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Sun W, Yuan M, Yin L, Ke X, Zuo Y. A natriuretic peptide molecule from Vigna angularis, VaEG45, confers rust resistance by inhibiting fungal development. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2023; 42:409-420. [PMID: 36576553 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-022-02967-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2022] [Accepted: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Novel function and mechanism of a PNP molecule VaEG45 from adzuki bean involved in plant immunity. Plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs) can affect a broad spectrum of physiological responses in plants acting as peptidic signaling molecules. However, PNPs may play additional roles in plant immunity. Our previous transcriptome data of adzuki bean (Vigna angularis) in response to Uromyces vignae infection revealed association of PNP-encoding gene VaEG45 with U. vignae resistance. To determine the function of VaEG45 in disease resistance, we cloned the 589 bp nucleotide sequence of VaEG45 containing 2 introns, encoding a putative 13.68 kDa protein that is 131 amino acids in length. We analyzed expression in different resistant cultivars of V. angularis and found significant induction of VaEG45 expression after U. vignae infection. Transient expression of VaEG45 improved tobacco resistance against Botrytis cinerea. We next analyzed the mechanism by which VaEG45 protects plants from fungal infection by determination of the biological activity of the prokaryotic expressed VaEG45. The results showed that the fusion protein VaEG45 can significantly inhibit urediospores germination of U. vignae, mycelial growth, and the infection of tobacco by B. cinerea. Further analysis revealed that VaEG45 exhibits β-1, 3-glucanase activity. These findings uncover the function of a novel PNP molecule VaEG45 and provide new evidence about the mechanism of PNPs in plant immunity.
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- Weina Sun
- Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop-Pest Interaction Biology and Ecological Control, National Coarse Cereals Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon Green Agriculture in Northeastern China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs P. R. China, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, 163319, China
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- Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop-Pest Interaction Biology and Ecological Control, National Coarse Cereals Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon Green Agriculture in Northeastern China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs P. R. China, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, 163319, China
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- Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop-Pest Interaction Biology and Ecological Control, National Coarse Cereals Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon Green Agriculture in Northeastern China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs P. R. China, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, 163319, China
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- Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop-Pest Interaction Biology and Ecological Control, National Coarse Cereals Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon Green Agriculture in Northeastern China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs P. R. China, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, 163319, China.
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- Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop-Pest Interaction Biology and Ecological Control, National Coarse Cereals Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon Green Agriculture in Northeastern China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs P. R. China, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, 163319, China.
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Wong A, Bi C, Chi W, Hu N, Gehring C. Amino acid motifs for the identification of novel protein interactants. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2022; 21:326-334. [PMID: 36582434 PMCID: PMC9791077 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Revised: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Biological systems consist of multiple components of different physical and chemical properties that require complex and dynamic regulatory loops to function efficiently. The discovery of ever more novel interacting sites in complex proteins suggests that we are only beginning to understand how cellular and biological functions are integrated and tuned at the molecular and systems levels. Here we review recently discovered interacting sites which have been identified through rationally designed amino acid motifs diagnostic for specific molecular functions, including enzymatic activities and ligand-binding properties. We specifically discuss the nature of the latter using as examples, novel hormone recognition and gas sensing sites that occur in moonlighting protein complexes. Drawing evidence from the current literature, we discuss the potential implications at the cellular, tissue, and/or organismal levels of such non-catalytic interacting sites and provide several promising avenues for the expansion of amino acid motif searches to discover hitherto unknown protein interactants and interaction networks. We believe this knowledge will unearth unexpected functions in both new and well-characterized proteins, thus filling existing conceptual gaps or opening new avenues for applications either as drug targets or tools in pharmacology, cell biology and bio-catalysis. Beyond this, motif searches may also support the design of novel, effective and sustainable approaches to crop improvements and the development of new therapeutics.
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- Aloysius Wong
- Department of Biology, College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, 88 Daxue Road, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China,Wenzhou Municipal Key Lab for Applied Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Informatics, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China,Zhejiang Bioinformatics International Science and Technology Cooperation Center, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, 88 Daxue Road, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China,Wenzhou Municipal Key Lab for Applied Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Informatics, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China,Zhejiang Bioinformatics International Science and Technology Cooperation Center, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, 88 Daxue Road, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, 88 Daxue Road, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology & Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Perugia 06121, Italy,Corresponding author.
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BdGUCD1 and Cyclic GMP Are Required for Responses of Brachypodium distachyon to Fusarium pseudograminearum in the Mechanism Involving Jasmonate. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23052674. [PMID: 35269814 PMCID: PMC8910563 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23052674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Revised: 02/26/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Guanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) is an important signaling molecule in plants. cGMP and guanylyl cyclases (GCs), enzymes that catalyze the synthesis of cGMP from GTP, are involved in several physiological processes and responses to environmental factors, including pathogen infections. Using in vitro analysis, we demonstrated that recombinant BdGUCD1 is a protein with high guanylyl cyclase activity and lower adenylyl cyclase activity. In Brachypodium distachyon, infection by Fusarium pseudograminearum leads to changes in BdGUCD1 mRNA levels, as well as differences in endogenous cGMP levels. These observed changes may be related to alarm reactions induced by pathogen infection. As fluctuations in stress phytohormones after infection have been previously described, we performed experiments to determine the relationship between cyclic nucleotides and phytohormones. The results revealed that inhibition of cellular cGMP changes disrupts stress phytohormone content and responses to pathogen. The observations made here allow us to conclude that cGMP is an important element involved in the processes triggered as a result of infection and changes in its levels affect jasmonic acid. Therefore, stimuli-induced transient elevation of cGMP in plants may play beneficial roles in priming an optimized response, likely by triggering the mechanisms of feedback control.
