Arabidopsis thaliana plant defensin AtPDF1.1 is involved in the plant response to biotic stress

New Phytologist

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1075-1088

  De Coninck, Barbara M A ^a   Sels, Jan ^a   Venmans, Esther ^a   Thys, Wannes ^a   Goderis, Inge J W M ^a   Carron, Delphine ^a   Delauré, Stijn L ^a   Cammue, Bruno P A ^a   De Bolle, Miguel F C ^a   Mathys, Janick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; AtPDF1.1; AtPDF1.2a; Botrytis cinerea; Cercospora beticola; Defense response; Plant defensins

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DEFENSIN; PDF1.1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PDF1.2A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; DICOTYLEDON; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; PLANT DEFENSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT LEAF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DEFENSINS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; CERCOSPORA BETICOLA;

EID: 77955745045     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03326.x     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Aerts S, Van Loo P, Thijs G, Mayer H, de Martin R, Moreau Y, De Moor B. TOUCAN 2: the all-inclusive open source workbench for regulatory sequence analysis. Nucleic Acids Research 2005, 33:393-396.
2. Becher M, Talke IN, Krall L, Kramer U. Cross-species microarray transcript profiling reveals high constitutive expression of metal homeostasis genes in shoots of the zinc hyperaccumulator Arabidopsis halleri. Plant Journal 2004, 37:251-268.
3. Bharti K, Schmidt E, Lyck R, Heerklotz D, Bublak D, Scharf KD. Isolation and characterization of HsfA3, a new heat stress transcription factor of Lycopersicon peruvianum. Plant Journal 2000, 22:355-365.
4. Broekaert WF, Terras FR, Cammue BP, Vanderleyden J. An automated quantitative assay for fungal growth. FEMS Microbiology Letters 1990, 69:55-60.
5. Brouwer M, Lievens B, Van Hemelrijck W, Van den Ackerveken G, Cammue BP, Thomma BP. Quantification of disease progression of several microbial pathogens on Arabidopsis thaliana using real-time fluorescence PCR. FEMS Microbiology Letters 2003, 228:241-248.
6. Brown RL, Kazan K, McGrath KC, Maclean DJ, Manners JM. A role for the GCC-box in jasmonate-mediated activation of the PDF12 gene of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 2003, 132:1020-1032.
7. Butaye KM, Goderis IJ, Wouters PF, Pues JM, Delaure SL, Broekaert WF, Depicker A, Cammue BP, De Bolle MF. Stable high-level transgene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana using gene silencing mutants and matrix attachment regions. Plant Journal 2004, 39:440-449.
8. Chassot C, Nawrath C, Metraux JP. Cuticular defects lead to full immunity to a major plant pathogen. Plant Journal 2007, 49:972-980.
9. Chen W, Singh KB. The auxin, hydrogen peroxide and salicylic acid induced expression of the Arabidopsis GST6 promoter is mediated in part by an ocs element. Plant Journal 1999, 19:667-677.
10. Clough SJ, Bent AF. Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Journal 1998, 16:735-743.
11. Daub ME, Ehrenshaft M. The photoactivated Cercospora toxin cercosporin: contributions to plant disease and fundamental biology. Annual Reviews of Phytopathology 2000, 38:461-490.
12. Do HM, Lee SC, Jung HW, Sohn KH, Hwang BK. Differential expression and in situ localization of a pepper defensin (CADEF1) gene in response to pathogen infection, abiotic elicitors and environmental stresses in Capsicum anuum. Plant Science 2004, 166:1297-1305.
13. Elliott KA, Shirsat AH. Promoter regions of the extA extensin gene from Brassica napus control activation in response to wounding and tensile stress. Plant Molecular Biology 1998, 37:675-687.
14. Eulgem T. Regulation of the Arabidopsis defense transcriptome. Trends in Plant Science 2005, 10:71-78.
15. Eulgem T, Rushton PJ, Robatzek S, Somssich IE. The WRKY superfamily of plant transcription factors. Trends in Plant Science 2000, 5:199-206.
