Journal
PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 10, Pages 1766-1775Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcr121
Keywords
Environmental stress; Mannitol; Mannitol dehydrogenase; Membrane transport; Osmoprotectant
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- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) [PTDC/AGR-ALI/100636/2008, SFRH/BD/47699/2008, SFRH/BPD/34998/2007, SFRH/BD/13460/2003]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/47699/2008, SFRH/BPD/34998/2007, SFRH/BD/13460/2003, PTDC/AGR-ALI/100636/2008] Funding Source: FCT
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The intracellular accumulation of organic compatible solutes functioning as osmoprotectants, such as polyols, is an important response mechanism of several plants to drought and salinity. In Olea europaea a mannitol transport system (OeMaT1) was previously characterized as a key player in plant response to salinity. In the present study, heterotrophic sink models, such as olive cell suspensions and fruit tissues, and source leaves were used for analytical, biochemical and molecular studies. The kinetic parameters of mannitol dehydrogenase (MTD) determined in cells growing in mannitol, at 25 degrees C and pH 9.0, were as follows: K(m), 54.5 mM mannitol; and V(max), 0.47 mu mol h(-1) mg(-1) protein. The corresponding cDNA was cloned and named OeMTD1. OeMTD1 expression was correlated with MTD activity, OeMaT1 expression and carrier-mediated mannitol transport in mannitol- and sucrose-grown cells. Furthermore, sucrose-grown cells displayed only residual OeMTD activity, even though high levels of OeMTD1 transcription were observed. There is evidence that OeMTD is regulated at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. MTD activity and OeMTD1 expression were repressed after Na(+), K(+) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) treatments, in both mannitol- and sucrose-grown cells. In contrast, salt and drought significantly increased mannitol transport activity and OeMaT1 expression. Taken together, these studies support that olive trees cope with salinity and drought by coordinating mannitol transport with intracellular metabolism.
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