Classification of barley U-box E3 ligases and their expression patterns in response to drought and pathogen stresses

Autor: Moon Young Ryu, Seok Keun Cho, Yourae Hong, Jinho Kim, Jong Hum Kim, Gu Min Kim, Yan-Jun Chen, Eva Knoch, Birger Lindberg Møller, Woo Taek Kim, Michael Foged Lyngkjær, Seong Wook Yang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: BMC Genomics, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2164
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-5696-z
Popis: Abstract Background Controlled turnover of proteins as mediated by the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) is an important element in plant defense against environmental and pathogen stresses. E3 ligases play a central role in subjecting proteins to hydrolysis by the UPS. Recently, it has been demonstrated that a specific class of E3 ligases termed the U-box ligases are directly associated with the defense mechanisms against abiotic and biotic stresses in several plants. However, no studies on U-box E3 ligases have been performed in one of the important staple crops, barley. Results In this study, we identified 67 putative U-box E3 ligases from the barley genome and expressed sequence tags (ESTs). Similar to Arabidopsis and rice U-box E3 ligases, most of barley U-box E3 ligases possess evolutionary well-conserved domain organizations. Based on the domain compositions and arrangements, the barley U-box proteins were classified into eight different classes. Along with this new classification, we refined the previously reported classifications of U-box E3 ligase genes in Arabidopsis and rice. Furthermore, we investigated the expression profile of 67 U-box E3 ligase genes in response to drought stress and pathogen infection. We observed that many U-box E3 ligase genes were specifically up-and-down regulated by drought stress or by fungal infection, implying their possible roles of some U-box E3 ligase genes in the stress responses. Conclusion This study reports the classification of U-box E3 ligases in barley and their expression profiles against drought stress and pathogen infection. Therefore, the classification and expression profiling of barley U-box genes can be used as a platform to functionally define the stress-related E3 ligases in barley.
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