Type-2 histone deacetylases as new regulators of elicitor-induced cell death in plants
- PMID: 21651563
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03788.x
Type-2 histone deacetylases as new regulators of elicitor-induced cell death in plants
Abstract
• Plant resistance to pathogen attack is often associated with a localized programmed cell death called hypersensitive response (HR). How this cell death is controlled remains largely unknown. • Upon treatment with cryptogein, an elicitor of tobacco defence and cell death, we identified NtHD2a and NtHD2b, two redundant isoforms of type-2 nuclear histone deacetylases (HDACs). These HDACs are phosphorylated after a few minutes' treatment, and their rate of mRNAs are rapidly and strongly reduced, leading to a 40-fold decrease after 10 h of treatment. • By using HDAC inhibitors, RNAi- and overexpression-based approaches, we showed that HDACs, and especially NtHD2a/b, act as inhibitors of cryptogein-induced cell death. Moreover, in NtHD2a/b-silenced plants, infiltration with cryptogein led to HR-like symptoms in distal leaves. • Taken together, these results show for the first time that type-2 HDACs, which are specific to plants, act as negative regulators of elicitor-induced cell death in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), suggesting that the HR is controlled by post-translational modifications including (de)acetylation of nuclear proteins.
© 2011 Université de Bourgogne. New Phytologist © 2011 New Phytologist Trust.
Comment in
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Danger at your door: pathogen signals and programmed cell death in plants.New Phytol. 2011 Oct;192(1):1-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03857.x. New Phytol. 2011. PMID: 21884526 No abstract available.
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