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Hu Y, Mesihovic A, Jiménez-Gómez JM, Röth S, Gebhardt P, Bublak D, Bovy A, Scharf KD, Schleiff E, Fragkostefanakis S. Natural variation in HsfA2 pre-mRNA splicing is associated with changes in thermotolerance during tomato domestication. New Phytol 2020; 225:1297-1310. [PMID: 31556121 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Wild relatives of crops thrive in habitats where environmental conditions can be restrictive for productivity and survival of cultivated species. The genetic basis of this variability, particularly for tolerance to high temperatures, is not well understood. We examined the capacity of wild and cultivated accessions to acclimate to rapid temperature elevations that cause heat stress (HS). We investigated genotypic variation in thermotolerance of seedlings of wild and cultivated accessions. The contribution of polymorphisms associated with thermotolerance variation was examined regarding alterations in function of the identified gene. We show that tomato germplasm underwent a progressive loss of acclimation to strong temperature elevations. Sensitivity is associated with intronic polymorphisms in the HS transcription factor HsfA2 which affect the splicing efficiency of its pre-mRNA. Intron splicing in wild species results in increased synthesis of isoform HsfA2-II, implicated in the early stress response, at the expense of HsfA2-I which is involved in establishing short-term acclimation and thermotolerance. We propose that the selection for modern HsfA2 haplotypes reduced the ability of cultivated tomatoes to rapidly acclimate to temperature elevations, but enhanced their short-term acclimation capacity. Hence, we provide evidence that alternative splicing has a central role in the definition of plant fitness plasticity to stressful conditions.
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- Yangjie Hu
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, RD10, 78026, Versailles Cedex, France
- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen, 6708PB, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS), D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Fragkostefanakis S, Simm S, El-Shershaby A, Hu Y, Bublak D, Mesihovic A, Darm K, Mishra SK, Tschiersch B, Theres K, Scharf C, Schleiff E, Scharf KD. The repressor and co-activator HsfB1 regulates the major heat stress transcription factors in tomato. Plant Cell Environ 2019; 42:874-890. [PMID: 30187931 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Plants code for a multitude of heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs). Three of them act as central regulators of heat stress (HS) response in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). HsfA1a regulates the initial response, and HsfA2 controls acquired thermotolerance. HsfB1 is a transcriptional repressor but can also act as co-activator of HsfA1a. Currently, the mode of action and the relevance of the dual function of HsfB1 remain elusive. We examined this in HsfB1 overexpression or suppression transgenic tomato lines. Proteome analysis revealed that HsfB1 overexpression stimulates the co-activator function of HsfB1 and consequently the accumulation of HS-related proteins under non-stress conditions. Plants with enhanced levels of HsfB1 show aberrant growth and development but enhanced thermotolerance. HsfB1 suppression has no significant effect prior to stress. Upon HS, HsfB1 suppression strongly enhances the induction of heat shock proteins due to the higher activity of other HS-induced Hsfs, resulting in increased thermotolerance compared with wild-type. Thereby, HsfB1 acts as co-activator of HsfA1a for several Hsps, but as a transcriptional repressor on other Hsfs, including HsfA1b and HsfA2. The dual function explains the activation of chaperones to enhance protection and regulate the balance between growth and stress response upon deviations from the homeostatic levels of HsfB1.
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- Sotirios Fragkostefanakis
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Berz J, Simm S, Schuster S, Scharf KD, Schleiff E, Ebersberger I. HEATSTER: A Database and Web Server for Identification and Classification of Heat Stress Transcription Factors in Plants. Bioinform Biol Insights 2019; 13:1177932218821365. [PMID: 30670918 PMCID: PMC6327235 DOI: 10.1177/1177932218821365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Heat stress transcription factors (HSFs) regulate transcriptional response to a large number of environmental influences, such as temperature fluctuations and chemical compound applications. Plant HSFs represent a large and diverse gene family. The HSF members vary substantially both in gene expression patterns and molecular functions. HEATSTER is a web resource for mining, annotating, and analyzing members of the different classes of HSFs in plants. A web-interface allows the identification and class assignment of HSFs, intuitive searches in the database and visualization of conserved motifs, and domains to classify novel HSFs.
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- Jannik Berz
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Department of Life Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV), Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Department of Life Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Inst. of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Applied Bioinformatics Group, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Scharf KD, Berberich T, Ebersberger I, Nover L. Corrigendum to "The plant heat stress transcription factor (Hsf) family: Structure, function and evolution" [BBAGRM 1819 (2) 104-119]. Biochim Biophys Acta Gene Regul Mech 2017; 1861:60. [PMID: 29247802 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2017.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Klaus-Dieter Scharf
- Molecular Cellbiology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max von Laue Str. 09, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Senkenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Georg-Voigt-Straße 14-16, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Applied Bioinformatics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max von Laue Str. 13, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Molecular Cellbiology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max von Laue Str. 09, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Röth S, Mirus O, Bublak D, Scharf KD, Schleiff E. DNA-binding and repressor function are prerequisites for the turnover of the tomato heat stress transcription factor HsfB1. Plant J 2017; 89:31-44. [PMID: 27560701 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2016] [Revised: 08/22/2016] [Accepted: 08/23/2016] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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HsfB1 is a central regulator of heat stress (HS) response and functions dually as a transcriptional co-activator of HsfA1a and a general repressor in tomato. HsfB1 is efficiently synthesized during the onset of HS and rapidly removed in the course of attenuation during the recovery phase. Initial results point to a complex regime modulating HsfB1 abundance involving the molecular chaperone Hsp90. However, the molecular determinants affecting HsfB1 stability needed to be established. We provide experimental evidence that DNA-bound HsfB1 is efficiently targeted for degradation when active as a transcriptional repressor. Manipulation of the DNA-binding affinity by mutating the HsfB1 DNA-binding domain directly influences the stability of the transcription factor. During HS, HsfB1 is stabilized, probably due to co-activator complex formation with HsfA1a. The process of HsfB1 degradation involves nuclear localized Hsp90. The molecular determinants of HsfB1 turnover identified in here are so far seemingly unique. A mutational switch of the R/KLFGV repressor motif's arginine and lysine implies that the abundance of other R/KLFGV type Hsfs, if not other transcription factors as well, might be modulated by a comparable mechanism. Thus, we propose a versatile mechanism for strict abundance control of the stress-induced transcription factor HsfB1 for the recovery phase, and this mechanism constitutes a form of transcription factor removal from promoters by degradation inside the nucleus.
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- Sascha Röth
- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence 'Macromolecular Complexes', Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Simm S, Scharf KD, Jegadeesan S, Chiusano ML, Firon N, Schleiff E. Survey of Genes Involved in Biosynthesis, Transport, and Signaling of Phytohormones with Focus on Solanum lycopersicum. Bioinform Biol Insights 2016; 10:185-207. [PMID: 27695302 PMCID: PMC5038615 DOI: 10.4137/bbi.s38425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Revised: 08/15/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Phytohormones control the development and growth of plants, as well as their response to biotic and abiotic stress. The seven most well-studied phytohormone classes defined today are as follows: auxins, ethylene, cytokinin, abscisic acid, jasmonic acid, gibberellins, and brassinosteroids. The basic principle of hormone regulation is conserved in all plants, but recent results suggest adaptations of synthesis, transport, or signaling pathways to the architecture and growth environment of different plant species. Thus, we aimed to define the extent to which information from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is transferable to other plants such as Solanum lycopersicum. We extracted the co-orthologues of genes coding for major pathway enzymes in A. thaliana from the translated genomes of 12 species from the clade Viridiplantae. Based on predicted domain architecture and localization of the identified proteins from all 13 species, we inspected the conservation of phytohormone pathways. The comparison was complemented by expression analysis of (co-) orthologous genes in S. lycopersicum. Altogether, this information allowed the assignment of putative functional equivalents between A. thaliana and S. lycopersicum but also pointed to some variations between the pathways in eudicots, monocots, mosses, and green algae. These results provide first insights into the conservation of the various phytohormone pathways between the model system A. thaliana and crop plants such as tomato. We conclude that orthologue prediction in combination with analysis of functional domain architecture and intracellular localization and expression studies are sufficient tools to transfer information from model plants to other plant species. Our results support the notion that hormone synthesis, transport, and response for most part of the pathways are conserved, and species-specific variations can be found.
