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Blatt MR. A charged existence: A century of transmembrane ion transport in plants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2024; 195:79-110. [PMID: 38163639 PMCID: PMC11060664 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/01/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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If the past century marked the birth of membrane transport as a focus for research in plants, the past 50 years has seen the field mature from arcane interest to a central pillar of plant physiology. Ion transport across plant membranes accounts for roughly 30% of the metabolic energy consumed by a plant cell, and it underpins virtually every aspect of plant biology, from mineral nutrition, cell expansion, and development to auxin polarity, fertilization, plant pathogen defense, and senescence. The means to quantify ion flux through individual transporters, even single channel proteins, became widely available as voltage clamp methods expanded from giant algal cells to the fungus Neurospora crassa in the 1970s and the cells of angiosperms in the 1980s. Here, I touch briefly on some key aspects of the development of modern electrophysiology with a focus on the guard cells of stomata, now without dispute the premier plant cell model for ion transport and its regulation. Guard cells have proven to be a crucible for many technical and conceptual developments that have since emerged into the mainstream of plant science. Their study continues to provide fundamental insights and carries much importance for the global challenges that face us today.
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- Michael R Blatt
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University of Glasgow, Bower Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
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Kleist TJ, Bortolazzo A, Keyser ZP, Perera AM, Irving TB, Venkateshwaran M, Atanjaoui F, Tang RJ, Maeda J, Cartwright HN, Christianson ML, Lemaux PG, Luan S, Ané JM. Stress-associated developmental reprogramming in moss protonemata by synthetic activation of the common symbiosis pathway. iScience 2022; 25:103754. [PMID: 35146383 PMCID: PMC8819110 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Revised: 12/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Symbioses between angiosperms and rhizobia or arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are controlled through a conserved signaling pathway. Microbe-derived, chitin-based elicitors activate plant cell surface receptors and trigger nuclear calcium oscillations, which are decoded by a calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CCaMK) and its target transcription factor interacting protein of DMI3 (IPD3). Genes encoding CCaMK and IPD3 have been lost in multiple non-mycorrhizal plant lineages yet retained among non-mycorrhizal mosses. Here, we demonstrated that the moss Physcomitrium is equipped with a bona fide CCaMK that can functionally complement a Medicago loss-of-function mutant. Conservation of regulatory phosphosites allowed us to generate predicted hyperactive forms of Physcomitrium CCaMK and IPD3. Overexpression of synthetically activated CCaMK or IPD3 in Physcomitrium led to abscisic acid (ABA) accumulation and ectopic development of brood cells, which are asexual propagules that facilitate escape from local abiotic stresses. We therefore propose a functional role for Physcomitrium CCaMK-IPD3 in stress-associated developmental reprogramming.
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- Thomas J. Kleist
- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institute for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Institute for Molecular Physiology, Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany
- Corresponding author
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- Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Physiology, Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institute for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Corresponding author
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Guo H, Xiao C, Liu Q, Li R, Yan Z, Yao X, Hu H. Two galacturonosyltransferases function in plant growth, stomatal development, and dynamics. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 187:2820-2836. [PMID: 34890462 PMCID: PMC8644590 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The mechanical properties of guard cell (GC) walls are important for stomatal development and stomatal response to external stimuli. However, the molecular mechanisms of pectin synthesis and pectin composition controlling stomatal development and dynamics remain poorly explored. Here, we characterized the role of two Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) galacturonosyltransferases, GAUT10 and GAUT11, in plant growth, stomatal development, and stomatal dynamics. GAUT10 and GAUT11 double mutations reduced pectin synthesis and promoted homogalacturonan (HG) demethylesterification and demethylesterified HG degradation, resulting in larger stomatal complexes and smaller pore areas, increased stomatal dynamics, and enhanced drought tolerance of plants. In contrast, increased GAUT10 or GAUT11 expression impaired stomatal dynamics and drought sensitivity. Genetic interaction analyses together with immunolabeling analyses suggest that the methylesterified HG level is important in stomatal dynamics, and pectin abundance with the demethylesterified HG level controls stomatal dimension and stomatal size. Our results provide insight into the molecular mechanism of GC wall properties in stomatal dynamics, and highlight the role of GAUT10 and GAUT11 in stomatal dimension and dynamics through modulation of pectin biosynthesis and distribution in GC walls.
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- Huimin Guo
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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Skalak J, Nicolas KL, Vankova R, Hejatko J. Signal Integration in Plant Abiotic Stress Responses via Multistep Phosphorelay Signaling. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:644823. [PMID: 33679861 PMCID: PMC7925916 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.644823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Plants growing in any particular geographical location are exposed to variable and diverse environmental conditions throughout their lifespan. The multifactorial environmental pressure resulted into evolution of plant adaptation and survival strategies requiring ability to integrate multiple signals that combine to yield specific responses. These adaptive responses enable plants to maintain their growth and development while acquiring tolerance to a variety of environmental conditions. An essential signaling cascade that incorporates a wide range of exogenous as well as endogenous stimuli is multistep phosphorelay (MSP). MSP mediates the signaling of essential plant hormones that balance growth, development, and environmental adaptation. Nevertheless, the mechanisms by which specific signals are recognized by a commonly-occurring pathway are not yet clearly understood. Here we summarize our knowledge on the latest model of multistep phosphorelay signaling in plants and the molecular mechanisms underlying the integration of multiple inputs including both hormonal (cytokinins, ethylene and abscisic acid) and environmental (light and temperature) signals into a common pathway. We provide an overview of abiotic stress responses mediated via MSP signaling that are both hormone-dependent and independent. We highlight the mutual interactions of key players such as sensor kinases of various substrate specificities including their downstream targets. These constitute a tightly interconnected signaling network, enabling timely adaptation by the plant to an ever-changing environment. Finally, we propose possible future directions in stress-oriented research on MSP signaling and highlight its potential importance for targeted crop breeding.
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- Jan Skalak
- CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology and National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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- CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology and National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Hormonal Regulations in Plants, Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology and National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
- *Correspondence: Jan Hejatko,
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Liu X, Guan H, Wang T, Meng D, Yang Y, Dai J, Fan N, Guo B, Fu Y, He W, Wei Y. ScPNP-A, a plant natriuretic peptide from Stellera chamaejasme, confers multiple stress tolerances in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2020; 149:132-143. [PMID: 32062590 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Revised: 02/06/2020] [Accepted: 02/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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As a class of peptide hormone, plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs) play an important role in maintaining water and salt balance in plants, as well as in the physiological processes of biotic stress and pathogen resistance. However, in plants, except for some PNPs, such as the Arabidopsis thaliana PNP-A (AtPNP-A), of which the function has not yet been thoroughly revealed, few PNPs in other plants have been reported. In this study, a PNP-A (ScPNP-A) has been identified and characterized in Stellera chamaejasme for the first time. ScPNP-A is a double-psi beta-barrel (DPBB) fold containing protein and is localized in the extracellular (secreted) space. In S. chamaejasme, the expression of ScPNP-A was significantly up-regulated by salt, drought and cold stress. Changes at the physiological and biochemical levels and the expression of resistance-related genes indicated that overexpression of ScPNP-A can significantly improve salt, drought and freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis. ScPNP-A could stimulate the opening, not the closing of stomata, and its expression was not enhanced by external application of ABA. Furthermore, overexpression of ScPNP-A resulted in the elevated expression of genes in the ABA biosynthesis and reception pathway. These suggested that there may be some cross-talk between ScPNP-A and the ABA-dependent signaling pathways to regulate water related stress, however further experimentation is required to understand this relationship. In addition, overexpression of ScPNP-A can enhance the resistance to pathogens by enhancing SAR in Arabidopsis. These results indicate that ScPNP-A could function as a positive regulator in plant response to biotic stress and abiotic stress.
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- Xin Liu
- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China; Bio-Agriculture Institute of Shaanxi, Chinese Academy of Science, No. 125, Xianning Middle Road, Xi'an, 710043, Shaanxi, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China; College of Healthy Management, Shangluo University, Shangluo, 726000, Shaanxi, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education & College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229, North Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
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Lu Y, Yao J. Chloroplasts at the Crossroad of Photosynthesis, Pathogen Infection and Plant Defense. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:E3900. [PMID: 30563149 PMCID: PMC6321325 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19123900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Revised: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 12/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Photosynthesis, pathogen infection, and plant defense are three important biological processes that have been investigated separately for decades. Photosynthesis generates ATP, NADPH, and carbohydrates. These resources are utilized for the synthesis of many important compounds, such as primary metabolites, defense-related hormones abscisic acid, ethylene, jasmonic acid, and salicylic acid, and antimicrobial compounds. In plants and algae, photosynthesis and key steps in the synthesis of defense-related hormones occur in chloroplasts. In addition, chloroplasts are major generators of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide, and a site for calcium signaling. These signaling molecules are essential to plant defense as well. All plants grown naturally are attacked by pathogens. Bacterial pathogens enter host tissues through natural openings or wounds. Upon invasion, bacterial pathogens utilize a combination of different virulence factors to suppress host defense and promote pathogenicity. On the other hand, plants have developed elaborate defense mechanisms to protect themselves from pathogen infections. This review summarizes recent discoveries on defensive roles of signaling molecules made by plants (primarily in their chloroplasts), counteracting roles of chloroplast-targeted effectors and phytotoxins elicited by bacterial pathogens, and how all these molecules crosstalk and regulate photosynthesis, pathogen infection, and plant defense, using chloroplasts as a major battlefield.
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- Yan Lu
- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA.
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Waidyarathne P, Samarasinghe S. Boolean Calcium Signalling Model Predicts Calcium Role in Acceleration and Stability of Abscisic Acid-Mediated Stomatal Closure. Sci Rep 2018; 8:17635. [PMID: 30518777 PMCID: PMC6281740 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35872-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Inconsistent hypotheses have proposed Ca2+ as either being essential or irrelevant and redundant in ABA induced stomatal closure. This study integrates all available information from literature to define ABA signalling pathway and presents it in a systems view for clearer understanding of the role of Ca2+ in stomatal closure. Importantly, it incorporates into an Asynchronous Boolean model time delays sourced from an extensive literature search. The model predicted the timing of ABA events and mutant behaviour close to biology. It revealed biologically reported timing for Ca2+ activation and Ca2+ dynamics consistent with biology. It also predicts that Ca2+ elevation is not essential in stomatal closure but it can accelerate closure, consistent with previous findings, but our model further explains that acting as a mediator, Ca2+ accelerates stomatal closure by enhancing plasma membrane slowly activating anion channel SLAC1 and actin rearrangement. It shows statistical significance of Ca2+ induced acceleration of closure and that of Ca2+ induced acceleration of SLAC1 activation. Further, the model demonstrates that Ca2+ enhances resilience of closure to perturbation of important elements; especially, ROS pathway, as did previous ABA model, and even to the ABA signal disruption. It goes further to elucidate the mechanisms by which Ca2+ engenders stomatal closure in these perturbations.
