Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba Promotes Defense and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana After Pseudomonas syringae Infection
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (Pst DC3000) is a well-known pathogen and model organism used to study plant-pathogen interactions and subsequent plant immune responses. Numerous studies have demonstrated the effect of Pst DC3000 on Arabidopsis plants and how type III effectors are required t...
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| description | Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (Pst DC3000) is a well-known pathogen and model organism used to study plant-pathogen interactions and subsequent plant immune responses. Numerous studies have demonstrated the effect of Pst DC3000 on Arabidopsis plants and how type III effectors are required to promote bacterial virulence and pathogenesis. F-Box Nictaba (encoded by At2g02360) is a stress-inducible lectin that is upregulated in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves after Pst DC3000 infection. In this study, a flood inoculation assay was optimized to check the performance of transgenic Arabidopsis seedlings with different expression levels of F-Box Nictaba after bacterial infection. Using a combination of multispectral and fluorescent imaging combined with molecular techniques, disease symptoms, transcript levels for F-Box Nictaba, and disease-related genes were studied in Arabidopsis leaves infected with two virulent strains: Pst DC3000 and its mutant strain, deficient in flagellin ΔfliC. Analyses of plants infected with fluorescently labeled Pst DC3000 allowed us to study the differences in bacterial colonization between plant lines. Overexpression plants showed a reduced bacterial content during the later stages of the infection. Our results show that overexpression of F-Box Nictaba resulted in reduced leaf damage after bacterial infections, whereas knockdown and knockout lines were not more susceptible to Pseudomonas infection than wild-type plants. In contrast to wild-type and knockout plants, overexpressing lines for F-Box Nictaba revealed a significant increase in anthocyanin content, better efficiency of photosystem II (Fv/Fm), and higher chlorophyll content after Pst DC3000 infection. Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba coincided with increased expression of salicylic acid (SA) related defense genes, confirming earlier data that showed that F-Box Nictaba is part of the SA-dependent defense against Pst DC3000 infection. Knockout lines yielded no discernible effects on plant symptoms after Pseudomonas infection suggesting possible gene redundancy between F-Box Nictaba genes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d49daed7f7a64b55b154674760dbff072022-12-21T22:54:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2021-07-011210.3389/fpls.2021.692606692606Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba Promotes Defense and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana After Pseudomonas syringae InfectionAndrea Romero-Pérez0Maarten Ameye1Kris Audenaert2Els J. M. Van Damme3Laboratory of Biochemistry and Glycobiology, Department of Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, BelgiumLaboratory of Applied Mycology and Phenomics, Department of Plants and Crops, Ghent University, Ghent, BelgiumLaboratory of Applied Mycology and Phenomics, Department of Plants and Crops, Ghent University, Ghent, BelgiumLaboratory of Biochemistry and Glycobiology, Department of Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, BelgiumPseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (Pst DC3000) is a well-known pathogen and model organism used to study plant-pathogen interactions and subsequent plant immune responses. Numerous studies have demonstrated the effect of Pst DC3000 on Arabidopsis plants and how type III effectors are required to promote bacterial virulence and pathogenesis. F-Box Nictaba (encoded by At2g02360) is a stress-inducible lectin that is upregulated in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves after Pst DC3000 infection. In this study, a flood inoculation assay was optimized to check the performance of transgenic Arabidopsis seedlings with different expression levels of F-Box Nictaba after bacterial infection. Using a combination of multispectral and fluorescent imaging combined with molecular techniques, disease symptoms, transcript levels for F-Box Nictaba, and disease-related genes were studied in Arabidopsis leaves infected with two virulent strains: Pst DC3000 and its mutant strain, deficient in flagellin ΔfliC. Analyses of plants infected with fluorescently labeled Pst DC3000 allowed us to study the differences in bacterial colonization between plant lines. Overexpression plants showed a reduced bacterial content during the later stages of the infection. Our results show that overexpression of F-Box Nictaba resulted in reduced leaf damage after bacterial infections, whereas knockdown and knockout lines were not more susceptible to Pseudomonas infection than wild-type plants. In contrast to wild-type and knockout plants, overexpressing lines for F-Box Nictaba revealed a significant increase in anthocyanin content, better efficiency of photosystem II (Fv/Fm), and higher chlorophyll content after Pst DC3000 infection. Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba coincided with increased expression of salicylic acid (SA) related defense genes, confirming earlier data that showed that F-Box Nictaba is part of the SA-dependent defense against Pst DC3000 infection. Knockout lines yielded no discernible effects on plant symptoms after Pseudomonas infection suggesting possible gene redundancy between F-Box Nictaba genes.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.692606/fullglycosylationlectinF-Box NictabaPseudomonasplant-pathogen interaction |
| spellingShingle | Andrea Romero-Pérez Maarten Ameye Kris Audenaert Els J. M. Van Damme Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba Promotes Defense and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana After Pseudomonas syringae Infection Frontiers in Plant Science glycosylation lectin F-Box Nictaba Pseudomonas plant-pathogen interaction |
| title | Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba Promotes Defense and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana After Pseudomonas syringae Infection |
| title_full | Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba Promotes Defense and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana After Pseudomonas syringae Infection |
| title_fullStr | Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba Promotes Defense and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana After Pseudomonas syringae Infection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba Promotes Defense and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana After Pseudomonas syringae Infection |
| title_short | Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba Promotes Defense and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana After Pseudomonas syringae Infection |
| title_sort | overexpression of f box nictaba promotes defense and anthocyanin accumulation in arabidopsis thaliana after pseudomonas syringae infection |
| topic | glycosylation lectin F-Box Nictaba Pseudomonas plant-pathogen interaction |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.692606/full |
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