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Nasi GI, Aktypi FD, Spatharas PM, Louros NN, Tsiolaki PL, Magafa V, Trougakos IP, Iconomidou VA. Arabidopsis thaliana Plant Natriuretic Peptide Active Domain Forms Amyloid-like Fibrils in a pH-Dependent Manner. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 11:9. [PMID: 35009013 PMCID: PMC8747288 DOI: 10.3390/plants11010009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Revised: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs) are hormones that have been extracted from many different species, with the Arabidopsis thaliana PNP (AtPNP-A) being the most studied among them. AtPNP-A is a signaling molecule that consists of 130 residues and is secreted into the apoplast, under conditions of biotic or abiotic stress. AtPNP-A has distant sequence homology with human ANP, a protein that forms amyloid fibrils in vivo. In this work, we investigated the amyloidogenic properties of a 34-residue-long peptide, located within the AtPNP-A sequence, in three different pH conditions, using transmission electron microscopy, X-ray fiber diffraction, ATR FT-IR spectroscopy, Congo red and Thioflavin T staining assays. We also utilize bioinformatics tools to study its association with known plant amyloidogenic proteins and other A. thaliana proteins. Our results reveal a new case of a pH-dependent amyloid forming peptide in A. thaliana, with a potential functional role.
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- Georgia I. Nasi
- Section of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 01 Athens, Greece; (G.I.N.); (F.D.A.); (P.M.S.); (N.N.L.); (P.L.T.); (I.P.T.)
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- Section of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 01 Athens, Greece; (G.I.N.); (F.D.A.); (P.M.S.); (N.N.L.); (P.L.T.); (I.P.T.)
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- Section of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 01 Athens, Greece; (G.I.N.); (F.D.A.); (P.M.S.); (N.N.L.); (P.L.T.); (I.P.T.)
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- Section of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 01 Athens, Greece; (G.I.N.); (F.D.A.); (P.M.S.); (N.N.L.); (P.L.T.); (I.P.T.)
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- Section of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 01 Athens, Greece; (G.I.N.); (F.D.A.); (P.M.S.); (N.N.L.); (P.L.T.); (I.P.T.)
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras, 265 04 Patras, Greece;
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- Section of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 01 Athens, Greece; (G.I.N.); (F.D.A.); (P.M.S.); (N.N.L.); (P.L.T.); (I.P.T.)
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- Section of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 01 Athens, Greece; (G.I.N.); (F.D.A.); (P.M.S.); (N.N.L.); (P.L.T.); (I.P.T.)
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Turek I, Gehring C, Irving H. Arabidopsis Plant Natriuretic Peptide Is a Novel Interactor of Rubisco Activase. Life (Basel) 2020; 11:life11010021. [PMID: 33396438 PMCID: PMC7823470 DOI: 10.3390/life11010021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Revised: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 12/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs) are a group of systemically acting peptidic hormones affecting solute and solvent homeostasis and responses to biotrophic pathogens. Although an increasing body of evidence suggests PNPs modulate plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress, which could lead to their potential biotechnological application by conferring increased stress tolerance to plants, the exact mode of PNPs action is still elusive. In order to gain insight into PNP-dependent signalling, we set out to identify interactors of PNP present in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, termed AtPNP-A. Here, we report identification of rubisco activase (RCA), a central regulator of photosynthesis converting Rubisco catalytic sites from a closed to an open conformation, as an interactor of AtPNP-A through affinity isolation followed by mass spectrometric identification. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analyses reveals that the full-length recombinant AtPNP-A and the biologically active fragment of AtPNP-A bind specifically to RCA, whereas a biologically inactive scrambled peptide fails to bind. These results are considered in the light of known functions of PNPs, PNP-like proteins, and RCA in biotic and abiotic stress responses.
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- Ilona Turek
- Biomolecular Laboratory, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC 3552, Australia
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- Biomolecular Laboratory, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, 06121 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC 3552, Australia
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A natriuretic peptide from Arabidopsis thaliana (AtPNP-A) can modulate catalase 2 activity. Sci Rep 2020; 10:19632. [PMID: 33184368 PMCID: PMC7665192 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76676-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Analogues of vertebrate natriuretic peptides (NPs) present in plants, termed plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs), comprise a novel class of hormones that systemically affect salt and water balance and responses to plant pathogens. Several lines of evidence indicate that Arabidopsis thaliana PNP (AtPNP-A) affects cellular redox homeostasis, which is also typical for the signaling of its vertebrate analogues, but the molecular mechanism(s) of this effect remains elusive. Here we report identification of catalase 2 (CAT2), an antioxidant enzyme, as an interactor of AtPNP-A. The full-length AtPNP-A recombinant protein and the biologically active fragment of AtPNP-A bind specifically to CAT2 in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analyses, while a biologically inactive scrambled peptide does not. In vivo bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) showed that CAT2 interacts with AtPNP-A in chloroplasts. Furthermore, CAT2 activity is lower in homozygous atpnp-a knockdown compared with wild type plants, and atpnp-a knockdown plants phenocopy CAT2-deficient plants in their sensitivity to elevated H2O2, which is consistent with a direct modulatory effect of the PNP on the activity of CAT2 and hence H2O2 homeostasis. Our work underlines the critical role of AtPNP-A in modulating the activity of CAT2 and highlights a mechanism of fine-tuning plant responses to adverse conditions by PNPs.
