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ACTA PHYSIOLOGIAE PLANTARUM
Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages 1321-1336Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-012-0929-7
Keywords
Abiotic stress; ABRE; EMSA; Polyamine; Serine/threonine kinase; Spermidine; OSBZ8
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- JRF-ship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- SRF-ship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [9/15(263)/2002-EMR-1]
- UGC (Govt. of India) [F. PSW-071/09-10(ERO), F. PSW-042/10-11(ERO)]
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Plants respond to abiotic stresses such as salinity, extreme temperature and drought by the activation of complex intracellular signaling cascades that regulate acclimatory biochemical and physiological changes. Protein kinases are major signal transduction factors that play a central role in mediating acclimation to environmental changes in eukaryotic organisms. It is well known that changes in abiotic conditions such as the concentration of ions, temperature and humidity lead to modulation of polyamine contents in plants. However, little is known about the relevant part these polyamines play in abiotic stress responses. Here, we address a specific role of spermidine during high salt stress by studying its interaction with OSPDK, a sucrose nonfermenting 1-related protein kinase2 (SnRK2)-type serine/threonine protein kinase SAPK4 homolog in indica rice. In this report, we demonstrate that spermidine mediates in vitro phosphorylation of OSBZ8, a bZIP class of ABRE-binding transcription factor, by OSPDK. Our results give a first-hand indication of the pivotal role played by polyamines in abiotic stress cell signaling in plants.
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