Crosstalk between Brassinosteroid and autophagy pathways in the regulation of plant growth and stress responses

油菜素类固醇和自噬途径在植物生长和应激反应调节中的串扰

基本信息

批准号：
9260560
负责人：
DIANE C BASSHAM
金额：
$ 30.58万
依托单位：
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-01-01 至 2020-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9260560
关键词：
Affect Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Animals Arabidopsis Autophagocytosis Autophagosome Biological Process Cell membrane Complex Degradation Pathway Deposition Disease Eukaryota Family Genes Genetic Genomics Goals Growth Growth and Development function Health Hormonal Human Huntington Disease Hydrolase Hypoxia Individual Link Lysosomes Malignant Neoplasms Mediating Membrane Membrane Proteins Modification Neurodegenerative Disorders Nutrient Organelles Organism Parkinson Disease Pathogenesis Pathway interactions Phosphorylation Phosphotransferases Plant Model Plants Play Process Proteins Proteome Proteomics Receptor Signaling Recruitment Activity Regulation Resources Role Signal Pathway Signal Transduction Signaling Protein Steroids Stress Testing Ubiquitin Ubiquitination Vacuole WNT Signaling Pathway Work base beta catenin biological adaptation to stress human disease innovation insight pathogen phosphoproteomics plant growth/development receptor receptor binding response steroid hormone targeted cancer therapy transcription factor ubiquitin-protein ligase

项目摘要

Project Summary The goal of this project is to determine how growth, development and stress responses are coordinated in Arabidopsis, a model plant with extensive genetic, genomic and proteomic resources. This will be accomplished through detailed mechanistic studies that will provide insights into fundamental biological processes, steroid hormone signaling and autophagy, that are conserved across eukaryotes. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are plant steroid hormones that promote growth. Autophagy occurs in both plants and animals to degrade organelles and proteins, especially under stress conditions. Our preliminary work has established several interaction points between BR and autophagy pathways. First, BES1, a transcription factor mediating BR responses, is degraded by selective autophagy, mediated by the ubiquitin receptor DSK2. Furthermore, phosphorylation of DSK2 by BIN2, a negative regulator in the BR signaling pathway, increases the interaction between DSK2 and ATG8, resulting in BES1 degradation. Second, TOR, a negative regulator of autophagy, is required for BR-mediated growth, and BRs inhibit autophagy likely via BIN2 interaction with TOR. We hypothesize that BR and autophagy pathways crosstalk through multiple mechanisms to coordinate plant growth and stress responses: (a) upon phosphorylation by BIN2, DSK2 acts as a phospho-regulated autophagy receptor for BES1, and BES1 ubiquitination therefore leads to its degradation by selective autophagy. This in turn slows down plant growth under stress conditions; (b) BRs regulate TOR to promote growth and inhibit autophagy through BIN2 phosphorylation of TOR. To test and expand on these hypotheses we propose the following two Specific Aims: (1) To establish the functions of selective autophagy receptor DSK2 and E3 ubiquitin ligases BAF1 and BAR1 in mediating BES1 degradation through autophagy; (2) To determine the mechanism of BR regulation of TOR via BIN2, and the effect of this regulation on growth and autophagy under normal and stress conditions. These studies will leverage the genetic and genomic resources in Arabidopsis and use cutting-edge proteomics to study ubiquitination and phosphorylation at the individual protein and proteome-wide levels. These innovative approaches have the potential not only to reveal specific mechanisms of crosstalk between steroid signaling and protein degradation pathways, but also provide transformative concepts and information on the integration of growth and stress responses across eukaryotes. For example, autophagy is involved in many human diseases including neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Parkinson's and Huntington's) and cancer. In addition, the degradation of BES1 by autophagy is reminiscent of that of β-catenin in WNT signaling and HIF2α in hypoxia responses, which play essential roles in growth, development, stress responses and disease in animals and humans. The proposed studies can therefore provide important insight into processes related to human health.