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Wang Y, Wu X, An Y, Xie H, Hao F, Tang H. Quantitative Metabonomic Phenotypes in Different Structures of Mung Bean ( Vigna radiata) Seeds and Their Germination-Associated Dynamic Changes. J Proteome Res 2020; 19:3352-3363. [PMID: 32498518 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Plant seed germination involving dynamic water uptakes and biochemical changes is essential for preservation of plant germplasm resource and worldwide food supply. To understand the germination-associated compartmental biochemistry changes, we quantitatively analyzed the metabolite composition (metabonome) for embryonic axes, cotyledons, and testae of mung bean (Vigna radiata) seeds in three germination phases using the NMR-based metabonomics approach. We found that three structures of mung bean seeds had distinct metabonomic phenotypes dominated by 53 metabolites including amino acids, carbohydrates, organic acids, choline metabolites, nucleotides/nucleosides, and shikimate-mediated secondary metabolites together with calcium and magnesium cations. During germination, all three seed structures had outstanding but distinct metabonomic changes. Both embryonic axis and cotyledon showed remarkable metabolic changes related to degradation of carbohydrates and proteins, metabolism of amino acids, nucleotides/nucleosides, and choline together with energy metabolism and shikimate-mediated plant secondary metabolism. The metabonomic changes in these two structures were mostly related to multiple functions for biochemical activities in the former and nutrient mobilizations in the latter. In contrast, testa metabonomic changes mainly reflected the metabolite leakages from the other two structures. Phase 1 of germination was featured with degradation of oligosaccharides and proteins and recycling of stored nucleic acids together with anaerobic metabolisms, whereas phase 2 was dominated by energy metabolism, biosynthesis of osmolytes, and plant secondary metabolites. These provided essential metabolic information for understanding the biochemistry associated with early events of seed germination and possible metabolic functions of different seed structures for plant development.
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- Yunlong Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Zhongshan Hospital and School of Life Sciences, Human Phenome Institute, Metabonomics and Systems Biology Laboratory at Shanghai International Centre for Molecular Phenomics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Zhongshan Hospital and School of Life Sciences, Human Phenome Institute, Metabonomics and Systems Biology Laboratory at Shanghai International Centre for Molecular Phenomics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Zhongshan Hospital and School of Life Sciences, Human Phenome Institute, Metabonomics and Systems Biology Laboratory at Shanghai International Centre for Molecular Phenomics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Zhongshan Hospital and School of Life Sciences, Human Phenome Institute, Metabonomics and Systems Biology Laboratory at Shanghai International Centre for Molecular Phenomics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.,State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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Nayem SA, Chowdhury MSM, Sultana N, Masum GZH, Rahman MS, Jamal MAHM. Combined effect of salt stress and Xanthomonas axonopodis pv citri on citrus ( Citrus aurantifolia). Heliyon 2020; 6:e03403. [PMID: 32083217 PMCID: PMC7016449 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2019] [Revised: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 02/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Xanthomonas axonopodis pv citri (Xac) and salt stress are two crucial hindrances to citrus production. The effect of continuous salt application and Xac infection in citrus has been investigated. Citrus plants were exposed to salt stress by irrigating with 50 mM, 100 mM, 150 mM, and 200 mM NaCl solution on weekly basis and challenged by Xac. Salt stress affected the defense response of Citrus plants to Xac and therefore lesion diameter and disease severity were gradually increased at higher salt concentration. Meanwhile, accumulation of Na+ and Cl- in the leaves were also increased with the increase of salt concentration. Besides, physiological performance (PP) of plants was estimated based on the parameters such as net assimilation rate, chlorophyll content, stomatal conductance, transpiration rate and intercellular CO2 concentration. The PP of sole Xac treated plants was gradually increased and maintained up to end of the experiment, whereas plants treated with Xac+50 mM and Xac+100 mM NaCl showed the highest PP up to 30 days after inoculation and then decreased. However, the PP of Xac+150 mM and Xac+200 mM NaCl treated plants gradually decreased till the end of experiment. Similarly, the PP of 200 mM NaCl treated plants declined continuously. Interestingly, the PP in 50 mM and 100 mM NaCl treated plants was higher initially and then decreased at 30 DAI to 40 DAI. This study revealed that citrus canker disease development was enhanced by salt stress. In addition, the physiological performance of the plants was enhanced by Xac and Xac + moderate salt stress but then demolished under severe salt stress.