16. Eulgem T, Rushton PJ, Schmelzer E, Hahlbrock K, Somssich IE. Early nuclear events in plant defense signaling: rapid gene activation by WRKY transcription factors. EMBO Journal 1999, 18:4689-4699.
17. Ferrari S, Vairo D, Ausubel FM, Cervone F, De Lorenzo G. Tandemly duplicated Arabidopsis genes that encode polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins are regulated coordinately by different signal transduction pathways in response to fungal infection. Plant Cell 2003, 15:93-106.
18. Fordham-Skelton AP, Lilley C, Urwin P, Robinson NJ. GUS expression in Arabidopsis directed by 5′ regions of the pea metallothionein-like gene PsMTA1. Plant Molecular Biology 1997, 34:659-668.
19. Gao AG, Hakimi SM, Mittanck CA, Wu Y, Woerner BM, Stark DM, Shah DM, Liang J, Rommens CM. Fungal pathogen protection in potato by expression of a plant defensin peptide. Nature Biotechnology 2000, 18:1307-1310.
20. Goderis IJ, De Bolle MF, François IE, Wouters PF, Broekaert WF, Cammue BP. A set of modular plant transformation vectors allowing flexible insertion of up to six expression units. Plant Molecular Biology 2002, 50:17-27.
21. Goldsbrough AP, Albrecht H, Stratford R. Salicylic acid-inducible binding of a tobacco nuclear protein to a 10 bp sequence which is highly conserved amongst stress-inducible genes. Plant Journal 1993, 3:563-571.
22. Hagen G, Guilfoyle T. Auxin-responsive gene expression: genes, promoters and regulatory factors. Plant Molecular Biology 2002, 49:373-385.
23. Higo K, Ugawa Y, Iwamoto M, Korenaga T. Plant cis-acting regulatory DNA elements (PLACE) database: 1999. Nucleic Acids Research 1999, 27:297-300.
24. Hoeren FU, Dolferus R, Wu Y, Peacock WJ, Dennis ES. Evidence for a role for AtMYB2 in the induction of the Arabidopsis alcohol dehydrogenase gene (ADH1) by low oxygen. Genetics 1998, 149:479-490.
25. Jefferson RA, Kavanagh TA, Bevan MW. GUS fusions: beta-glucuronidase as a sensitive and versatile gene fusion marker in higher plants. EMBO Journal 1987, 6:3901-3907.
26. van Kan JA. Licensed to kill: the lifestyle of a necrotrophic plant pathogen. Trends in Plant Science 2006, 11:247-253.
27. Koike M, Okamoto T, Tsuda S, Imai R. A novel plant defensin-like gene of winter wheat is specifically induced during cold acclimation. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 2002, 298:46-53.
28. Kumar M, Busch W, Birke H, Kemmerling B, Nurnberger T, Schoffl F. Heat shock factors HsfB1 and HsfB2b are involved in the regulation of Pdf1.2 expression and pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant 2009, 2:152-165.
29. Lamari L. Assess for Windows: image analysis for disease quantification 2002, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, APS Press
30. Lay FT, Anderson MA. Defensins - components of the innate immune system in plants. Current Protein & Peptide Science 2005, 6:85-101.
31. Lescot M, Dehais P, Thijs G, Marchal K, Moreau Y, van de Peer Y, Rouze P, Rombauts S. PlantCARE, a database of plant cis-acting regulatory elements and a portal to tools for in silico analysis of promoter sequences. Nucleic Acids Research 2002, 30:325-327.
32. Livak KJ, Schmittgen TD. Analysis of relative gene expression data using real-time quantitative PCR and the 2(-Delta Delta C(T)) Method. Methods 2001, 25:402-408.
