 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Self-incompatibility (SI) in Papaver rhoeas involves an allele-specific recognition between stigmatic S-proteins and pollen, resulting in inhibition of incompatible pollen. A picture of some of the signalling events and mechanisms involved in this specific inhibition of pollen tube growth is beginning to be built up. This highly specific response triggers a Ca(2+)-dependent signalling cascade in incompatible pollen when a stigmatic S-protein interacts with it. Rapid increases in cytosolic free Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) can now be attributed (at least in part) to Ca(2+) influx. The rapid loss of the pollen apical Ca(2+) gradient within approximately 1-2 min is accompanied by the inhibition of pollen tube tip growth. Concomitant with this time-frame, hyper-phosphorylation of p26, a soluble pollen phosphoprotein is detected. Characterization of p26 reveals that it is a soluble inorganic pyrophosphatase, which suggests a possible direct functional role in pollen tube growth. Slightly later, a putative MAP kinase (p52) is thought to be activated. Finally, preliminary evidence that programmed cell death (PCD) may be triggered in this response is described. A key target for these signals, the actin cytoskeleton, has also been identified. In this article the current understanding of some of the components of this signalling cascade and how they are beginning to throw some light on possible mechanisms involved in this SI-induced inhibition of pollen tube growth, is discussed.
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- Jason J Rudd
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK
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Hoeberichts FA, Woltering EJ. Multiple mediators of plant programmed cell death: interplay of conserved cell death mechanisms and plant-specific regulators. Bioessays 2003; 25:47-57. [PMID: 12508282 DOI: 10.1002/bies.10175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Programmed cell death (PCD) is a process aimed at the removal of redundant, misplaced, or damaged cells and it is essential to the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. In contrast to the relatively well-described cell death pathway in animals, often referred to as apoptosis, mechanisms and regulation of plant PCD are still ill-defined. Several morphological and biochemical similarities between apoptosis and plant PCD have been described, including DNA laddering, caspase-like proteolytic activity, and cytochrome c release from mitochondria. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have emerged as important signals in the activation of plant PCD. In addition, several plant hormones may exert their respective effects on plant PCD through the regulation of ROS accumulation. The possible plant PCD regulators discussed in this review are integrated in a model that combines plant-specific regulators with mechanisms functionally conserved between animals and plants.
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- Frank A Hoeberichts
- Agrotechnological Research Institute (ATO), Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
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Staiger CJ, Franklin-Tong VE. The actin cytoskeleton is a target of the self-incompatibility response in Papaver rhoeas. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2003; 54:103-113. [PMID: 12456760 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The integration of signals received by a cell, and their transduction to targets, is essential for all cellular responses. The cytoskeleton has been identified as a major target of signalling cascades in both animal and plant cells. Self-incompatibility (SI) in Papaver rhoeas involves an allele-specific recognition between stigmatic S-proteins and pollen, resulting in the inhibition of incompatible pollen. This highly specific response triggers a Ca(2+)-dependent signalling cascade in incompatible pollen when a stigmatic S-protein interacts with it. It has been demonstrated recently that SI induces dramatic alterations in the organization of the pollen actin cytoskeleton. This implicates the actin cytoskeleton as a key target for the SI-stimulated signals. The cytological alterations to the actin cytoskeleton that are triggered in response to SI are described here and there seem to be several stages that are distinguishable temporally. Evidence was obtained that F-actin depolymerization is also stimulated. The current understanding that the actin cytoskeleton is a target for the signals triggered by the SI response is discussed. It is suggested that these F-actin alterations may be Ca(2+)-mediated and that this could be a mechanism whereby SI-induced tip growth inhibition is achieved. The potential for actin-binding proteins to act as key mediators of this response is discussed and the mechanisms that may be responsible for effecting these changes are described. In particular, the parallels between sustained actin rearrangements during SI and in apoptosis of animal cells are considered.