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- Shahran Ahmed Nayem
- Dept of Plant Pathology, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Department of Horticultural Science Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Dept of Plant Pathology, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Dept. of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh
- Department of Horticultural Science Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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Świeżawska B, Jaworski K, Duszyn M, Pawełek A, Szmidt-Jaworska A. The Hippeastrum hybridum PepR1 gene (HpPepR1) encodes a functional guanylyl cyclase and is involved in early response to fungal infection. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 216:100-107. [PMID: 28609666 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2017.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Revised: 04/21/2017] [Accepted: 05/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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It is generally known that cyclic GMP widespread in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, is involved in essential cellular processes and stress signal transduction. However, in contrast to animals the knowledge about plant guanylyl cyclases (GCs) which catalyze the formation of cGMP from GTP is still quite obscure. Recent studies of plant GCs are focused on identification and functional analysis of a new family of membrane proteins called "moonlighting kinases with GC activity" with guanylyl cyclase catalytic center encapsulated within intracellular kinase domain. Here we report identification and characterization of plasma membrane receptor of peptide signaling molecules - HpPepR1 in Hippeastrum hybridum. Both bioinformatic analysis of amimo acid sequence and in vitro studies revealed that the protein can act as guanylyl cyclase. The predicted amino acid sequence contains highly conserved 14 aa-long search motif in the catalytic center of GCs from lower and higher eukaryotes. Here, we provide experimental evidence to show that the intracellular domain of HpPepR1 can generate cGMP in vitro. Moreover, it was shown that the accumulation of HpPepR1 transcript was sharply increased after Peyronellaea curtisii (=Phoma narcissi) fungal infection, whereas mechanical wounding has no influence on expression profile of studied gene. These results may indicate the participation of cGMP-dependent pathway in rapid, alarm plant reactions induced by pathogen infection.
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- Brygida Świeżawska
- Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chair of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, Lwowska St. 1, PL 87-100, Torun, Poland.
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- Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chair of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, Lwowska St. 1, PL 87-100, Torun, Poland.
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- Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chair of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, Lwowska St. 1, PL 87-100, Torun, Poland.
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- Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chair of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, Lwowska St. 1, PL 87-100, Torun, Poland.
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- Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chair of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, Lwowska St. 1, PL 87-100, Torun, Poland.
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Turek I, Gehring C. The plant natriuretic peptide receptor is a guanylyl cyclase and enables cGMP-dependent signaling. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 91:275-86. [PMID: 26945740 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-016-0465-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2015] [Accepted: 03/02/2016] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The functional homologues of vertebrate natriuretic peptides (NPs), the plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs), are a novel class of peptidic hormones that signal via guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) and systemically affect plant salt and water balance and responses to biotrophic plant pathogens. Although there is increasing understanding of the complex roles of PNPs in plant responses at the systems level, little is known about the underlying signaling mechanisms. Here we report isolation and identification of a novel Leucine-Rich Repeat (LRR) protein that directly interacts with A. thaliana PNP, AtPNP-A. In vitro binding studies revealed that the Arabidopsis AtPNP-A binds specifically to the LRR protein, termed AtPNP-R1, and the active region of AtPNP-A is sufficient for the interaction to occur. Importantly, the cytosolic part of the AtPNP-R1, much like in some vertebrate NP receptors, harbors a catalytic center diagnostic for guanylyl cyclases and the recombinant AtPNP-R1 is capable of catalyzing the conversion of guanosine triphosphate to cGMP. In addition, we show that AtPNP-A causes rapid increases of cGMP levels in wild type (WT) leaf tissue while this response is significantly reduced in the atpnp-r1 mutants. AtPNP-A also causes cGMP-dependent net water uptake into WT protoplasts, and hence volume increases, whereas responses of the protoplasts from the receptor mutant are impaired. Taken together, our results suggest that the identified LRR protein is an AtPNP-A receptor essential for the PNP-dependent regulation of ion and water homeostasis in plants and that PNP- and vertebrate NP-receptors and their signaling mechanisms share surprising similarities.
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- Ilona Turek
- Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 2395-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 2395-6900, Saudi Arabia.
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Turek I, Marondedze C, Wheeler JI, Gehring C, Irving HR. Plant natriuretic peptides induce proteins diagnostic for an adaptive response to stress. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 5:661. [PMID: 25505478 PMCID: PMC4244590 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2014] [Accepted: 11/05/2014] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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In plants, structural and physiological evidence has suggested the presence of biologically active natriuretic peptides (PNPs). PNPs are secreted into the apoplast, are systemically mobile and elicit a range of responses signaling via cGMP. The PNP-dependent responses include tissue specific modifications of cation transport and changes in stomatal conductance and the photosynthetic rate. PNP also has a critical role in host defense responses. Surprisingly, PNP-homologs are produced by several plant pathogens during host colonization suppressing host defense responses. Here we show that a synthetic peptide representing the biologically active fragment of the Arabidopsis thaliana PNP (AtPNP-A) induces the production of reactive oxygen species in suspension-cultured A. thaliana (Col-0) cells. To identify proteins whose expression changes in an AtPNP-A dependent manner, we undertook a quantitative proteomic approach, employing tandem mass tag (TMT) labeling, to reveal temporal responses of suspension-cultured cells to 1 nM and 10 pM PNP at two different time-points post-treatment. Both concentrations yield a distinct differential proteome signature. Since only the higher (1 nM) concentration induces a ROS response, we conclude that the proteome response at the lower concentration reflects a ROS independent response. Furthermore, treatment with 1 nM PNP results in an over-representation of the gene ontology (GO) terms "oxidation-reduction process," "translation" and "response to salt stress" and this is consistent with a role of AtPNP-A in the adaptation to environmental stress conditions.