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- Pramuditha Waidyarathne
- Complex Systems, Big Data and Informatics Initiative (CSBII), Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand.,Coconout Research Institute, Lunuwila, Sri Lanka
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- Complex Systems, Big Data and Informatics Initiative (CSBII), Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Edel KH, Marchadier E, Brownlee C, Kudla J, Hetherington AM. The Evolution of Calcium-Based Signalling in Plants. Curr Biol 2018; 27:R667-R679. [PMID: 28697370 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The calcium-based intracellular signalling system is used ubiquitously to couple extracellular stimuli to their characteristic intracellular responses. It is becoming clear from genomic and physiological investigations that while the basic elements in the toolkit are common between plants and animals, evolution has acted in such a way that, in plants, some components have diversified with respect to their animal counterparts, while others have either been lost or have never evolved in the plant lineages. In comparison with animals, in plants there appears to have been a loss of diversity in calcium-influx mechanisms at the plasma membrane. However, the evolution of the calcium-storing vacuole may provide plants with additional possibilities for regulating calcium influx into the cytosol. Among the proteins that are involved in sensing and responding to increases in calcium, plants possess specific decoder proteins that are absent from the animal lineage. In seeking to understand the selection pressures that shaped the plant calcium-signalling toolkit, we consider the evolution of fast electrical signalling. We also note that, in contrast to animals, plants apparently do not make extensive use of cyclic-nucleotide-based signalling. It is possible that reliance on a single intracellular second-messenger-based system, coupled with the requirement to adapt to changing environmental conditions, has helped to define the diversity of components found in the extant plant calcium-signalling toolkit.
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- Kai H Edel
- Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Universität Münster, Schlossplatz 7, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK; Génétique Quantitative et Evolution - Le Moulon, INRA, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UK; School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
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- Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Universität Münster, Schlossplatz 7, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK.
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Jin W, Long Y, Fu C, Zhang L, Xiang J, Wang B, Li M. Ca 2+ imaging and gene expression profiling of Lonicera Confusa in response to calcium-rich environment. Sci Rep 2018; 8:7068. [PMID: 29728644 PMCID: PMC5935734 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25611-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2017] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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As a medicinal plant widely planted in southwest karst of China, the study of adaptation mechanisms of Lonicera confusa, especially to karst calcium-rich environment, can provide important theoretical basis for repairing desertification by genetic engineering. In this study, the Ca2+ imaging in the leaves of L. confusa was explored by LSCM (Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy) and TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy), which revealed that the calcium could be transported to gland, epidermal hair and stoma in the leaves of L. confusa in high-Ca2+ environment. In addition, we simulated the growth environment of L. confusa and identified DEGs (Differentially Expressed Genes) under different Ca2+ concentrations by RNA sequencing. Further analysis showed that these DEGs were assigned with some important biological processes. Furthermore, a complex protein-protein interaction network among DEGs in L. Confusa was constructed and some important regulatory genes and transcription factors were identified. Taken together, this study displayed the Ca2+ transport and the accumulation of Ca2+ channels and pools in L. Confusa with high-Ca2+ treatment. Moreover, RNA sequencing provided a global picture of differential gene expression patterns in L. Confusa with high-Ca2+ treatment, which will help to reveal the molecular mechanism of the adaptation of L. confusa to high-Ca2+ environment in the future.
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- Wenwen Jin
- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.,Hubei Key Laboratory of Economic Forest Germplasm Improvement and Resources Comprehensive Utilization, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for the Characteristic Resources Exploitation of Dabie Mountains, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, 438000, China
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Economic Forest Germplasm Improvement and Resources Comprehensive Utilization, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for the Characteristic Resources Exploitation of Dabie Mountains, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, 438000, China.
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- College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250000, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.,Hubei Key Laboratory of Economic Forest Germplasm Improvement and Resources Comprehensive Utilization, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for the Characteristic Resources Exploitation of Dabie Mountains, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, 438000, China
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Woolfenden HC, Bourdais G, Kopischke M, Miedes E, Molina A, Robatzek S, Morris RJ. A computational approach for inferring the cell wall properties that govern guard cell dynamics. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 92:5-18. [PMID: 28741858 PMCID: PMC5637902 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2017] [Revised: 06/08/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Guard cells dynamically adjust their shape in order to regulate photosynthetic gas exchange, respiration rates and defend against pathogen entry. Cell shape changes are determined by the interplay of cell wall material properties and turgor pressure. To investigate this relationship between turgor pressure, cell wall properties and cell shape, we focused on kidney-shaped stomata and developed a biomechanical model of a guard cell pair. Treating the cell wall as a composite of the pectin-rich cell wall matrix embedded with cellulose microfibrils, we show that strong, circumferentially oriented fibres are critical for opening. We find that the opening dynamics are dictated by the mechanical stress response of the cell wall matrix, and as the turgor rises, the pectinaceous matrix stiffens. We validate these predictions with stomatal opening experiments in selected Arabidopsis cell wall mutants. Thus, using a computational framework that combines a 3D biomechanical model with parameter optimization, we demonstrate how to exploit subtle shape changes to infer cell wall material properties. Our findings reveal that proper stomatal dynamics are built on two key properties of the cell wall, namely anisotropy in the form of hoop reinforcement and strain stiffening.
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- Hugh C. Woolfenden
- Computational and Systems BiologyJohn Innes CentreNorwich Research ParkNorwichNR4 7UHUK
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryNorwich Research ParkNorwichNR4 7UHUK
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- Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP)Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA)Campus de Montegancedo UPM28223Pozuelo de AlarcónMadridSpain
- Departamento de Biotecnología‐Biología VegetalEscuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería AgrónomicaAlimentaria y de Biosistemas, UPM28040MadridSpain
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- Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP)Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA)Campus de Montegancedo UPM28223Pozuelo de AlarcónMadridSpain
- Departamento de Biotecnología‐Biología VegetalEscuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería AgrónomicaAlimentaria y de Biosistemas, UPM28040MadridSpain
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryNorwich Research ParkNorwichNR4 7UHUK
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- Computational and Systems BiologyJohn Innes CentreNorwich Research ParkNorwichNR4 7UHUK
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Albert R, Acharya BR, Jeon BW, Zañudo JGT, Zhu M, Osman K, Assmann SM. A new discrete dynamic model of ABA-induced stomatal closure predicts key feedback loops. PLoS Biol 2017; 15:e2003451. [PMID: 28937978 PMCID: PMC5627951 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2003451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2017] [Revised: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 09/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Stomata, microscopic pores in leaf surfaces through which water loss and carbon dioxide uptake occur, are closed in response to drought by the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA). This process is vital for drought tolerance and has been the topic of extensive experimental investigation in the last decades. Although a core signaling chain has been elucidated consisting of ABA binding to receptors, which alleviates negative regulation by protein phosphatases 2C (PP2Cs) of the protein kinase OPEN STOMATA 1 (OST1) and ultimately results in activation of anion channels, osmotic water loss, and stomatal closure, over 70 additional components have been identified, yet their relationships with each other and the core components are poorly elucidated. We integrated and processed hundreds of disparate observations regarding ABA signal transduction responses underlying stomatal closure into a network of 84 nodes and 156 edges and, as a result, established those relationships, including identification of a 36-node, strongly connected (feedback-rich) component as well as its in- and out-components. The network's domination by a feedback-rich component may reflect a general feature of rapid signaling events. We developed a discrete dynamic model of this network and elucidated the effects of ABA plus knockout or constitutive activity of 79 nodes on both the outcome of the system (closure) and the status of all internal nodes. The model, with more than 1024 system states, is far from fully determined by the available data, yet model results agree with existing experiments in 82 cases and disagree in only 17 cases, a validation rate of 75%. Our results reveal nodes that could be engineered to impact stomatal closure in a controlled fashion and also provide over 140 novel predictions for which experimental data are currently lacking. Noting the paucity of wet-bench data regarding combinatorial effects of ABA and internal node activation, we experimentally confirmed several predictions of the model with regard to reactive oxygen species, cytosolic Ca2+ (Ca2+c), and heterotrimeric G-protein signaling. We analyzed dynamics-determining positive and negative feedback loops, thereby elucidating the attractor (dynamic behavior) repertoire of the system and the groups of nodes that determine each attractor. Based on this analysis, we predict the likely presence of a previously unrecognized feedback mechanism dependent on Ca2+c. This mechanism would provide model agreement with 10 additional experimental observations, for a validation rate of 85%. Our research underscores the importance of feedback regulation in generating robust and adaptable biological responses. The high validation rate of our model illustrates the advantages of discrete dynamic modeling for complex, nonlinear systems common in biology.
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- Réka Albert
- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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A R Webb A, Kuchitsu K, Kwak J, Pei ZM, Iida H. Sensors Make Sense of Signaling. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 58:1121-1125. [PMID: 28838127 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcx085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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- Alex A R Webb
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB3 0LJ, UK
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- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba-ken 278-8510, Japan
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- Center for Plant Aging Research, Institute for Basic Science, Daegu, South Korea
- Department of New Biology, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, 333 Techno-Jungangdaero, Daegu 42988, South Korea
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
- Department of Biology, Duke University, 124 Science Dr, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Biology, Tokyo Gakugei University, 4-1-1 Nukui Kita-machi, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8501, Japan
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Munir S, Liu H, Xing Y, Hussain S, Ouyang B, Zhang Y, Li H, Ye Z. Overexpression of calmodulin-like (ShCML44) stress-responsive gene from Solanum habrochaites enhances tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses. Sci Rep 2016; 6:31772. [PMID: 27546315 PMCID: PMC4992891 DOI: 10.1038/srep31772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2016] [Accepted: 07/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Calmodulin-like (CML) proteins are important Ca(2+) sensors, which play significant role in mediating plant stress tolerance. In the present study, cold responsive calmodulin-like (ShCML44) gene was isolated from cold tolerant wild tomato (Solanum habrochaites), and functionally characterized. The ShCML44 was differentially expressed in all plant tissues including root, stem, leaf, flower and fruit, and was strongly up-regulated under cold, drought and salinity stresses along with plant growth hormones. Under cold stress, progressive increase in the expression of ShCML44 was observed particularly in cold-tolerant S. habrochaites. The ShCML44-overexpressed plants showed greater tolerance to cold, drought, and salinity stresses, and recorded higher germination and better seedling growth. Transgenic tomato plants demonstrated higher antioxidant enzymes activity, gas exchange and water retention capacity with lower malondialdehyde accumulation and membrane damage under cold and drought stresses compared to wild-type. Moreover, transgenic plants exhibited reduced reactive oxygen species and higher relative water contents under cold and drought stress, respectively. Greater stress tolerance of transgenic plants was further reflected by the up-/down-regulation of stress-related genes including SOD, GST, CAT, POD, LOX, PR and ERD. In crux, these results strengthen the molecular understanding of ShCML44 gene to improve the abiotic stress tolerance in tomato.