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- C J Staiger
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1392, USA
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Woltering EJ, van der Bent A, Hoeberichts FA. Do plant caspases exist? PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 130:1764-9. [PMID: 12481059 PMCID: PMC1540272 DOI: 10.1104/pp.006338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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- Ernst J Woltering
- Institute for Agrotechnological Research (ATO), Wageningen University and Research Center, PO Box 17, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Elbaz M, Avni A, Weil M. Constitutive caspase-like machinery executes programmed cell death in plant cells. Cell Death Differ 2002; 9:726-33. [PMID: 12058273 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4401030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2001] [Revised: 11/15/2001] [Accepted: 01/11/2002] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The morphological features of programmed cell death (PCD) and the molecular machinery involved in the death program in animal cells have been intensively studied. In plants, cell death has been widely observed in predictable patterns throughout differentiation processes and in defense responses. Several lines of evidence argue that plant PCD shares some characteristic features with animal PCD. However, the molecular components of the plant PCD machinery remain obscure. We have shown that plant cells undergo PCD by constitutively expressed molecular machinery upon induction with the fungal elicitor EIX or by staurosporine in the presence of cycloheximide. The permeable peptide caspase inhibitors, zVAD-fmk and zBocD-fmk, blocked PCD induced by EIX or staurosporine. Using labeled VAD-fmk, active caspase-like proteases were detected within intact cells and in cell extracts of the PCD-induced cells. These findings suggest that caspase-like proteases are responsible for the execution of PCD in plant cells.
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- M Elbaz
- Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Curtis MJ, Wolpert TJ. The oat mitochondrial permeability transition and its implication in victorin binding and induced cell death. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2002; 29:295-312. [PMID: 11844107 DOI: 10.1046/j.0960-7412.2001.01213.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The mitochondrion has emerged as a key regulator of apoptosis, a form of animal programmed cell death (PCD). The mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT), facilitated by a pore-mediated, rapid permeability increase in the inner membrane, has been implicated as an early and critical step of apoptosis. Victorin, the host-selective toxin produced by Cochliobolus victoriae, the causal agent of victoria blight of oats, has been demonstrated to bind to the mitochondrial P-protein and also induces a form of PCD. Previous results suggest that a MPT may facilitate victorin's access to the mitochondrial matrix and binding to the P-protein: (i) victorin-induced cell death displays features similar to apoptosis; (ii) in vivo, victorin binds to the mitochondrial P-protein only in toxin-sensitive genotypes whereas victorin binds equally well to P-protein isolated from toxin-sensitive and insensitive oats; (iii) isolated, untreated mitochondria are impermeable to victorin. The data implicate an in vivo change in mitochondrial permeability in response to victorin. This study focused on whether oat mitochondria can undergo a MPT. Isolated oat mitochondria demonstrated high-amplitude swelling when treated with spermine or Ca2+ in the presence of the Ca2+-ionophore A23187, and when treated with mastoparan, an inducer of the MPT in rat liver mitochondria. In all cases, swelling demonstrated size exclusion in the range 0.9-1.7 kDa, similar to that found in animal mitochondria. Further, MPT-inducing conditions permitted victorin access to the mitochondrial matrix and binding to the P-protein. In vivo, victorin treatment induced the collapse of mitochondrial transmembrane potential within 2 h, indicating a MPT. Also, the victorin-induced collapse of membrane potential was clearly distinct from that induced by uncoupling respiration, as the latter event prevented the victorin-induced PCD response and binding to P-protein. These results demonstrate that a MPT can occur in oat mitochondria in vitro, and are consistent with the hypothesis that an MPT, which allows victorin access to the mitochondrial matrix and binding to the P-protein, occurs in vivo during victorin-induced PCD.
