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Coronatine promotes maize water uptake by directly binding to the aquaporin ZmPIP2;5 and enhancing its activity

Journal

JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 65, Issue 3, Pages 703-720

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13432

Keywords

coronatine; osmotic stress; water uptake capacity; ZmPIP2; 5

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Water uptake is crucial for crop growth and drought stress tolerance. The water channel aquaporins (AQP) play important roles and a jasmonic acid analog, coronatine (COR), has been found to enhance maize root water uptake capacity. COR treatment induces the expression of the AQP gene ZmPIP2;5 and directly acts on it to improve water uptake.
Water uptake is crucial for crop growth and development and drought stress tolerance. The water channel aquaporins (AQP) play important roles in plant water uptake. Here, we discovered that a jasmonic acid analog, coronatine (COR), enhanced maize (Zea mays) root water uptake capacity under artificial water deficiency conditions. COR treatment induced the expression of the AQP gene Plasma membrane intrinsic protein 2;5 (ZmPIP2;5). In vivo and in vitro experiments indicated that COR also directly acts on ZmPIP2;5 to improve water uptake in maize and Xenopus oocytes. The leaf water potential and hydraulic conductivity of roots growing under hyperosmotic conditions were higher in ZmPIP2;5-overexpression lines and lower in the zmpip2;5 knockout mutant, compared to wild-type plants. Based on a comparison between ZmPIP2;5 and other PIP2s, we predicted that COR may bind to the functional site in loop E of ZmPIP2;5. We confirmed this prediction by surface plasmon resonance technology and a microscale thermophoresis assay, and showed that deleting the binding motif greatly reduced COR binding. We identified the N241 residue as the COR-specific binding site, which may activate the channel of the AQP tetramer and increase water transport activity, which may facilitate water uptake under hyperosmotic stress.

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