Journal article
MEKK1 Is Required for flg22-Induced MPK4 Activation in Arabidopsis Plants
Plant physiology (Bethesda), Vol.143(2), pp.661-669
02/06/2007
DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.091389
PMCID: PMC1803745
PMID: 17142480
Abstract
Abstract The Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) gene MEKK1 encodes a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase that has been implicated in the activation of the map kinases MPK3 and MPK6 in response to the flagellin elicitor peptide flg22. In this study, analysis of plants carrying T-DNA knockout alleles indicated that MEKK1 is required for flg22-induced activation of MPK4 but not MPK3 or MPK6. Experiments performed using a kinase-impaired version of MEKK1 (K361M) showed that the kinase activity of MEKK1 may not be required for flg22-induced MPK4 activation or for other macroscopic FLS2-mediated responses. MEKK1 may play a structural role in signaling, independent of its protein kinase activity. mekk1 knockout mutants display a severe dwarf phenotype, constitutive callose deposition, and constitutive expression of pathogen response genes. This dwarf phenotype was largely rescued by introduction into mekk1 knockout plants of either the MEKK1 (K361M) construct or a nahG transgene that degrades salicylic acid. When treated with pathogenic bacteria, the K361M plants were slightly more susceptible to an avirulent strain of Pseudomonas syringae and showed a delayed hypersensitive response, suggesting a role for MEKK1 kinase activity in this aspect of plant disease resistance. Our results indicate that MEKK1 acts upstream of MPK4 as a negative regulator of pathogen response pathways, a function that may not require MEKK1's full kinase activity.
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- Title: Subtitle
- MEKK1 Is Required for flg22-Induced MPK4 Activation in Arabidopsis Plants
- Creators
- Maria Cristina Suarez-Rodriguez - Department of Horticulture and Genome Center of Wisconsin (M.C.S.-R., S.-H.S., P.J.J., P.J.K.) and Department of Plant Pathology (L.A.-P., A.F.B.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (Y.L., H.W., S.Z.)Lori Adams-Phillips - Department of Horticulture and Genome Center of Wisconsin (M.C.S.-R., S.-H.S., P.J.J., P.J.K.) and Department of Plant Pathology (L.A.-P., A.F.B.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (Y.L., H.W., S.Z.)Yidong Liu - Department of Horticulture and Genome Center of Wisconsin (M.C.S.-R., S.-H.S., P.J.J., P.J.K.) and Department of Plant Pathology (L.A.-P., A.F.B.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (Y.L., H.W., S.Z.)Huachun Wang - Department of Horticulture and Genome Center of Wisconsin (M.C.S.-R., S.-H.S., P.J.J., P.J.K.) and Department of Plant Pathology (L.A.-P., A.F.B.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (Y.L., H.W., S.Z.)Shih-Heng Su - Department of Horticulture and Genome Center of Wisconsin (M.C.S.-R., S.-H.S., P.J.J., P.J.K.) and Department of Plant Pathology (L.A.-P., A.F.B.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (Y.L., H.W., S.Z.)Peter J Jester - Department of Horticulture and Genome Center of Wisconsin (M.C.S.-R., S.-H.S., P.J.J., P.J.K.) and Department of Plant Pathology (L.A.-P., A.F.B.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (Y.L., H.W., S.Z.)Shuqun Zhang - Department of Horticulture and Genome Center of Wisconsin (M.C.S.-R., S.-H.S., P.J.J., P.J.K.) and Department of Plant Pathology (L.A.-P., A.F.B.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (Y.L., H.W., S.Z.)Andrew F Bent - Department of Horticulture and Genome Center of Wisconsin (M.C.S.-R., S.-H.S., P.J.J., P.J.K.) and Department of Plant Pathology (L.A.-P., A.F.B.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (Y.L., H.W., S.Z.)Patrick J Krysan - Department of Horticulture and Genome Center of Wisconsin (M.C.S.-R., S.-H.S., P.J.J., P.J.K.) and Department of Plant Pathology (L.A.-P., A.F.B.), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (Y.L., H.W., S.Z.)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Plant physiology (Bethesda), Vol.143(2), pp.661-669
- DOI
- 10.1104/pp.106.091389
- PMID
- 17142480
- PMCID
- PMC1803745
- ISSN
- 1532-2548
- eISSN
- 1532-2548
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/06/2007
- Academic Unit
- Biology
- Record Identifier
- 9984217421802771
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