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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
16
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-10-18
pubmed:abstractText
We characterized pharmacologically the hypersensitive cell death of tobacco BY-2 cells that followed treatments with Escherichia coli preparations of INF1, the major secreted elicitin of the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans. INF1 elicitin treatments resulted in fragmentation and 180 bp laddering of tobacco DNA as early as 3 h post-treatment. INF1 elicitin also induced rapid accumulation of H2O2 typical of oxidative burst, and the expression of defense genes such as phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) gene at 1 h and 3 h after elicitin treatment, respectively. To investigate the involvement of the oxidative burst and/or the expression of defense genes in the signal transduction pathways leading to hypersensitive cell death, we analyzed the effect of several chemical inhibitors of signal transduction pathways on the various responses. The results indicated that (a) the cell death required serine proteases, Ca2+ and protein kinases, (b) the oxidative burst was involved in Ca2+ and protein kinase mediated pathways, but elicitin-induced AOS was neither necessary nor sufficient for cell death and PAL gene expression, and (c) the signaling pathway of PAL gene expression required protein kinases. These results suggest that the three signal transduction pathways leading to cell death, oxidative burst and expression of defense genes branch in the early stages that follow elicitin recognition by tobacco cells.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0014-2956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
267
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5005-13
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Algal Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Calcium Signaling, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-DNA Fragmentation, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Fungal Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Gene Expression Regulation, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Phytophthora, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Plants, Toxic, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Reactive Oxygen Species, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Respiratory Burst, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:10931182-Tobacco
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Independent pathways leading to apoptotic cell death, oxidative burst and defense gene expression in response to elicitin in tobacco cell suspension culture.
pubmed:affiliation
Science and Technology for Energy Conversion, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, and Laboratory of Plant Pathology & Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Okayama University, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't