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- Stefan Simm
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.; Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.; Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Vegetable Research, Institute for Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Centre, Bet Dagan, Israel.; The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Soil, Plants Environmental and Animal Production Sciences, Laboratory of Computer Aided Biosciences, University of Studies of Naples Federico II, Portici, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Vegetable Research, Institute for Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Centre, Bet Dagan, Israel
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- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.; Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Fragkostefanakis S, Mesihovic A, Simm S, Paupière MJ, Hu Y, Paul P, Mishra SK, Tschiersch B, Theres K, Bovy A, Schleiff E, Scharf KD. HsfA2 Controls the Activity of Developmentally and Stress-Regulated Heat Stress Protection Mechanisms in Tomato Male Reproductive Tissues. Plant Physiol 2016; 170:2461-77. [PMID: 26917685 PMCID: PMC4825147 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2015] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Male reproductive tissues are more sensitive to heat stress (HS) compared to vegetative tissues, but the basis of this phenomenon is poorly understood. Heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs) regulate the transcriptional changes required for protection from HS In tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), HsfA2 acts as coactivator of HsfA1a and is one of the major Hsfs accumulating in response to elevated temperatures. The contribution of HsfA2 in heat stress response (HSR) and thermotolerance was investigated in different tissues of transgenic tomato plants with suppressed HsfA2 levels (A2AS). Global transcriptome analysis and immunodetection of two major Hsps in vegetative and reproductive tissues showed that HsfA2 regulates subsets of HS-induced genes in a tissue-specific manner. Accumulation of HsfA2 by a moderate HS treatment enhances the capacity of seedlings to cope with a subsequent severe HS, suggesting an important role for HsfA2 in regulating acquired thermotolerance. In pollen, HsfA2 is an important coactivator of HsfA1a during HSR HsfA2 suppression reduces the viability and germination rate of pollen that received the stress during the stages of meiosis and microspore formation but had no effect on more advanced stages. In general, pollen meiocytes and microspores are characterized by increased susceptibility to HS due to their lower capacity to induce a strong HSR This sensitivity is partially mitigated by the developmentally regulated expression of HsfA2 and several HS-responsive genes mediated by HsfA1a under nonstress conditions. Thereby, HsfA2 is an important factor for the priming process that sustains pollen thermotolerance during microsporogenesis.
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- Sotirios Fragkostefanakis
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.F., A.M., S.S., Y.H., P.P., S.K.M., E.S., K.-D.S.);Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (S.S., E.S.);Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands (M.J.P., A.B.);Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany (B.T., K.-D.S.);Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, D-50829 Cologne, Germany (K.T.); andBuchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (E.S.)
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Paul P, Chaturvedi P, Selymesi M, Ghatak A, Mesihovic A, Scharf KD, Weckwerth W, Simm S, Schleiff E. The membrane proteome of male gametophyte in Solanum lycopersicum. J Proteomics 2016; 131:48-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2015.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2015] [Revised: 09/21/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Bokszczanin KL, Krezdorn N, Fragkostefanakis S, Müller S, Rycak L, Chen Y, Hoffmeier K, Kreutz J, Paupière MJ, Chaturvedi P, Iannacone R, Müller F, Bostan H, Chiusano ML, Scharf KD, Rotter B, Schleiff E, Winter P. Identification of novel small ncRNAs in pollen of tomato. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:714. [PMID: 26385469 PMCID: PMC4575465 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1901-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2015] [Accepted: 09/09/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The unprecedented role of sncRNAs in the regulation of pollen biogenesis on both transcriptional and epigenetic levels has been experimentally proven. However, little is known about their global regulation, especially under stress conditions. We used tomato pollen in order to identify pollen stage-specific sncRNAs and their target mRNAs. We further deployed elevated temperatures to discern stress responsive sncRNAs. For this purpose high throughput sncRNA-sequencing as well as Massive Analysis of cDNA Ends (MACE) were performed for three-replicated sncRNAs libraries derived from tomato tetrad, post-meiotic, and mature pollen under control and heat stress conditions. RESULTS Using the omiRas analysis pipeline we identified known and predicted novel miRNAs as well as sncRNAs from other classes, responsive or not to heat. Differential expression analysis revealed that post-meiotic and mature pollen react most strongly by regulation of the expression of coding and non-coding genomic regions in response to heat. To gain insight to the function of these miRNAs, we predicted targets and annotated them to Gene Ontology terms. This approach revealed that most of them belong to protein binding, transcription, and Serine/Threonine kinase activity GO categories. Beside miRNAs, we observed differential expression of both tRNAs and snoRNAs in tetrad, post-meiotic, and mature pollen when comparing normal and heat stress conditions. CONCLUSIONS Thus, we describe a global spectrum of sncRNAs expressed in pollen as well as unveiled those which are regulated at specific time-points during pollen biogenesis. We integrated the small RNAs into the regulatory network of tomato heat stress response in pollen.
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- Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Centre of Membrane Proteomics, Department of Biosciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department for Molecular Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- ALSIA Research Center Metapontum Agrobios Metaponto (MT), Metaponto, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Università 100, 80055, Portici, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Università 100, 80055, Portici, Italy
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- Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Centre of Membrane Proteomics, Department of Biosciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Centre of Membrane Proteomics, Department of Biosciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Fragkostefanakis S, Röth S, Schleiff E, Scharf KD. Prospects of engineering thermotolerance in crops through modulation of heat stress transcription factor and heat shock protein networks. Plant Cell Environ 2015; 38:1881-95. [PMID: 24995670 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2014] [Revised: 06/17/2014] [Accepted: 06/23/2014] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Cell survival under high temperature conditions involves the activation of heat stress response (HSR), which in principle is highly conserved among different organisms, but shows remarkable complexity and unique features in plant systems. The transcriptional reprogramming at higher temperatures is controlled by the activity of the heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs). Hsfs allow the transcriptional activation of HSR genes, among which heat shock proteins (Hsps) are best characterized. Hsps belong to multigene families encoding for molecular chaperones involved in various processes including maintenance of protein homeostasis as a requisite for optimal development and survival under stress conditions. Hsfs form complex networks to activate downstream responses, but are concomitantly subjected to cell-type-dependent feedback regulation through factor-specific physical and functional interactions with chaperones belonging to Hsp90, Hsp70 and small Hsp families. There is increasing evidence that the originally assumed specialized function of Hsf/chaperone networks in the HSR turns out to be a complex central stress response system that is involved in the regulation of a broad variety of other stress responses and may also have substantial impact on various developmental processes. Understanding in detail the function of such regulatory networks is prerequisite for sustained improvement of thermotolerance in important agricultural crops.
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- Sotirios Fragkostefanakis
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, 60438, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, 60438, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, 60438, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, 60438, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, 60438, Germany
- Center of Membrane Proteomics, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, 60438, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, 60438, Germany
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Tillmann B, Röth S, Bublak D, Sommer M, Stelzer EHK, Scharf KD, Schleiff E. Hsp90 Is Involved in the Regulation of Cytosolic Precursor Protein Abundance in Tomato. Mol Plant 2015; 8:1128. [PMID: 27138841 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2015.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Fragkostefanakis S, Simm S, Paul P, Bublak D, Scharf KD, Schleiff E. Chaperone network composition in Solanum lycopersicum explored by transcriptome profiling and microarray meta-analysis. Plant Cell Environ 2015; 38:693-709. [PMID: 25124075 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2014] [Accepted: 08/05/2014] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are molecular chaperones primarily involved in maintenance of protein homeostasis. Their function has been best characterized in heat stress (HS) response during which Hsps are transcriptionally controlled by HS transcription factors (Hsfs). The role of Hsfs and Hsps in HS response in tomato was initially examined by transcriptome analysis using the massive analysis of cDNA ends (MACE) method. Approximately 9.6% of all genes expressed in leaves are enhanced in response to HS, including a subset of Hsfs and Hsps. The underlying Hsp-Hsf networks with potential functions in stress responses or developmental processes were further explored by meta-analysis of existing microarray datasets. We identified clusters with differential transcript profiles with respect to abiotic stresses, plant organs and developmental stages. The composition of two clusters points towards two major chaperone networks. One cluster consisted of constitutively expressed plastidial chaperones and other genes involved in chloroplast protein homeostasis. The second cluster represents genes strongly induced by heat, drought and salinity stress, including HsfA2 and many stress-inducible chaperones, but also potential targets of HsfA2 not related to protein homeostasis. This observation attributes a central regulatory role to HsfA2 in controlling different aspects of abiotic stress response and tolerance in tomato.
