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Title: In Brachypodium a complex signaling is actuated to protect cells from proteotoxic stress and facilitate seed filling

Abstract

A conserved UPR machinery is necessary for Brachypodium ER stress resistance and grain filling. Human and livestock diets depend on the accumulation of cereal storage proteins and carbohydrates, including mixed-linkage glucan (MLG), in the endosperm during seed development. Storage proteins and proteins responsible for the production of carbohydrates are synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Unfavorable conditions during growth that hamper the ER biosynthetic capacity, such as heat, can cause a potentially lethal condition known as ER stress, which activates the unfolded protein response (UPR), a signaling response designed to mitigate ER stress. The UPR relies primarily on a conserved ER-associated kinase and ribonuclease, IRE1, which splices the mRNA of a transcription factor (TF), such as bZIP60 in plants, to produce an active TF that controls the expression of ER resident chaperones. Here, we investigated activation of the UPR in Brachypodium, as a model to study the UPR in seeds of a monocotyledon species, as well as the consequences of heat stress on MLG deposition in seeds. We identified a Brachypodium bZIP60 orthologue and determined a positive correlation between bZIP60 splicing and ER stress induced by chemicals and heat. Each stress condition led to transcriptional modulation of several BiP genes,more » supporting the existence of condition-specific BiP regulation. Finally, we found that the UPR is elevated at the early stage of seed development and that MLG production is negatively affected by heat stress via modulation of MLG synthase accumulation. We present that successful accomplishment of seed filling is strongly correlated with the ability of the plant to sustain ER stress via the UPR.« less

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  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
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Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division; National Institutes of Health (NHI)
OSTI Identifier:
1596268
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-91ER20021; FC02-07ER64494; GM101038
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Planta
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 246; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0032-0935
Publisher:
Springer
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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Kim, Sang-Jin, Zemelis-Durfee, Starla, Wilkerson, Curtis, and Brandizzi, Federica. In Brachypodium a complex signaling is actuated to protect cells from proteotoxic stress and facilitate seed filling. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1007/s00425-017-2687-7.
Kim, Sang-Jin, Zemelis-Durfee, Starla, Wilkerson, Curtis, & Brandizzi, Federica. In Brachypodium a complex signaling is actuated to protect cells from proteotoxic stress and facilitate seed filling. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-017-2687-7
Kim, Sang-Jin, Zemelis-Durfee, Starla, Wilkerson, Curtis, and Brandizzi, Federica. Fri . "In Brachypodium a complex signaling is actuated to protect cells from proteotoxic stress and facilitate seed filling". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-017-2687-7. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1596268.
@article{osti_1596268,
title = {In Brachypodium a complex signaling is actuated to protect cells from proteotoxic stress and facilitate seed filling},
author = {Kim, Sang-Jin and Zemelis-Durfee, Starla and Wilkerson, Curtis and Brandizzi, Federica},
abstractNote = {A conserved UPR machinery is necessary for Brachypodium ER stress resistance and grain filling. Human and livestock diets depend on the accumulation of cereal storage proteins and carbohydrates, including mixed-linkage glucan (MLG), in the endosperm during seed development. Storage proteins and proteins responsible for the production of carbohydrates are synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Unfavorable conditions during growth that hamper the ER biosynthetic capacity, such as heat, can cause a potentially lethal condition known as ER stress, which activates the unfolded protein response (UPR), a signaling response designed to mitigate ER stress. The UPR relies primarily on a conserved ER-associated kinase and ribonuclease, IRE1, which splices the mRNA of a transcription factor (TF), such as bZIP60 in plants, to produce an active TF that controls the expression of ER resident chaperones. Here, we investigated activation of the UPR in Brachypodium, as a model to study the UPR in seeds of a monocotyledon species, as well as the consequences of heat stress on MLG deposition in seeds. We identified a Brachypodium bZIP60 orthologue and determined a positive correlation between bZIP60 splicing and ER stress induced by chemicals and heat. Each stress condition led to transcriptional modulation of several BiP genes, supporting the existence of condition-specific BiP regulation. Finally, we found that the UPR is elevated at the early stage of seed development and that MLG production is negatively affected by heat stress via modulation of MLG synthase accumulation. We present that successful accomplishment of seed filling is strongly correlated with the ability of the plant to sustain ER stress via the UPR.},
doi = {10.1007/s00425-017-2687-7},
journal = {Planta},
number = 1,
volume = 246,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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