title: [ATHK1 gene regulates signal transduction of osmotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana].
abstract: Differences in physiology and gene expression between ATHK1 knock-out mutant caused by T-DNA insertion and wild type (WT) of WS accession of Arabidopsis thaliana were analysed. Water loss ratio of detached leaf of ATHK1-mutant was obviously higher than that of WT. After being treated with 30% PEG-6000, ion leakage ratio of cell membrane in wild type leaves was 50% higher than that before PEG treatment, while in mutant leaves it increased 80%. The wilted phenotype of ATHK1-mutant after PEG treatment for 48 h was higher than that of WT. All these results showed that ATHK1-mutant was more sensitive to osmotic stress compared to WT and ATHK1 involved in osmotic stress adaptation. Differential-Display Reverse Transcription-PCR (DDRT-PCR) analysis was carried out to investigate the difference of gene expression between ATHK1-mutant and WT. Nine differential cDNA fragments involved in stress adaptation were identified, including the MAPKKK18 and serine/threonine protein kinase genes. These fragments were up-regulated by PEG treatment in WT, but not in ATHK1-mutant. These results indicate that ATHK1 plays an important role up-stream from MAPK in the osmotic stress signal transduction pathway. ATHK1 may be working as a plant osmosensor.
authors.affiliation: College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
authors.forename: Gang-Ping
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Zhong-Yi
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Mao-Sheng
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ming-Qing
authors.initials: MQ
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Georges
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pelletier
authors.forename: Cong-Lin
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D027682:Cation Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D002463:Cell Membrane Permeability; D009997:Osmotic Pressure; D011092:Polyethylene Glycols / Q000494:pharmacology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D027981:Symporters / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D027682:Cation Transport Proteins; C490286:HKT1 protein, Arabidopsis; D027981:Symporters; D011092:Polyethylene Glycols