title: A potato gene encoding a WRKY-like transcription factor is induced in interactions with Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica and Phytophthora infestans and is coregulated with class I endochitinase expression.
abstract: A potato gene encoding a putative WRKY protein was isolated from a cDNA library enriched by suppression subtractive hybridization for sequences upregulated 1 h postinoculation with Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica. The cDNA encodes a putative polypeptide of 172 amino acids, containing a single WRKY domain with a zinc finger motif and preceded by a potential nuclear localization site. St-WRKY1 was strongly upregulated in compatible, but only weakly in incompatible, interactions with Phytophthora infestans where, in all cases, it was coregulated with class I endochitinase, associating its expression with a known defense response. Whereas St-WRKY1 was strongly induced by E. carotovora culture filtrate (CF), confirming it to be an elicitor-induced gene, no such induction was detected after treatment with salicylic acid, methyl jasmonate, ethylene, or wounding. St-WRKY1 was upregulated by treatment of potato leaves with CFs from recombinant Escherichia coli containing plasmids expressing E. carotovora pectate lyase genes pelB and pelD, suggesting that either proteins encoded by these genes, or oligogalacturonides generated by their activity, elicit a potato defense pathway associated with St-WRKY1.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Mycology, Bacteriology and Nematology, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dellagi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Helibronn
authors.forename: A O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Avrova
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Montesano
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Palva
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: I K
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: Toth
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Cooke
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Lyon
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Birch
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002473:Cell Wall / Q000378:metabolism; D002688:Chitinases / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D015723:Gene Library; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019913:Nuclear Localization Signals; D016973:Pectobacterium carotovorum / Q000502:physiology*; D010838:Phytophthora / Q000502:physiology*; D010940:Plant Proteins; D011133:Polysaccharide-Lyases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D015398:Signal Transduction; D011198:Solanum tuberosum / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D015854:Up-Regulation; D016335:Zinc Fingers
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D019913:Nuclear Localization Signals; D010940:Plant Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; D002688:Chitinases; D011133:Polysaccharide-Lyases; C023911:pectate lyase