Cardenolide Increase in Foxglove After 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazol Treatment Reveals a Potential Link Between Cardenolide and Phytosterol Biosynthesis.
Cardenolide Increase in Foxglove After 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazol Treatment Reveals a Potential Link Between Cardenolide and Phytosterol Biosynthesis.
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2,1,3-苯并噻二唑处理后毛地黄中的强心内酯增加揭示了强心内酯和植物甾醇生物合成之间的潜在联系。
DOI:
10.1093/pcp/pcac144
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Zhen Q. Wang
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作者:
Indu Raghavan;Baradwaj Ravi Gopal;Emily Carroll;Zhen Q. Wang
Cardenolides are steroidal metabolites in Digitalis lanata with potent cardioactive effects on animals. In plants, cardenolides are likely involved in various stress responses. However, the molecular mechanism of cardenolide increase during stresses is mostly unknown. Additionally, cardenolides are proposed to arise from cholesterol, but indirect results show that phytosterols may also be substrates for cardenolide biosynthesis. Here we show that cardenolides increased after methyl jasmonate (MJ), sorbitol, potassium chloride (KCl), and salicylic acid analog (BTH: 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole) treatments. However, the expression of three known genes for cardenolide biosynthesis did not correlate well with these increases. Specifically, the expression of progesterone-5β-reductases (P5βR and P5βR2) did not correlate with cardenolide increase. The expression of 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3βHSD) correlated with changes in cardenolide levels only during the BTH treatment. Mining the D. lanata transcriptome identified genes involved in cholesterol and phytosterol biosynthesis: C24 sterol sidechain reductase 1 (SSR1) and C4 sterol methyl oxidase 1 and 3 (SMO1 and SMO3). Surprisingly, the expression of all three genes correlated well with the cardenolide increase after the BTH treatment. Phylogenetic analysis showed that SSR1 is likely involved in both cholesterol and phytosterol biosynthesis. In addition, SMO1 is likely specific to phytosterol biosynthesis, and SMO3 is specific to cholesterol biosynthesis. These results suggest that stress-induced increase of cardenolides in foxglove may correlate with cholesterol and phytosterol biosynthesis. In summary, this work shows that cardenolides are important for stress responses in D. lanata and reveals a potential link between phytosterol and cardenolide biosynthesis.