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ABC1K10a, an atypical kinase, functions in plant salt stress tolerance
Xiaohui Qin1,2, Zhikun Duan1,2, Yuan Zheng1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.
Background:
ABC1K (Activity of BC1 complex Kinase) is an evolutionarily primitive atypical kinase family widely distributed among prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The ABC1K protein kinases in Arabidopsis are predicted to localize either to the mitochondria or chloroplasts, in which plastid-located ABC1K proteins are involved in the response against photo-oxidative stress and cadmium-induced oxidative stress.
Results:
Here, we report that the mitochondria-localized ABC1K10a functions in plant salt stress tolerance by regulating reactive oxygen species (ROS). Our results show that the ABC1K10a expression is induced by salt stress, and the mutations in this gene result in overaccumulation of ROS and hypersensitivity to salt stress. Exogenous application of the ROS-scavenger GSH significantly represses ROS accumulation and rescues the salt hypersensitive phenotype of abc1k10a. ROS overaccumulation in abc1k10a mutants under salt stress is likely due to the defect in mitochondria electron transport chain. Furthermore, defects of several other mitochondria-localized ABC1K genes also result in salt hypersensitivity.
Conclusions:
Taken together, our results reveal that the mitochondria-located ABC1K10a regulates mitochondrial ROS production and is a positive regulator of salt tolerance in Arabidopsis.
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