发布: 2018年12月05日第8卷第23期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3101 浏览次数: 5469
评审: Amey RedkarHua LiuPengxiang Fan
Abstract
Various environmental stresses or artificial reagents can trigger unfolded protein accumulation in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) due to the folding capacity of the ER being exceeded. This is termed ER stress, and triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR). Assays for activation of the UPR in plants include Tunicamycin (Tm)- or dithiothreitol (DTT)-mediated root growth inhibition, analysis of splicing of the UPR-responsive transcription factor bZIP60 (basic Leucine Zipper Domain 60), and upregulation of relevant UPR genes. We provide here a quick and robust method to detect UPR signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana protoplasts. This assay can also be applied to other plant species for which protoplasts can be isolated.
Keywords: Arabidopsis (拟南芥)Background
Substantial progress has been made over the last two decades in our understanding of the UPR in plants. In addition to its important role in stress responses (Howell, 2013; Bao et al., 2017; Bao and Howell, 2017), the UPR also participates in plant reproductive development, vegetative growth and root development (Deng et al., 2013; Deng et al., 2016; Kim et al., 2018). There are two arms to the UPR in plants that employ three transcription factors: bZIP60, which is activated by IRE1 (Inositol Requiring 1) -mediated splicing of its mRNA (Deng et al., 2011), and bZIP17 and bZIP28, which are activated by S1P- and S2P-mediated cleavage of their membrane-localized proteins (Liu et al., 2007; Srivastava et al., 2013). All three transcription factors induce expression of downstream genes, including molecular chaperones such as BIP3 that assist in protein folding.
Protoplasts can be easily isolated from various plant species, allowing transient expression in protoplasts of potential factors involved in UPR signaling, in place of the time-consuming generation of transgenic plants. In our recent paper on ER stress-regulated autophagy mediated by IRE1b, we successfully detected bZIP60 splicing and BIP3 expression in Arabidopsis protoplasts (Bao et al., 2018) as hallmarks of the UPR (Iwata and Koizumi, 2005; Iwata et al., 2008; Deng et al., 2011), and used this assay to determine the effect of expression of IRE1b mutants. Here, we describe this assay in detail; we believe the robustness and reproducibility of this assay will facilitate plant UPR research.
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Bao, Y. and Bassham, D. C. (2018). Using Arabidopsis Mesophyll Protoplasts to Study Unfolded Protein Response Signaling. Bio-protocol 8(23): e3101. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3101.
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植物科学 > 植物分子生物学 > 蛋白质
植物科学 > 植物细胞生物学 > 细胞分离
细胞生物学 > 细胞信号传导 > 胁迫反应
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