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- Marc J Curtis
- Molecular Cellular Biology Program, and Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-2902, USA
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Liu Y, Dammann C, Bhattacharyya MK. The matrix metalloproteinase gene GmMMP2 is activated in response to pathogenic infections in soybean. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2001. [PMID: 11743122 DOI: 10.1104/pp.010593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play an important role in host defense responses against pathogens in mammals where their activities lead to the production of antimicrobial peptides. We have identified a novel soybean (Glycine max) metalloproteinase gene, GmMMP2, that is transcriptionally up-regulated in infected tissues. The deduced amino acid sequence indicates that this gene belongs to the MMP family. It is a preproprotein containing an N-terminal signal peptide, a cysteine switch, a zinc-binding catalytic motif, and a C-terminal transmembrane domain. The GmMMP2 expressed in and purified from Escherichia coli exhibited an in vitro enzymatic activity in digesting myelin basic protein. All plant metalloproteinases reported so far have no known functions. However, they have been suggested to be involved in extracellular cell matrix degradation during development or senescence. Our investigations demonstrate that the GmMMP2 transcript levels were rapidly increased in compatible and incompatible interactions of soybean tissues with the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora sojae or the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea. In agreement with the GmMMP2 activation, a metalloproteinase activity was gradually increased in suspension-cultured cells following the bacterial infection. GmMMP2 was also activated in response to wounding and dehydration. However, GmMMP2 activation did not correlate with the oxidative burst leading to the hypersensitive response cell death or the tissue senescence progress that involves programmed cell death. Our investigations suggest that GmMMP2 may be involved in a novel defense response of soybean against pathogenic infections.
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- Y Liu
- Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402, USA.
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Yao N, Tada Y, Park P, Nakayashiki H, Tosa Y, Mayama S. Novel evidence for apoptotic cell response and differential signals in chromatin condensation and DNA cleavage in victorin-treated oats. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2001; 28:13-26. [PMID: 11696183 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2001.01109.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Histological and cytological evidence of where and when apoptotic cells occur in Pc-2/Vb oat cells treated with victorin was obtained by observing DNA strand breaks at both light (LM) and electron microscope (EM) levels using TUNEL techniques. DNA from leaf segments that had been floated on victorin solution with the abaxial epidermis removed showed typical ladders on agarose gels. Nuclear chromatin condensation, followed by cell collapse, started in the mesophyll cells closest to the victorin solution. LM-TUNEL was positive in the non-collapsed cells but not in the collapsed cells in the treated leaves. However, the EM-TUNEL assay was positive in the nuclei of the non-collapsed as well as the collapsed cells where nuclear fragments dispersed into the cytoplasm, and the immunogold density was much higher than that in the cells killed by a high concentration of H2O2, suggesting that the victorin-treated collapsed cells are in the last stage of apoptotic cell death. The immunogold labelling in the victorin-treated non-collapsed cells was restricted to condensed heterochromatin, indicating that chromatin condensation is associated with DNA cleavage. Pharmacological studies indicated that proteases and nucleases may play a role in the apoptotic response. However, the EM-TUNEL assay indicated that EGTA co-incubated with victorin blocked DNA cleavage, but failed to prevent chromatin condensation. Moreover, protein kinases were involved in chromatin condensation, but did not affect DNA digestion, suggesting that chromatin condensation and DNA cleavage are differentially regulated in the death process in oats.
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- N Yao
- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, The Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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Lam E, del Pozo O. Caspase-like protease involvement in the control of plant cell death. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2000; 44:417-428. [PMID: 11199398 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0934-8_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Cell death as a highly regulated process has now been recognized to be an important, if not essential, pathway that is ubiquitous in all multicellular eukaryotes. In addition to playing key roles in the morphogenesis and sculpting of the organs to give rise to highly specialized forms and shapes, cell death also participates in the programmed creation of specialized cell types for essential functions such as the selection of B cells in the immune system of mammals and the formation of tracheids in the xylem of vascular plants. Studies of apoptosis, the most well-characterized form of animal programmed cell death, have culminated in the identification of a central tripartite death switch the enzymatic component of which is a conserved family of cysteine proteases called caspases. Studies in invertebrates and other animal models suggest that caspases are conserved regulators of apoptotic cell death in all metazoans. In plant systems, the identities of the main executioners that orchestrate cell death remain elusive. Recent evidence from inhibitor studies and biochemical approaches suggests that caspase-like proteases may also be involved in cell death control in higher plants. Furthermore, the mitochondrion and reactive oxygen species may well constitute a common pathway for cell death activation in both animal and plant cells. Cloning of plant caspase-like proteases and elucidation of the mechanisms through which mitochondria may regulate cell death in both systems should shed light on the evolution of cell death control in eukaryotes and may help to identify essential components that are highly conserved in eukaryotes.
