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ArticlePlant physiology2010

Disruption of the vacuolar calcium-ATPases in Arabidopsis results in the activation of a salicylic acid-dependent programmed cell death pathway.

Yann Boursiac, Sang Min Lee, Shawn Romanowsky, Robert Blank, Chris Sladek, Woo Sik Chung, Jeffrey F Harper

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Article in Plant physiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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67citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 144 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yann BoursiacBiochemistry Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA.
Sang Min Lee
Shawn Romanowsky
Robert Blank
Chris Sladek
Woo Sik Chung
Jeffrey F Harper
University of Nevada, Reno · USUnited States Department of Agriculture · US

Funding

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND TRAININGP20RR016464 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO · PI REIBER, CARL · 2001 to 2011
$30.3M
Ca2+-Pumps in Plants: Pollen Growth and FertilizationR01GM070813 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO · PI HARPER, JEFFREY F · 2004 to 2008
$951k
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR-016464NIDCR NIH HHS DE-FG03-94ER20152NIGMS NIH HHS 1R01 GM070813-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Calcium (Ca(2+)) signals regulate many aspects of plant development, including a programmed cell death pathway that protects plants from pathogens (hypersensitive response). Cytosolic Ca(2+) signals result from a combined action of Ca(2+) influx through channels and Ca(2+) efflux through pumps and cotransporters. Plants utilize calmodulin-activated Ca(2+) pumps (autoinhibited Ca(2+)-ATPase [ACA]) at the plasma membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, and vacuole. Here, we show that a double knockout mutation of the vacuolar Ca(2+) pumps ACA4 and ACA11 in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) results in a high frequency of hypersensitive response-like lesions. The appearance of macrolesions could be suppressed by growing plants with increased levels (greater than 15 mm) of various anions, providing a method for conditional suppression. By removing plants from a conditional suppression, lesion initials were found to originate primarily in leaf mesophyll cells, as detected by aniline blue staining. Initiation and spread of lesions could also be suppressed by disrupting the production or accumulation of salicylic acid (SA), as shown by combining aca4/11 mutations with a sid 2 (for salicylic acid induction-deficient2) mutation or expression of the SA degradation enzyme NahG. This indicates that the loss of the vacuolar Ca(2+) pumps by itself does not cause a catastrophic defect in ion homeostasis but rather potentiates the activation of a SA-dependent programmed cell death pathway. Together, these results provide evidence linking the activity of the vacuolar Ca(2+) pumps to the control of a SA-dependent programmed cell death pathway in plants.

Indexed as

ApoptosisArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsCalcium SignalingCalcium-Transporting ATPasesGene Expression Regulation, PlantGene Knockout TechniquesMutationPseudomonas syringaeSalicylic AcidVacuolesACA11 protein, ArabidopsisACA4 protein, ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsCalcium-Transporting ATPasesSalicylic Acid

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PMID20837703
PMCPMC2971596
OpenAlexW2106159974

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