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- Shoaib Munir
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Rubber Tree, Ministry of Agriculture, Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou 571737, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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Hocking B, Tyerman SD, Burton RA, Gilliham M. Fruit Calcium: Transport and Physiology. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:569. [PMID: 27200042 PMCID: PMC4850500 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2015] [Accepted: 04/13/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Calcium has well-documented roles in plant signaling, water relations and cell wall interactions. Significant research into how calcium impacts these individual processes in various tissues has been carried out; however, the influence of calcium on fruit ripening has not been thoroughly explored. Here, we review the current state of knowledge on how calcium may impact the development, physical traits and disease susceptibility of fruit through facilitating developmental and stress response signaling, stabilizing membranes, influencing water relations and modifying cell wall properties through cross-linking of de-esterified pectins. We explore the involvement of calcium in hormone signaling integral to the physiological mechanisms behind common disorders that have been associated with fruit calcium deficiency (e.g., blossom end rot in tomatoes or bitter pit in apples). This review works toward an improved understanding of how the many roles of calcium interact to influence fruit ripening, and proposes future research directions to fill knowledge gaps. Specifically, we focus mostly on grapes and present a model that integrates existing knowledge around these various functions of calcium in fruit, which provides a basis for understanding the physiological impacts of sub-optimal calcium nutrition in grapes. Calcium accumulation and distribution in fruit is shown to be highly dependent on water delivery and cell wall interactions in the apoplasm. Localized calcium deficiencies observed in particular species or varieties can result from differences in xylem morphology, fruit water relations and pectin composition, and can cause leaky membranes, irregular cell wall softening, impaired hormonal signaling and aberrant fruit development. We propose that the role of apoplasmic calcium-pectin crosslinking, particularly in the xylem, is an understudied area that may have a key influence on fruit water relations. Furthermore, we believe that improved knowledge of the calcium-regulated signaling pathways that control ripening would assist in addressing calcium deficiency disorders and improving fruit pathogen resistance.
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- Bradleigh Hocking
- Plant Transport and Signaling Laboratory, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Glen OsmondSA, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Glen OsmondSA, Australia
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- Plant Transport and Signaling Laboratory, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Glen OsmondSA, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Glen OsmondSA, Australia
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- Plant Transport and Signaling Laboratory, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Glen OsmondSA, Australia
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Moumeni A, Satoh K, Venuprasad R, Serraj R, Kumar A, Leung H, Kikuchi S. Transcriptional profiling of the leaves of near-isogenic rice lines with contrasting drought tolerance at the reproductive stage in response to water deficit. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:1110. [PMID: 26715311 PMCID: PMC4696290 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2335-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2015] [Accepted: 12/19/2015] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Background Drought tolerance is a complex quantitative trait that involves the coordination of a vast array of genes belonging to different pathways. To identify genes related to the drought-tolerance pathway in rice, we carried out gene-expression profiling of the leaves of near-isogenic lines (NILs) with similar genetic backgrounds and different set of QTLs but contrasting drought tolerance levels in response to long-term drought-stress treatments. This work will help differentiate mechanisms of tolerance in contrasting NILs and accelerate molecular breeding programs to improve drought tolerance in this crop. Results The two pairs of rice NILs, developed at the International Rice Research Institute, along with the drought-susceptible parent, IR64, showed distinct gene-expression profiles in leaves under different water-deficit (WD) treatments. Drought tolerance in the highly drought-tolerant NIL (DTN), IR77298-14-1-2-B-10, could be attributed to the up-regulation of genes with calcium ion binding, transferase, hydrolase and transcription factor activities, whereas in the moderate DTN, IR77298-5-6-B-18, genes with transporter, catalytic and structural molecule activities were up-regulated under WD. In IR77298-14-1-2-B-10, the induced genes were characterized by the presence of regulatory motifs in their promoters, including TGGTTAGTACC and ([CT]AAC[GT]G){2}, which are specific to the TFIIIA and Myb transcription factors, respectively. In IR77298-5-6-B-18, promoters containing a GCAC[AG][ACGT][AT]TCCC[AG]A[ACGT]G[CT] motif, common to MADS(AP1), HD-ZIP, AP2 and YABBY, were induced, suggesting that these factors may play key roles in the regulation of drought tolerance in these two DTNs under severe WD. Conclusions We report here that the two pairs of NILs with different levels of drought tolerance may elucidate potential mechanisms and pathways through transcriptome data from leaf tissue. The present study serves as a resource for marker discovery and provides detailed insight into the gene-expression profiles of rice leaves, including the main functional categories of drought-responsive genes and the genes that are involved in drought-tolerance mechanisms, to help breeders identify candidate genes (both up- and down-regulated) associated with drought tolerance and suitable targets for manipulating the drought-tolerance trait in rice. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-015-2335-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Ali Moumeni
- Rice Research Institute of Iran, Mazandaran Branch, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), PO Box 145, Postal Code 46191-91951, Km8 Babol Rd., Amol, Mazandaran, Iran.
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- Plant Genome Research Unit, Agrogenomics Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Kan'non dai 2-1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8602, Japan.
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- International Rice Research Institute, DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, 1301, Philippines. .,Africa Rice Centre (AfricaRice), Ibadan station, c/o IITA, PMB 5320 Oyo road, Ibadan, Nigeria.
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- International Rice Research Institute, DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, 1301, Philippines. .,Agricultural Research (CGIAR ISPC), FAO, Rome, Italy.
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- International Rice Research Institute, DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, 1301, Philippines.
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- International Rice Research Institute, DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, 1301, Philippines.
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- Plant Genome Research Unit, Agrogenomics Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Kan'non dai 2-1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8602, Japan.
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Zhang X, Shen Z, Sun J, Yu Y, Deng S, Li Z, Sun C, Zhang J, Zhao R, Shen X, Chen S. NaCl-elicited, vacuolar Ca(2+) release facilitates prolonged cytosolic Ca(2+) signaling in the salt response of Populus euphratica cells. Cell Calcium 2015; 57:348-65. [PMID: 25840638 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2015.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2014] [Revised: 02/24/2015] [Accepted: 03/09/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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High environmental salt elicits an increase in cytosolic Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)]cyt) in plants, which is generated by extracellular Ca(2+) influx and Ca(2+) release from intracellular stores, such as vacuole and endoplasmic reticulum. This study aimed to determine the physiological mechanisms underlying Ca(2+) release from vacuoles and its role in ionic homeostasis in Populus euphratica. In vivo Ca(2+) imaging showed that NaCl treatment induced a rapid elevation in [Ca(2+)]cyt, which was accompanied by a subsequent release of vacuolar Ca(2+). In cell cultures, NaCl-altered intracellular Ca(2+) mobilization was abolished by antagonists of inositol (1, 4, 5) trisphosphate (IP3) and cyclic adenosine diphosphate ribose (cADPR) signaling pathways, but not by slow vacuolar (SV) channel blockers. Furthermore, the NaCl-induced vacuolar Ca(2+) release was dependent on extracellular ATP, extracellular Ca(2+) influx, H2O2, and NO. In vitro Ca(2+) flux recordings confirmed that IP3, cADPR, and Ca(2+) induced substantial Ca(2+) efflux from intact vacuoles, but this vacuolar Ca(2+) flux did not directly respond to ATP, H2O2, or NO. Moreover, the IP3/cADPR-mediated vacuolar Ca(2+) release enhanced the expression of salt-responsive genes that regulated a wide range of cellular processes required for ion homeostasis, including cytosolic K(+) maintenance, Na(+) and Cl(-) exclusion across the plasma membrane, and Na(+)/H(+) and Cl(-)/H(+) exchanges across the vacuolar membrane.
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- Xuan Zhang
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University (Box 162), Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University (Box 162), Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Integrative Plant Biology, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China.
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- Institute of Integrative Plant Biology, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University (Box 162), Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Integrative Plant Biology, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Integrative Plant Biology, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Integrative Plant Biology, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University (Box 162), Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University (Box 162), Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University (Box 162), Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.
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Ronzier E, Corratgé-Faillie C, Sanchez F, Prado K, Brière C, Leonhardt N, Thibaud JB, Xiong TC. CPK13, a noncanonical Ca2+-dependent protein kinase, specifically inhibits KAT2 and KAT1 shaker K+ channels and reduces stomatal opening. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 166:314-26. [PMID: 25037208 PMCID: PMC4149717 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.240226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2014] [Accepted: 07/15/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Ca(2) (+)-dependent protein kinases (CPKs) form a large family of 34 genes in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). Based on their dependence on Ca(2+), CPKs can be sorted into three types: strictly Ca(2+)-dependent CPKs, Ca(2+)-stimulated CPKs (with a significant basal activity in the absence of Ca(2+)), and essentially calcium-insensitive CPKs. Here, we report on the third type of CPK, CPK13, which is expressed in guard cells but whose role is still unknown. We confirm the expression of CPK13 in Arabidopsis guard cells, and we show that its overexpression inhibits light-induced stomatal opening. We combine several approaches to identify a guard cell-expressed target. We provide evidence that CPK13 (1) specifically phosphorylates peptide arrays featuring Arabidopsis K(+) Channel KAT2 and KAT1 polypeptides, (2) inhibits KAT2 and/or KAT1 when expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes, and (3) closely interacts in plant cells with KAT2 channels (Förster resonance energy transfer-fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy). We propose that CPK13 reduces stomatal aperture through its inhibition of the guard cell-expressed KAT2 and KAT1 channels.
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- Elsa Ronzier
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 386, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5004, SupAgro, and Université Montpellier 2, Laboratoire de Biochimie & Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 2, France (E.R., C.C.-F., F.S., K.P., J.-B.T., T.C.X.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5546, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.);Université Paul Sabatier, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales 24, Chemin de Borde Rouge, Boite Postale 42617 Auzeville, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.); andLaboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Université Aix-Marseille II, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Cadarache Bat 156, 13108 St. Paul Lez Durance, France (N.L.)
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 386, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5004, SupAgro, and Université Montpellier 2, Laboratoire de Biochimie & Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 2, France (E.R., C.C.-F., F.S., K.P., J.-B.T., T.C.X.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5546, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.);Université Paul Sabatier, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales 24, Chemin de Borde Rouge, Boite Postale 42617 Auzeville, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.); andLaboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Université Aix-Marseille II, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Cadarache Bat 156, 13108 St. Paul Lez Durance, France (N.L.)
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 386, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5004, SupAgro, and Université Montpellier 2, Laboratoire de Biochimie & Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 2, France (E.R., C.C.-F., F.S., K.P., J.-B.T., T.C.X.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5546, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.);Université Paul Sabatier, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales 24, Chemin de Borde Rouge, Boite Postale 42617 Auzeville, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.); andLaboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Université Aix-Marseille II, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Cadarache Bat 156, 13108 St. Paul Lez Durance, France (N.L.)
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 386, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5004, SupAgro, and Université Montpellier 2, Laboratoire de Biochimie & Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 2, France (E.R., C.C.-F., F.S., K.P., J.-B.T., T.C.X.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5546, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.);Université Paul Sabatier, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales 24, Chemin de Borde Rouge, Boite Postale 42617 Auzeville, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.); andLaboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Université Aix-Marseille II, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Cadarache Bat 156, 13108 St. Paul Lez Durance, France (N.L.)
