期刊
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
卷 13, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.817950
关键词
Calmodulin like proteins (CMLs); soybean; Spodoptera litura; calcium signaling; signaling compounds; wounding; plant-insect interaction
资金
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India [ECR/2017/002478]
- SERB
- OP RDE [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000803]
Calcium (Ca2+) signaling plays a crucial role in plant-herbivore interaction. The calmodulin-like proteins (CMLs) of soybean are involved in calcium signaling and plant defense. Analysis of soybean CMLs identified 41 true CMLs that are evolutionarily related to Arabidopsis CMLs. These CMLs are proposed as calcium sensors and play a role in stress responses.
The calcium (Ca2+) signaling is a crucial event during plant-herbivore interaction, which involves a transient change in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration, which is sensed by Ca2+-sensors, and the received message is transduced to downstream target proteins leading to appropriate defense response. Calmodulin-like proteins (CMLs) are calcium-sensing plant-specific proteins. Although CMLs have been identified in a few plants, they remained uncharacterized in leguminous crop plants. Therefore, a wide-range analysis of CMLs of soybean was performed, which identified 41 true CMLs with greater than 50% similarity with Arabidopsis CMLs. The phylogenetic study revealed their evolutionary relatedness with known CMLs. Further, the identification of conserved motifs, gene structure analysis, and identification of cis-acting elements strongly supported their identity as members of this family and their involvement in stress responses. Only a few Glycine max CMLs (GmCMLs) exhibited differential expression in different tissue types, and rest of them had minimal expression. Additionally, differential expression patterns of GmCMLs were observed during Spodoptera litura-feeding, wounding, and signaling compound treatments, indicating their role in plant defense. The three-dimensional structure prediction, identification of interactive domains, and docking with Ca2+ ions of S. litura-inducible GmCMLs, indicated their identity as calcium sensors. This study on the characterization of GmCMLs provided insights into their roles in calcium signaling and plant defense during herbivory.
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