Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/148005
Title: Inactivation of UDP-glucose sterol glucosyltransferases enhances Arabidopsis resistance to Botrytis cinerea
Author: Castillo, Nídia
Pastor, Victoria
Chávez, Ángel
Arró i Plans, Montserrat
Boronat i Margosa, Albert
Flors, Víctor
Ferrer i Prats, Albert
Altabella Artigas, Teresa
Keywords: Arabidopsis
Fongs patògens
Arabidopsis
Pathogenic fungi
Issue Date: 27-Sep-2019
Publisher: Frontiers Media
Abstract: Free and glycosylated sterols are both structural components of the plasma membrane that regulate their biophysical properties and consequently different plasma membrane-associated processes such as plant adaptation to stress or signaling. Several reports relate changes in glycosylated sterols levels with the plant response to abiotic stress, but the information about the role of these compounds in the response to biotic stress is scarce. In this work, we have studied the response to the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea in an Arabidopsis mutant that is severely impaired in steryl glycosides biosynthesis due to the inactivation of the two sterol glucosyltransferases (UGT80A2 and UGT80B1) reported in this plant. This mutant exhibits enhanced resistance against B. cinerea when compared to wild-type plants, which correlates with increased levels of jasmonic acid (JA) and up-regulation of two marker genes (PDF1.2 and PR4) of the ERF branch of the JA signaling pathway. Upon B. cinerea infection, the ugt80A2;B1 double mutant also accumulates higher levels of camalexin, the major Arabidopsis phytoalexin, than wild-type plants. Camalexin accumulation correlates with enhanced transcript levels of several cytochrome P450 camalexin biosynthetic genes, as well as of their transcriptional regulators WRKY33, ANAC042, and MYB51, suggesting that the Botrytis-induced accumulation of camalexin is coordinately regulated at the transcriptional level. After fungus infection, the expression of genes involved in the indole glucosinolate biosynthesis is also up-regulated at a higher degree in the ugt80A2;B1 mutant than in wild-type plants. Altogether, the results of this study show that glycosylated sterols play an important role in the regulation of Arabidopsis response to B. cinerea infection and suggest that this occurs through signaling pathways involving the canonical stress-hormone JA and the tryptophan-derived secondary metabolites camalexin and possibly also indole glucosinolates
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01162
It is part of: Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019, vol. 10, p. 1162
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/148005
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01162
ISSN: 1664-462X
Appears in Collections:Articles publicats en revistes (Biologia, Sanitat i Medi Ambient)

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
691793.pdf2.46 MBAdobe PDFView/Open


This item is licensed under a Creative Commons License Creative Commons