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 386, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5004, SupAgro, and Université Montpellier 2, Laboratoire de Biochimie & Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 2, France (E.R., C.C.-F., F.S., K.P., J.-B.T., T.C.X.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5546, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.);Université Paul Sabatier, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales 24, Chemin de Borde Rouge, Boite Postale 42617 Auzeville, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.); andLaboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Université Aix-Marseille II, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Cadarache Bat 156, 13108 St. Paul Lez Durance, France (N.L.)
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 386, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5004, SupAgro, and Université Montpellier 2, Laboratoire de Biochimie & Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 2, France (E.R., C.C.-F., F.S., K.P., J.-B.T., T.C.X.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5546, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.);Université Paul Sabatier, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales 24, Chemin de Borde Rouge, Boite Postale 42617 Auzeville, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.); andLaboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Université Aix-Marseille II, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Cadarache Bat 156, 13108 St. Paul Lez Durance, France (N.L.)
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 386, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5004, SupAgro, and Université Montpellier 2, Laboratoire de Biochimie & Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 2, France (E.R., C.C.-F., F.S., K.P., J.-B.T., T.C.X.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5546, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.);Université Paul Sabatier, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales 24, Chemin de Borde Rouge, Boite Postale 42617 Auzeville, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.); andLaboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Université Aix-Marseille II, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Cadarache Bat 156, 13108 St. Paul Lez Durance, France (N.L.)
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 386, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5004, SupAgro, and Université Montpellier 2, Laboratoire de Biochimie & Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, F-34060 Montpellier cedex 2, France (E.R., C.C.-F., F.S., K.P., J.-B.T., T.C.X.);Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5546, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.);Université Paul Sabatier, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales 24, Chemin de Borde Rouge, Boite Postale 42617 Auzeville, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France (C.B.); andLaboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Université Aix-Marseille II, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Cadarache Bat 156, 13108 St. Paul Lez Durance, France (N.L.)
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Wang Y, Hills A, Blatt MR. Systems analysis of guard cell membrane transport for enhanced stomatal dynamics and water use efficiency. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 164:1593-9. [PMID: 24596330 PMCID: PMC3982726 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.233403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2013] [Accepted: 02/25/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Stomatal transpiration is at the center of a crisis in water availability and crop production that is expected to unfold over the next 20 to 30 years. Global water usage has increased 6-fold in the past 100 years, twice as fast as the human population, and is expected to double again before 2030, driven mainly by irrigation and agriculture. Guard cell membrane transport is integral to controlling stomatal aperture and offers important targets for genetic manipulation to improve crop performance. However, its complexity presents a formidable barrier to exploring such possibilities. With few exceptions, mutations that increase water use efficiency commonly have been found to do so with substantial costs to the rate of carbon assimilation, reflecting the trade-off in CO₂ availability with suppressed stomatal transpiration. One approach yet to be explored in detail relies on quantitative systems analysis of the guard cell. Our deep knowledge of transport and homeostasis in these cells gives real substance to the prospect for reverse engineering of stomatal responses, using in silico design in directing genetic manipulation for improved water use and crop yields. Here we address this problem with a focus on stomatal kinetics, taking advantage of the OnGuard software and models of the stomatal guard cell recently developed for exploring stomatal physiology. Our analysis suggests that manipulations of single transporter populations are likely to have unforeseen consequences. Channel gating, especially of the dominant K⁺ channels, appears the most favorable target for experimental manipulation.
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Wang W, Wu Y, Messing J. RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis of Spirodela dormancy without reproduction. BMC Genomics 2014; 15:60. [PMID: 24456086 PMCID: PMC3933069 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-60] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2013] [Accepted: 01/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Higher plants exhibit a remarkable phenotypic plasticity to adapt to adverse environmental changes. The Greater Duckweed Spirodela, as an aquatic plant, presents exceptional tolerance to cold winters through its dormant structure of turions in place of seeds. Abundant starch in turions permits them to sink and escape the freezing surface of waters. Due to their clonal propagation, they are the fastest growing biomass on earth, providing yet an untapped source for industrial applications. Results We used next generation sequencing technology to examine the transcriptome of turion development triggered by exogenous ABA. A total of 208 genes showed more than a 4-fold increase compared with 154 down-regulated genes in developing turions. The analysis of up-regulated differential expressed genes in response to dormancy exposed an enriched interplay among various pathways: signal transduction, seed dehydration, carbohydrate and secondary metabolism, and senescence. On the other side, the genes responsible for rapid growth and biomass accumulation through DNA assembly, protein synthesis and carbon fixation are repressed. Noticeably, three members of late embryogenesis abundant protein family are exclusively expressed during turion formation. High expression level of key genes in starch synthesis are APS1, APL3 and GBSSI, which could artificially be reduced for re-directing carbon flow from photosynthesis to create a higher energy biomass. Conclusions The identification and functional annotation of differentially expressed genes open a major step towards understanding the molecular network underlying vegetative frond dormancy. Moreover, genes have been identified that could be engineered in duckweeds for practical applications easing agricultural production of food crops.
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- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 190 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
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Schönknecht G. Calcium Signals from the Vacuole. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2013; 2:589-614. [PMID: 27137394 PMCID: PMC4844392 DOI: 10.3390/plants2040589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2013] [Revised: 09/21/2013] [Accepted: 09/26/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The vacuole is by far the largest intracellular Ca(2+) store in most plant cells. Here, the current knowledge about the molecular mechanisms of vacuolar Ca(2+) release and Ca(2+) uptake is summarized, and how different vacuolar Ca(2+) channels and Ca(2+) pumps may contribute to Ca(2+) signaling in plant cells is discussed. To provide a phylogenetic perspective, the distribution of potential vacuolar Ca(2+) transporters is compared for different clades of photosynthetic eukaryotes. There are several candidates for vacuolar Ca(2+) channels that could elicit cytosolic [Ca(2+)] transients. Typical second messengers, such as InsP₃ and cADPR, seem to trigger vacuolar Ca(2+) release, but the molecular mechanism of this Ca(2+) release still awaits elucidation. Some vacuolar Ca(2+) channels have been identified on a molecular level, the voltage-dependent SV/TPC1 channel, and recently two cyclic-nucleotide-gated cation channels. However, their function in Ca(2+) signaling still has to be demonstrated. Ca(2+) pumps in addition to establishing long-term Ca(2+) homeostasis can shape cytosolic [Ca(2+)] transients by limiting their amplitude and duration, and may thus affect Ca(2+) signaling.
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- Gerald Schönknecht
- Department of Botany, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA.
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Wang YF, Munemasa S, Nishimura N, Ren HM, Robert N, Han M, Puzõrjova I, Kollist H, Lee S, Mori I, Schroeder JI. Identification of cyclic GMP-activated nonselective Ca2+-permeable cation channels and associated CNGC5 and CNGC6 genes in Arabidopsis guard cells. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2013; 163:578-90. [PMID: 24019428 PMCID: PMC3793039 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.225045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/28/2013] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Cytosolic Ca(2+) in guard cells plays an important role in stomatal movement responses to environmental stimuli. These cytosolic Ca(2+) increases result from Ca(2+) influx through Ca(2+)-permeable channels in the plasma membrane and Ca(2+) release from intracellular organelles in guard cells. However, the genes encoding defined plasma membrane Ca(2+)-permeable channel activity remain unknown in guard cells and, with some exceptions, largely unknown in higher plant cells. Here, we report the identification of two Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) cation channel genes, CNGC5 and CNGC6, that are highly expressed in guard cells. Cytosolic application of cyclic GMP (cGMP) and extracellularly applied membrane-permeable 8-Bromoguanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate-cGMP both activated hyperpolarization-induced inward-conducting currents in wild-type guard cells using Mg(2+) as the main charge carrier. The cGMP-activated currents were strongly blocked by lanthanum and gadolinium and also conducted Ba(2+), Ca(2+), and Na(+) ions. cngc5 cngc6 double mutant guard cells exhibited dramatically impaired cGMP-activated currents. In contrast, mutations in CNGC1, CNGC2, and CNGC20 did not disrupt these cGMP-activated currents. The yellow fluorescent protein-CNGC5 and yellow fluorescent protein-CNGC6 proteins localize in the cell periphery. Cyclic AMP activated modest inward currents in both wild-type and cngc5cngc6 mutant guard cells. Moreover, cngc5 cngc6 double mutant guard cells exhibited functional abscisic acid (ABA)-activated hyperpolarization-dependent Ca(2+)-permeable cation channel currents, intact ABA-induced stomatal closing responses, and whole-plant stomatal conductance responses to darkness and changes in CO2 concentration. Furthermore, cGMP-activated currents remained intact in the growth controlled by abscisic acid2 and abscisic acid insensitive1 mutants. This research demonstrates that the CNGC5 and CNGC6 genes encode unique cGMP-activated nonselective Ca(2+)-permeable cation channels in the plasma membrane of Arabidopsis guard cells.
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China (Y.-F.W., H.-M.R.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (Y.-F.W., S.M., N.N., N.R., M.H., S.L., I.M., J.I.S.)
- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia (I.P., H.K.); and
- Division of Agricultural and Life Science, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama 7008530, Japan (S.M.)
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Gillaspy GE. The Role of Phosphoinositides and Inositol Phosphates in Plant Cell Signaling. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2013; 991:141-57. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6331-9_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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A range of techniques have been used to measure the concentration of cytosolic-free Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](cyt)) in plant cells. Fluorescent Ca(2+)-sensitive indicators have been used extensively to measure plant [Ca(2+)](cyt) and a number of techniques are available for loading these into plant cells. Here we describe a method for measuring [Ca(2+)](cyt) in the guard cells of the model plant species Commelina communis by ratio photometry and imaging techniques using the ratiometric fluorescent Ca(2+)-sensitive indicator fura-2.
