title: Transcriptome-wide analysis of WRKY transcription factors in wheat and their leaf rust responsive expression profiling.
abstract: WRKY, a plant-specific transcription factor family, has important roles in pathogen defense, abiotic cues and phytohormone signaling, yet little is known about their roles and molecular mechanism of function in response to rust diseases in wheat. We identified 100 TaWRKY sequences using wheat Expressed Sequence Tag database of which 22 WRKY sequences were novel. Identified proteins were characterized based on their zinc finger motifs and phylogenetic analysis clustered them into six clades consisting of class IIc and class III WRKY proteins. Functional annotation revealed major functions in metabolic and cellular processes in control plants; whereas response to stimuli, signaling and defense in pathogen inoculated plants, their major molecular function being binding to DNA. Tag-based expression analysis of the identified genes revealed differential expression between mock and Puccinia triticina inoculated wheat near isogenic lines. Gene expression was also performed with six rust-related microarray experiments at Gene Expression Omnibus database. TaWRKY10, 15, 17 and 56 were common in both tag-based and microarray-based differential expression analysis and could be representing rust specific WRKY genes. The obtained results will bestow insight into the functional characterization of WRKY transcription factors responsive to leaf rust pathogenesis that can be used as candidate genes in molecular breeding programs to improve biotic stress tolerance in wheat.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bio-Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, 835215, India.
authors.forename: Lopamudra
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Satapathy
authors.forename: Dharmendra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Prashant
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ranjan
authors.forename: Dhananjay
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Manish
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Kumble Vinod
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Prabhu
authors.forename: Kunal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mukhopadhyay
mesh_terms: D032461:Chromosomes, Plant; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D010802:Phylogeny; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014908:Triticum / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors
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