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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 166, Issue 1, Pages 314-U467Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.240226
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- Agropolis Foundation [AA0803-022]
- European Commission Framework Programme 7 [268393]
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Ca2+-dependent protein kinases (CPKs) form a large family of 34 genes in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). Based on their dependence on Ca2+, CPKs can be sorted into three types: strictly Ca2+-dependent CPKs, Ca2+-stimulated CPKs (with a significant basal activity in the absence of Ca2+), and essentially calcium-insensitive CPKs. Here, we report on the third type of CPK, CPK13, which is expressed in guard cells but whose role is still unknown. We confirm the expression of CPK13 in Arabidopsis guard cells, and we show that its overexpression inhibits light-induced stomatal opening. We combine several approaches to identify a guard cell-expressed target. We provide evidence that CPK13 (1) specifically phosphorylates peptide arrays featuring Arabidopsis K+ Channel KAT2 and KAT1 polypeptides, (2) inhibits KAT2 and/or KAT1 when expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes, and (3) closely interacts in plant cells with KAT2 channels (Forster resonance energy transfer-fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy). We propose that CPK13 reduces stomatal aperture through its inhibition of the guard cell-expressed KAT2 and KAT1 channels.
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