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- Martin R McAinsh
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
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Hubbard KE, Siegel RS, Valerio G, Brandt B, Schroeder JI. Abscisic acid and CO2 signalling via calcium sensitivity priming in guard cells, new CDPK mutant phenotypes and a method for improved resolution of stomatal stimulus-response analyses. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2012; 109:5-17. [PMID: 21994053 PMCID: PMC3241576 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2011] [Accepted: 08/23/2011] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND Stomatal guard cells are the regulators of gas exchange between plants and the atmosphere. Ca(2+)-dependent and Ca(2+)-independent mechanisms function in these responses. Key stomatal regulation mechanisms, including plasma membrane and vacuolar ion channels have been identified and are regulated by the free cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](cyt)). SCOPE Here we show that CO(2)-induced stomatal closing is strongly impaired under conditions that prevent intracellular Ca(2+) elevations. Moreover, Ca(2+) oscillation-induced stomatal closing is partially impaired in knock-out mutations in several guard cell-expressed Ca(2+)-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) here, including the cpk4cpk11 double and cpk10 mutants; however, abscisic acid-regulated stomatal movements remain relatively intact in the cpk4cpk11 and cpk10 mutants. We further discuss diverse studies of Ca(2+) signalling in guard cells, discuss apparent peculiarities, and pose novel open questions. The recently proposed Ca(2+) sensitivity priming model could account for many of the findings in the field. Recent research shows that the stomatal closing stimuli abscisic acid and CO(2) enhance the sensitivity of stomatal closing mechanisms to intracellular Ca(2+), which has been termed 'calcium sensitivity priming'. The genome of the reference plant Arabidopsis thaliana encodes for over 250 Ca(2+)-sensing proteins, giving rise to the question, how can specificity in Ca(2+) responses be achieved? Calcium sensitivity priming could provide a key mechanism contributing to specificity in eukaryotic Ca(2+) signal transduction, a topic of central interest in cell signalling research. In this article we further propose an individual stomatal tracking method for improved analyses of stimulus-regulated stomatal movements in Arabidopsis guard cells that reduces noise and increases fidelity in stimulus-regulated stomatal aperture responses ( Box 1). This method is recommended for stomatal response research, in parallel to previously adopted blind analyses, due to the relatively small and diverse sizes of stomatal apertures in the reference plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA
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The simple polyol, myo-inositol, is used as a building block of a cellular language that plays various roles in signal transduction. This review describes the terminology used to denote myo-inositol-containing molecules, with an emphasis on how phosphate and fatty acids are added to create second messengers used in signaling. Work in model systems has delineated the genes and enzymes required for synthesis and metabolism of many myo-inositol-containing molecules, with genetic mutants and measurement of second messengers playing key roles in developing our understanding. There is increasing evidence that molecules such as myo- inositol(1,4,5)trisphosphate and phosphatidylinositol(4,5)bisphosphate are synthesized in response to various signals plants encounter. In particular, the controversial role of myo-inositol(1,4,5)trisphosphate is addressed, accompanied by a discussion of the multiple enzymes that act to regulate this molecule. We are also beginning to understand new connections of myo-inositol signaling in plants. These recent discoveries include the novel roles of inositol phosphates in binding to plant hormone receptors and that of phosphatidylinositol(3)phosphate binding to pathogen effectors.
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- Glenda E Gillaspy
- Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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Gilliham M, Athman A, Tyerman SD, Conn SJ. Cell-specific compartmentation of mineral nutrients is an essential mechanism for optimal plant productivity--another role for TPC1? PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2011; 6:1656-61. [PMID: 22067997 PMCID: PMC3329329 DOI: 10.4161/psb.6.11.17797] [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] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Vacuoles of different leaf cell-types vary in their capacity to store specific mineral elements. In Arabidopsis thaliana potassium (K) accumulates preferentially in epidermal and bundle sheath cells whereas calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) are stored at high concentrations only in mesophyll cells. Accumulation of these elements in a particular vacuole can be reciprocal, i.e. as [K]vac increases [Ca]vac decreases. Mesophyll-specific Ca-storage involves CAX1 (a Ca2+/H+ antiporter) and Mg-storage involves MRS2-1/MGT2 and MRS2-5/MGT3 (both Mg2+-transporters), all of which are preferentially expressed in the mesophyll and encode tonoplast-localised proteins. However, what controls leaf-cell [K]vac is less well understood. TPC1 encodes the two-pore Ca2+ channel protein responsible for the tonoplast-localised SV cation conductance, and is highly expressed in cell-types that not preferentially accumulate Ca. Here, we evaluate evidence that TPC1 has a role in maintaining differential K and Ca storage across the leaf, and propose a function for TPC1 in releasing Ca2+ from epidermal and bundle sheath cell vacuoles to maintain low [Ca]vac. Mesophyll-specific Ca storage is essential to maintain apoplastic free Ca concentration at a level that does not perturb a range of physiological parameters including leaf gas exchange, cell wall extensibility and growth. When plants are grown under serpentine conditions (high Mg/Ca ratio), MGT2/MRS2-1 and MGT3/MRS2-5 are required to sequester additional Mg2+ in vacuoles to replace Ca2+ as an osmoticum to maintain growth. An updated model of Ca2+ and Mg2+ transport in leaves is presented as a reference for future interrogation of nutritional flows and elemental storage in plant leaves.
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- Matthew Gilliham
- School of Agriculture, Food, and Wine & Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia.
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Gilliham M, Dayod M, Hocking BJ, Xu B, Conn SJ, Kaiser BN, Leigh RA, Tyerman SD. Calcium delivery and storage in plant leaves: exploring the link with water flow. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2011; 62:2233-50. [PMID: 21511913 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Calcium (Ca) is a unique macronutrient with diverse but fundamental physiological roles in plant structure and signalling. In the majority of crops the largest proportion of long-distance calcium ion (Ca(2+)) transport through plant tissues has been demonstrated to follow apoplastic pathways, although this paradigm is being increasingly challenged. Similarly, under certain conditions, apoplastic pathways can dominate the proportion of water flow through plants. Therefore, tissue Ca supply is often found to be tightly linked to transpiration. Once Ca is deposited in vacuoles it is rarely redistributed, which results in highly transpiring organs amassing large concentrations of Ca ([Ca]). Meanwhile, the nutritional flow of Ca(2+) must be regulated so it does not interfere with signalling events. However, water flow through plants is itself regulated by Ca(2+), both in the apoplast via effects on cell wall structure and stomatal aperture, and within the symplast via Ca(2+)-mediated gating of aquaporins which regulates flow across membranes. In this review, an integrated model of water and Ca(2+) movement through plants is developed and how this affects [Ca] distribution and water flow within tissues is discussed, with particular emphasis on the role of aquaporins.
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- Matthew Gilliham
- Waite Research Institute, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, PMB1, Glen Osmond, SA, 5064, Australia
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Peiter E. The plant vacuole: emitter and receiver of calcium signals. Cell Calcium 2011; 50:120-8. [PMID: 21376393 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2011.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2011] [Revised: 02/04/2011] [Accepted: 02/05/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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This review portrays the plant vacuole as both a source and a target of Ca(2+) signals. In plants, the vacuole represents a Ca(2+) store of enormous size and capacity. Total and free Ca(2+) concentrations in the vacuole vary with plant species, cell type, and environment, which is likely to have an impact on vacuolar function and the release of vacuolar Ca(2+). It is known that cytosolic Ca(2+) signals are often generated by release of the ion from internal stores, but in very few cases has a role of the vacuole been directly demonstrated. Biochemical and electrophysical studies have provided evidence for the operation of ligand- and voltage-gated Ca(2+)-permeable channels in the vacuolar membrane. The underlying molecular mechanisms are largely unknown with one exception: the slow vacuolar channel, encoded by TPC1, is the only vacuolar Ca(2+)-permeable channel cloned to date. However, due to its complex regulation and its low selectivity amongst cations, the role of this channel in Ca(2+) signalling is still debated. Many transport proteins at the vacuolar membrane are also targets of Ca(2+) signals, both by direct binding of Ca(2+) and by Ca(2+)-dependent phosphorylation. This enables the operation of feedback mechanisms and integrates vacuolar transport systems in the wider signalling network of the plant cell.
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- Edgar Peiter
- Plant Nutrition Laboratory, Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences (IAEW), Faculty of Natural Sciences III, Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle (Saale), Germany.
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Conn SJ, Gilliham M, Athman A, Schreiber AW, Baumann U, Moller I, Cheng NH, Stancombe MA, Hirschi KD, Webb AAR, Burton R, Kaiser BN, Tyerman SD, Leigh RA. Cell-specific vacuolar calcium storage mediated by CAX1 regulates apoplastic calcium concentration, gas exchange, and plant productivity in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2011; 23:240-57. [PMID: 21258004 PMCID: PMC3051233 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.072769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2009] [Revised: 11/15/2010] [Accepted: 12/17/2010] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The physiological role and mechanism of nutrient storage within vacuoles of specific cell types is poorly understood. Transcript profiles from Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cells differing in calcium concentration ([Ca], epidermis <10 mM versus mesophyll >60 mM) were compared using a microarray screen and single-cell quantitative PCR. Three tonoplast-localized Ca(2+) transporters, CAX1 (Ca(2+)/H(+)-antiporter), ACA4, and ACA11 (Ca(2+)-ATPases), were identified as preferentially expressed in Ca-rich mesophyll. Analysis of respective loss-of-function mutants demonstrated that only a mutant that lacked expression of both CAX1 and CAX3, a gene ectopically expressed in leaves upon knockout of CAX1, had reduced mesophyll [Ca]. Reduced capacity for mesophyll Ca accumulation resulted in reduced cell wall extensibility, stomatal aperture, transpiration, CO(2) assimilation, and leaf growth rate; increased transcript abundance of other Ca(2+) transporter genes; altered expression of cell wall-modifying proteins, including members of the pectinmethylesterase, expansin, cellulose synthase, and polygalacturonase families; and higher pectin concentrations and thicker cell walls. We demonstrate that these phenotypes result from altered apoplastic free [Ca(2+)], which is threefold greater in cax1/cax3 than in wild-type plants. We establish CAX1 as a key regulator of apoplastic [Ca(2+)] through compartmentation into mesophyll vacuoles, a mechanism essential for optimal plant function and productivity.
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- Simon J Conn
- School of Agriculture, Food, and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, South Australia 5064, Australia
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Roelfsema MRG, Hedrich R. Making sense out of Ca(2+) signals: their role in regulating stomatal movements. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2010; 33:305-321. [PMID: 19906147 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.02075.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Plant cells maintain high Ca(2+) concentration gradients between the cytosol and the extracellular matrix, as well as intracellular compartments. During evolution, the regulatory mechanisms, maintaining low cytosolic free Ca(2+) concentrations, most likely provided the backbone for the development of Ca(2+)-dependent signalling pathways. In this review, the current understanding of molecular mechanisms involved in Ca(2+) homeostasis of plants cells is evaluated. The question is addressed to which extent the mechanisms, controlling the cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration, are linked to Ca(2+)-based signalling. A large number of environmental stimuli can evoke Ca(2+) signals, but the Ca(2+)-induced responses are likely to differ depending on the stimulus applied. Two mechanisms are put forward to explain signal specificity of Ca(2+)-dependent responses. A signal may evoke a specific Ca(2+) signature that is recognized by downstream signalling components. Alternatively, Ca(2+) signals are accompanied by Ca(2+)-independent signalling events that determine the specificity of the response. The existence of such parallel-acting pathways explains why guard cell responses to abscisic acid (ABA) can occur in the absence, as well as in the presence, of Ca(2+) signals. Future research may shed new light on the relation between parallel acting Ca(2+)-dependent and -independent events, and may provide insights in their evolutionary origin.
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- M Rob G Roelfsema
- Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Biosciences, Biocenter, Würzburg University, Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 2, D-97082 Würzburg, Germany.
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Kim TH, Böhmer M, Hu H, Nishimura N, Schroeder JI. Guard cell signal transduction network: advances in understanding abscisic acid, CO2, and Ca2+ signaling. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2010; 61:561-91. [PMID: 20192751 PMCID: PMC3056615 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042809-112226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 811] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Stomatal pores are formed by pairs of specialized epidermal guard cells and serve as major gateways for both CO(2) influx into plants from the atmosphere and transpirational water loss of plants. Because they regulate stomatal pore apertures via integration of both endogenous hormonal stimuli and environmental signals, guard cells have been highly developed as a model system to dissect the dynamics and mechanisms of plant-cell signaling. The stress hormone ABA and elevated levels of CO(2) activate complex signaling pathways in guard cells that are mediated by kinases/phosphatases, secondary messengers, and ion channel regulation. Recent research in guard cells has led to a new hypothesis for how plants achieve specificity in intracellular calcium signaling: CO(2) and ABA enhance (prime) the calcium sensitivity of downstream calcium-signaling mechanisms. Recent progress in identification of early stomatal signaling components are reviewed here, including ABA receptors and CO(2)-binding response proteins, as well as systems approaches that advance our understanding of guard cell-signaling mechanisms.
