Journal
GENE
Volume 846, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146846
Keywords
AtS40-1; DUF584 protein; Transcription factor; Abscisic acid; Salt stress; Arabidopsis
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [32071938]
- Linyi University [LYDX2019BS039]
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This study characterizes the role of the DUF584 protein AtS40-1 in regulating ABA and salt responses in Arabidopsis. Transgenic and mutant experiments reveal that AtS40-1 enhances ABA responses and inhibits salt responses. Quantitative RT-PCR results also show a correlation between AtS40-1 and the expression of ABA signaling regulator genes.
Abiotic stresses such as salt and drought affect plants growth and development, whereas the plant hormone ABA is able to regulate plant responses to abiotic stresses by regulating downstream gene expression. Therefore characterization of unknown function ABA responsive genes is able to identify novel regulators of plant abiotic stress responses. We report here the characterization of AtS40-1, a Group I DUF584 protein in the regulation of ABA and salt responses in Arabidopsis. RT-PCR results show that the expression of AtS40-1 was dramatically induced by ABA, but only slightly increase, if any, was observed for other three Group I DUF584 genes including AtS40-1L, AtS40-2 and AtS40-3. Transfection assays in Arabidopsis protoplasts show that all the four Group I DUF584 proteins were predominately localized in nucleus and were able to repress the expression of the co-transfected reporter gene. The roles of AtS40-1 in regulating plant response to ABA and abiotic stress re-sponses were analyzed, by using transgenic plants and inactivation mutants. The results show that the ABA responses were increased in the 35S:AtS40-1 transgenic plants, but decreased in the ats40-1 mutants. Similar to AtS40-1, the results indicate that AtS40-1L, the most closely related DUF584 protein to AtS40-1, positively regulates ABA responses in Arabidopsis. However, further decreased ABA responses were not observed in the ats40-1 ats40-1L double mutants. On the other hand, salt tolerance was increased in the transgenic plants overexpressing AtS40-1 or AtS40-1L, but decreased in the ats40-1 and ats40-1L mutants. Quantitative RT-PCR results show that the ABA induced expression of the ABA signaling regulator genes ABI3, ABI4 and ABA responsive gene RAB18 was decreased, where as ABA signaling gene ABI1 was increased in the ats40-1 mutants. These results suggest that AtS40-1 regulates ABA and salt responses in Arabidopsis, possibly by affecting ABA induced expression of some ABA signaling regulator genes.
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