Journal
PLANT JOURNAL
Volume 81, Issue 5, Pages 767-780Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12769
Keywords
ceramidase; ceramide; sphingolipids; Arabidopsis thaliana; defense; salt tolerance
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Funding
- National Key Basic Science 973 program [2012CB114006]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31170247]
- RFDP [20110171110028]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [13lgjc27]
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Ceramidases hydrolyze ceramide into sphingosine and fatty acids. In mammals, ceramidases function as key regulators of sphingolipid homeostasis, but little is known about their roles in plants. Here we characterize the Arabidopsis ceramidase AtACER, a homolog of human alkaline ceramidases. The acer-1 T-DNA insertion mutant has pleiotropic phenotypes, including reduction of leaf size, dwarfing and an irregular wax layer, compared with wild-type plants. Quantitative sphingolipid profiling showed that acer-1 mutants and the artificial microRNA-mediated silenced line amiR-ACER-1 have high ceramide levels and decreased long chain bases. AtACER localizes predominantly to the endoplasmic reticulum, and partially to the Golgi complex. Furthermore, we found that acer-1 mutants and AtACERRNAi lines showed increased sensitivity to salt stress, and lines overexpressing AtACER showed increased tolerance to salt stress. Reduction of AtACER also increased plant susceptibility to Pseudomonas syringae. Our data highlight the key biological functions of ceramidases in biotic and abiotic stresses in plants. Significance StatementWe cloned and functionally analyzed AtACER, an Arabidopsis thaliana alkaline ceramidase gene. Our results demonstrate that AtACER affects sphingolipid homeostasis and plays important roles in plant development and stress responses, including enhanced sensitivity to salts and susceptibility to pathogen infection.
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