title: CsWRKY46, a WRKY transcription factor from cucumber, confers cold resistance in transgenic-plant by regulating a set of cold-stress responsive genes in an ABA-dependent manner.
abstract: Plant WRKY transcription factors are trans-regulatory proteins that are involved in plant immune responses, development and senescence; however, their roles in abiotic stress are still not well understood, especially in the horticultural crop cucumber. In this study, a novel cucumber WRKY gene, CsWRKY46 was cloned and identified, which was up-regulated in response to cold stress and exogenous abscisic acid (ABA) treatment. CsWRKY46 is belonging to group II of the WRKY family, CsWRKY46 was found exclusively in the nucleus, as indicated by a transient expression assay. Yeast one-hybrid assay shown that CsWRKY46 interact with the W-box in the promoter of ABI5. Transgenic Arabidopsis lines over-expressing CsWRKY46, WRK46-OE1 and WRK46-OE5 had higher seedling survival rates upon freezing treatment compared with that of the wild-type. The above over-expression lines also showed much a higher proline accumulation, less electrolyte leakage and lower malondialdehyde (MDA) levels. Furthermore, the CsWRKY46 overexpression lines were hypersensitive to ABA during seed germination, but the seedlings were not. Quantitative RT-PCR analyses revealed that the expression levels of the ABA-responsive transcription factor ABI5 were higher in the WRKY46-OE lines than in wild-type and that the overexpression of CsWRKY46 increased the expression of stress-inducible genes, including RD29A and COR47. Taken together, our results demonstrated that CsWRKY46 from cucumber conferred cold tolerance to transgenic plants and positively regulated the cold signaling pathway in an ABA-dependent manner.
authors: Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Genetic Improvement (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (IVF), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China; College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, 253 Huanghe North Street, Huanggu District, Shenyang, Liaoning 110034, China.
authors: Ying
authors: Y
authors: Zhang
authors: Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Genetic Improvement (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (IVF), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
authors: Hongjun
authors: H
authors: Yu
authors: Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Genetic Improvement (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (IVF), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
authors: Xueyong
authors: X
authors: Yang
authors: Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Genetic Improvement (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (IVF), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
authors: Qiang
authors: Q
authors: Li
authors: Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Genetic Improvement (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (IVF), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
authors: Jian
authors: J
authors: Ling
authors: Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Genetic Improvement (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (IVF), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
authors: Hong
authors: H
authors: Wang
authors: Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Genetic Improvement (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (IVF), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
authors: Xingfang
authors: X
authors: Gu
authors: Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Genetic Improvement (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (IVF), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
authors: Sanwen
authors: S
authors: Huang
authors: Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Genetic Improvement (Ministry of Agriculture), Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (IVF), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China; Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, Xinjiang, China. Electronic address: jiangweijie@caas.cn.
authors: Weijie
authors: W
authors: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000040:Abscisic Acid / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D050976:Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002467:Cell Nucleus; D058639:Cold-Shock Response / Q000235:genetics; D018553:Cucumis sativus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D005615:Freezing; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D018525:Germination / Q000187:drug effects; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: C409743:ABI5 protein, Arabidopsis; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D050976:Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors; D010940:Plant Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; D000040:Abscisic Acid
keywords: Abiotic stress; Abscisic acid; Cucumber; Transcription factor; Transgenic plants