Drought stress has detrimental effects on plants.Although the abscisic acid(ABA)-mediated drought response is well established,defensive mechanisms to cope with dehydration-induced proteotoxicity have been rarely stud...Drought stress has detrimental effects on plants.Although the abscisic acid(ABA)-mediated drought response is well established,defensive mechanisms to cope with dehydration-induced proteotoxicity have been rarely studied.DRR1 was identified as an Arabidopsis drought-induced gene encoding an ER-localized RING-type E3 Ub ligase.Suppression of DRR1 markedly reduced tolerance to drought and proteotoxic stress without altering ABA-mediated germination and stomatal movement.Proteotoxicityand dehydration-induced insoluble ubiquitinated protein accumulation was more obvious in DRR1 loss-of-function plants than in wild-type plants.These results suggest that DRR1 is involved in an ABA-independent drought stress response possibly through the mitigation of dehydration-induced proteotoxic stress.展开更多
The mechanism regulating proteasomal activity under proteotoxic stress conditions remains unclear.Here,we showed that arsenite-induced proteotoxic stress resulted in upregulation of Arabidopsis homologous PUB22 and PU...The mechanism regulating proteasomal activity under proteotoxic stress conditions remains unclear.Here,we showed that arsenite-induced proteotoxic stress resulted in upregulation of Arabidopsis homologous PUB22 and PUB23 U-boxE3 ubiquitin ligases and that pub22 pub23 double mutants displayed arsenite-insensitive seed germination and root growth phenotypes.PUB22/PUB23 downregulated 26 S proteasome activity by promoting the dissociation of the 19 S regulatory particle from the holo-proteasome complex,resulting in intracellular accumulation of UbG76 VGFP,an artificial substrate of the proteasome complex,and insoluble poly-ubiquitinated proteins.These results suggest that PUB22/PUB23 play a critical role in arsenite-induced proteotoxic stress response via negative regulation of 26 S proteasome integrity.展开更多
基金supported by grants from the National Research Foundation(Mid-Career Researcher Program 2020R1A2B5B02001590 and Basic Science Research Program 2018R1A6A1A03025607,Republic of Korea)a Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation Scholarship。
文摘Drought stress has detrimental effects on plants.Although the abscisic acid(ABA)-mediated drought response is well established,defensive mechanisms to cope with dehydration-induced proteotoxicity have been rarely studied.DRR1 was identified as an Arabidopsis drought-induced gene encoding an ER-localized RING-type E3 Ub ligase.Suppression of DRR1 markedly reduced tolerance to drought and proteotoxic stress without altering ABA-mediated germination and stomatal movement.Proteotoxicityand dehydration-induced insoluble ubiquitinated protein accumulation was more obvious in DRR1 loss-of-function plants than in wild-type plants.These results suggest that DRR1 is involved in an ABA-independent drought stress response possibly through the mitigation of dehydration-induced proteotoxic stress.
基金supported by grants from the National Research Foundation(Mid-Career Researcher Program Project No.2017R1A2B2006750 and Basic Science Research Program Project No.2018R1A6A1A03025607),Republic of Korea,to Woo T.Kim。
文摘The mechanism regulating proteasomal activity under proteotoxic stress conditions remains unclear.Here,we showed that arsenite-induced proteotoxic stress resulted in upregulation of Arabidopsis homologous PUB22 and PUB23 U-boxE3 ubiquitin ligases and that pub22 pub23 double mutants displayed arsenite-insensitive seed germination and root growth phenotypes.PUB22/PUB23 downregulated 26 S proteasome activity by promoting the dissociation of the 19 S regulatory particle from the holo-proteasome complex,resulting in intracellular accumulation of UbG76 VGFP,an artificial substrate of the proteasome complex,and insoluble poly-ubiquitinated proteins.These results suggest that PUB22/PUB23 play a critical role in arsenite-induced proteotoxic stress response via negative regulation of 26 S proteasome integrity.