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- University of California, San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, La Jolla, California 92093-0116
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- University of California, San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, La Jolla, California 92093-0116
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- University of California, San Diego, Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, La Jolla, California 92093-0116
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Bai L, Zhang G, Zhou Y, Zhang Z, Wang W, Du Y, Wu Z, Song CP. Plasma membrane-associated proline-rich extensin-like receptor kinase 4, a novel regulator of Ca signalling, is required for abscisic acid responses in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 60:314-27. [PMID: 19566594 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2009.03956.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plant roots respond to environmental stresses or the exogenous plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) by undergoing marked physiological and morphological changes. We show here that PERK4, a gene that encodes a member of the Arabidopsis thaliana proline-rich extensin-like receptor kinase family, plays an important role in ABA responses. Mutation of PERK4 by T-DNA insertion decreased sensitivity to ABA with respect to seed germination, seedling growth and primary root tip growth. The effect on root growth was due to enhanced cell elongation rather than cell division. The cytosolic free calcium concentration and Ca(2+) channel currents were lower in perk4 root cells than in wild-type cells in the presence of ABA. Root growth was similar in wild-type and perk4 plants after the application of a Ca(2+) channel blocker. PERK4 localised to the plasma membrane, and was shown to be an ABA- and Ca(2+)-activated protein kinase. Our data suggest that the receptor-like kinase encoded by PERK4 functions at an early stage of ABA signalling to inhibit root cell elongation by perturbing Ca(2+) homeostasis.
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- Ling Bai
- Henan Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, Department of Biology, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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Siegel RS, Xue S, Murata Y, Yang Y, Nishimura N, Wang A, Schroeder JI. Calcium elevation-dependent and attenuated resting calcium-dependent abscisic acid induction of stomatal closure and abscisic acid-induced enhancement of calcium sensitivities of S-type anion and inward-rectifying K channels in Arabidopsis guard cells. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 59:207-20. [PMID: 19302418 PMCID: PMC2827207 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2009.03872.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Stomatal closure in response to abscisic acid depends on mechanisms that are mediated by intracellular [Ca2+] ([Ca2+]i), and also on mechanisms that are independent of [Ca2+]i in guard cells. In this study, we addressed three important questions with respect to these two predicted pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana. (i) How large is the relative abscisic acid (ABA)-induced stomatal closure response in the [Ca2+]i-elevation-independent pathway? (ii) How do ABA-insensitive mutants affect the [Ca2+]i-elevation-independent pathway? (iii) Does ABA enhance (prime) the Ca2+ sensitivity of anion and inward-rectifying K+ channel regulation? We monitored stomatal responses to ABA while experimentally inhibiting [Ca2+]i elevations and clamping [Ca2+]i to resting levels. The absence of [Ca2+]i elevations was confirmed by ratiometric [Ca2+]i imaging experiments. ABA-induced stomatal closure in the absence of [Ca2+]i elevations above the physiological resting [Ca2+]i showed only approximately 30% of the normal stomatal closure response, and was greatly slowed compared to the response in the presence of [Ca2+]i elevations. The ABA-insensitive mutants ost1-2, abi2-1 and gca2 showed partial stomatal closure responses that correlate with [Ca2+]i-dependent ABA signaling. Interestingly, patch-clamp experiments showed that exposure of guard cells to ABA greatly enhances the ability of cytosolic Ca2+ to activate S-type anion channels and down-regulate inward-rectifying K+ channels, providing strong evidence for a Ca2+ sensitivity priming hypothesis. The present study demonstrates and quantifies an attenuated and slowed ABA response when [Ca2+]i elevations are directly inhibited in guard cells. A minimal model is discussed, in which ABA enhances (primes) the [Ca2+]i sensitivity of stomatal closure mechanisms.
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- Robert S Siegel
- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA
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Cho D, Kim SA, Murata Y, Lee S, Jae SK, Nam HG, Kwak JM. De-regulated expression of the plant glutamate receptor homolog AtGLR3.1 impairs long-term Ca2+-programmed stomatal closure. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 58:437-49. [PMID: 19143998 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2009.03789.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Cytosolic Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](cyt)) mediates diverse cellular responses in both animal and plant cells in response to various stimuli. Calcium oscillation amplitude and frequency control gene expression. In stomatal guard cells, [Ca(2+)](cyt) has been shown to regulate stomatal movements, and a defined window of Ca(2+) oscillation kinetic parameters encodes necessary information for long-term stomatal movements. However, it remains unknown how the encrypted information in the cytosolic Ca(2+) signature is decoded to maintain stomatal closure. Here we report that the Arabidopsis glutamate receptor homolog AtGLR3.1 is preferentially expressed in guard cells compared to mesophyll cells. Furthermore, over-expression of AtGLR3.1 using a viral promoter resulted in impaired external Ca(2+)-induced stomatal closure. Cytosolic Ca(2+) activation of S-type anion channels, which play a central role in Ca(2+)-reactive stomatal closure, was normal in the AtGLR3.1 over-expressing plants. Interestingly, AtGLR3.1 over-expression did not affect Ca(2+)-induced Ca(2+) oscillation kinetics, but resulted in a failure to maintain long-term 'Ca(2+)-programmed' stomatal closure when Ca(2+) oscillations containing information for maintaining stomatal closure were imposed. By contrast, prompt short-term Ca(2+)-reactive closure was not affected in AtGLR3.1 over-expressing plants. In wild-type plants, the translational inhibitor cyclohexamide partially inhibited Ca(2+)-programmed stomatal closure induced by experimentally imposed Ca(2+) oscillations without affecting short-term Ca(2+)-reactive closure, mimicking the guard cell behavior of the AtGLR3.1 over-expressing plants. Our results suggest that over-expression of AtGLR3.1 impairs Ca(2+) oscillation-regulated stomatal movements, and that de novo protein synthesis contributes to the maintenance of long-term Ca(2+)-programmed stomatal closure.
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- Daeshik Cho
- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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In addition to light, water and CO(2), plants require a number of mineral nutrients, in particular the macronutrients nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and potassium. After uptake from the soil by the root system they are either immediately assimilated into organic compounds or distributed within the plant for usage in different tissues. A good understanding of how the transport of macronutrients into and between plant cells is adjusted to different environmental conditions is essential to achieve an increase of nutrient usage efficiency and nutritional value in crops. Here, we review the current state of knowledge regarding the regulation of macronutrient transport, taking both a physiological and a mechanistic approach. We first describe how nutrient transport is linked to environmental and internal cues such as nutrient, carbon and water availability via hormonal, metabolic and physical signals. We then present information on the molecular mechanisms for regulation of transport proteins, including voltage gating, auto-inhibition, interaction with other proteins, oligomerization and trafficking. Combining of evidence for different nutrients, signals and regulatory levels creates an opportunity for making new connections within a large body of data, and thus contributes to an integrative understanding of nutrient transport.
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- Anna Amtmann
- Plant Sciences Group, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G128QQ, UK
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- Plant Sciences Group, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G128QQ, UK
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Kwak JM, Mäser P, Schroeder JI. The Clickable Guard Cell, Version II: Interactive Model of Guard Cell Signal Transduction Mechanisms and Pathways. THE ARABIDOPSIS BOOK 2008; 6:e0114. [PMID: 22303239 PMCID: PMC3243356 DOI: 10.1199/tab.0114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Guard cells are located in the leaf epidermis and pairs of guard cells surround and form stomatal pores, which regulate CO(2) influx from the atmosphere into leaves for photosynthetic carbon fixation. Stomatal guard cells also regulate water loss of plants via transpiration to the atmosphere. Signal transduction mechanisms in guard cells integrate a multitude of different stimuli to modulate stomatal apertures. Stomata open in response to light. Stomata close in response to drought stress, elevated CO(2), ozone and low humidity. In response to drought, plants synthesize the hormone abscisic acid (ABA) that triggers closing of stomatal pores. Guard cells have become a highly developed model system for dissecting signal transduction mechanisms in plants and for elucidating how individual signaling mechanisms can interact within a network in a single cell. Many new findings have been made in the last few years. This chapter is an update of an electronic interactive chapter in the previous edition of The Arabidopsis Book (Mäser et al. 2003). Here we focus on mechanisms for which genes and mutations have been characterized, including signaling components for which there is substantial signaling, biochemical and genetic evidence. Ion channels have been shown to represent targets of early signal transduction mechanisms and provide functional signaling and quantitative analysis points to determine where and how mutations affect branches within the guard cell signaling network. Although a substantial number of genes and proteins that function in guard cell signaling have been identified in recent years, there are many more left to be identified and the protein-protein interactions within this network will be an important subject of future research. A fully interactive clickable electronic version of this publication can be accessed at the following web site: http://www-biology.ucsd.edu/labs/schroeder/clickablegc2/. The interactive clickable version includes the following features: Figure 1. Model for the roles of ion channels in ABA signaling.Figure 2. Blue light signaling pathways in guard cells.Figure 3. ABA signaling pathways in guard cells.Figure 1 is linked to explanations that appear upon mouse-over. Figure 2 and Figure 3 are clickable and linked to info boxes, which in turn are linked to TAIR, to relevant abstracts in PubMed, and to updated background explanations from Schroeder et al (2001), used with permission of Annual Reviews of Plant Biology.
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- June M. Kwak
- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
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- Institute of Cell Biology, University of Berne, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0116
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Levchenko V, Guinot DR, Klein M, Roelfsema MRG, Hedrich R, Dietrich P. Stringent control of cytoplasmic Ca2+ in guard cells of intact plants compared to their counterparts in epidermal strips or guard cell protoplasts. PROTOPLASMA 2008; 233:61-72. [PMID: 18648729 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-008-0307-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2007] [Accepted: 01/28/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Cytoplasmic calcium elevations, transients, and oscillations are thought to encode information that triggers a variety of physiological responses in plant cells. Yet Ca(2+) signals induced by a single stimulus vary, depending on the physiological state of the cell and experimental conditions. We compared Ca(2+) homeostasis and stimulus-induced Ca(2+) signals in guard cells of intact plants, epidermal strips, and isolated protoplasts. Single-cell ratiometric imaging with the Ca(2+)-sensitive dye Fura 2 was applied in combination with electrophysiological recordings. Guard cell protoplasts were loaded with Fura 2 via a patch pipette, revealing a cytoplasmic free Ca(2+) concentration of around 80 nM at -47 mV. Upon hyperpolarization of the plasma membrane to -107 mV, the Ca(2+) concentration increased to levels exceeding 400 nM. Intact guard cells were able to maintain much lower cytoplasmic free Ca(2+) concentrations at hyperpolarized potentials, the average concentration at -100 mV was 183 and 90 nM in epidermal strips and intact plants, respectively. Further hyperpolarization of the plasma membrane to -160 mV induced a sustained rise of the guard cell cytoplasmic Ca(2+) concentration, which slowly returned to the prestimulus level in intact plants but not in epidermal strips. Our results show that cytoplasmic Ca(2+) concentrations are stringently controlled in guard cells of intact plants but become increasingly more sensitive to changes in the plasma membrane potential in epidermal strips and isolated protoplasts.
