Phosphatidic Acid Regulates BZR1 Activity and Brassinosteroid Signal of Arabidopsis
Phosphatidic Acid Regulates BZR1 Activity and Brassinosteroid Signal of Arabidopsis
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磷脂酸调节拟南芥 BZR1 活性和油菜素类固醇信号
DOI:
10.1093/mp/sst138
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发表时间:
2014
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影响因子:
27.5
通讯作者:
Lin WH
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作者:
Wu P;Gao HB Xue HW;Zhang LL;Xue HW;Lin WH
Dear Editor, Brassinosteroid (BR) is an important hormone and plays crucial roles in plant growth and development (Kim and Wang, 2010). Genetics studies identify many components involving in BR signaling, including transcript factor BZR1 (BRASSINAZOLE RESISTANT 1). BZR1 is dephosphorylated (He et al., 2005) to regulate expression of target genes. A single amino acid mutation in BZR1 PEST domain results in enhanced binding and dephosphorylation by PP2A (PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A; Tang et al., 2011), leading to constitutively activated BZR1 and enhanced BR signal in gain-of-function mutant bzr1-1D. Although BR signal is well characterized in Arabidopsis, how the components of BR signaling transduction pathway are regulated needs further illustrations. Recent studies showed signaling molecule phosphatidic acid (PA), which is mainly produced by Phospholipase D (PLD) and Diacylglycerol (DAG) kinase (DGK)(Wang et al., 2006), plays key roles in plant responses to environmental stimulus and vesicular trafficking regulation (Testerink and Munnik, 2011). PA exerts functions by altering membrane structure or binding target proteins, and interaction with PA affects the activity or subcellular location of PA-binding proteins (Zhang et al., 2004). PLD-derived PA increases membrane PP2A activity while it decreases total PP2A activity through binding PP2AA1 subunit (Gao et al., 2013). Binding of PA-PP2AA1 subunit results in decreased PP2A activity in cytoplasm; we thus investigate whether PA regulates BZR1 activity using transgenic line, W2C, which harbors the pBZR1:: BZR1:: CFP construct. Western blot analysis showed the ratio of dephosphorylated BZR1 was decreased after PA treatment (Figure 1A, BR treatment as positive control), indicating decreased BZR1 activity. qRT–PCR analysis of BZR1 activity marker genes CPD (CONSTITUTIVE