Suharsono Utut, Fujisawa Yukiko, Kawasaki Tsutomu, Iwasaki Yukimoto, Satoh Hikaru, Shimamoto Ko
Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma 630-0101, Japan.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Oct 1;99(20):13307-12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192244099. Epub 2002 Sep 17.
We used rice dwarf1 (d1) mutants lacking a single-copy Galpha gene and addressed Galpha's role in disease resistance. d1 mutants exhibited a highly reduced hypersensitive response to infection by an avirulent race of rice blast. Activation of PR gene expression in the leaves of the mutants infected with rice blast was delayed for 24 h relative to the wild type. H(2)O(2) production and PR gene expression induced by sphingolipid elicitors (SE) were strongly suppressed in d1 cell cultures. Expression of the constitutively active OsRac1, a small GTPase Rac of rice, in d1 mutants restored SE-dependent defense signaling and resistance to rice blast. Galpha mRNA was induced by an avirulent race of rice blast and SE application on the leaf. These results indicated the role of Galpha in R gene-mediated disease resistance of rice. We have proposed a model for the defense signaling of rice in which the heterotrimeric G protein functions upstream of the small GTPase OsRac1 in the early steps of signaling.
我们使用了缺失单拷贝Gα基因的水稻矮化1(d1)突变体,并研究了Gα在抗病性中的作用。d1突变体对无毒稻瘟病菌株感染的过敏反应显著降低。相对于野生型,感染稻瘟病的突变体叶片中PR基因表达的激活延迟了24小时。在d1细胞培养物中,鞘脂激发子(SE)诱导的H₂O₂产生和PR基因表达受到强烈抑制。组成型活性水稻小GTP酶Rac(OsRac1)在d1突变体中的表达恢复了SE依赖性防御信号传导和对稻瘟病的抗性。无毒稻瘟病菌株和在叶片上施用SE可诱导Gα mRNA表达。这些结果表明了Gα在水稻R基因介导的抗病性中的作用。我们提出了一个水稻防御信号传导模型,其中异源三聚体G蛋白在信号传导的早期步骤中在小GTP酶OsRac1上游起作用。