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- V Levchenko
- Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Julius von Sachs Institute for Biosciences, Würzburg University, Würzburg
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Liu PF, Chang WC, Wang YK, Chang HY, Pan RL. Signaling pathways mediating the suppression of Arabidopsis thaliana Ku gene expression by abscisic acid. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2008; 1779:164-74. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2007.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2007] [Revised: 12/10/2007] [Accepted: 12/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Yang Y, Costa A, Leonhardt N, Siegel RS, Schroeder JI. Isolation of a strong Arabidopsis guard cell promoter and its potential as a research tool. PLANT METHODS 2008; 4:6. [PMID: 18284694 PMCID: PMC2323621 DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-4-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 241] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2007] [Accepted: 02/19/2008] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND A common limitation in guard cell signaling research is that it is difficult to obtain consistent high expression of transgenes of interest in Arabidopsis guard cells using known guard cell promoters or the constitutive 35S cauliflower mosaic virus promoter. An additional drawback of the 35S promoter is that ectopically expressing a gene throughout the organism could cause pleiotropic effects. To improve available methods for targeted gene expression in guard cells, we isolated strong guard cell promoter candidates based on new guard cell-specific microarray analyses of 23,000 genes that are made available together with this report. RESULTS A promoter, pGC1(At1g22690), drove strong and relatively specific reporter gene expression in guard cells including GUS (beta-glucuronidase) and yellow cameleon YC3.60 (GFP-based calcium FRET reporter). Reporter gene expression was weaker in immature guard cells. The expression of YC3.60 was sufficiently strong to image intracellular Ca2+ dynamics in guard cells of intact plants and resolved spontaneous calcium transients in guard cells. The GC1 promoter also mediated strong reporter expression in clustered stomata in the stomatal development mutant too-many-mouths (tmm). Furthermore, the same promoter::reporter constructs also drove guard cell specific reporter expression in tobacco, illustrating the potential of this promoter as a method for high level expression in guard cells. A serial deletion of the promoter defined a guard cell expression promoter region. In addition, anti-sense repression using pGC1 was powerful for reducing specific GFP gene expression in guard cells while expression in leaf epidermal cells was not repressed, demonstrating strong cell-type preferential gene repression. CONCLUSION The pGC1 promoter described here drives strong reporter expression in guard cells of Arabidopsis and tobacco plants. It provides a potent research tool for targeted guard cell expression or gene silencing. It is also applicable to reduce specific gene expression in guard cells, providing a method for circumvention of limitations arising from genetic redundancy and lethality. These advances could be very useful for manipulating signaling pathways in guard cells and modifying plant performance under stress conditions. In addition, new guard cell and mesophyll cell-specific 23,000 gene microarray data are made publicly available here.
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- Yingzhen Yang
- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0116, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Padua, Via U. Bassi 58/B, I-35131, Padova, Italy
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- CEA Cadarache, DSV, UMR 6191 CEA-CNRS, DEVM, LEMS and LEMP, St Paul les Durance Cedex, France
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0116, USA
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0116, USA
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Mori IC, Murata Y, Yang Y, Munemasa S, Wang YF, Andreoli S, Tiriac H, Alonso JM, Harper JF, Ecker JR, Kwak JM, Schroeder JI. CDPKs CPK6 and CPK3 function in ABA regulation of guard cell S-type anion- and Ca(2+)-permeable channels and stomatal closure. PLoS Biol 2007; 4:e327. [PMID: 17032064 PMCID: PMC1592316 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 406] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2006] [Accepted: 08/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Abscisic acid (ABA) signal transduction has been proposed to utilize cytosolic Ca(2+) in guard cell ion channel regulation. However, genetic mutants in Ca(2+) sensors that impair guard cell or plant ion channel signaling responses have not been identified, and whether Ca(2+)-independent ABA signaling mechanisms suffice for a full response remains unclear. Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) have been proposed to contribute to central signal transduction responses in plants. However, no Arabidopsis CDPK gene disruption mutant phenotype has been reported to date, likely due to overlapping redundancies in CDPKs. Two Arabidopsis guard cell-expressed CDPK genes, CPK3 and CPK6, showed gene disruption phenotypes. ABA and Ca(2+) activation of slow-type anion channels and, interestingly, ABA activation of plasma membrane Ca(2+)-permeable channels were impaired in independent alleles of single and double cpk3cpk6 mutant guard cells. Furthermore, ABA- and Ca(2+)-induced stomatal closing were partially impaired in these cpk3cpk6 mutant alleles. However, rapid-type anion channel current activity was not affected, consistent with the partial stomatal closing response in double mutants via a proposed branched signaling network. Imposed Ca(2+) oscillation experiments revealed that Ca(2+)-reactive stomatal closure was reduced in CDPK double mutant plants. However, long-lasting Ca(2+)-programmed stomatal closure was not impaired, providing genetic evidence for a functional separation of these two modes of Ca(2+)-induced stomatal closing. Our findings show important functions of the CPK6 and CPK3 CDPKs in guard cell ion channel regulation and provide genetic evidence for calcium sensors that transduce stomatal ABA signaling.
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- Izumi C Mori
- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Agriculture, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Agriculture, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- The Salk Institute of Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Biochemistry Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- The Salk Institute of Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Li S, Assmann SM, Albert R. Predicting essential components of signal transduction networks: a dynamic model of guard cell abscisic acid signaling. PLoS Biol 2007; 4:e312. [PMID: 16968132 PMCID: PMC1564158 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 304] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2006] [Accepted: 07/21/2006] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Plants both lose water and take in carbon dioxide through microscopic stomatal pores, each of which is regulated by a surrounding pair of guard cells. During drought, the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) inhibits stomatal opening and promotes stomatal closure, thereby promoting water conservation. Dozens of cellular components have been identified to function in ABA regulation of guard cell volume and thus of stomatal aperture, but a dynamic description is still not available for this complex process. Here we synthesize experimental results into a consistent guard cell signal transduction network for ABA-induced stomatal closure, and develop a dynamic model of this process. Our model captures the regulation of more than 40 identified network components, and accords well with previous experimental results at both the pathway and whole-cell physiological level. By simulating gene disruptions and pharmacological interventions we find that the network is robust against a significant fraction of possible perturbations. Our analysis reveals the novel predictions that the disruption of membrane depolarizability, anion efflux, actin cytoskeleton reorganization, cytosolic pH increase, the phosphatidic acid pathway, or K(+) efflux through slowly activating K(+) channels at the plasma membrane lead to the strongest reduction in ABA responsiveness. Initial experimental analysis assessing ABA-induced stomatal closure in the presence of cytosolic pH clamp imposed by the weak acid butyrate is consistent with model prediction. Simulations of stomatal response as derived from our model provide an efficient tool for the identification of candidate manipulations that have the best chance of conferring increased drought stress tolerance and for the prioritization of future wet bench analyses. Our method can be readily applied to other biological signaling networks to identify key regulatory components in systems where quantitative information is limited.
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- Song Li
- Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Physics Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Marten H, Konrad KR, Dietrich P, Roelfsema MRG, Hedrich R. Ca2+-dependent and -independent abscisic acid activation of plasma membrane anion channels in guard cells of Nicotiana tabacum. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 143:28-37. [PMID: 17142476 PMCID: PMC1761993 DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.092643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2006] [Accepted: 11/26/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Drought induces stomatal closure, a response that is associated with the activation of plasma membrane anion channels in guard cells, by the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA). In several species, this response is associated with changes in the cytoplasmic free Ca(2+) concentration. In Vicia faba, however, guard cell anion channels activate in a Ca(2+)-independent manner. Because of potential differences between species, Nicotiana tabacum guard cells were studied in intact plants, with simultaneous recordings of the plasma membrane conductance and the cytoplasmic free Ca(2+) concentration. ABA triggered transient rises in cytoplasmic Ca(2+) in the majority of the guard cells (14 out of 19). In seven out of 14 guard cells, the change in cytoplasmic free Ca(2+) closely matched the activation of anion channels, while the Ca(2+) rise was delayed in seven other cells. In the remaining five cells, ABA stimulated anion channels without a change in the cytoplasmic Ca(2+) level. Even though ABA could activate anion channels in N. tabacum guard cells independent of a rise in the cytoplasmic Ca(2+) concentration, patch clamp experiments showed that anion channels in these cells are stimulated by elevated Ca(2+) in an ATP-dependent manner. Guard cells thus seem to have evolved both Ca(2+)-independent and -dependent ABA signaling pathways. Guard cells of N. tabacum apparently utilize both pathways, while ABA signaling in V. faba seems to be restricted to the Ca(2+)-independent pathway.
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- Holger Marten
- University of Wurzburg, Biocenter, Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Biosciences, D-97082 Wurzburg, Germany
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Dodd AN, Jakobsen MK, Baker AJ, Telzerow A, Hou SW, Laplaze L, Barrot L, Poethig RS, Haseloff J, Webb AAR. Time of day modulates low-temperature Ca signals in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 48:962-73. [PMID: 17227550 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2006.02933.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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We tested the hypothesis that the circadian clock modulates Ca(2+)-based signalling pathways, using low-temperature (LT)-induced Ca(2+) signals. We investigated the relationship between diurnal and circadian modulation of LT-induced increases in cytosolic-free calcium ([Ca(2+)](cyt)), and regulation of [Ca(2+)](cyt)-dependent outputs of the LT-signalling network (RD29A transcript abundance and stomatal closure). We measured [Ca(2+)](cyt) non-invasively using aequorin, and targeted aequorin to the guard cell using a guard cell-specific GAL4-green fluorescent protein enhancer trap line. LT caused transient increases in whole plant and guard cell [Ca(2+)](cyt). In guard cells, the LT-induced [Ca(2+)](cyt) elevation preceded stomatal closure. In whole plants, the magnitude of LT-induced [Ca(2+)](cyt) transients, measured from the entire plant or specifically the guard cell, varied with the time of day: LT-induced [Ca(2+)](cyt) transients were significantly higher during the mid-photoperiod than at the beginning or end. Diurnal variation in LT-induced guard cell [Ca(2+)](cyt) increases was not correlated to diurnal variation in LT-induced stomatal closure. There was circadian modulation of LT-induced whole plant [Ca(2+)](cyt) increases, which were correlated to the circadian pattern of RD29A induction. In order to understand the significance of LT-induced [Ca(2+)](cyt) increases, we used a computer simulation to demonstrate that, in guard cells, LT-induced [Ca(2+)](cyt) increases measured from a population of cells are likely to represent the summation of cold-induced single-cell [Ca(2+)](cyt) oscillations.