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- Ilona Turek
- Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyThuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyThuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyThuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia
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Infrared gas analysis technique for the study of the regulation of photosynthetic responses. Methods Mol Biol 2013. [PMID: 23681586 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-441-8_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Homeostatic maintenance of physiological and biochemical processes is a key requirement for survival and adaptive responses of multicellular organisms such as plants. These important processes are in part mediated by various plant enzymes and hormones, many of which are in part, controlled by cyclic nucleotides and/or other signalling molecules. Infrared gas analysis (IRGA) technique is one of the modern methods which allows for rapid and accurate measurements of cyclic nucleotide mediated photosynthetic responses to plant hormones, and thus makes it a powerful and useful tool to study aspects of downstream cell signalling events in plants. In this chapter the basic protocols enabling the use of the IRGA technique to study signalling molecules, such as cyclic nucleotides on photosynthetic responses, are outlined.
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Wheeler JI, Freihat L, Irving HR. A cyclic nucleotide sensitive promoter reporter system suitable for bacteria and plant cells. BMC Biotechnol 2013; 13:97. [PMID: 24206622 PMCID: PMC3829209 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6750-13-97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2013] [Accepted: 10/30/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Cyclic AMP (cAMP) and cyclic GMP (cGMP) have roles in relaying external signals and modifying gene expression within cells in all phyla. Currently there are no reporter systems suitable for bacteria and plant cells that measure alterations in downstream gene expression following changes in intracellular levels of cyclic nucleotides. As the plant protein OLIGOPEPTIDE TRANSPORTER X (OPTX) is upregulated by cGMP, we fused the OPTX promoter to a luciferase reporter gene (OPTX:LUC) to develop a plant cell reporter of cGMP-induced gene expression. We prepared a second construct augmented with three mammalian cGMP response elements (OPTXcGMPRE:LUC) and a third construct containing five gibberellic acid response elements (OPTXGARE:LUC). All three constructs were tested in bacteria and isolated plant protoplasts. RESULTS Membrane permeable cGMP enhanced luciferase activity of OPTX:LUC and OPTXGARE:LUC in protoplasts. Treatment with the plant hormone gibberellic acid which acts via cGMP also generated downstream luciferase activity. However, membrane permeable cAMP induced similar responses to cGMP in protoplasts. Significantly increased luciferase activity occurred in bacteria transformed with either OPTXcGMPRE:LUC or OPTXGARE:LUC in response to membrane permeable cAMP and cGMP. Bacteria co-transformed with OPTXcGMPRE:LUC or OPTXGARE:LUC and the soluble cytoplasmic domain of phytosulfokine receptor1 (PSKR1; a novel guanylate cyclase) had enhanced luciferase activity following induction of PSKR1 expression. CONCLUSIONS We have developed promoter reporter systems based on the plant OPTX promoter that can be employed in bacteria and isolated plant cells. We have shown that it can be used in bacteria to screen recombinant proteins for guanylate cyclase activity as increases in intracellular cGMP levels result in altered gene transcription and luciferase activity.
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- Janet I Wheeler
- Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
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- Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
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- Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
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Isner JC, Nühse T, Maathuis FJM. The cyclic nucleotide cGMP is involved in plant hormone signalling and alters phosphorylation of Arabidopsis thaliana root proteins. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2012; 63:3199-205. [PMID: 22345640 PMCID: PMC3350932 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2011] [Revised: 01/20/2012] [Accepted: 01/26/2012] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The cyclic nucleotide cGMP has been shown to play important roles in plant development and responses to abiotic and biotic stress. Yet much controversy remains regarding the exact role of this second messenger. Progress in unravelling cGMP function in plants was hampered by laborious and time-consuming methodology to measure changes in cellular [cGMP] but the development of fluorescence-based reporters has removed this disadvantage. This study used the FlincG cGMP reporter to investigate potential interactions between phytohormone and cGMP signalling and found a rapid and significant effect of the hormones abscisic acid (ABA), auxin (IAA), and jasmonic acid (JA) on cytoplasmic cGMP levels. In contrast, brassinosteroids and cytokinin did not evoke a cGMP signal. The effects of ABA, IAA, and JA were apparent at external concentrations in the nanomolar range with EC50 values of around 1000, 300, and 0.03 nmoles for ABA, IAA, and JA respectively. To examine potential mechanisms for how hormone-induced cGMP signals are propagated, the role of protein phosphorylation was tested. A phosphoproteomics analysis on Arabidopsis thaliana root microsomal proteins in the absence and presence of membrane-permeable cGMP showed 15 proteins that rapidly (within minutes) changed in phosphorylation status. Out of these, nine were previously shown to also alter phosphorylation status in response to plant hormones, pointing to protein phosphorylation as a target for hormone-induced cGMP signalling.
