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Wang Q, Chen H, Zhu L, Feng P, Fan M, Wang J. WSL214 negatively regulates ROS accumulation and pathogen defense response in rice. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2023; 42:449-460. [PMID: 36585972 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-022-02970-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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WSL214 plays an important role in promoting cellular ROS homeostasis by enhancing catalase activity and reducing photosynthetic ROS production. ROS are the important regulator of cellular homeostasis, and balancing ROS production and clearance contributes to cellular activity. Although many genes associated with ROS have been cloned, the mechanism of this balance is not fully understood. In this study, we obtained the rice mutant wsl214 that arose from a natural mutation. Compared to WT, wsl214 exhibited white-striped leaves, defective chloroplast development, reduced net photosynthetic rate, and overexcitation of photosynthetically active reaction centers. In addition, the ROS accumulation level was significantly elevated, and the ROS scavenging enzyme activity was significantly decreased in wsl214 leaf tissue. As a result of elevated ROS levels, wsl214 leaf cells underwent DNA damage and programmed cell death. However, wsl214 defense response to exogenous pathogens was also enhanced by high ROS levels. Based on the mapping cloning, we discovered that WSL214 had a single base mutation (C to T) in the third exon, resulting in decreased expression of wsl214. The WSL214 encodes an HD domain phosphohydrolase and is widely expressed in various tissues of rice, especially at the highest level in leaf tissue. Further research showed that WSL214 promoted the homeostasis of rice leaf cellular ROS in two ways. First, WSL214 increased the expression of the catalase gene OsCATC, making the intracellular ROS scavenging enzyme more active. Second, WSL214 promoted chloroplast development, kept photosynthesis working properly, and reduced ROS produced by photosynthesis. In conclusion, our report emphasizes that WSL214 is a key part of balancing ROS levels in cells.
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- Qi Wang
- Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Genetic Breeding in Northeast China (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas)/Rice Research Institute, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Genetic Breeding in Northeast China (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas)/Rice Research Institute, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Genetic Breeding in Northeast China (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas)/Rice Research Institute, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Genetic Breeding in Northeast China (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas)/Rice Research Institute, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Genetic Breeding in Northeast China (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas)/Rice Research Institute, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Genetic Breeding in Northeast China (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas)/Rice Research Institute, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, People's Republic of China.
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Langton M, Sun S, Ueda C, Markey M, Chen J, Paddy I, Jiang P, Chin N, Milne A, Pandelia ME. The HD-Domain Metalloprotein Superfamily: An Apparent Common Protein Scaffold with Diverse Chemistries. Catalysts 2020; 10:1191. [PMID: 34094591 PMCID: PMC8177086 DOI: 10.3390/catal10101191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The histidine-aspartate (HD)-domain protein superfamily contains metalloproteins that share common structural features but catalyze vastly different reactions ranging from oxygenation to hydrolysis. This chemical diversion is afforded by (i) their ability to coordinate most biologically relevant transition metals in mono-, di-, and trinuclear configurations, (ii) sequence insertions or the addition of supernumerary ligands to their active sites, (iii) auxiliary substrate specificity residues vicinal to the catalytic site, (iv) additional protein domains that allosterically regulate their activities or have catalytic and sensory roles, and (v) their ability to work with protein partners. More than 500 structures of HD-domain proteins are available to date that lay out unique structural features which may be indicative of function. In this respect, we describe the three known classes of HD-domain proteins (hydrolases, oxygenases, and lyases) and identify their apparent traits with the aim to portray differences in the molecular details responsible for their functional divergence and reconcile existing notions that will help assign functions to yet-to-be characterized proteins. The present review collects data that exemplify how nature tinkers with the HD-domain scaffold to afford different chemistries and provides insight into the factors that can selectively modulate catalysis.