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- Sotirios Fragkostefanakis
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, 60438, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Simm S, Fragkostefanakis S, Paul P, Keller M, Einloft J, Scharf KD, Schleiff E. Identification and Expression Analysis of Ribosome Biogenesis Factor Co-orthologs in Solanum lycopersicum. Bioinform Biol Insights 2015; 9:1-17. [PMID: 25698879 PMCID: PMC4325683 DOI: 10.4137/bbi.s20751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Revised: 11/17/2014] [Accepted: 11/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Ribosome biogenesis involves a large inventory of proteinaceous and RNA cofactors. More than 250 ribosome biogenesis factors (RBFs) have been described in yeast. These factors are involved in multiple aspects like rRNA processing, folding, and modification as well as in ribosomal protein (RP) assembly. Considering the importance of RBFs for particular developmental processes, we examined the complexity of RBF and RP (co-)orthologs by bioinformatic assignment in 14 different plant species and expression profiling in the model crop Solanum lycopersicum. Assigning (co-)orthologs to each RBF revealed that at least 25% of all predicted RBFs are encoded by more than one gene. At first we realized that the occurrence of multiple RBF co-orthologs is not globally correlated to the existence of multiple RP co-orthologs. The transcript abundance of genes coding for predicted RBFs and RPs in leaves and anthers of S. lycopersicum was determined by next generation sequencing (NGS). In combination with existing expression profiles, we can conclude that co-orthologs of RBFs by large account for a preferential function in different tissue or at distinct developmental stages. This notion is supported by the differential expression of selected RBFs during male gametophyte development. In addition, co-regulated clusters of RBF and RP coding genes have been observed. The relevance of these results is discussed.
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- Stefan Simm
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. ; Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. ; Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. ; Center of Membrane Proteomics, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. ; Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Tillmann B, Röth S, Bublak D, Sommer M, Stelzer EHK, Scharf KD, Schleiff E. Hsp90 is involved in the regulation of cytosolic precursor protein abundance in tomato. Mol Plant 2015; 8:228-41. [PMID: 25619681 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2014.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2014] [Revised: 09/22/2014] [Accepted: 10/03/2014] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Cytosolic chaperones are involved in the regulation of cellular protein homeostasis in general. Members of the families of heat stress proteins 70 (Hsp70) and 90 (Hsp90) assist the transport of preproteins to organelles such as chloroplasts or mitochondria. In addition, Hsp70 was described to be involved in the degradation of chloroplast preproteins that accumulate in the cytosol. Because a similar function has not been established for Hsp90, we analyzed the influences of Hsp90 and Hsp70 on the protein abundance in the cellular context using an in vivo system based on mesophyll protoplasts. We observed a differential behavior of preproteins with respect to the cytosolic chaperone-dependent regulation. Some preproteins such as pOE33 show a high dependence on Hsp90, whereas the abundance of preproteins such as pSSU is more strongly dependent on Hsp70. The E3 ligase, C-terminus of Hsp70-interacting protein (Chip), appears to have a more general role in the control of cytosolic protein abundance. We discuss why the different reaction modes are comparable with the cytosolic unfolded protein response.
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- Bodo Tillmann
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-University, Max-von-Laue Street 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-University, Max-von-Laue Street 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-University, Max-von-Laue Street 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-University, Max-von-Laue Street 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Buchman Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue Street 15, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Institute of Cell Biology, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Straße 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Cluster of Excellence 'Macromolecular Complexes', Goethe-University, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Center of Membrane Proteomics, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue Street 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Buchman Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue Street 15, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Institute of Cell Biology, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Straße 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-University, Max-von-Laue Street 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-University, Max-von-Laue Street 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Cluster of Excellence 'Macromolecular Complexes', Goethe-University, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Center of Membrane Proteomics, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue Street 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Buchman Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue Street 15, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Tillmann B, Röth S, Bublak D, Sommer M, Stelzer EHK, Scharf KD, Schleiff E. Hsp90 is involved in the regulation of cytosolic precursor protein abundance in tomato. Mol Plant 2014:ssu113. [PMID: 25336566 DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssu113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
Cytosolic chaperones are involved in the regulation of cellular protein homeostasis in general. Members of the heat stress protein 70 and 90 (Hsp70 or Hsp90) families assist the transport of preproteins to organelles such as chloroplasts or mitochondria. In addition, Hsp70 was described to be involved in the degradation of chloroplast preproteins that accumulate in the cytosol. Because a similar function has not been established for Hsp90, we analyzed the influences of Hsp90 and Hsp70 on the protein abundance in the cellular context using an in vivo system based on mesophyll protoplasts. We observed a differential behavior of preproteins in respect to the cytosolic chaperone dependent regulation. Some preproteins like pOE33 show a high dependence on Hsp90, whereas the abundance of preproteins like pSSU is more strongly dependent on Hsp70. The E3 ligase Chip appears to have a more general role in the control of cytosolic protein abundance. We discuss why the different reaction modes are comparable to the cytosolic unfolded protein response.
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- Bodo Tillmann
- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Buchman Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Institute of Cell Biology, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Cluster of Excellence 'Macromolecular Complexes', Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Institute of Cell Biology, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Buchman Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Paul P, Simm S, Mirus O, Scharf KD, Fragkostefanakis S, Schleiff E. The complexity of vesicle transport factors in plants examined by orthology search. PLoS One 2014; 9:e97745. [PMID: 24844592 PMCID: PMC4028247 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2013] [Accepted: 04/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Vesicle transport is a central process to ensure protein and lipid distribution in eukaryotic cells. The current knowledge on the molecular components and mechanisms of this process is majorly based on studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Arabidopsis thaliana, which revealed 240 different proteinaceous factors either experimentally proven or predicted to be involved in vesicle transport. In here, we performed an orthologue search using two different algorithms to identify the components of the secretory pathway in yeast and 14 plant genomes by using the 'core-set' of 240 factors as bait. We identified 4021 orthologues and (co-)orthologues in the discussed plant species accounting for components of COP-II, COP-I, Clathrin Coated Vesicles, Retromers and ESCRTs, Rab GTPases, Tethering factors and SNAREs. In plants, we observed a significantly higher number of (co-)orthologues than yeast, while only 8 tethering factors from yeast seem to be absent in the analyzed plant genomes. To link the identified (co-)orthologues to vesicle transport, the domain architecture of the proteins from yeast, genetic model plant A. thaliana and agriculturally relevant crop Solanum lycopersicum has been inspected. For the orthologous groups containing (co-)orthologues from yeast, A. thaliana and S. lycopersicum, we observed the same domain architecture for 79% (416/527) of the (co-)orthologues, which documents a very high conservation of this process. Further, publically available tissue-specific expression profiles for a subset of (co-)orthologues found in A. thaliana and S. lycopersicum suggest that some (co-)orthologues are involved in tissue-specific functions. Inspection of localization of the (co-)orthologues based on available proteome data or localization predictions lead to the assignment of plastid- as well as mitochondrial localized (co-)orthologues of vesicle transport factors and the relevance of this is discussed.
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- Puneet Paul
- Department of Biosciences Molecular Cell Biology of Plants
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- Department of Biosciences Molecular Cell Biology of Plants
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- Department of Biosciences Molecular Cell Biology of Plants
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- Department of Biosciences Molecular Cell Biology of Plants
- Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt
- Center of Membrane Proteomics; Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Paul P, Simm S, Blaumeiser A, Scharf KD, Fragkostefanakis S, Mirus O, Schleiff E. The protein translocation systems in plants - composition and variability on the example of Solanum lycopersicum. BMC Genomics 2013; 14:189. [PMID: 23506162 PMCID: PMC3610429 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2012] [Accepted: 02/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background Protein translocation across membranes is a central process in all cells. In the past decades the molecular composition of the translocation systems in the membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum, peroxisomes, mitochondria and chloroplasts have been established based on the analysis of model organisms. Today, these results have to be transferred to other plant species. We bioinformatically determined the inventory of putative translocation factors in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) by orthologue search and domain architecture analyses. In addition, we investigated the diversity of such systems by comparing our findings to the model organisms Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Arabidopsis thaliana and 12 other plant species. Results The literature search end up in a total of 130 translocation components in yeast and A. thaliana, which are either experimentally confirmed or homologous to experimentally confirmed factors. From our bioinformatic analysis (PGAP and OrthoMCL), we identified (co-)orthologues in plants, which in combination yielded 148 and 143 orthologues in A. thaliana and S. lycopersicum, respectively. Interestingly, we traced 82% overlap in findings from both approaches though we did not find any orthologues for 27% of the factors by either procedure. In turn, 29% of the factors displayed the presence of more than one (co-)orthologue in tomato. Moreover, our analysis revealed that the genomic composition of the translocation machineries in the bryophyte Physcomitrella patens resemble more to higher plants than to single celled green algae. The monocots (Z. mays and O. sativa) follow more or less a similar conservation pattern for encoding the translocon components. In contrast, a diverse pattern was observed in different eudicots. Conclusions The orthologue search shows in most cases a clear conservation of components of the translocation pathways/machineries. Only the Get-dependent integration of tail-anchored proteins seems to be distinct. Further, the complexity of the translocation pathway in terms of existing orthologues seems to vary among plant species. This might be the consequence of palaeoploidisation during evolution in plants; lineage specific whole genome duplications in Arabidopsis thaliana and triplications in Solanum lycopersicum.
