Journal
JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 170, Issue 18, Pages 1609-1619Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2013.06.012
Keywords
Alfalfa; Alternative oxidase; Aox2b duplication; SA; H2O2
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- CAPES
- CNPq and FUNCAP
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In flowering plants, alternative oxidase (Aox) is encoded by 3-5 genes distributed in 2 subfamilies (Aoxl and Aox2). In several species only Aoxl is reported as a stress-responsive gene, but in the leguminous Vigna unguiculata Aox2b is also induced by stress. In this work we investigated the Aox genes from two leguminous species of the Medicago genus (Medicago sativa and Medicago truncatula) which present one AoxI, one Aox2a and an Aox2b duplication (named here Aox2b1 and Aox2b2). Expression analyses by semi-quantitative RT-PCR in M. sativa revealed that Aox1, Aox2b1 and Aox2b2 transcripts increased during seed germination. Similar analyses in leaves and roots under different treatments (SA, PEG, H202 and cysteine) revealed that these genes are also induced by stress, but with peculiar spatio-temporal differences. Aox1 and Aox2b1 showed basal levels of expression under control conditions and were induced by stress in leaves and roots. Aox2b2 presented a dual behavior, i.e., it was expressed only under stress conditions in leaves, and showed basal expression levels in roots that were induced by stress. Moreover, Aox2a was expressed at higher levels in leaves and during seed germination than in roots and appeared to be not responsive to stress. The Aox expression profiles obtained from a M. truncatula microarray dataset also revealed a stress-induced co-expression of Aoxl, Aox2b1 and Aox2b2 in leaves and roots. These results reinforce the stress-inducible co-expression of Aoxl lAox2b in some leguminous plants. Comparative genomic analysis indicates that this regulation is linked to Aoxl lAox2b proximity in the genome as a result of the gene rearrangement that occurred in some leguminous plants during evolution. The differential expression of Aox2b1 12b2 suggests that a second gene has been originated by recent gene duplication with neofunctionalization. (C) 2013 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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