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
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Irving HR, Kwezi L, Wheeler J, Gehring C. Moonlighting kinases with guanylate cyclase activity can tune regulatory signal networks. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2012; 7:201-4. [PMID: 22353864 PMCID: PMC3405710 DOI: 10.4161/psb.18891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Guanylate cyclase (GC) catalyzes the formation of cGMP and it is only recently that such enzymes have been characterized in plants. One family of plant GCs contains the GC catalytic center encapsulated within the intracellular kinase domain of leucine rich repeat receptor like kinases such as the phytosulfokine and brassinosteroid receptors. In vitro studies show that both the kinase and GC domain have catalytic activity indicating that these kinase-GCs are examples of moonlighting proteins with dual catalytic function. The natural ligands for both receptors increase intracellular cGMP levels in isolated mesophyll protoplast assays suggesting that the GC activity is functionally relevant. cGMP production may have an autoregulatory role on receptor kinase activity and / or contribute to downstream cell expansion responses. We postulate that the receptors are members of a novel class of receptor kinases that contain functional moonlighting GC domains essential for complex signaling roles.
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- Helen R Irving
- Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Australia.
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Wang YH, Donaldson L, Gehring C, Irving HR. Plant natriuretic peptides: control of synthesis and systemic effects. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2011; 6:1606-8. [PMID: 21918378 PMCID: PMC3256397 DOI: 10.4161/psb.6.10.17304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2011] [Accepted: 07/11/2011] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs) are signalling molecules that are secreted into the apoplast particularly under conditions of biotic and abiotic stress. At the local level, PNPs modulate their own expression via feed forward and feedback loops to enable tuning of the response at the transcript and protein level and to prevent over-expression. PNPs also employ a systemic signal, possibly electrical, to rapidly alter photosynthesis and respiration not only in treated leaves but also in upper and lower leaves thereby modulating and integrating physiological responses at the level of the whole plant.
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- Yu Hua Wang
- Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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Kwezi L, Ruzvidzo O, Wheeler JI, Govender K, Iacuone S, Thompson PE, Gehring C, Irving HR. The phytosulfokine (PSK) receptor is capable of guanylate cyclase activity and enabling cyclic GMP-dependent signaling in plants. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:22580-8. [PMID: 21504901 PMCID: PMC3121402 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.168823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2010] [Revised: 04/10/2011] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Phytosulfokines (PSKs) are sulfated pentapeptides that stimulate plant growth and differentiation mediated by the PSK receptor (PSKR1), which is a leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase. We identified a putative guanylate cyclase (GC) catalytic center in PSKR1 that is embedded within the kinase domain and hypothesized that the GC works in conjunction with the kinase in downstream PSK signaling. We expressed the recombinant complete kinase (cytoplasmic) domain of AtPSKR1 and show that it has serine/threonine kinase activity using the Ser/Thr peptide 1 as a substrate with an approximate K(m) of 7.5 μm and V(max) of 1800 nmol min(-1) mg(-1) of protein. This same recombinant protein also has GC activity in vitro that is dependent on the presence of either Mg(2+) or Mn(2+). Overexpression of the full-length AtPSKR1 receptor in Arabidopsis leaf protoplasts raised the endogenous basal cGMP levels over 20-fold, indicating that the receptor has GC activity in vivo. In addition, PSK-α itself, but not the non-sulfated backbone, induces rapid increases in cGMP levels in protoplasts. Together these results indicate that the PSKR1 contains dual GC and kinase catalytic activities that operate in vivo and that this receptor constitutes a novel class of enzymes with overlapping catalytic domains.
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- Lusisizwe Kwezi
- From the Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
- the Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 7535, South Africa, and
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- the Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 7535, South Africa, and
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- From the Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- the Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 7535, South Africa, and
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- From the Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- From the Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- the Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 7535, South Africa, and
- the Division of Chemistry, Life Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- From the Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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Wang YH, Gehring C, Irving HR. Plant natriuretic peptides are apoplastic and paracrine stress response molecules. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 52:837-50. [PMID: 21478192 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcr036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Higher plants contain biologically active proteins that are recognized by antibodies against human atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP). We identified and isolated two Arabidopsis thaliana immunoreactive plant natriuretic peptide (PNP)-encoding genes, AtPNP-A and AtPNP-B, which are distantly related members of the expansin superfamily and have a role in the regulation of homeostasis in abiotic and biotic stresses, and have shown that AtPNP-A modulates the effects of ABA on stomata. Arabidopsis PNP (PNP-A) is mainly expressed in leaf mesophyll cells, and in protoplast assays we demonstrate that it is secreted using AtPNP-A:green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter constructs and flow cytometry. Transient reporter assays provide evidence that AtPNP-A expression is enhanced by heat, osmotica and salt, and that AtPNP-A itself can enhance its own expression, thereby generating a response signature diagnostic for paracrine action and potentially also autocrine effects. Expression of native AtPNP-A is enhanced by osmotica and transiently by salt. Although AtPNP-A expression is induced by salt and osmotica, ABA does not significantly modulate AtPNP-A levels nor does recombinant AtPNP-A affect reporter expression of the ABA-responsive RD29A gene. Together, these results provide experimental evidence that AtPNP-A is stress responsive, secreted into the apoplastic space and can enhance its own expression. Furthermore, our findings support the idea that AtPNP-A, together with ABA, is an important component in complex plant stress responses and that, much like in animals, peptide signaling molecules can create diverse and modular signals essential for growth, development and defense under rapidly changing environmental conditions.
