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Ebel, C. et al.

Ebel, Gómez, Schmit, Neuhaus-Url, Boller,

Differential mRNA degradation of two beta-tubulin isoforms correlates with cytosolic Ca2+ changes in glucan-elicited soybean cells.

Transgenic soybean (Glycine max) culture cells expressing apoaequorin, a Ca2+ indicator, were exposed to glucan fragments derived from Phytophthora sojae or to chitin oligomers. The effects of these elicitors on cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations and on mRNA levels of two beta-tubulin isoforms, tubB1 and tubB2, were investigated. The glucan elicitors, to which the cells are known to react with a biphasic cytosolic Ca2+ increase, induced a down-regulation of the tubB1 mRNA levels while the tubB2 mRNA level remained constant. The decrease of tubB1 mRNA level was observed after 1 hour of glucan treatment. In contrast, chitin oligomers, known to provoke a monophasic Ca2+ increase of short duration, did not affect the tubB1 mRNA level. Pre-incubation with 10 mM 1,2-bis(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid, an extracellular Ca2+ chelator, blocked the cytosolic Ca2+ increase as well as the decrease of tubB1 mRNA levels induced by glucan elicitors. Likewise, pre-incubation with 1 mM neomycin, which reduced only the second glucan-induced Ca2+ peak, blocked the decrease of tubB1 mRNA level. Experiments with cordycepin, a transcription inhibitor, indicated that glucan fragments induced the degradation of tubB1 mRNA. In conclusion, the glucan-induced cytosolic Ca2+ changes are correlated with a strong increase in tubB1 mRNA degradation.[1]

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Differential mRNA degradation of two beta-tubulin isoforms correlates with cytosolic Ca2+ changes in glucan-elicited soybean cells. Ebel, C., Gómez, L.G., Schmit, A.C., Neuhaus-Url, G., Boller, T. Plant Physiol. (2001) [Pubmed]

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