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- Antony N Dodd
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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Wolf T, Heidelmann T, Marten I. ABA regulation of K(+)-permeable channels in maize subsidiary cells. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2006; 47:1372-80. [PMID: 16973684 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcl007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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An antiparallel-directed potassium transport between subsidiary cells and guard cells which form the graminean stomatal complex has been proposed to drive stomatal movements in maize. To gain insights into the coordinated shuttling of K(+) ions between these cell types during stomatal closure, the effect of ABA on the time-dependent K(+) uptake and K(+) release channels as well as on the instantaneously activating non-selective cation channels (MgC) was examined in subsidiary cells. Patch-clamp studies revealed that ABA did not affect the MgC channels but differentially regulated the time-dependent K(+) channels. ABA caused a pronounced rise in time-dependent outward-rectifying K(+) currents (K(out)) at alkaline pH and decreased inward-rectifying K(+) currents (K(in)) in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner. Our results show that the ABA-induced changes in time-dependent K(in) and K(out) currents from subsidiary cells are very similar to those previously described for guard cells. Thus, the direction of K(+) transport in subsidiary cells and guard cells during ABA-induced closure does not seem to be grounded solely on the cell type-specific ABA regulation of K(+) channels.
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- Thomas Wolf
- University of Wuerzburg, Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Bioscience, Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 2, D-97082 Wuerzburg, Germany
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Bothwell JHF, Brownlee C, Hetherington AM, Ng CKY, Wheeler GL, McAinsh MR. Biolistic delivery of Ca2+ dyes into plant and algal cells. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 46:327-35. [PMID: 16623894 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2006.02687.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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In eukaryotes, changes in cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+]cyt) are associated with a number of environmental and developmental stimuli. However, measuring [Ca2+]cyt changes in single plant or algal cells is often problematic. Although a wide range of Ca2+-sensitive fluorescent dyes is available, they are often difficult to introduce into plant cells. Micro-injection is the most robust method for dye loading, but is time-consuming, technically demanding, and unsuitable in many cell types. To overcome these problems, we have adapted biolistic techniques to load Ca2+-sensitive dyes into guard cells of the flowering plant, Commelina communis, cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and zygotes of the brown alga, Fucus serratus. Using this approach, we have been able to monitor [Ca2+]cyt changes in response to various stimuli, including a novel [Ca2+]cyt response in C. reinhardtii. The method allows the use of free acid and dextran-conjugated dyes. Biolistic loading of differentiated plant cells is easier, quicker, and more widely applicable than micro-injection, and should broaden the study of plant signal transduction.
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- John H F Bothwell
- Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UK
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Roelfsema MRG, Hedrich R. In the light of stomatal opening: new insights into 'the Watergate'. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2005; 167:665-91. [PMID: 16101906 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01460.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 300] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Stomata can be regarded as hydraulically driven valves in the leaf surface, which open to allow CO2 uptake and close to prevent excessive loss of water. Movement of these 'Watergates' is regulated by environmental conditions, such as light, CO2 and humidity. Guard cells can sense environmental conditions and function as motor cells within the stomatal complex. Stomatal movement results from the transport of K+ salts across the guard cell membranes. In this review, we discuss the biophysical principles and mechanisms of stomatal movement and relate these to ion transport at the plasma membrane and vacuolar membrane. Studies with isolated guard cells, combined with recordings on single guard cells in intact plants, revealed that light stimulates stomatal opening via blue light-specific and photosynthetic-active radiation-dependent pathways. In addition, guard cells sense changes in air humidity and the water status of distant tissues via the stress hormone abscisic acid (ABA). Guard cells thus provide an excellent system to study cross-talk, as multiple signaling pathways induce both short- and long-term responses in these sensory cells.
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- M Rob G Roelfsema
- Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Biosciences, Biocenter, Würzburg University, Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 2, D-97082 Würzburg, Germany
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Delk NA, Johnson KA, Chowdhury NI, Braam J. CML24, regulated in expression by diverse stimuli, encodes a potential Ca2+ sensor that functions in responses to abscisic acid, daylength, and ion stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 139:240-53. [PMID: 16113225 PMCID: PMC1203374 DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.062612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2005] [Revised: 05/10/2005] [Accepted: 05/15/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Changes in intracellular calcium (Ca(2+)) levels serve to signal responses to diverse stimuli. Ca(2+) signals are likely perceived through proteins that bind Ca(2+), undergo conformation changes following Ca(2+) binding, and interact with target proteins. The 50-member calmodulin-like (CML) Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) family encodes proteins containing the predicted Ca(2+)-binding EF-hand motif. The functions of virtually all these proteins are unknown. CML24, also known as TCH2, shares over 40% amino acid sequence identity with calmodulin, has four EF hands, and undergoes Ca(2+)-dependent changes in hydrophobic interaction chromatography and migration rate through denaturing gel electrophoresis, indicating that CML24 binds Ca(2+) and, as a consequence, undergoes conformational changes. CML24 expression occurs in all major organs, and transcript levels are increased from 2- to 15-fold in plants subjected to touch, darkness, heat, cold, hydrogen peroxide, abscisic acid (ABA), and indole-3-acetic acid. However, CML24 protein accumulation changes were not detectable. The putative CML24 regulatory region confers reporter expression at sites of predicted mechanical stress; in regions undergoing growth; in vascular tissues and various floral organs; and in stomata, trichomes, and hydathodes. CML24-underexpressing transgenics are resistant to ABA inhibition of germination and seedling growth, are defective in long-day induction of flowering, and have enhanced tolerance to CoCl(2), molybdic acid, ZnSO(4), and MgCl(2). MgCl(2) tolerance is not due to reduced uptake or to elevated Ca(2+) accumulation. Together, these data present evidence that CML24, a gene expressed in diverse organs and responsive to diverse stimuli, encodes a potential Ca(2+) sensor that may function to enable responses to ABA, daylength, and presence of various salts.
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- Nikkí A Delk
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
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Levchenko V, Konrad KR, Dietrich P, Roelfsema MRG, Hedrich R. Cytosolic abscisic acid activates guard cell anion channels without preceding Ca2+ signals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:4203-8. [PMID: 15753314 PMCID: PMC554796 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0500146102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) reports on the water status of the plant and induces stomatal closure. Guard cell anion channels play a central role in this response, because they mediate anion efflux, and in turn, cause a depolarization-induced K+ release. We recorded early steps in ABA signaling, introducing multibarreled microelectrodes in guard cells of intact plants. Upon external ABA treatment, anion channels transiently activated after a lag phase of approximately 2 min. As expected for a cytosolic ABA receptor, iontophoretic ABA loading into the cytoplasm initiated a rise in anion current without delay. These ABA responses could be elicited repetitively at resting and at largely depolarized potentials (e.g., 0 mV), ruling out signal transduction by means of hyperpolarization-activated calcium channels. Likewise, ABA stimulation did not induce a rise in the cytosolic free-calcium concentration. However, the presence of approximately 100 nM background Ca2+ was required for anion channel function, because the action of ABA on anion channels was repressed after loading of the Ca2+ chelator 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetate. The chain of events appears very direct, because none of the tested putative ABA-signaling intermediates (inositol 1,4,5 trisphosphate, inositol hexakisphosphate, nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate, and cyclic ADP-ribose), could mimic ABA as anion channel activator. In patch-clamp experiments, cytosolic ABA also evoked anion current transients carried by R- and S-type anion channels. The response was dose-dependent with half-maximum activation at 2.6 microM ABA. Our studies point to an ABA pathway initiated by ABA binding to a cytosolic receptor that within seconds activates anion channels, and in turn, leads to depolarization of the plasma membrane.
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- Victor Levchenko
- Department of Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Biosciences, Biocenter, Würzburg University, Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 2, D97082 Würzburg, Germany
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Gilliham M, Tester M. The regulation of anion loading to the maize root xylem. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 137:819-28. [PMID: 15734917 PMCID: PMC1065381 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.054056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2004] [Revised: 12/09/2004] [Accepted: 12/22/2004] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The regulation of anion loading to the shoot in maize (Zea mays) was investigated via an electrophysiological characterization of ion conductances in protoplasts isolated from the root stele. Two distinct anion conductances were identified. In protoplasts from well-watered plants, Z. mays xylem-parenchyma quickly-activating anion conductance (Zm-X-QUAC) was the most prevalent conductance and is likely to load the majority of NO(3)(-) and Cl(-) ions to the xylem in nonstressed conditions. Z. mays xylem-parenchyma inwardly-rectifying anion conductance was found at a lower frequency in protoplasts from well-watered plants than Zm-X-QUAC, was much smaller in magnitude in all observed conditions, and is unlikely to be such a major pathway for anion loading into the xylem. Activity of Z. mays xylem-parenchyma inwardly-rectifying anion conductance increased following a water stress prior to protoplast isolation, but the activity of the putative major anion-loading pathway, Zm-X-QUAC, decreased. Addition of abscisic acid (ABA) to protoplasts from well-watered plants also inhibited Zm-X-QUAC activity within minutes, as did a high free Ca(2+)concentration in the pipette. ABA was also seen to activate a Ca(2+)-permeable conductance (Z. mays xylem-parenchyma hyperpolarization activated cation conductance) in protoplasts from well-watered plants. It is postulated that the inhibition of anion loading into the xylem (an important response to a water stress) due to down-regulation of Zm-X-QUAC activity is mediated by an ABA-mediated rise in free cytosolic Ca(2+).
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- Matthew Gilliham
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom
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Sokolovski S, Blatt MR. Nitric oxide block of outward-rectifying K+ channels indicates direct control by protein nitrosylation in guard cells. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 136:4275-84. [PMID: 15563619 PMCID: PMC535857 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.050344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2004] [Revised: 09/17/2004] [Accepted: 09/17/2004] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Recent work has indicated that nitric oxide (NO) and its synthesis are important elements of signal cascades in plant pathogen defense and are a prerequisite for drought and abscisic acid responses in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and Vicia faba guard cells. Nonetheless, its mechanism(s) of action has not been well defined. NO regulates inward-rectifying K+ channels of Vicia guard cells through its action on Ca2+ release from intercellular Ca2+ stores, but alternative pathways are indicated for its action on the outward-rectifying K+ channels (I(K,out)), which are Ca2+ insensitive. We report here that NO affects I(K,out) when NO is elevated above approximately 10 to 20 nm. NO action on I(K,out) was consistent with oxidative stress and was suppressed by several reducing agents, the most effective being British anti-Lewisite (2,3-dimercapto-1-propanol). The effect of NO on the K+ channel was mimicked by phenylarsine oxide, an oxidizing agent that cross-links vicinal thiols. Neither intracellular pH buffering nor the phosphotyrosine kinase antagonist genistein affected NO action on I(K,out), indicating that changes in cytosolic pH and tyrosine phosphorylation are unlikely to contribute to NO or phenylarsine oxide action in this instance. Instead, our results strongly suggest that NO directly modifies the K+ channel or a closely associated regulatory protein, probably by nitrosylation of cysteine sulfhydryl groups.
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- Sergei Sokolovski
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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