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- Michelle Langton
- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
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Hu L, Zhang H, Xie C, Wang J, Zhang J, Wang H, Weng Y, Chen P, Li Y. A mutation in CsHD encoding a histidine and aspartic acid domain-containing protein leads to yellow young leaf-1 (yyl-1) in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2020; 293:110407. [PMID: 32081257 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2020.110407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2019] [Revised: 01/03/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Leaf color mutants are an ideal tool to study chlorophyll biosynthesis, chloroplast development and photosynthesis. In this study, we identified an EMS-induced yellow young leaf mutant C777. The mutant exhibited yellow cotyledons and emerging true leaves with stay-green dots that turn green gradually with leaf growth. Segregation analysis in several populations indicated that the mutant C777 was controlled by a recessive gene yyl-1. Fine mapping delimited the yyl-1 locus to a 45.3 kb region harboring 8 putative genes, but only one SNP (G to A) was identified between C777 and its wild-type parental line in this region which occurred in the 13th exon of CsHD that encodes a histidine and aspartic acid (HD) domain containing protein. This nonsense mutation introduced a stop codon and thus a premature protein. Uniqueness of this mutant allele was verified in 515 cucumber lines. Quantitative real-time PCR revealed significantly reduced expression of CsHD gene in the mutant. Further, silencing the NbHD gene by VIGS in tobacco resulted in virescent young leaves and significantly down-regulated expression of HD gene. These results strongly supported the association of the CsHD gene with the virescent young leaf phenotype in C777. This is the first report to clone and characterize the CsHD gene in the horticultural crops. The results may help understand the functions of the HD gene in chloroplast development and chlorophyll biosynthesis in plants.
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- Liangliang Hu
- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, 712100, China
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- USDA-ARS, Vegetable Crops Research Unit, Horticulture Department, University of Wisconsin, 1575 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, 712100, China.
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, 712100, China.
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Structure-Function Analysis of the Phosphoesterase Component of the Nucleic Acid End-Healing Enzyme Runella slithyformis HD-Pnk. J Bacteriol 2019; 201:JB.00292-19. [PMID: 31160396 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00292-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2019] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Runella slithyformis HD-Pnk is the prototype of a family of dual 5' and 3' nucleic acid end-healing enzymes that phosphorylate 5'-OH termini and dephosphorylate 2',3'-cyclic-PO4, 3'-PO4, and 2'-PO4 ends. HD-Pnk is composed of an N-terminal HD phosphohydrolase module and a C-terminal P-loop polynucleotide kinase module. Here, we probed the phosphoesterase activity of HD-Pnk by querying its ability to hydrolyze non-nucleic acid phosphoester substrates and by conducting a mutational analysis of conserved amino acid constituents of the HD domain. We report that HD-Pnk catalyzes vigorous hydrolysis of p-nitrophenylphosphate (Km = 3.13 mM; k cat = 27.8 s-1) using copper as its metal cofactor. Mutagenesis identified Gln28, His33, His73, Asp74, Lys77, His94, His127, Asp162, and Arg166 as essential for p-nitrophenylphosphatase and DNA 3' phosphatase activities. Structural modeling places these residues at the active site, wherein His33, His73, Asp74, His94, and His127 are predicted to coordinate a binuclear metal complex and Lys77 and Arg166 engage the scissile phosphate. HD-Pnk homologs are distributed broadly (and exclusively) in bacteria, usually in a two-gene cluster with a putative ATP-dependent polynucleotide ligase (LIG). We speculate that HD-Pnk and LIG comprise the end-healing and end-sealing components of a bacterial nucleic acid repair pathway.IMPORTANCE 5'-end healing and 3'-end healing are key steps in nucleic acid break repair in which 5'-OH ends are phosphorylated by a polynucleotide kinase, and 3'-PO4 or 2',3'-cyclic-PO4 ends are hydrolyzed by a phosphoesterase to generate 5'-PO4 and 3'-OH termini needed for joining by DNA and RNA ligases. This study interrogates, biochemically and via mutagenesis, the phosphoesterase activity of Runella slithyformis HD-Pnk, a bifunctional bacterial 5'- and 3'-end-healing enzyme composed of HD phosphoesterase and P-loop kinase modules. HD-Pnk homologs are found in 129 bacterial genera from 11 phyla. In 123/129 instances, HD-Pnk is encoded in an operon-like gene cluster with a putative ATP-dependent polynucleotide ligase (LIG), suggesting that HD-Pnk and LIG are agents of a conserved bacterial nucleic acid repair pathway.
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