TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence for in vivo interactions between dehydrins and the aquaporin AtPIP2B
AU - Hernández-Sánchez, Itzell Eurídice
AU - Maruri-López, Israel
AU - Molphe-Balch, Eugenio Pérez
AU - Becerra-Flora, Alicia
AU - Jaimes-Miranda, Fabiola
AU - Jiménez-Bremont, Juan F.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the CONACYT funding (Proyectos de Desarrollo Científico para Atender Problemas Nacionales 2015-01-414). We thank Biologist Adriana Cecilia Moreno Flores for her technical assistance and to Dr. Alma Lilian Guerrero Barrera to provide confocal laser microscope services at Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México (Laboratory of cellular and tissue biology, building 203). We also thank Dr. Dirk K. Hincha (Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany) for his critical reading of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/3/19
Y1 - 2019/3/19
N2 - Plants have developed mechanisms that allow them to tolerate different abiotic stresses. Among these mechanisms, the accumulation of specific proteins such as dehydrins (DHNs) and aquaporins (AQPs) can protect other proteins from damage during dehydration and may allow the control of water loss, respectively. Although both types of proteins are involved in plant protection against dehydration stress, a direct interaction between them has not been explored. A previous screen to identify potential OpsDHN1 protein interactions revealed an aquaporin as a possible candidate. Here, we used the Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC) approach to investigate the direct interaction of the cactus OpsDHN1 protein with the Arabidopsis plasma membrane PIP family aquaporin AtPIP2B (At2G37170). Since AtPIP2B is a membrane protein and OpsDHN1 is a cytosolic protein that may be peripherally associated with membranes, we propose that OpsDHN1/AtPIP2B interaction takes place at cellular membranes. Furthermore, we also demonstrate the interaction of AtPIP2B with the three Arabidopsis dehydrins COR47 (AT1G20440), ERD10 (At1g20450), and RAB18 (At5g66400).
AB - Plants have developed mechanisms that allow them to tolerate different abiotic stresses. Among these mechanisms, the accumulation of specific proteins such as dehydrins (DHNs) and aquaporins (AQPs) can protect other proteins from damage during dehydration and may allow the control of water loss, respectively. Although both types of proteins are involved in plant protection against dehydration stress, a direct interaction between them has not been explored. A previous screen to identify potential OpsDHN1 protein interactions revealed an aquaporin as a possible candidate. Here, we used the Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC) approach to investigate the direct interaction of the cactus OpsDHN1 protein with the Arabidopsis plasma membrane PIP family aquaporin AtPIP2B (At2G37170). Since AtPIP2B is a membrane protein and OpsDHN1 is a cytosolic protein that may be peripherally associated with membranes, we propose that OpsDHN1/AtPIP2B interaction takes place at cellular membranes. Furthermore, we also demonstrate the interaction of AtPIP2B with the three Arabidopsis dehydrins COR47 (AT1G20440), ERD10 (At1g20450), and RAB18 (At5g66400).
KW - Aquaporin
KW - BiFC
KW - Dehydrin
KW - Plasma membrane
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.01.095
DO - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.01.095
M3 - Article
C2 - 30738581
AN - SCOPUS:85061863983
SN - 0006-291X
VL - 510
SP - 545
EP - 550
JO - Biochemical and biophysical research communications
JF - Biochemical and biophysical research communications
IS - 4
ER -