33. Llorente F, Muskett P, Sanchez-Vallet A, Lopez G, Ramos B, Sanchez-Rodriguez C, Jorda L, Parker L, Molina A. Repression of the auxin response pathway increases Arabidopsis susceptibility to necrotrophic fungi. Molecular Plant 2008, 1:496-509.
34. Loake GJ, Faktor O, Lamb CJ, Dixon RA. Combination of H-box [CCTACC(N)7CT] and G-box (CACGTG) cis elements is necessary for feed-forward stimulation of a chalcone synthase promoter by the phenylpropanoid-pathway intermediate p-coumaric acid. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 1992, 89:9230-9234.
35. Manners J, Penninckx IAMA, Vermaere K, Kazan K, Brown RL, Morgan A, Maclean DJ, Curtis MD, Cammue BPA, Broekaert WF. The promoter of the plant defensin gene PDF1.2 from Arabidopsis is systemically activated by fungal pathogens and responds to methyl jasmonate but not to salicylic acid. Plant Molecular Biology 1998, 38:1071-1180.
36. Mhiri C, Morel JB, Vernhettes S, Casacuberta JM, Lucas H, Grandbastien MA. The promoter of the tobacco Tnt1 retrotransposon is induced by wounding and by abiotic stress. Plant Molecular Biology 1997, 33:257-266.
37. Mirouze M, Sels J, Richard O, Czernic P, Loubet S, Jacquier A, Francois IE, Cammue BP, Lebrun M, Berthomieu P. A putative novel role for plant defensins: a defensin from the zinc hyper-accumulating plant, Arabidopsis halleri, confers zinc tolerance. Plant Journal 2006, 47:329-342.
38. Mysore KS, Ryu CM. Nonhost resistance: how much do we know? Trends in Plant Science 2004, 9:97-104.
39. Nakabayashi K, Okamoto M, Koshiba T, Kamiya Y, Nambara E. Genome-wide profiling of stored mRNA in Arabidopsis thaliana seed germination: epigenetic and genetic regulation of transcription in seed. Plant Journal 2005, 41:697-709.
40. Palaniswamy SK, James S, Sun H, Lamb RS, Davuluri RV, Grotewold E. AGRIS and AtRegNet. a platform to link cis-regulatory elements and transcription factors into regulatory networks. Plant Physiology 2007, 140:818-829.
41. Pelegrini PB, Franco OL. Plant γ-thionins: Novel insights on the mechanism of action of a multi-functional class of defense proteins. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology 2005, 37:2239-2253.
42. Penninckx IA, Eggermont K, Terras FR, Thomma BP, De Samblanx GW, Buchala A, Metraux JP, Manners JM, Broekaert WF. Pathogen-induced systemic activation of a plant defensin gene in Arabidopsis follows a salicylic acid-independent pathway. Plant Cell 1996, 8:2309-2323.
43. Penninckx IA, Thomma BP, Buchala A, Metraux JP, Broekaert WF. Concomitant activation of jasmonate and ethylene response pathways is required for induction of a plant defensin gene in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 1998, 10:2103-2113.
44. Ramakers C, Ruijter JM, Lekanne Deprez RH, Moorman AF. Assumption-free analysis of quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) data. Neuroscience Letters 2003, 339:62-66.
45. Rawat R, Xu ZF, Yao KM, Chye ML. Identification of cis-elements for ethylene and circadian regulation of the Solanum melongena gene encoding cysteine proteinase. Plant Molecular Biology 2005, 57:629-643.
46. Sels J, Delauré SJ, Aerts AM, Proost P, Cammue BP, De Bolle MF. Use of a PTGS-MAR expression system for efficient in planta production of bioactive Arabidopsis thaliana plant defensins. Transgenic Research 2007, 16:531-538.
47. Silverstein KA, Graham MA, Paape TD, VandenBosch KA. Genome organization of more than 300 defensin-like genes in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 2005, 138:600-610.