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- Puneet Paul
- Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, 60438, Germany
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Scharf KD, Berberich T, Ebersberger I, Nover L. The plant heat stress transcription factor (Hsf) family: structure, function and evolution. Biochim Biophys Acta 2011; 1819:104-19. [PMID: 22033015 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 529] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2011] [Revised: 10/06/2011] [Accepted: 10/07/2011] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Ten years after the first overview of a complete plant Hsf family was presented for Arabidopsis thaliana by Nover et al. [1], we compiled data for 252 Hsfs from nine plant species (five eudicots and four monocots) with complete or almost complete genome sequences. The new data set provides interesting insights into phylogenetic relationships within the Hsf family in plants and allows the refinement of their classification into distinct groups. Numerous publications over the last decade document the diversification and functional interaction of Hsfs as well as their integration into the complex stress signaling and response networks of plants. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Plant gene regulation in response to abiotic stress.
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- Klaus-Dieter Scharf
- Molecular Cellbiology of Plants, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, D-60438 Frankfurt/M., Germany.
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Hahn A, Bublak D, Schleiff E, Scharf KD. Crosstalk between Hsp90 and Hsp70 chaperones and heat stress transcription factors in tomato. Plant Cell 2011; 23:741-55. [PMID: 21307284 PMCID: PMC3077788 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.076018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2010] [Revised: 01/07/2011] [Accepted: 01/22/2011] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs) regulate gene expression in response to environmental stress. The Hsf network in plants is controlled at the transcriptional level by cooperation of distinct Hsf members and by interaction with chaperones. We found two general mechanisms of Hsf regulation by chaperones while analyzing the three major Hsfs, A1, A2, and B1, in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). First, Hsp70 and Hsp90 regulate Hsf function by direct interactions. Hsp70 represses the activity of HsfA1, including its DNA binding, and the coactivator function of HsfB1 in the complex with HsfA2, while the DNA binding activity of HsfB1 is stimulated by Hsp90. Second, Hsp90 affects the abundance of HsfA2 and HsfB1 by modulating hsfA2 transcript degradation involved in regulation of the timing of HsfA2 synthesis. By contrast, HsfB1 binding to Hsp90 and to DNA are prerequisites for targeting this Hsf for proteasomal degradation, which also depends on a sequence element in its carboxyl-terminal domain. Thus, HsfB1 represents an Hsp90 client protein that, by interacting with the chaperone, is targeted for, rather than protected from, degradation. Based on these findings, we propose a versatile regulatory regime involving Hsp90, Hsp70, and the three Hsfs in the control of heat stress response.
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Giorno F, Wolters-Arts M, Grillo S, Scharf KD, Vriezen WH, Mariani C. Developmental and heat stress-regulated expression of HsfA2 and small heat shock proteins in tomato anthers. J Exp Bot 2010; 61:453-62. [PMID: 19854799 PMCID: PMC2803211 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erp316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2009] [Revised: 10/06/2009] [Accepted: 10/08/2009] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The high sensitivity of male reproductive cells to high temperatures may be due to an inadequate heat stress response. The results of a comprehensive expression analysis of HsfA2 and Hsp17-CII, two important members of the heat stress system, in the developing anthers of a heat-tolerant tomato genotype are reported here. A transcriptional analysis at different developmental anther/pollen stages was performed using semi-quantitative and real-time PCR. The messengers were localized using in situ RNA hybridization, and protein accumulation was monitored using immunoblot analysis. Based on the analysis of the gene and protein expression profiles, HsfA2 and Hsp17-CII are finely regulated during anther development and are further induced under both short and prolonged heat stress conditions. These data suggest that HsfA2 may be directly involved in the activation of protection mechanisms in the tomato anther during heat stress and, thereby, may contribute to tomato fruit set under adverse temperatures.
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- Filomena Giorno
- Department of Plant Cell Biology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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- Department of Plant Cell Biology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- CNR-IGV Institute of Plant Genetics, Via Università 133, 80055 Portici, Naples, Italy
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, D-60438 Frankfurt/M., Germany
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- Department of Plant Cell Biology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Cell Biology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Chan-Schaminet KY, Baniwal SK, Bublak D, Nover L, Scharf KD. Specific interaction between tomato HsfA1 and HsfA2 creates hetero-oligomeric superactivator complexes for synergistic activation of heat stress gene expression. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:20848-57. [PMID: 19491106 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.007336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In plants, a family of more than 20 heat stress transcription factors (Hsf) controls the expression of heat stress (hs) genes. There is increasing evidence for the functional diversification between individual members of the Hsf family fulfilling distinct roles in response to various environmental stress conditions and developmental signals. In response to hs, accumulation of both heat stress proteins (Hsp) and Hsfs is induced. In tomato, the physical interaction between the constitutively expressed HsfA1 and the hs-inducible HsfA2 results in synergistic transcriptional activation (superactivation) of hs gene expression. Here, we show that the interaction is strikingly specific and not observed with other class A Hsfs. Hetero-oligomerization of the two-component Hsfs is preferred to homo-oligomerization, and each Hsf in the HsfA1/HsfA2 hetero-oligomeric complex has its characteristic contribution to its function as superactivator. Distinct regions of the oligomerization domain are responsible for specific homo- and hetero-oligomeric interactions leading to the formation of hexameric complexes. The results are summarized in a model of assembly and function of HsfA1/A2 superactivator complexes in hs gene regulation.
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- Kwan Yu Chan-Schaminet
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 9, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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The heat stress response is universal to all organisms. Upon elevated temperatures, heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs) are activated to up-regulate the expression of molecular chaperones to protect cells against heat damages. In higher plants, the phenomenon is unusually complex both at the level of Hsfs and heat stress proteins (Hsps). Over-expression of both Hsfs and Hsps and the use of RNA interference for gene knock-down in a transient system in tomato protoplasts allowed us to dissect the in vivo chaperone functions of essential components of thermotolerance, such as the cytoplasmic sHsp, Hsp70 and Hsp100 chaperone families, and the regulation of their expression. The results point to specific functions of the different components in protection from protein denaturation and in refolding of denatured proteins.
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- Joanna Tripp
- J. W. Goethe-University, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Biocenter N200, 3OG, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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Siddique M, Gernhard S, von Koskull-Döring P, Vierling E, Scharf KD. The plant sHSP superfamily: five new members in Arabidopsis thaliana with unexpected properties. Cell Stress Chaperones 2008; 13:183-97. [PMID: 18369739 PMCID: PMC2673886 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-008-0032-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2007] [Revised: 11/09/2007] [Accepted: 11/14/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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The small heat shock proteins (sHsps), which are ubiquitous stress proteins proposed to act as chaperones, are encoded by an unusually complex gene family in plants. Plant sHsps are classified into different subfamilies according to amino acid sequence similarity and localization to distinct subcellular compartments. In the whole Arabidopsis thaliana genome, 19 genes were annotated to encode sHsps, of which 14 belong to previously defined plant sHsp families. In this paper, we report studies of the five additional sHsp genes in A. thaliana, which can now be shown to represent evolutionarily distinct sHsp subfamilies also found in other plant species. While two of these five sHsps show expression patterns typical of the other 14 genes, three have unusual tissue specific and developmental profiles and do not respond to heat induction. Analysis of intracellular targeting indicates that one sHsp represents a new class of mitochondrion-targeted sHsps, while the others are cytosolic/nuclear, some of which may cooperate with other sHsps in formation of heat stress granules. Three of the five new proteins were purified and tested for chaperone activity in vitro. Altogether, these studies complete our basic understanding of the sHsp chaperone family in plants.