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- E Lam
- Biotech Center, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA.
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Chen HM, Zhou J, Dai YR. Cleavage of lamin-like proteins in in vivo and in vitro apoptosis of tobacco protoplasts induced by heat shock. FEBS Lett 2000; 480:165-8. [PMID: 11034321 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01912-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Apoptosis in heat shock-treated tobacco protoplasts was evidenced by DNA fragmentation, flow cytometric analysis and activation of caspase 3-like protease. Furthermore, an in vitro apoptosis system was established which reproduced the apoptotic events. Western blotting analysis using an antibody against lamin A and C showed that in both in vivo and in vitro systems lamin-like proteins were cleaved into a 35-kDa fragment, and that lamin-like protein degradation precedes DNA fragmentation. Moreover, we found a 22.8-fold increase in caspase 6-like activity in cytosol of heat-treated protoplasts as compared with the control.
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- H M Chen
- Department of Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China
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In the past year, most of the advances in our understanding of nonhost resistance to plant pathogens have been incremental. Highlights include the discovery of a general bacterial elicitor of plant defenses, the description of more similarities between the hypersensitive response and animal programmed cell death, and a growing appreciation of the cell wall as the site of initiation and expression of nonhost resistance towards fungi.
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- M C Heath
- Botany Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3B2, Canada.
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Tian RH, Zhang GY, Yan CH, Dai YR. Involvement of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase and activation of caspase-3-like protease in heat shock-induced apoptosis in tobacco suspension cells. FEBS Lett 2000; 474:11-5. [PMID: 10828442 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01561-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) by caspase (casp)-3 is an essential link in the apoptotic pathway in animal cells. In plant cells, however, there is no authentic evidence for the similar role that PARP may play during apoptosis. Using a heat shock (HS)-induced apoptosis system of tobacco cells, we found that immediately after a 4 h heat treatment, PARP was cleaved to form an 89 kDa signature fragment, while DNA laddering appeared only after a 20 h recovery following the HS. An activation of casp-3-like protease was also observed. The results suggest that apoptosis in plants and animals may share common mechanisms. On the other hand, when cells were preincubated with 4 mM 3-aminobenzamide or 2-8 mM nicotinamide, the specific inhibitors of PARP, before HS treatment, apoptotic cell death was reduced significantly. Our results thus imply that PARP may also be involved in apoptosis in a different way from the casp-related events.
