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. 2021 Mar;63(3):494-509.
doi: 10.1111/jipb.13058.

Arabidopsis U-box E3 ubiquitin ligase PUB11 negatively regulates drought tolerance by degrading the receptor-like protein kinases LRR1 and KIN7

Xuexue Chen  1 , Tingting Wang  1 , Amin Ur Rehman  1 , Yu Wang  1 , Junsheng Qi  1 , Zhen Li  1 , Chunpeng Song  2 , Baoshan Wang  3 , Shuhua Yang  1 , Zhizhong Gong  1   4
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Arabidopsis U-box E3 ubiquitin ligase PUB11 negatively regulates drought tolerance by degrading the receptor-like protein kinases LRR1 and KIN7

Xuexue Chen et al. J Integr Plant Biol. 2021 Mar.

Abstract

Both plant receptor-like protein kinases (RLKs) and ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis play crucial roles in plant responses to drought stress. However, the mechanism by which E3 ubiquitin ligases modulate RLKs is poorly understood. In this study, we showed that Arabidopsis PLANT U-BOX PROTEIN 11 (PUB11), an E3 ubiquitin ligase, negatively regulates abscisic acid (ABA)-mediated drought responses. PUB11 interacts with and ubiquitinates two receptor-like protein kinases, LEUCINE RICH REPEAT PROTEIN 1 (LRR1) and KINASE 7 (KIN7), and mediates their degradation during plant responses to drought stress in vitro and in vivo. pub11 mutants were more tolerant, whereas lrr1 and kin7 mutants were more sensitive, to drought stress than the wild type. Genetic analyses show that the pub11 lrr1 kin7 triple mutant exhibited similar drought sensitivity as the lrr1 kin7 double mutant, placing PUB11 upstream of the two RLKs. Abscisic acid and drought treatment promoted the accumulation of PUB11, which likely accelerates LRR1 and KIN7 degradation. Together, our results reveal that PUB11 negatively regulates plant responses to drought stress by destabilizing the LRR1 and KIN7 RLKs.

Keywords: E3 ligase; abscisic acid; drought response; receptor-like kinase; ubiquitination.

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