title: Comparative proteomics of Thellungiella halophila leaves from plants subjected to salinity reveals the importance of chloroplastic starch and soluble sugars in halophyte salt tolerance.
abstract: Thellungiella halophila, a close relative of Arabidopsis, is a model halophyte used to study plant salt tolerance. The proteomic/physiological/transcriptomic analyses of Thellungiella plant leaves subjected to different salinity levels, reported herein, indicate an extraordinary ability of Thellungiella to adapt to large concentrations of exogenous saline by compartmentalizing Na(+) into cell vacuoles and accumulating proline and soluble sugars as organic osmolytes. Salinity stress stimulated the accumulation of starch in chloroplasts, which resulted in a greatly increased content of starch and total sugars in leaves. Comparative proteomics of Thellungiella leaves identified 209 salt-responsive proteins. Among these, the sequences of 108 proteins were strongly homologous to Arabidopsis protein sequences, and 30 had previously been identified as Thellungiella proteins. Functional classification of these proteins into 16 categories indicated that the majority are involved in carbohydrate metabolism, followed by those involved in energy production and conversion, and then those involved in the transport of inorganic ions. Pathway analysis revealed that most of the proteins are involved in starch and sucrose metabolism, carbon fixation, photosynthesis, and glycolysis. Of these processes, the most affected were starch and sucrose metabolism, which might be pivotal for salt tolerance. The gene expression patterns of the 209 salt-responsive proteins revealed through hierarchical clustering of microarray data and the expression patterns of 29 Thellungiella genes evaluated via quantitative RT-PCR were similar to those deduced via proteomic analysis, which underscored the possibility that starch and sucrose metabolism might play pivotal roles in determining the salt tolerance ability of Thellungiella. Our observations enabled us to propose a schematic representation of the systematic salt-tolerance phenotype in Thellungiella and suggested that the increased accumulation of starch, soluble sugars, and proline, as well as subcellular compartmentalization of sodium, might collectively denote important mechanisms for halophyte salt tolerance.
authors: Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources for Tropical Crops, Institute of Tropical Biosciences and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan 571101, China. xchwanghainanlab@163.com
authors: Xuchu
authors: X
authors: Wang
authors: Lili
authors: L
authors: Chang
authors: Baichen
authors: B
authors: Wang
authors: Dan
authors: D
authors: Wang
authors: Pinghua
authors: P
authors: Li
authors: Limin
authors: L
authors: Wang
authors: Xiaoping
authors: X
authors: Yi
authors: Qixing
authors: Q
authors: Huang
authors: Ming
authors: M
authors: Peng
authors: Anping
authors: A
authors: Guo
mesh_terms: D019607:Brassicaceae / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000378:metabolism; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / Q000187:drug effects; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D040901:Proteomics; D054712:Salinity; D055049:Salt Tolerance / Q000502:physiology*; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology; D013213:Starch / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D013213:Starch
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