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Rui Zhao1, Xiao-Fang Wang, Da-Peng Zhang
1School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
Ca2+ is believed to be a critical second messenger in ABA signal transduction. Ca2+-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) are the best characterized Ca2+ sensors in plants. Recently, we identified an Arabidopsis CDPK member CPK12 as a negative regulator of ABA signaling in seed germination and post-germination growth, which reveals that different members of the CDPK family may constitute a regulation loop by functioning positively and negatively in ABA signal transduction. We observed that both RNA interference and overexpression of CPK12 gene resulted in ABA-hypersensitive phenotypes in seed germination and post-germination growth, suggesting a high complexity of the CPK12-mediated ABA signaling pathway. CPK12 stimulates a negative ABA-signaling regulator (ABI2) and phosphorylates two positive ABA-signaling regulators (ABF1 and ABF4), which may partly explain the ABA hypersensitivity induced by both downregulation and upregulation of CPK12 expression. Our data indicate that CPK12 appears to function as a balancer in ABA signal transduction in Arabidopsis.
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