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ArticlePlant molecular biology2009

The tomato brassinosteroid receptor BRI1 increases binding of systemin to tobacco plasma membranes, but is not involved in systemin signaling.

Robert Malinowski, Rebecca Higgins, Yuan Luo, Laverne Piper, Azka Nazir, Vikramjit S Bajwa, Steven D Clouse, Paul R Thompson, Johannes W Stratmann

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Robert MalinowskiDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Rebecca Higgins
Yuan Luo
Laverne Piper
Azka Nazir
Vikramjit S Bajwa
Steven D Clouse
Paul R Thompson
Johannes W Stratmann
University of South Carolina · USNorth Carolina State University · USSouthwestern Medical Center

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Abstract

The tomato wound signal systemin is perceived by a specific high-affinity, saturable, and reversible cell surface receptor. This receptor was identified as the receptor-like kinase SR160, which turned out to be identical to the brassinosteroid receptor BRI1. Recently, it has been shown that the tomato bri1 null mutant cu3 is as sensitive to systemin as wild type plants. Here we explored these contradictory findings by studying the responses of tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum) to systemin. A fluorescently-labeled systemin analog bound specifically to plasma membranes of tobacco suspension-cultured cells that expressed the tomato BRI1-FLAG transgene, but not to wild type tobacco cells. On the other hand, signaling responses to systemin, such as activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases and medium alkalinization, were neither increased in BRI1-FLAG-overexpressing tobacco cells nor decreased in BRI1-silenced cells as compared to levels in untransformed control cells. Furthermore, in transgenic tobacco plants BRI1-FLAG became phosphorylated on threonine residues in response to brassinolide application, but not in response to systemin. When BRI1 transcript levels were reduced by virus-induced gene silencing in tomato plants, the silenced plants displayed a phenotype characteristic of bri1 mutants. However, their response to overexpression of the Prosystemin transgene was the same as in control plants. Taken together, our data suggest that BRI1 can function as a systemin binding protein, but that binding of the ligand does not transduce the signal into the cell. This unusual behavior and the nature of the elusive systemin receptor will be discussed.

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Signal TransductionAmino Acid SequenceBrassinosteroidsCell MembraneCells, CulturedCholestanolsFluorescent DyesGene SilencingImmunoblottingImmunoprecipitationMicroscopy, FluorescenceMolecular Sequence DataNicotianaPeptidesPhosphorylationPlant ProteinsbrassinolideBrassinosteroidsCholestanolsFluorescent DyesPeptidesPlant ProteinsProtein KinasesSteroids, HeterocyclicsysteminThreonine

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