48. Silverstein KA, Moskal WA, Wu HC, Underwood BA, Town CD, VandenBosch KA. Small cysteine-rich peptides resembling antimicrobial peptides have been under-predicted in plants. Plant Journal 2007, 51:262-280.
49. Stotz HU, Spence B, Wang Y. A defensin from tomato with dual function in defense and development. Plant Molecular Biology 2009, 71:131-143.
50. Sugimoto K, Takeda S, Hirochika H. MYB-related transcription factor NtMYB2 induced by wounding and elicitors is a regulator of the tobacco retrotransposon Tto1 and defense-related genes. The Plant Cell 2000, 12:2511-2528.
51. Suzuki K, Nakanishi H, Nishizawa NK, Mori S. Analysis of upstream region of nicotianamine synthase gene from Arabidopsis thaliana: presence of putative ERE-like sequence. Bioscience Biotechnology Biochemistry 2001, 65:2794-2797.
52. Terras FR, Eggermont K, Kovaleva V, Raikhel NV, Osborn RW, Kester A, Rees SB, Vanderleyden J, Cammue BP, Broekaert WF. Small cysteine-rich antifungal proteins from radish: their role in host defense. Plant Cell 1995, 7:573-588.
53. Terras FR, Schoofs HM, De Bolle MFC, Van Leuven F, Rees SB, Vanderleyden J, Cammue BPA, Broekaert WF. Analysis of two novel classes of plant antifungal proteins from radish (Raphanus sativus L.) seeds. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 1992, 267:15301-15309.
54. Terras FR, Torrekens S, Van Leuven F, Osborn RW, Vanderleyden J, Cammue BP, Broekaert WF. A new family of basic cysteine-rich plant antifungal proteins from Brassicaceae species. FEBS Letters 1993, 316:233-240.
55. Thevissen K, Warnecke DC, Francois IE, Leipelt M, Heinz E, Ott C, Zahringer U, Thomma BP, Ferket KK, Cammue BP. Defensins from insects and plants interact with fungal glucosylceramides. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2004, 279:3900-3905.
56. Thijs G, Marchal K, Lescot M, Rombauts S, De Moor B, Rouze P, Moreau Y. A Gibbs sampling method to detect overrepresented motifs in the upstream regions of coexpressed genes. Journal of Computational Biology 2002, 9:447-464.
57. Van Hemelrijck W, Wouters PF, Brouwer M, Windelinckx A, Goderis IF, De Bolle MF, Thomma BP, Cammue BP, Delauré SL. The Arabidopsis defense response mutant esa1 as a model to discover novel resistance traits against Fusarium diseases. Plant Science 2006, 171:585-595.
58. Vanoosthuyse V, Miege C, Dumas C, Cock JM. Two large Arabidopsis thaliana gene families are homologous to the Brassica gene superfamily that encodes pollen coat proteins and the male component of the self-incompatibility response. Plant Molecular Biology 2001, 46:17-34.
59. Veronese P, Chen X, Bluhm B, Salmeron J, Dietrich R, Mengiste T. The BOS loci of Arabidopsis are required for resistance to Botrytis cinerea infection. Plant Journal 2004, 40:558-574.
60. Xu X, Chen C, Fan B, Chen Z. Physical and functional interactions between pathogen-induced Arabidopsis WRKY18, WRKY40, and WRKY60 transcription factors. Plant Cell 2007, 18:1310-1326.
61. Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K, Shinozaki K. Organization of cis-acting regulatory elements in osmotic- and cold-stress-responsive promoters. Trends in Plant Science 2005, 10:88-94.
62. Zhang W, Ruan J, Ho TH, You Y, Yu T, Quatrano RS. Cis-regulatory element based targeted gene finding: genome-wide identification of abscisic acid- and abiotic stress-responsive genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Bioinformatics 2005, 21:3074-3081.
63. Zimmerli L, Stein M, Lipka V, Schulze-Lefert P, Somerville S. Host and non-host pathogens elicit different jasmonate/ethylene responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 2004, 40:633-646.