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Title: COST1 regulates autophagy to control plant drought tolerance

Abstract

Plants balance their competing requirements for growth and stress tolerance via a sophisticated regulatory circuitry that controls responses to the external environments. We have identified a plant-specific gene, COST1 (constitutively stressed 1), that is required for normal plant growth but negatively regulates drought resistance by influencing the autophagy pathway. An Arabidopsis thaliana cost1 mutant has decreased growth and increased drought tolerance, together with constitutive autophagy and increased expression of drought-response genes, while overexpression of COST1 confers drought hypersensitivity and reduced autophagy. The COST1 protein is degraded upon plant dehydration, and this degradation is reduced upon treatment with inhibitors of the 26S proteasome or autophagy pathways. The drought resistance of a cost1 mutant is dependent on an active autophagy pathway, but independent of other known drought signaling pathways, indicating that COST1 acts through regulation of autophagy. In addition, COST1 colocalizes to autophagosomes with the autophagosome marker ATG8e and the autophagy adaptor NBR1, and affects the level of ATG8e protein through physical interaction with ATG8e, indicating a pivotal role in direct regulation of autophagy. We propose a model in which COST1 represses autophagy under optimal conditions, thus allowing plant growth. Under drought, COST1 is degraded, enabling activation of autophagy and suppression ofmore » growth to enhance drought tolerance. Our research places COST1 as an important regulator controlling the balance between growth and stress responses via the direct regulation of autophagy.« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [5]; ORCiD logo [3];  [2];  [6]
  1. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States); Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (China); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (China); Ludong Univ., Yantai (China)
  3. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (China)
  5. Ludong Univ., Yantai (China)
  6. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1637442
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0018409
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 117; Journal Issue: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
National Academy of Sciences
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; autophagy; drought; Arabidopsis; COST1

Citation Formats

Bao, Yan, Song, Wei-Meng, Wang, Peipei, Yu, Xiang, Li, Bei, Jiang, Chunmei, Shiu, Shin-Han, Zhang, Hongxia, and Bassham, Diane C. COST1 regulates autophagy to control plant drought tolerance. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1918539117.
Bao, Yan, Song, Wei-Meng, Wang, Peipei, Yu, Xiang, Li, Bei, Jiang, Chunmei, Shiu, Shin-Han, Zhang, Hongxia, & Bassham, Diane C. COST1 regulates autophagy to control plant drought tolerance. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918539117
Bao, Yan, Song, Wei-Meng, Wang, Peipei, Yu, Xiang, Li, Bei, Jiang, Chunmei, Shiu, Shin-Han, Zhang, Hongxia, and Bassham, Diane C. Fri . "COST1 regulates autophagy to control plant drought tolerance". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918539117. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1637442.
@article{osti_1637442,
title = {COST1 regulates autophagy to control plant drought tolerance},
author = {Bao, Yan and Song, Wei-Meng and Wang, Peipei and Yu, Xiang and Li, Bei and Jiang, Chunmei and Shiu, Shin-Han and Zhang, Hongxia and Bassham, Diane C.},
abstractNote = {Plants balance their competing requirements for growth and stress tolerance via a sophisticated regulatory circuitry that controls responses to the external environments. We have identified a plant-specific gene, COST1 (constitutively stressed 1), that is required for normal plant growth but negatively regulates drought resistance by influencing the autophagy pathway. An Arabidopsis thaliana cost1 mutant has decreased growth and increased drought tolerance, together with constitutive autophagy and increased expression of drought-response genes, while overexpression of COST1 confers drought hypersensitivity and reduced autophagy. The COST1 protein is degraded upon plant dehydration, and this degradation is reduced upon treatment with inhibitors of the 26S proteasome or autophagy pathways. The drought resistance of a cost1 mutant is dependent on an active autophagy pathway, but independent of other known drought signaling pathways, indicating that COST1 acts through regulation of autophagy. In addition, COST1 colocalizes to autophagosomes with the autophagosome marker ATG8e and the autophagy adaptor NBR1, and affects the level of ATG8e protein through physical interaction with ATG8e, indicating a pivotal role in direct regulation of autophagy. We propose a model in which COST1 represses autophagy under optimal conditions, thus allowing plant growth. Under drought, COST1 is degraded, enabling activation of autophagy and suppression of growth to enhance drought tolerance. Our research places COST1 as an important regulator controlling the balance between growth and stress responses via the direct regulation of autophagy.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1918539117},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 13,
volume = 117,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {3}
}

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