| Title: | Spodoptera littoralis-induced lectin expression in tobacco |
| Author(s): | Vandenborre G; Miersch O; Hause B; Smagghe G; Wasternack C; Van Damme EJ; |
| Address: | "Laboratory of Biochemistry and Glycobiology, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, Ghent, Belgium" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1471-9053 (Electronic) 0032-0781 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The induced defense response in plants towards herbivores is mainly regulated by jasmonates and leads to the accumulation of so-called jasmonate-induced proteins. Recently, a jasmonate (JA) inducible lectin called Nicotiana tabacum agglutinin or NICTABA was discovered in tobacco (N. tabacum cv Samsun) leaves. Tobacco plants also accumulate the lectin after insect attack by caterpillars. To study the functional role of NICTABA, the accumulation of the JA precursor 12-oxophytodienoic acid (OPDA), JA as well as different JA metabolites were analyzed in tobacco leaves after herbivory by larvae of the cotton leafworm (Spodoptera littoralis) and correlated with NICTABA accumulation. It was shown that OPDA, JA as well as its methyl ester can trigger NICTABA accumulation. However, hydroxylation of JA and its subsequent sulfation and glucosylation results in inactive compounds that have lost the capacity to induce NICTABA gene expression. The expression profile of NICTABA after caterpillar feeding was recorded in local as well as in systemic leaves, and compared to the expression of several genes encoding defense proteins, and genes encoding a tobacco systemin and the allene oxide cyclase, an enzyme in JA biosynthesis. Furthermore, the accumulation of NICTABA was quantified after S. littoralis herbivory and immunofluorescence microscopy was used to study the localization of NICTABA in the tobacco leaf" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Cyclopentanes/metabolism Fatty Acids, Unsaturated/*metabolism Gene Expression Profiling Gene Expression Regulation, Plant Oxylipins/metabolism Plant Growth Regulators/metabolism Plant Leaves/genetics/metabolism Plant Lectins/genetics/*metabolism R;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineVandenborre, Gianni Miersch, Otto Hause, Bettina Smagghe, Guy Wasternack, Claus Van Damme, Els J M eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Japan 2009/05/07 Plant Cell Physiol. 2009 Jun; 50(6):1142-55. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcp065. Epub 2009 May 4" |
