Author:
Zhang Song,Chen Chong,Dai Shanshan,Yang Minmin,Meng Qingwei,Lv Wei,Ma Nana
Abstract
Intramembrane proteases play very important roles in plants, such as chloroplast development, flower morphology, and response to abiotic stress. In this study, a putative metalloprotease gene, homologous to Ethylene-dependent Gravitropism deficient and Yellow-green2 (EGY2) of Arabidopsis, was isolated from tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants and named SlEGY2. We found that SlEGY2 was a member of the metalloprotease family M50 which contained conserved motifs HEXXH and NPDG and was localized in the chloroplast. SlEGY2 antisense transgenic tomato plants (AS) have similar hypocotyls phenotype to the Arabidopsis egy2 mutant. Heat (42 °C), PEG, ABA and MeJA treatments can upregulate the expression of SlEGY2. Under heat stress, SlEGY2 AS lines are more sensitive, with more water loss (lower fresh weight), seriously damaged membrane, and ROS accumulation, but lower activities of APX and CAT. In addition, suppression of SlEGY2 decreases the content of chlorophyll and photosynthetic activities, especially photosystem II. These results suggest that SlEGY2 can regulate the thermotolerance of tomatoes by affecting ROS accumulation and photosynthetic activities.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province
Subject
Plant Science,Agronomy and Crop Science,Food Science
Cited by
2 articles.
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