Picea wilsonii NAC31 and DREB2A Cooperatively Activate ERD1 to Modulate Drought Resistance in Transgenic Arabidopsis
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Published:2024-02-07
Issue:4
Volume:25
Page:2037
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ISSN:1422-0067
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Container-title:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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language:en
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Short-container-title:IJMS
Author:
Huang Yiming12, Du Bingshuai12, Yu Mingxin12, Cao Yibo12ORCID, Liang Kehao12, Zhang Lingyun12ORCID
Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Efficient Production of Forest Resources, College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China 2. Key Laboratory of Forest Silviculture and Conservation of the Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Abstract
The NAC family of transcription factors (TFs) regulate plant development and abiotic stress. However, the specific function and response mechanism of NAC TFs that increase drought resistance in Picea wilsonii remain largely unknown. In this study, we functionally characterized a member of the PwNAC family known as PwNAC31. PwNAC31 is a nuclear-localized protein with transcriptional activation activity and contains an NAC domain that shows extensive homology with ANAC072 in Arabidopsis. The expression level of PwNAC31 is significantly upregulated under drought and ABA treatments. The heterologous expression of PwNAC31 in atnac072 Arabidopsis mutants enhances the seed vigor and germination rates and restores the hypersensitive phenotype of atnac072 under drought stress, accompanied by the up-regulated expression of drought-responsive genes such as DREB2A (DEHYDRATION-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN 2A) and ERD1 (EARLY RESPONSIVE TO DEHYDRATION STRESS 1). Yeast two-hybrid and bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays confirmed that PwNAC31 interacts with DREB2A and ABF3 (ABSCISIC ACID-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT-BINDING FACTOR 3). Yeast one-hybrid and dual-luciferase assays showed that PwNAC31, together with its interaction protein DREB2A, directly regulated the expression of ERD1 by binding to the DRE element of the ERD1 promoter. Collectively, our study provides evidence that PwNAC31 activates ERD1 by interacting with DREB2A to enhance drought tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis.
Funder
Natural Science Foundation of Beijing 5·5 Engineering Research & Innovation Team Project of Beijing Forestry University
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