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BMC PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-116
Keywords
Brown algae; Heavy metal; Copper stress response; Primary metabolism; ABC transporters; Oxylipins
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- Marine Genomics Europe NoE 7 (EU) [GOCE-CT-2004-505403]
- French Embassy
- CONICYT of Chile through PhD fellowship
- Laboratoire International Associe 'Dispersal and Adaptation of Marine Species' (LIA DIAMS) PUC, Chile
- CNRS-UPMC, France
- French Government via the National Research Agency through the investment expenditure program IDEALG [ANR-10-BTBR-04]
- FONDAP [1501-0001 (Program 7)]
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Background: Brown algae are sessile macro-organisms of great ecological relevance in coastal ecosystems. They evolved independently from land plants and other multicellular lineages, and therefore hold several original ontogenic and metabolic features. Most brown algae grow along the coastal zone where they face frequent environmental changes, including exposure to toxic levels of heavy metals such as copper (Cu). Results: We carried out large-scale transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses to decipher the short-term acclimation of the brown algal model E. siliculosus to Cu stress, and compared these data to results known for other abiotic stressors. This comparison demonstrates that Cu induces oxidative stress in E. siliculosus as illustrated by the transcriptomic overlap between Cu and H2O2 treatments. The common response to Cu and H2O2 consisted in the activation of the oxylipin and the repression of inositol signaling pathways, together with the regulation of genes coding for several transcription-associated proteins. Concomitantly, Cu stress specifically activated a set of genes coding for orthologs of ABC transporters, a P1B-type ATPase, ROS detoxification systems such as a vanadium-dependent bromoperoxidase, and induced an increase of free fatty acid contents. Finally we observed, as a common abiotic stress mechanism, the activation of autophagic processes on one hand and the repression of genes involved in nitrogen assimilation on the other hand. Conclusions: Comparisons with data from green plants indicate that some processes involved in Cu and oxidative stress response are conserved across these two distant lineages. At the same time the high number of yet uncharacterized brown alga-specific genes induced in response to copper stress underlines the potential to discover new components and molecular interactions unique to these organisms. Of particular interest for future research is the potential cross-talk between reactive oxygen species (ROS)-, myo-inositol-, and oxylipin signaling.
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