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- Masood Siddique
- Molecular Cell Biology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Biocenter N200, 3.OG, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Department of Biochemistry II, University Hospital, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Biocenter N200, 3.OG, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Department of Biochemistry II, University Hospital, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Biocenter N200, 3.OG, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, 1007 E Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Biocenter N200, 3.OG, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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von Koskull-Döring P, Scharf KD, Nover L. The diversity of plant heat stress transcription factors. Trends Plant Sci 2007; 12:452-7. [PMID: 17826296 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2007.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 306] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2007] [Revised: 07/13/2007] [Accepted: 08/29/2007] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Compared with other eukaryotes with one to three heat stress transcription factors (Hsf), the plant Hsf family shows a striking multiplicity, with more than 20 members. Despite many conserved features, members of the Hsf family show a strong diversification of expression pattern and function within the family. Research on Arabidopsis Hsfs opened a new era with genome-wide transcriptome profiling in combination with the availability of knockout lines. The output from these analyses provides increasing evidence that individual Hsfs have unique functions as part of different signal transduction pathways operating in response to environmental stress and during development.
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- Pascal von Koskull-Döring
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, J. W. Goethe University, Biocenter, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Kotak S, Larkindale J, Lee U, von Koskull-Döring P, Vierling E, Scharf KD. Complexity of the heat stress response in plants. Curr Opin Plant Biol 2007; 10:310-6. [PMID: 17482504 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2007.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 647] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2007] [Accepted: 04/16/2007] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Plants have evolved a variety of responses to elevated temperatures that minimize damage and ensure protection of cellular homeostasis. New information about the structure and function of heat stress proteins and molecular chaperones has become available. At the same time, transcriptome analysis of Arabidopsis has revealed the involvement of factors other than classical heat stress responsive genes in thermotolerance. Recent reports suggest that both plant hormones and reactive oxygen species also contribute to heat stress signaling. Additionally, an increasing number of mutants that have altered thermotolerance have extended our understanding of the complexity of the heat stress response in plants.
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- Sachin Kotak
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, JW Goethe University, Biocenter, Max-von-Laue-Strasse, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Unlike other eukaryotes, plants possess a complex family of heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs) with usually more than 20 members. Among them, Hsfs A4 and A5 form a group distinguished from other Hsfs by structural features of their oligomerization domains and by a number of conserved signature sequences. We show that A4 Hsfs are potent activators of heat stress gene expression, whereas A5 Hsfs act as specific repressors of HsfA4 activity. The oligomerization domain of HsfA5 alone is necessary and sufficient to exert this effect. Due to the high specificity of the oligomerization domains, other class A Hsfs are not affected. Pull-down assay and yeast two-hybrid interaction tests demonstrate that the tendency to form HsfA4/A5 heterooligomers is stronger than the formation of homooligomers. The specificity of interaction between Hsfs A4 and A5 was confirmed by bimolecular fluorescence complementation experiments. The major role of the representatives of the HsfA4/A5 group, which are not involved in the conventional heat stress response, may reside in cell type-specific functions connected with the control of cell death triggered by pathogen infection and/or reactive oxygen species.
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- Sanjeev K Baniwal
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Biocenter of the Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, D-60438 Frankfurt/M., Germany
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Baniwal SK, Bharti K, Chan KY, Fauth M, Ganguli A, Kotak S, Mishra SK, Nover L, Port M, Scharf KD, Tripp J, Weber C, Zielinski D, von Koskull-Döring P. Heat stress response in plants: a complex game with chaperones and more than twenty heat stress transcription factors. J Biosci 2004; 29:471-87. [PMID: 15625403 DOI: 10.1007/bf02712120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 311] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Compared to the overall multiplicity of more than 20 plant Hsfs, detailed analyses are mainly restricted to tomato and Arabidopsis and to three important representatives of the family (Hsfs A1, A2 and B1). The three Hsfs represent examples of striking functional diversification specialized for the three phases of the heat stress (hs) response (triggering, maintenance and recovery). This is best illustrated for the tomato Hsf system: (i) HsfA1a is the master regulator responsible for hs-induced gene expression including synthesis of HsfA2 and HsfB1. It is indispensible for the development of thermotolerance. (ii) Although functionally equivalent to HsfA1a, HsfA2 is exclusively found after hs induction and represents the dominant Hsf, the "working horse" of the hs response in plants subjected to repeated cycles of hs and recovery in a hot summer period. Tomato HsfA2 is tightly integrated into a network of interacting proteins (HsfA1a, Hsp17-CII, Hsp17-CI) influencing its activity and intracellular distribution. (iii) Because of structural peculiarities, HsfB1 acts as coregulator enhancing the activity of HsfA1a and/or HsfA2. But in addition, it cooperates with yet to be identified other transcription factors in maintaining and/or restoring housekeeping gene expression.
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- Sanjeev Kumar Baniwal
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Marie Curie Str. 9, D-60439 Frankfurt/M., Germany
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Siddique M, Port M, Tripp J, Weber C, Zielinski D, Calligaris R, Winkelhaus S, Scharf KD. Tomato heat stress protein Hsp16.1-CIII represents a member of a new class of nucleocytoplasmic small heat stress proteins in plants. Cell Stress Chaperones 2004; 8:381-94. [PMID: 15115290 PMCID: PMC514909 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2003)008<0381:thsphr>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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We describe a new class of plant small heat stress proteins (sHsps) with dominant nuclear localization (Hsp17-CIII). The corresponding proteins in tomato, Arabidopsis, and rice are encoded by unique genes containing a short intron in the beta4-encoding region of the alpha-crystallin domain (ACD). The strong nuclear localization results from a cluster of basic amino acid residues in the loop between beta5 and beta6 of the ACD. Using yeast 2-hybrid tests, analyses of native complexes of the sHsps, and immunofluorescence data, we demonstrate that, in contrast to earlier observations (Kirschner et al 2000), proteins of the sHsp classes CI, CII, and CIII interact with each other, thereby influencing oligomerization state and intracellular localization.
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- Masood Siddique
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Biocenter of the Goethe University, Marie-Curie-Strasse 9, D-60439 Frankfurt/M., Germany
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Port M, Tripp J, Zielinski D, Weber C, Heerklotz D, Winkelhaus S, Bublak D, Scharf KD. Role of Hsp17.4-CII as coregulator and cytoplasmic retention factor of tomato heat stress transcription factor HsfA2. Plant Physiol 2004; 135:1457-70. [PMID: 15247379 PMCID: PMC519062 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.042820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2004] [Revised: 05/16/2004] [Accepted: 05/16/2004] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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HsfA2 is a heat stress (hs)-induced Hsf in peruvian tomato (Lycopersicon peruvianum) and the cultivated form Lycopersicon esculentum. Due to the high activator potential and the continued accumulation during repeated cycles of heat stress and recovery, HsfA2 becomes a dominant Hsf in thermotolerant cells. The formation of heterooligomeric complexes with HsfA1 leads to nuclear retention and enhanced transcriptional activity of HsfA2. This effect seems to represent one part of potential molecular mechanisms involved in its activity control. As shown in this paper, the activity of HsfA2 is also controlled by a network of nucleocytoplasmic small Hsps influencing its solubility, intracellular localization and activator function. By yeast two-hybrid interaction and transient coexpression studies in tobacco (Nicotiana plumbaginifolia) mesophyll protoplasts, we found that tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) Hsp17.4-CII acts as corepressor of HsfA2. Given appropriate conditions, both proteins together formed large cytosolic aggregates which could be solubilized in presence of class CI sHsps. However, independent of the formation of aggregates or of the nucleocytoplasmic distribution of HsfA2, its transcriptional activity was specifically repressed by interaction of Hsp17.4-CII with the C-terminal activator domain. Although not identical in all aspects, the situation with the highly expressed, heat stress-inducible Arabidopsis HsfA2 was found to be principally similar. In corresponding reporter assays its activity was repressed in presence of AtHsp17.7-CII but not of AtHsp17.6-CII or LpHsp17.4-CII.
