WD40-REPEAT 5a functions in drought stress tolerance by regulating nitric oxide accumulation in Arabidopsis

Plant, Cell & Environment
Wen-Cheng LiuYing-Tang Lu

Abstract

Nitric oxide (NO) generation by NO synthase (NOS) in guard cells plays a vital role in stomatal closure for adaptive plant response to drought stress. However, the mechanism underlying the regulation of NOS activity in plants is unclear. Here, by screening yeast deletion mutants with decreased NO accumulation and NOS-like activity when subjected to H2 O2 stress, we identified TUP1 as a novel regulator of NOS-like activity in yeast. Arabidopsis WD40-REPEAT 5a (WDR5a), a homolog of yeast TUP1, complemented H2 O2 -induced NO accumulation of a yeast mutant Δtup1, suggesting the conserved role of WDR5a in regulating NO accumulation and NOS-like activity. This note was further confirmed by using an Arabidopsis RNAi line wdr5a-1 and two T-DNA insertion mutants of WDR5a with reduced WDR5a expression, in which both H2 O2 -induced NO accumulation and stomatal closure were repressed. This was because H2 O2 -induced NOS-like activity was inhibited in the mutants compared with that of the wild type. Furthermore, these wdr5a mutants were more sensitive to drought stress as they had reduced stomatal closure and decreased expression of drought-related genes. Together, our results revealed that WDR5a functions as a novel factor to modulate NOS-...Continue Reading

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Feb 27, 2017·Plant, Cell & Environment·Laura De Gara, Christine H Foyer
Jan 10, 2018·The Plant Journal : for Cell and Molecular Biology·Wen-Cheng LiuYing-Tang Lu
Jun 21, 2018·Scientific Reports·Muhammad ArshadAbdelali Hannoufa
Aug 6, 2019·Frontiers in Plant Science·Shubin WangGuangmin Xia
May 1, 2021·International Journal of Molecular Sciences·Lin-Feng WangWen-Cheng Liu

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