Journal
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 36, Issue 7, Pages 1363-1378Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12065
Keywords
Asterochloris; desiccation tolerance; drying rate; Hsp90; lichen; protome; -tubulin
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2009-13429-C02-01/02]
- Generalitat Valenciana [PROMETEO 174/2008, CGL2012-40058-C02-01/02]
- USDA-APRS (USA) [3622-21000-034]
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The study of desiccation tolerance of lichens, and of their chlorobionts in particular, has frequently focused on the antioxidant system that protects the cell against photo-oxidative stress during dehydration/rehydration cycles. In this study, we used proteomic and transcript analyses to assess the changes associated with desiccation in the isolated phycobiont Asterochloris erici. Algae were dried either slowly (5-6h) or rapidly (<60min), and rehydrated after 24h in the desiccated state. To identify proteins that accumulated during the drying or rehydration processes, we employed two-dimensional (2D) difference gel electrophoresis (DIGE) coupled with individual protein identification using trypsin digestion and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Proteomic analyses revealed that desiccation caused an increase in relative abundance of only 11-13 proteins, regardless of drying rate, involved in glycolysis, cellular protection, cytoskeleton, cell cycle, and targeting and degradation. Transcripts of five Hsp90 and two -tubulin genes accumulated primarily at the end of the dehydration process. In addition, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images indicate that ultrastructural cell injuries, perhaps resulting from physical or mechanical stress rather than metabolic damage, were more intense after rapid dehydration. This occurred with no major change in the proteome. These results suggest that desiccation tolerance of A.erici is achieved by constitutive mechanisms.
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