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- Markus Port
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, D-60439 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Siddique M, Port M, Tripp J, Weber C, Zielinski D, Calligaris R, Winkelhaus S, Scharf KD. Tomato heat stress protein Hsp16.1-CIII represents a member of a new class of nucleocytoplasmic small heat stress proteins in plants. Cell Stress Chaperones 2003. [PMID: 15115290 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2003)008<0381:thsphr>2.0.co] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023] Open
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We describe a new class of plant small heat stress proteins (sHsps) with dominant nuclear localization (Hsp17-CIII). The corresponding proteins in tomato, Arabidopsis, and rice are encoded by unique genes containing a short intron in the beta4-encoding region of the alpha-crystallin domain (ACD). The strong nuclear localization results from a cluster of basic amino acid residues in the loop between beta5 and beta6 of the ACD. Using yeast 2-hybrid tests, analyses of native complexes of the sHsps, and immunofluorescence data, we demonstrate that, in contrast to earlier observations (Kirschner et al 2000), proteins of the sHsp classes CI, CII, and CIII interact with each other, thereby influencing oligomerization state and intracellular localization.
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- Masood Siddique
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Biocenter of the Goethe University, Marie-Curie-Strasse 9, D-60439 Frankfurt/M., Germany
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Rojas A, Almoguera C, Carranco R, Scharf KD, Jordano J. Selective activation of the developmentally regulated Ha hsp17.6 G1 promoter by heat stress transcription factors. Plant Physiol 2002; 129:1207-15. [PMID: 12114574 PMCID: PMC166514 DOI: 10.1104/pp.010927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2001] [Revised: 01/22/2002] [Accepted: 02/27/2002] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Using two well-characterized heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs) from tomato (Lycopersicon peruvianum; LpHsfA1 and LpHsfA2), we analyzed the transcriptional activation of the Ha hsp17.6 G1 promoter in sunflower (Helianthus annuus) embryos. In this system, we observed transient promoter activation only with LpHsfA2. In contrast, both factors were able to activate mutant versions of the promoter with improved consensus Hsf-binding sites. Exclusive activation by LpHsfA2 was also observed in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) without other Hsfs and with a minimal Cyc1 promoter fused to the Ha hsp17.6 G1 heat stress cis-element. Furthermore, the same promoter mutations reproduced the loss of activation selectivity, as observed in sunflower embryos. The results of in vitro binding experiments rule out differential DNA binding of the two factors as the explanation for the observed differential activation capacity. We conclude that the specific sequence of this heat stress cis-element is crucial for Hsf promoter selectivity, and that this selectivity could involve preferential transcriptional activation following DNA binding. In sunflower embryos, we also observed synergistic transcriptional activation by co-expression of LpHsfA1 and LpHsfA2. Mutational analyses of the Ha hsp17.6 G1 promoter, combined with in vitro binding assays, suggest that mixed oligomers of the two factors may be involved in promoter activation. We discuss the relevance of our observations for mechanisms of developmental regulation of plant heat stress protein genes.
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- Anabel Rojas
- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Apartado 1052, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
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Mishra SK, Tripp J, Winkelhaus S, Tschiersch B, Theres K, Nover L, Scharf KD. In the complex family of heat stress transcription factors, HsfA1 has a unique role as master regulator of thermotolerance in tomato. Genes Dev 2002; 16:1555-67. [PMID: 12080093 PMCID: PMC186353 DOI: 10.1101/gad.228802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 331] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We generated transgenic tomato plants with altered expression of heat stress transcription factor HsfA1. Plants with 10-fold overexpression of HsfA1 (OE plants) were characterized by a single HsfA1 transgene cassette, whereas plants harboring a tandem inverted repeat of the cassette showed cosuppression (CS plants) by posttranscriptional silencing of the HsfA1 gene connected with formation of small interfering RNAs. Under normal growth conditions, major developmental parameters were similar for wild-type (WT), OE, and CS plants. However, CS plants and fruits were extremely sensitive to elevated temperatures, because heat stress-induced synthesis of chaperones and Hsfs was strongly reduced or lacking. Despite the complexity of the plant Hsf family with at least 17 members in tomato, HsfA1 has a unique function as master regulator for induced thermotolerance. Using transient reporter assays with mesophyll protoplasts from WT tomato, we demonstrated that plasmid-encoded HsfA1 and HsfA2 were well expressed. However, in CS protoplasts the cosuppression phenomenon was faithfully reproduced. Only transformation with HsfA2 expression plasmid led to normal expression of the transcription factor and reporter gene activation, whereas even high amounts of HsfA1 expression plasmids were silenced. Thermotolerance in CS protoplasts was restored by plasmid-borne HsfA2, resulting in expression of chaperones, thermoprotection of firefly luciferase, and assembly of heat stress granules.
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Scharf KD, Siddique M, Vierling E. The expanding family of Arabidopsis thaliana small heat stress proteins and a new family of proteins containing alpha-crystallin domains (Acd proteins). Cell Stress Chaperones 2001. [PMID: 11599564 DOI: 10.1379/1466-12682001006<0225:] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023] Open
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Comprehensive analysis of the Arabidopsis genome revealed a total of 13 sHsps belonging to 6 classes defined on the basis of their intracellular localization and sequence relatedness plus 6 ORFs encoding proteins distantly related to the cytosolic class Cl or the plastidial class of sHsps. The complexity of the Arabidopsis sHsp family far exceeds that in any other organism investigated to date. Furthermore, we have identified a new family of ORFs encoding multidomain proteins that contain one or more regions with homology to the ACD (Acd proteins). The functions of the Acd proteins and the role of their ACDs remain to be investigated.
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- K D Scharf
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Scharf KD, Siddique M, Vierling E. The expanding family of Arabidopsis thaliana small heat stress proteins and a new family of proteins containing alpha-crystallin domains (Acd proteins). Cell Stress Chaperones 2001. [PMID: 11599564 DOI: 10.1379/1466-12682001006<0225:tefoat<2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/30/2023] Open
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Comprehensive analysis of the Arabidopsis genome revealed a total of 13 sHsps belonging to 6 classes defined on the basis of their intracellular localization and sequence relatedness plus 6 ORFs encoding proteins distantly related to the cytosolic class Cl or the plastidial class of sHsps. The complexity of the Arabidopsis sHsp family far exceeds that in any other organism investigated to date. Furthermore, we have identified a new family of ORFs encoding multidomain proteins that contain one or more regions with homology to the ACD (Acd proteins). The functions of the Acd proteins and the role of their ACDs remain to be investigated.
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- K D Scharf
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Nover L, Bharti K, Döring P, Mishra SK, Ganguli A, Scharf KD. Arabidopsis and the heat stress transcription factor world: how many heat stress transcription factors do we need? Cell Stress Chaperones 2001; 6:177-189. [PMID: 11599559 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2001)006<0177:aathst>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023] Open
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Sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome revealed a unique complexity of the plant heat stress transcription factor (Hsf) family. By structural characteristics and phylogenetic comparison, the 21 representatives are assigned to 3 classes and 14 groups. Particularly striking is the finding of a new class of Hsfs (AtHsfC1) closely related to Hsf1 from rice and to Hsfs identified from frequently found expressed sequence tags of tomato, potato, barley, and soybean. Evidently, this new type of Hsf is well expressed in different plant tissues. Besides the DNA binding and oligomerization domains (HR-A/B region), we identified other functional modules of Arabidopsis Hsfs by sequence comparison with the well-characterized tomato Hsfs. These are putative motifs for nuclear import and export and transcriptional activation (AHA motifs). There is intriguing flexibility of size and sequence in certain parts of the otherwise strongly conserved N-terminal half of these Hsfs. We have speculated about possible exon-intron borders in this region in the ancient precursor gene of plant Hsfs, similar to the exon-intron structure of the present mammalian Hsf-encoding genes.
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- L Nover
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Scharf KD, Siddique M, Vierling E. The expanding family of Arabidopsis thaliana small heat stress proteins and a new family of proteins containing alpha-crystallin domains (Acd proteins). Cell Stress Chaperones 2001; 6:225-37. [PMID: 11599564 PMCID: PMC434404 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2001)006<0225:tefoat>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2001] [Accepted: 05/01/2001] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Comprehensive analysis of the Arabidopsis genome revealed a total of 13 sHsps belonging to 6 classes defined on the basis of their intracellular localization and sequence relatedness plus 6 ORFs encoding proteins distantly related to the cytosolic class Cl or the plastidial class of sHsps. The complexity of the Arabidopsis sHsp family far exceeds that in any other organism investigated to date. Furthermore, we have identified a new family of ORFs encoding multidomain proteins that contain one or more regions with homology to the ACD (Acd proteins). The functions of the Acd proteins and the role of their ACDs remain to be investigated.
