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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry

Multiple copies of a novel amphipathic α-helix forming segment in Physcomitrella patens dehydrin play a key role in abiotic stress mitigation.

Gouranga Upadhyaya, Arup Das, Chandradeep Basu, Tanushree Agarwal, Chandra Basak, Chandrima Chakraborty, Tanmoy Halder, Gautam Basu, Sudipta Ray

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Gouranga UpadhyayaPlant Functional Genomics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
Arup DasPlant Functional Genomics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
Chandradeep BasuDepartment of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.
Tanushree AgarwalPlant Functional Genomics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
Chandra BasakPlant Functional Genomics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
Chandrima ChakrabortyPlant Functional Genomics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
Tanmoy HalderPlant Functional Genomics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
Gautam BasuDepartment of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.
Sudipta RayPlant Functional Genomics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Electronic address: srbot@caluniv.ac.in.

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Abstract

Plants use a diverse set of proteins to mitigate various abiotic stresses. The intrinsically disordered protein dehydrin is an important member of this repertoire of proteins, characterized by a canonical amphipathic K-segment. It can also contain other stress-mitigating noncanonical segments-a likely reflection of the extremely diverse nature of abiotic stress encountered by plants. Among plants, the poikilohydric mosses have no inbuilt mechanism to prevent desiccation and therefore are likely to contain unique noncanonical stress-responsive motifs in their dehydrins. Here we report the recurring occurrence of a novel amphipathic helix-forming segment (D-segment: EGφφD(R/K)AKDAφ, where φ represents a hydrophobic residue) in Physcomitrella patens dehydrin (PpDHNA), a poikilohydric moss. NMR and CD spectroscopic experiments demonstrated the helix-forming tendency of the D-segment, with the shuffled D-segment as control. PpDHNA activity was shown to be size as well as D-segment dependent from in vitro, in vivo, and in planta studies using PpDHNA and various deletion mutants. Bimolecular fluorescence complementation studies showed that D-segment-mediated PpDHNA self-association is a requirement for stress abatement. The D-segment was also found to occur in two rehydrin proteins from Syntrichia ruralis, another poikilohydric plant like P. patens. Multiple occurrences of the D-segment in poikilohydric plant dehydrins/rehydrins, along with the experimental demonstration of the role of D-segment in stress abatement, implies that the D-segment mediates unique resurrection strategies, which may be employed by plant dehydrins that are capable of mitigating extreme stress.

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Stress, PhysiologicalBryopsidaPlant ProteinsProtein Conformation, alpha-Helicaldehydrin proteins, plantPlant Proteinsamphipathic α-helixcell survivabilitydehydrin–dehydrin interactionD-segmenthigh-temperature stressintrinsically disordered proteinnuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)poikilohydric plantprotein aggregationself-association

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PMID33781743
PMCPMC8100072

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