In search of Arabidopsis nuclear export receptor HIT2/XPO1A specific substrates that are essential for heat tolerance in plants / 阿拉伯芥中藉由核運輸接受器HIT2/XPO1A進行核質間運輸以促使植物耐受高溫逆境之專一分子的探索研究

碩士 / 國立中央大學 / 生命科學系 / 101 / The greenhouse effect has lead to serious global warming, and high temperature is a major limiting factor to plant growth and development.We have used a forward genetics approach to screen for heat-intolerant mutants of Arabidposis after ethyl-methane sulfonate (EMS)-mutagensis. hit2 was therefore isolated on the basis of its impaired ability to withstand moderate heat stress (37℃). The hit2mutant harbored a nonsense mutation of ArabidopsisEXPORTIN1A (XPO1A) gene, which encodes a nuclear export receptor that mediates translocation of NES containing proteins across nuclear envelope.Treatments under different heat stress regimes and tests with ROS-detecting dyes further revealed that hit2 was defective in basal but not in acquired thermotolerance due to the inability to protect plant against heat-induced oxidative stress. Arabidopsis contains two copies of XPO1 homologs, HIT2/XPO1A and XPO1B. Nevertheless, xpo1b knockout mutant was not sensitive to heat and oxidative stresses. The transcript levels of HIT2 and XPO1B in wilt type were similar regardless whether the plants were heat stressed or not. However, the transcript level of XPO1B in hit2 was higher than that in wilt type. Yeast two hybrid experiment and BiFC assay were then conducted and revealed that HIT2/XPO1A had a stronger affinity forNES-conraining heat stress transcription factors (HSFs) These resultscollectively indicated that, despite a possible compensatory mechanism between XPO1A and XPO1B, thenuclear-cytoplasmic balance of Arabidopsis HSFs is specifically mediated by HIT2/XPO1A, which is potentially necessary for heat tolerance in plants.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101NCU05105060
Date January 2013
CreatorsKai-yu Chang, 張凱郁
ContributorsShaw-jye Wu, 吳少傑
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format75

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