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CaZF, a plant transcription factor functions through and parallel to HOG and calcineurin pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to provide osmotolerance

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Title CaZF, a plant transcription factor functions through and parallel to HOG and calcineurin pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to provide osmotolerance
 
Creator Jain, Deepti
Roy, Nilanjan
Chattopadhyay, Debasis
 
Subject CaZF
Calcineurin Pathways
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Osmotolerance
Transcription Factor
zinc finger protein
 
Description Salt-sensitive yeast mutants were deployed to characterize a gene encoding a C2H2 zinc finger protein (CaZF) that is differentially expressed in a drought-tolerant variety of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and provides salinity-tolerance in transgenic tobacco. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae most of the cellular responses to hyper-osmotic stress is regulated by two interconnected pathways involving high osmolarity glycerol mitogen-activated protein kinase (Hog1p) and Calcineurin (CAN), a Ca(2+)/calmodulin-regulated protein phosphatase 2B. In this study, we report that heterologous expression of CaZF provides osmotolerance in S. cerevisiae through Hog1p and Calcineurin dependent as well as independent pathways. CaZF partially suppresses salt-hypersensitive phenotypes of hog1, can and hog1can mutants and in conjunction, stimulates HOG and CAN pathway genes with subsequent accumulation of glycerol in absence of Hog1p and CAN. CaZF directly binds to stress response element (STRE) to activate STRE-containing promoter in yeast. Transactivation and salt tolerance assays of CaZF deletion mutants showed that other than the transactivation domain a C-terminal domain composed of acidic and basic amino acids is also required for its function. Altogether, results from this study suggests that CaZF is a potential plant salt-tolerance determinant and also provide evidence that in budding yeast expression of HOG and CAN pathway genes can be stimulated in absence of their regulatory enzymes to provide osmotolerance.
The project was funded by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), INDIA and a seed grant from National Institute for Plant Genome Research. DJ acknowledges CSIR for research fellowship.
 
Date 2013-11-21T10:20:06Z
2013-11-21T10:20:06Z
2009
13 March 2009
 
Type Article
 
Identifier PLoS One, 4(4): e5154
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/114
 
Language en
 
Publisher PLOS