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- Yu Hua Wang
- Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia
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Teng Y, Xu W, Ma M. cGMP is required for seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2010; 167:885-9. [PMID: 20170981 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2010.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2009] [Revised: 01/29/2010] [Accepted: 01/29/2010] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) is an important second messenger in animals, and is emerging as a player in regulatory functions in plants. In this study, we investigated the role of cGMP in seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana (Col-0). We demonstrated that both, a membrane-permeant analogue of cGMP (8-Br-cGMP) and the cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitor Tadalafil promoted A. thaliana seed germination, whereas the guanylate cyclase inhibitor LY 83583 (6-anilino-5,8-quinolinedione; LY) inhibited it. LY blocked gibberellic acid (GA)-induced seed germination, whereas GA and 8-Br-cGMP co-treatment increased the germination rate and more effectively overcame LY-inhibition than 8-Br-cGMP alone. The gibberellin biosynthesis inhibitor paclobutrazol (PAC) also blocked 8-Br-cGMP and Tadalafil promotion of seed germination. Furthermore, 8-Br-cGMP and Tadalafil decreased abscisic acid (ABA) sensitivity during seed germination. These findings highlight that cGMP is a positive regulator and plays a crucial role in Arabidopsis seed germination. Furthermore, both GA and cGMP are required for seed germination.
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- Yao Teng
- Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, PR China
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Wang YH, Ahmar H, Irving HR. Induction of apoptosis by plant natriuretic peptides in rat cardiomyoblasts. Peptides 2010; 31:1213-8. [PMID: 20307601 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2010.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2010] [Revised: 03/08/2010] [Accepted: 03/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) has an important role in maintaining the homeostasis of body fluids and blood pressure and also in preventing cardiac hypertrophy and initiating the process of apoptosis. An immunoreactive analog of ANP was discovered in plants over a decade ago and termed plant natriuretic peptide (PNP). PNP is a small protein that contains sequence and structural similarity to ANP within a predicted protruding psi (psi) loop. Since application of ANP or PNP stimulates similar functional effects in plants, it is conceivable that PNP may have effects on mammalian cells. In this report, we show that purified recombinant PNP induces apoptosis in a dose dependent and cell type specific manner. Rat cardiac myoblasts (H9c2 cells) were more susceptible to the apoptotic promoting effects of PNP and ANP than HEK-293T cells where PNP had a protective effect at lower concentrations. Similarly rat thoracic myoblasts (A-10) were less responsive to both PNP and ANP than the H9c2 cells. Since PNP is mimicking the effect of ANP in this instance, PNP may prove to be a useful lead molecule for developing novel therapeutic natriuretic peptides.
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- Yu Hua Wang
- Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
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Garavaglia BS, Thomas L, Zimaro T, Gottig N, Daurelio LD, Ndimba B, Orellano EG, Ottado J, Gehring C. A plant natriuretic peptide-like molecule of the pathogen Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri causes rapid changes in the proteome of its citrus host. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2010; 10:51. [PMID: 20302677 PMCID: PMC2923525 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-10-51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2009] [Accepted: 03/21/2010] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs) belong to a novel class of peptidic signaling molecules that share some structural similarity to the N-terminal domain of expansins and affect physiological processes such as water and ion homeostasis at nano-molar concentrations. The citrus pathogen Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri possesses a PNP-like peptide (XacPNP) uniquely present in this bacteria. Previously we observed that the expression of XacPNP is induced upon infection and that lesions produced in leaves infected with a XacPNP deletion mutant were more necrotic and lead to earlier bacterial cell death, suggesting that the plant-like bacterial PNP enables the plant pathogen to modify host responses in order to create conditions favorable to its own survival. RESULTS Here we measured chlorophyll fluorescence parameters and water potential of citrus leaves infiltrated with recombinant purified XacPNP and demonstrate that the peptide improves the physiological conditions of the tissue. Importantly, the proteomic analysis revealed that these responses are mirrored by rapid changes in the host proteome that include the up-regulation of Rubisco activase, ATP synthase CF1 alpha subunit, maturase K, and alpha- and beta-tubulin. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrate that XacPNP induces changes in host photosynthesis at the level of protein expression and in photosynthetic efficiency in particular. Our findings suggest that the biotrophic pathogen can use the plant-like hormone to modulate the host cellular environment and in particular host metabolism and that such modulations weaken host defence.
