| Title: | SuperSAGE analysis of the Nicotiana attenuata transcriptome after fatty acid-amino acid elicitation (FAC): identification of early mediators of insect responses |
| Author(s): | Gilardoni PA; Schuck S; Jungling R; Rotter B; Baldwin IT; Bonaventure G; |
| Address: | "Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Molecular Ecology, Jena, Germany" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1471-2229 (Electronic) 1471-2229 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "BACKGROUND: Plants trigger and tailor defense responses after perception of the oral secretions (OS) of attacking specialist lepidopteran larvae. Fatty acid-amino acid conjugates (FACs) in the OS of the Manduca sexta larvae are necessary and sufficient to elicit the herbivory-specific responses in Nicotiana attenuata, an annual wild tobacco species. How FACs are perceived and activate signal transduction mechanisms is unknown. RESULTS: We used SuperSAGE combined with 454 sequencing to quantify the early transcriptional changes elicited by the FAC N-linolenoyl-glutamic acid (18:3-Glu) and virus induced gene silencing (VIGS) to examine the function of candidate genes in the M. sexta-N. attenuata interaction. The analysis targeted mRNAs encoding regulatory components: rare transcripts with very rapid FAC-elicited kinetics (increases within 60 and declines within 120 min). From 12,744 unique Tag sequences identified (UniTags), 430 and 117 were significantly up- and down-regulated >or= 2.5-fold, respectively, after 18:3-Glu elicitation compared to wounding. Based on gene ontology classification, more than 25% of the annotated UniTags corresponded to putative regulatory components, including 30 transcriptional regulators and 22 protein kinases. Quantitative PCR analysis was used to analyze the FAC-dependent regulation of a subset of 27 of these UniTags and for most of them a rapid and transient induction was confirmed. Six FAC-regulated genes were functionally characterized by VIGS and two, a putative lipid phosphate phosphatase (LPP) and a protein of unknown function, were identified as important mediators of the M. sexta-N. attenuata interaction. CONCLUSIONS: The analysis of the early changes in the transcriptome of N. attenuata after FAC elicitation using SuperSAGE/454 has identified regulatory genes involved in insect-specific mediated responses in plants. Moreover, it has provided a foundation for the identification of additional novel regulators associated with this process" |
| Keywords: | "Amino Acids/*metabolism Animals Databases, Genetic Expressed Sequence Tags Fatty Acids/*metabolism *Gene Expression Profiling *Gene Expression Regulation, Plant Gene Library Gene Silencing Manduca/*physiology Molecular Sequence Data Phosphatidate Phosphat;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineGilardoni, Paola A Schuck, Stefan Jungling, Ruth Rotter, Bjorn Baldwin, Ian T Bonaventure, Gustavo eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2010/04/20 BMC Plant Biol. 2010 Apr 14; 10:66. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-10-66" |