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- K D Scharf
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Nover L, Bharti K, Döring P, Mishra SK, Ganguli A, Scharf KD. Arabidopsis and the heat stress transcription factor world: how many heat stress transcription factors do we need? Cell Stress Chaperones 2001; 6:177-89. [PMID: 11599559 PMCID: PMC434399 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2001)006<0177:aathst>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 469] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2001] [Accepted: 04/11/2001] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome revealed a unique complexity of the plant heat stress transcription factor (Hsf) family. By structural characteristics and phylogenetic comparison, the 21 representatives are assigned to 3 classes and 14 groups. Particularly striking is the finding of a new class of Hsfs (AtHsfC1) closely related to Hsf1 from rice and to Hsfs identified from frequently found expressed sequence tags of tomato, potato, barley, and soybean. Evidently, this new type of Hsf is well expressed in different plant tissues. Besides the DNA binding and oligomerization domains (HR-A/B region), we identified other functional modules of Arabidopsis Hsfs by sequence comparison with the well-characterized tomato Hsfs. These are putative motifs for nuclear import and export and transcriptional activation (AHA motifs). There is intriguing flexibility of size and sequence in certain parts of the otherwise strongly conserved N-terminal half of these Hsfs. We have speculated about possible exon-intron borders in this region in the ancient precursor gene of plant Hsfs, similar to the exon-intron structure of the present mammalian Hsf-encoding genes.
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- L Nover
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Nover L, Bharti K, Döring P, Mishra SK, Ganguli A, Scharf KD. Arabidopsis and the heat stress transcription factor world: how many heat stress transcription factors do we need? Cell Stress Chaperones 2001. [PMID: 11599559 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2001)006<0177:aathst<2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023] Open
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Sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome revealed a unique complexity of the plant heat stress transcription factor (Hsf) family. By structural characteristics and phylogenetic comparison, the 21 representatives are assigned to 3 classes and 14 groups. Particularly striking is the finding of a new class of Hsfs (AtHsfC1) closely related to Hsf1 from rice and to Hsfs identified from frequently found expressed sequence tags of tomato, potato, barley, and soybean. Evidently, this new type of Hsf is well expressed in different plant tissues. Besides the DNA binding and oligomerization domains (HR-A/B region), we identified other functional modules of Arabidopsis Hsfs by sequence comparison with the well-characterized tomato Hsfs. These are putative motifs for nuclear import and export and transcriptional activation (AHA motifs). There is intriguing flexibility of size and sequence in certain parts of the otherwise strongly conserved N-terminal half of these Hsfs. We have speculated about possible exon-intron borders in this region in the ancient precursor gene of plant Hsfs, similar to the exon-intron structure of the present mammalian Hsf-encoding genes.
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- L Nover
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Nover L, Bharti K, Döring P, Mishra SK, Ganguli A, Scharf KD. Arabidopsis and the heat stress transcription factor world: how many heat stress transcription factors do we need? Cell Stress Chaperones 2001. [PMID: 11599559 DOI: 10.1379/1466-12682001006<0177:aathst<2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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Sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome revealed a unique complexity of the plant heat stress transcription factor (Hsf) family. By structural characteristics and phylogenetic comparison, the 21 representatives are assigned to 3 classes and 14 groups. Particularly striking is the finding of a new class of Hsfs (AtHsfC1) closely related to Hsf1 from rice and to Hsfs identified from frequently found expressed sequence tags of tomato, potato, barley, and soybean. Evidently, this new type of Hsf is well expressed in different plant tissues. Besides the DNA binding and oligomerization domains (HR-A/B region), we identified other functional modules of Arabidopsis Hsfs by sequence comparison with the well-characterized tomato Hsfs. These are putative motifs for nuclear import and export and transcriptional activation (AHA motifs). There is intriguing flexibility of size and sequence in certain parts of the otherwise strongly conserved N-terminal half of these Hsfs. We have speculated about possible exon-intron borders in this region in the ancient precursor gene of plant Hsfs, similar to the exon-intron structure of the present mammalian Hsf-encoding genes.
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- L Nover
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Scharf KD, Siddique M, Vierling E. The expanding family of Arabidopsis thaliana small heat stress proteins and a new family of proteins containing alpha-crystallin domains (Acd proteins). Cell Stress Chaperones 2001. [PMID: 11599564 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2001)006<0225:tefoat>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/16/2023] Open
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Comprehensive analysis of the Arabidopsis genome revealed a total of 13 sHsps belonging to 6 classes defined on the basis of their intracellular localization and sequence relatedness plus 6 ORFs encoding proteins distantly related to the cytosolic class Cl or the plastidial class of sHsps. The complexity of the Arabidopsis sHsp family far exceeds that in any other organism investigated to date. Furthermore, we have identified a new family of ORFs encoding multidomain proteins that contain one or more regions with homology to the ACD (Acd proteins). The functions of the Acd proteins and the role of their ACDs remain to be investigated.
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- K D Scharf
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Czarnecka-Verner E, Yuan CX, Scharf KD, Englich G, Gurley WB. Plants contain a novel multi-member class of heat shock factors without transcriptional activator potential. Plant Mol Biol 2000; 43:459-71. [PMID: 11052198 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006448607740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Based on phylogeny of DNA-binding domains and the organization of hydrophobic repeats, two families of heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) exist in plants. Class A HSFs are involved in the activation of the heat shock response, but the role of class B HSFs is not clear. When transcriptional activities of full-length HSFs were monitored in tobacco protoplasts, no class B HSFs from soybean or Arabidopsis showed activity under control or heat stress conditions. Additional assays confirmed the finding that the class B HSFs lacked the capacity to activate transcription. Fusion of a heterologous activation domain from human HSF1 (AD2) to the C-terminus of GmHSFB1-34 gave no evidence of synergistic enhancement of AD2 activity, which would be expected if weak activation domains were present. Furthermore, activity of AtHSFB1-4 (class B) was not rescued by coexpression with AtHSFA4-21 (class A) indicating that the class A HSF was not able to provide a missing function required for class B activity. The transcriptional activation potential of Arabidopsis AtHSFA4-21 was mapped primarily to a 39 amino acid fragment in the C-terminus enriched in bulky hydrophobic and acidic residues. Deletion mutagenesis of the C-terminal activator regions of tomato and Arabidopsis HSFs indicated that these plant HSFs lack heat-inducible regulatory regions analogous to those of mammalian HSF1. These findings suggest that heat shock regulation in plants may differ from metazoans by partitioning negative and positive functional domains onto separate HSF proteins. Class A HSFs are primarily responsible for stress-inducible activation of heat shock genes whereas some of the inert class B HSFs may be specialized for repression, or down-regulation, of the heat shock response.
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- E Czarnecka-Verner
- Microbiology and Cell Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611-0700, USA.
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Bharti K, Schmidt E, Lyck R, Heerklotz D, Bublak D, Scharf KD. Isolation and characterization of HsfA3, a new heat stress transcription factor of Lycopersicon peruvianum. Plant J 2000; 22:355-65. [PMID: 10849352 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2000.00746.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Stress-induced transcription of heat shock proteins (Hsps) in eukaryotes is mediated by a conserved class of transcription factors called heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs). Here we report the isolation and functional characterization of HsfA3, a new member of the Hsf family. HsfA3 was cloned from a tomato heat stress cDNA library by yeast two-hybrid screening, using HsfA1 as a bait. HsfA3 is a single-copy gene with all the conserved sequence elements characteristic of a heat stress transcription factor. The constitutively expressed HsfA3 is mainly found in the cytoplasm under control conditions and in the nucleus under heat stress conditions. Functionally, HsfA3 behaves similarly to the already known members of tomato Hsf family. It is able to substitute yeast Hsf for viability functions and is a strong activator of Hsf-dependent reporter constructs both in tobacco protoplasts and yeast. Finally, similar to the AHA motifs in HsfA1 and HsfA2, the activator function depends on four short peptide motifs with a central tryptophan residue found in the C-terminal domain of HsfA3.