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- Betiana S Garavaglia
- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina
- Consejo de Investigaciones de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa
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- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina
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- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina
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- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa
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- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina
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- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa
- CBRC, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ton J, Flors V, Mauch-Mani B. The multifaceted role of ABA in disease resistance. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2009; 14:310-7. [PMID: 19443266 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2009.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 475] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2009] [Revised: 03/20/2009] [Accepted: 03/23/2009] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Long known only for its role in abiotic stress tolerance, recent evidence shows that abscisic acid (ABA) also has a prominent role in biotic stress. Although it acts as a negative regulator of disease resistance, ABA can also promote plant defense and is involved in a complicated network of synergistic and antagonistic interactions. Its role in disease resistance depends on the type of pathogen, its specific way of entering the host and, hence, the timing of the defense response and the type of affected plant tissue. Here, we discuss the controversial evidence pointing to either a repression or a promotion of resistance by ABA. Furthermore, we propose a model in which both possibilities are integrated.
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- Jurriaan Ton
- Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 2JQ, UK
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Gottig N, Garavaglia BS, Daurelio LD, Valentine A, Gehring C, Orellano EG, Ottado J. Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri uses a plant natriuretic peptide-like protein to modify host homeostasis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:18631-6. [PMID: 19015524 PMCID: PMC2587547 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810107105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2008] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs) are a class of extracellular, systemically mobile molecules that elicit a number of plant responses important in homeostasis and growth. The bacterial citrus pathogen, Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri, also contains a gene encoding a PNP-like protein, XacPNP, that shares significant sequence similarity and identical domain organization with plant PNPs but has no homologues in other bacteria. We have expressed and purified XacPNP and demonstrated that the bacterial protein alters physiological responses including stomatal opening in plants. Although XacPNP is not expressed under standard nutrient rich culture conditions, it is strongly induced under conditions that mimic the nutrient poor intercellular apoplastic environment of leaves, as well as in infected tissue, suggesting that XacPNP transcription can respond to the host environment. To characterize the role of XacPNP during bacterial infection, we constructed a XacPNP deletion mutant. The lesions caused by this mutant were more necrotic than those observed with the wild-type, and bacterial cell death occurred earlier in the mutant. Moreover, when we expressed XacPNP in Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vesicatoria, the transgenic bacteria caused less necrotic lesions in the host than the wild-type. In conclusion, we present evidence that a plant-like bacterial PNP can enable a plant pathogen to modify host responses to create conditions favorable to its own survival.
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- Natalia Gottig
- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina; and
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- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina; and
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- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina; and
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, South Africa
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- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina; and
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- Molecular Biology Division, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, (S2002LRK) Rosario, Argentina; and
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Meier S, Bastian R, Donaldson L, Murray S, Bajic V, Gehring C. Co-expression and promoter content analyses assign a role in biotic and abiotic stress responses to plant natriuretic peptides. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2008; 8:24. [PMID: 18307823 PMCID: PMC2268938 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-8-24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2007] [Accepted: 02/29/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Plant natriuretic peptides (PNPs) are a class of systemically mobile molecules distantly related to expansins. While several physiological responses to PNPs have been reported, their biological role has remained elusive. Here we use a combination of expression correlation analysis, meta-analysis of gene expression profiles in response to specific stimuli and in selected mutants, and promoter content analysis to infer the biological role of the Arabidopsis thaliana PNP, AtPNP-A. RESULTS A gene ontology analysis of AtPNP-A and the 25 most expression correlated genes revealed a significant over representation of genes annotated as part of the systemic acquired resistance (SAR) pathway. Transcription of these genes is strongly induced in response to salicylic acid (SA) and its functional synthetic analogue benzothiadiazole S-methylester (BTH), a number of biotic and abiotic stresses including many SA-mediated SAR-inducing conditions, as well as in the constitutive SAR expressing mutants cpr5 and mpk4 which have elevated SA levels. Furthermore, the expression of AtPNP-A was determined to be significantly correlated with the SAR annotated transcription factor, WRKY 70, and the promoters of AtPNP-A and the correlated genes contain an enrichment in the core WRKY binding W-box cis-elements. In constitutively expressing WRKY 70 lines the expression of AtPNP-A and the correlated genes, including the SAR marker genes, PR-2 and PR-5, were determined to be strongly induced. CONCLUSION The co-expression analyses, both in wild type and mutants, provides compelling evidence that suggests AtPNP-A may function as a component of plant defence responses and SAR in particular. The presented evidence also suggests that the expression of AtPNP-A is controlled by WRKY transcription factors and WRKY 70 in particular. AtPNP-A shares many characteristics with PR proteins in that its transcription is strongly induced in response to pathogen challenges, it contains an N-terminal signalling peptide and is secreted into the extracellular space and along with PR-1, PR-2 and PR-5 proteins it has been isolated from the Arabidopsis apoplast. Based on these findings we suggest that AtPNP-A could be classified as a newly identified PR protein.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stuart Meier
- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Cape Town - Bellville 7535, South Africa
- South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Cape Town - Bellville 7535, South Africa
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Cape Town - Bellville 7535, South Africa
| | - Lara Donaldson
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
| | - Shane Murray
- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Cape Town - Bellville 7535, South Africa
| | - Vladimir Bajic
- South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Cape Town - Bellville 7535, South Africa
| | - Chris Gehring
- Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Cape Town - Bellville 7535, South Africa
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