title: Different dehydrins perform separate functions in Physcomitrella patens.
abstract: Dehydrins, PpDHNA and PpDHNB from Physcomitrella patens provide drought and cold tolerance while PpDHNC shows antimicrobial property suggesting different dehydrins perform separate functions in P. patens. The moss Physcomitrella patens can withstand extremes of environmental condition including abiotic stress such as dehydration, salinity, low temperature and biotic stress such as pathogen attack. Osmotic stress is inflicted under both cold and drought stress conditions where dehydrins have been found to play a significant protective role. In this study, a comparative analysis was drawn for the three dehydrins PpDHNA, PpDHNB and PpDHNC from P. patens. Our data shows that PpDHNA and PpDHNB play a major role in cellular protection during osmotic stress. PpDHNB showed several fold upregulation of the gene when P. patens was subjected to cold and osmotic stress in combination. PpDHNA and PpDHNB provide protection to enzyme lactate dehydrogenase under osmotic as well as freezing conditions. PpDHNC possesses antibacterial activity and thus may have a role in biotic stress response. Overexpression of PpDHNA, PpDHNB and PpDHNC in transgenic tobacco showed a better performance for PpDHNB with respect to cold and osmotic stress. These results suggest that specific dehydrins contribute to tolerance of mosses under different stress conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Centre of Advanced Study, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, 700019, India.
authors.forename: Tanushree
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Centre of Advanced Study, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, 700019, India.
authors.forename: Gouranga
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Upadhyaya
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Centre of Advanced Study, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, 700019, India.
authors.forename: Tanmoy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Halder
authors.affiliation: Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, P1/12 CIT Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
authors.forename: Abhishek
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.affiliation: Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, P1/12 CIT Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India.
authors.forename: Arun Lahiri
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Majumder
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Centre of Advanced Study, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, 700019, India. srbot@caluniv.ac.in.
authors.forename: Sudipta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ray
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000648:ultrastructure; D001483:Base Sequence; D019068:Bryopsida / Q000378:metabolism*; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D015151:Immunoblotting; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D009995:Osmosis; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000235:genetics; D014170:Transformation, Genetic
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D010940:Plant Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; C070556:dehydrin proteins, plant; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase
keywords: Antimicrobial property; Cold stress; Dehydrin; Desiccation stress; Overexpression; Physcomitrella patens