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- K Bharti
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Biocenter N200, 3OG, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Marie-Curie-Str. 9, D-60439 Frankfurt, Germany
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Scharf KD, Heider H, Höhfeld I, Lyck R, Schmidt E, Nover L. The tomato Hsf system: HsfA2 needs interaction with HsfA1 for efficient nuclear import and may be localized in cytoplasmic heat stress granules. Mol Cell Biol 1998; 18:2240-51. [PMID: 9528795 PMCID: PMC121470 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.4.2240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/1997] [Accepted: 01/12/1998] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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In heat-stressed (HS) tomato (Lycopersicon peruvianum) cell cultures, the constitutively expressed HS transcription factor HsfA1 is complemented by two HS-inducible forms, HsfA2 and HsfB1. Because of its stability, HsfA2 accumulates to fairly high levels in the course of a prolonged HS and recovery regimen. Using immunofluorescence and cell fractionation experiments, we identified three states of HsfA2: (i) a soluble, cytoplasmic form in preinduced cultures maintained at 25 degrees C, (ii) a salt-resistant, nuclear form found in HS cells, and (iii) a stored form of HsfA2 in cytoplasmic HS granules. The efficient nuclear transport of HsfA2 evidently requires interaction with HsfA1. When expressed in tobacco protoplasts by use of a transient-expression system, HsfA2 is mainly retained in the cytoplasm unless it is coexpressed with HsfA1. The essential parts for the interaction and nuclear cotransport of the two Hsfs are the homologous oligomerization domain (HR-A/B region of the A-type Hsfs) and functional nuclear localization signal motifs of both partners. Direct physical interaction of the two Hsfs with formation of relatively stabile hetero-oligomers was shown by a two-hybrid test in Saccharomyces cerevisiae as well as by coimmunoprecipitation using tomato and tobacco whole-cell lysates.
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- K D Scharf
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Boscheinen O, Lyck R, Queitsch C, Treuter E, Zimarino V, Scharf KD. Heat stress transcription factors from tomato can functionally replace HSF1 in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Gen Genet 1997; 255:322-31. [PMID: 9268023 DOI: 10.1007/s004380050503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The fact that yeast HSF1 is essential for survival under nonstress conditions can be used to test heterologous Hsfs for the ability to substitute for the endogenous protein. Our results demonstrate that like Hsf of Drosophila, tomato Hsfs A1 and A2 can functionally replace the corresponding yeast protein, but Hsf B1 cannot. In addition to survival at 28 degrees C, we checked the transformed yeast strains for temperature sensitivity of growth, induced thermotolerance and activator function using two different lacZ reporter constructs. Tests with full-length Hsfs were supplemented by assays using mutant Hsfs lacking parts of their C-terminal activator region or oligomerization domain, or containing amino acid substitutions in the DNA-binding domain. Remarkably, results with the yeast system are basically similar to those obtained by the analysis of the same Hsfs as transcriptional activators in a tobacco protoplast assay. Most surprising is the failure of HsfB1 to substitute for the yeast Hsf. The defect can be overcome by addition to HsfB1 of a short C-terminal peptide motif from HsfA2 (34 amino acid residues), which represents a type of minimal activator necessary for interaction with the yeast transcription apparatus. Deletion of the oligomerization domain (HR-A/B) does not interfere with Hsf function for survival or growth at higher temperatures. But monomeric Hsf has a markedly reduced affinity for DNA, as shown by lacZ reporter and band-shift assays.
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- O Boscheinen
- Molecular Cell Biology, Biocenter of the J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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Lyck R, Harmening U, Höhfeld I, Treuter E, Scharf KD, Nover L. Intracellular distribution and identification of the nuclear localization signals of two plant heat-stress transcription factors. Planta 1997; 202:117-25. [PMID: 9177056 DOI: 10.1007/s004250050110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Similar to heat-stress transcription factors (HSFs) from non-plant sources, HSFA1 and HSFA2 from tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) contain two conserved clusters of basic amino acid residues (K/R1 and K/R2) which might serve as nuclear localization signal (NLS) motifs. Mutation of either one of them and functional testing of the corresponding proteins in a transient expression assay using tobacco (Nicotiana plumbaginifolia L:) protoplasts gave the following results. Whereas K/R1, positioned in all HSFs at the C-terminus of the DNA-binding domain, had no influence on nuclear import, the K/R1 mutants were impaired in their interaction with the DNA (band-shift assays). In contrast to this, mutants of the K/R2 motif, found 15-20 amino acid residues C-terminal of the oligomerization domain (HR-A/B region), had wild-type activity in DNA-binding but were defective in nuclear import. Thus, for the related tomato HSFA1 and HSFA2 the K/R2 cluster represents the only NLS motif, and in this function it cannot be replaced by K/R1.
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- R Lyck
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biocenter J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfrut/Main, Germany
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- L Nover
- Biocentre, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany.
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Nover L, Scharf KD, Gagliardi D, Vergne P, Czarnecka-Verner E, Gurley WB. The Hsf world: classification and properties of plant heat stress transcription factors. Cell Stress Chaperones 1996; 1:215-223. [PMID: 9222607 DOI: 10.1379/1466-12681996001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023] Open
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Based on the partial or complete sequences of 14 plant heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs) from tomato, soybean, Arabidopsis and maize we propose a general nomenclature with two basic classes, i.e. classes A and B each containing two or more types of Hsfs (HsfA1, HsfA2 etc.). Despite some plant-specific peculiarities, essential functional domains and modules of these proteins are conserved among plants, yeast, Drosophila and vertebrates. A revised terminology of these parts follows recommendations agreed upon among the authors and representatives from other laboratories working in this field (see legend to Fig. 1). Similar to the situation with the small heat shock proteins (sHsps), the complexity of the hsf gene family in plants appears to be higher than in other eukaryotic organisms.
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- L Nover
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, Frankfurt/M., Germany.
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Nover L, Scharf KD, Gagliardi D, Vergne P, Czarnecka-Verner E, Gurley WB. The Hsf world: classification and properties of plant heat stress transcription factors. Cell Stress Chaperones 1996; 1:215-23. [PMID: 9222607 PMCID: PMC376459 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(1996)001<0215:thwcap>2.3.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Based on the partial or complete sequences of 14 plant heat stress transcription factors (Hsfs) from tomato, soybean, Arabidopsis and maize we propose a general nomenclature with two basic classes, i.e. classes A and B each containing two or more types of Hsfs (HsfA1, HsfA2 etc.). Despite some plant-specific peculiarities, essential functional domains and modules of these proteins are conserved among plants, yeast, Drosophila and vertebrates. A revised terminology of these parts follows recommendations agreed upon among the authors and representatives from other laboratories working in this field (see legend to Fig. 1). Similar to the situation with the small heat shock proteins (sHsps), the complexity of the hsf gene family in plants appears to be higher than in other eukaryotic organisms.
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- L Nover
- Biocenter of the Goethe University, Frankfurt/M., Germany.
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Schultheiss J, Kunert O, Gase U, Scharf KD, Nover L, Rüterjans H. Solution structure of the DNA-binding domain of the tomato heat-stress transcription factor HSF24. Eur J Biochem 1996; 236:911-21. [PMID: 8665913 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00911.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Two-dimensional-NMR and three-dimensional-NMR experiments were performed to determine the solution structure of the DNA-binding domain of the tomato heat-stress transcription factor HSF24. Samples of uniformly 15N-labeled and 15N, 13C-labeled recombinant proteins were used in the investigation. A near-complete assignment of the backbone 1H, 15N, and 13C resonances was obtained by three-dimensional triple-resonance experiments, whereas three-dimensional 15N-TOCSY-heteronuclear-single-quantum-correlation-spectroscopy, HCCH-COSY and HCCH-TOCSY spectra were recorded for side-chain assignments, 885 non-redundant distance constraints from two-dimensional-homonuclear and three-dimensional-15N-edited and 13C-edited NOESY spectra and 40 hydrogen-bond constraints from exchange experiments were used for structure calculations. The resulting three-dimensional structure contains a three-helix bundle and a small four-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet that forms a hydrophobic core. The two C-terminal helices are parts of a highly conserved helix-turn-helix motif that is probably involved in DNA recognition and binding. In contrast to heat-stress factors from yeast and animals, the plant heat-stress factors lack a loop of 11 amino acid residues inserted between beta3 and beta4. This leads to a tight turn between these beta-strands.
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- J Schultheiss
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Biocenter of the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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