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- R h Tian
- Department of Biology, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China
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Carlile AJ, Bindschedler LV, Bailey AM, Bowyer P, Clarkson JM, Cooper RM. Characterization of SNP1, a cell wall-degrading trypsin, produced during infection by Stagonospora nodorum. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2000; 13:538-550. [PMID: 10796020 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.2000.13.5.538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Stagonospora (= Septoria) nodorum when grown in liquid culture with wheat cell walls as the sole carbon and nitrogen source secretes numerous extracellular depolymerases, including a rapidly produced, alkaline, trypsin-like protease (SNP1). The enzyme was purified 417-fold by cation exchange chromatography and has a molecular mass of 25 kDa on sodium dodecyl sulfate gels, pI 8.7, and pH optimum of 8.5. It cleaved peptide bonds on the carboxyl side of lysine or arginine, was strongly inhibited by the trypsin inhibitors aprotinin and leupeptin and weakly by phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, and its activity was stimulated by calcium. SNP1 has the characteristic, conserved, fungal, trypsin N terminus. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers based on this sequence and the conserved trypsin active site were used to amplify a DNA fragment that facilitated isolation of the corresponding genomic clone from a lambda library of S. nodorum. The full-length sequence confirmed its identity as a trypsin-like protease containing the N-terminal sequence of the previously purified enzyme. Infected leaf tissue contained a protease, not present in controls, that coeluted with the fungal trypsin from cation exchange, and had properties (pI and inhibitor characteristics) similar to those of the fungal trypsin. SNP1 expression in planta was detected by Northern (RNA) blotting, reverse transcription PCR, and green fluorescent protein confocal microscopy. SNP1 released hydroxyproline from wheat cell walls. The release of hydroxyproline, together with its early expression in planta, suggests that SNP1 participates in the degradation of host cell walls during infection.
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- A J Carlile
- Microbial Pathogenicity Group, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, UK
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Rustérucci C, Montillet JL, Agnel JP, Battesti C, Alonso B, Knoll A, Bessoule JJ, Etienne P, Suty L, Blein JP, Triantaphylidès C. Involvement of lipoxygenase-dependent production of fatty acid hydroperoxides in the development of the hypersensitive cell death induced by cryptogein on tobacco leaves. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:36446-55. [PMID: 10593941 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.51.36446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Lipid peroxidation was investigated in relation with the hypersensitive reaction in cryptogein-elicited tobacco leaves. A massive production of free polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) hydroperoxides dependent on a 9-lipoxygenase (LOX) activity was characterized during the development of leaf necrosis. The process occurred after a lag phase of 12 h, was accompanied by the concomitant increase of 9-LOX activity, and preceded by a transient accumulation of LOX transcripts. Free radical-mediated lipid peroxidation represented 10% of the process. Inhibition and activation of the LOX pathway was shown to inhibit or to activate cell death, and evidence was provided that fatty acid hydroperoxides are able to mimic leaf necrotic symptoms. Within 24 h, about 50% of leaf PUFAs were consumed, chloroplast lipids being the major source of PUFAs. The results minimize the direct participation of active oxygen species from the oxidative burst in membrane lipid peroxidation. They suggest, furthermore, the involvement of lipase activity to provide the free PUFA substrates for LOX. The LOX-dependent peroxidative pathway, responsible for tissue necrosis, appears as being one of the features of hypersensitive programmed cell death.
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- C Rustérucci
- CEA-Cadarache, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Département d'Ecophysiologie Végétale et de Microbiologie, Laboratoire de Radiobiologie Végétale, 13108 Saint-Paul Lez Durance Cedex, France
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Avrova AO, Stewart HE, De Jong WD, Heilbronn J, Lyon GD, Birch PR. A cysteine protease gene is expressed early in resistant potato interactions with Phytophthora infestans. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 1999; 12:1114-1119. [PMID: 10624019 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.1999.12.12.1114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A potato cysteine protease (cyp) cDNA expressed at an early stage of an incompatible interaction with Phytophthora infestans was isolated. Both the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences are highly homologous to those of a tomato cysteine protease, CYP1. Striking protein similarity to all known cathepsins in animals, particularly cathepsin K, was also observed. However, unlike cathepsins, a granulin binding domain is located near the carboxyl terminus of the putative CYP protein. In animals, granulins bind to receptors in the plasma membrane and signal cell growth and division. A ribonuclease protection assay demonstrated that the cyp gene is tightly regulated and is induced 15 h post inoculation with P. infestans in potato leaves either with high field resistance or in which a resistance (R) gene is activated. We conclude that a common signaling pathway is activated in each form of resistance.
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- A O Avrova
- Department of Fungal and Bacterial Plant Pathology, Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), Invergowrie, Dundee, U.K
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