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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 426, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.128100
Keywords
Arsenic; Arsenic transporters; Buthionine sulfoximine (BSO); Glutathione-s-transferase (GST); Rice
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- Banaras Hindu University [Sept.2014/271]
- UGC
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Arsenic is a hazardous metalloid that hampers physiological activities in rice. In this study, the role of OsGSTU5 in arsenic tolerance was investigated. OsGSTU5 was found to enhance arsenic tolerance by regulating antioxidant activities and participating in arsenic chelation and transport processes.
Arsenic (As) considered as one of the hazardous metalloid that hampers various physiological activities in rice. To study the mechanism of As tolerance in rice, one differentially expressed tau class glutathione-S-transferase (OsGSTU5) has been selected and transgenic rice plants with knockdown (KD) and overexpressing (OE) OsGSTU5 were generated. Our results suggested that KD lines became less tolerant to As stress than WT plants, while OE lines showed enhanced tolerance to As. Under As toxicity, OE and KD lines showed enhanced and reduced antioxidant activities such as, SOD, PRX and catalase, respectively indicating its role in ROS homeostasis. In addition, higher malondialdehyde content, poor photosynthetic parameters and higher reactive oxygen species (ROS) in KD plant, suggests that knockdown of OsGSTU5 renders KD plants more susceptible to oxidative damage. Also, the relative expression profile of various transporters such as OsABCC1 (As sequestration), Lsi2 and Lsi6 (As translocaters) and GSH dependent activity of GSTU5 suggests that GSTU5 might help in chelation of As with GSH and sequester it into the root vacuole using OsABCC1 transporter and thus limits the upward translocation of As towards shoot. This study suggests the importance of GSTU5 as a good target to improve the As tolerance in rice
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