植物蛋白质组学研究进展

 蛋白质组学是后基因组时代功能基因组学研究的新兴学科和热点领域。该文简要介绍了蛋白质组学产生的科学背景、研究方法和研究内容。蛋白质组学研究方法主要有双向聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳（2D-PAGE）、质谱(Mass-spectrometric)技术、蛋白质芯片（Protein chips）技术、酵母双杂交系统（Yeast two-hybrid system）、植物蛋白质组数据库等。其应用的范围包括植物群体遗传学、在个体水平上植物对生物和非生物环境的适应机制、植物的发育和组织器官的分化过程,以及不同亚细胞结构在生理生态过程中的作用等诸多方面。同时对植物蛋白质组学的发展前景进行了展望。     

丛枝菌根真菌与深色有隔内生真菌生态修复功能与作用

生态修复是目前全球关注的热点问题,如何增加植被的覆盖度及生态修复效率是目前研究的重点。丛枝菌根真菌(arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi,AMF)和深色有隔内生真菌(dark septate endophyte,DSE)均是自然界植物根际分布广泛的一类内生真菌,均能与植物形成菌根共生体,具有一定的促进植物生长、抵抗逆境及修复污染土壤等功能与作用,在生态修复中具有广泛的应用潜力。本文综述了AMF及DSE两种微生物的功能、作用及其在生态修复应用中的研究进展,并进一步对AMF和DSE在生态修复中存在的问题和前景进行展望。     

Plant microRNAs in molecular breeding

MicroRNAs are small, endogenous, non-coding RNAs found in plants, animals, and in some viruses, which negatively regulate the expression of genes by promoting the degradation of target mRNAs or by translation inhibition. Ever since the discovery of miRNAs, its biology, mechanisms, and functions were extensively studied in the past two decades. Plant and animal miRNAs both regulate target mRNAs, but they differ in scope of complementarity to their target mRNA. Plant microRNAs are known to play essential roles in a wide array of plant development. To date, there are many studies giving evidence that the regulation of miRNA levels can reprogram plant responses to abiotic (physical environment) and biotic stresses (pathogen and herbivore). Most of these studies were first carried out in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Recently, the trend of miRNA research is furthering its role in crop breeding and its evolutionary origin. In this review, we presented the dynamic biogenesis of microRNAs, the diverse functions of miRNAs in plants, and experimental designs used in studying microRNAs in plants, and most importantly, we presented the applications of microRNA-based technology to improve the resistance of crops in abiotic and biotic stresses.     

Subcellular shotgun proteomics in plants: looking beyond the usual suspects

In this review we examine the current state of analytical methods used for shotgun proteomics experiments in plants. The rapid advances in this field in recent years are discussed, and contrasted with experiments performed using current widely used procedures. We also examine the use of subcellular fractionation approaches as they apply to plant proteomics, and discuss how appropriate sample preparation can produce a great increase in proteome coverage in subsequent analysis. We conclude that the conjunction of these two techniques represents a significant advance in plant proteomics, and the future of plant biology research will continue to be enriched by the ongoing development of proteomic analytical technology.     

Ecological role of transgenerational resistance against biotic threats

Plants in their natural environments are constantly subjected to biotic stress. In addition to possessing physical barriers and anti-nutritive toxins, plants can be primed to respond more efficiently against future attack via faster and stronger gene activation. Here we discuss recent findings showing that plants can pass signatures of attack to the next generation, thus rendering the progeny more resistant against insect and pathogen attack. A combination of phytohormone signaling, small RNA-mediated gene silencing and DNA methylation are involved in transgenerational induced resistance. Epiallelic variation against biotic threats should be under positive selection in populations of plants where the environment is predictable over time. Similarly, in very genetically homogenous populations, such as during range expansion, epigenome reorganization is a likely mechanism for faster plant adaptation to novel biotic attack. Further research is needed to understand the relative role of the genome vs. the epigenome for the evolution of increased plant resistance.     

植物质膜蛋白质组的逆境应答研究进展

质膜作为原生质体与外界环境的屏障, 除了维持正常的细胞内稳态和营养状况, 还参与感知和应答各种环境胁迫。近年来, 植物质膜蛋白质组学研究为深入分析植物应答不同生物和非生物胁迫的分子机制提供了重要信息, 已经报道了模式植物拟南芥(Arabidopsis thaliana)和水稻(Oryza sativa)等10种植物质膜应对生物胁迫(白叶枯病菌(Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae)感染)与非生物胁迫(冷、盐、水淹、渗透、高pH值、Fe缺乏及过量、氮素、脱落酸、壳聚糖和壳寡糖)过程的蛋白质丰度模式变化。通过整合分析植物质膜响应逆境的蛋白质组学研究结果, 揭示了质膜在植物应答逆境胁迫过程中的重要作用。植物通过调节转运蛋白、通道蛋白及膜泡运输相关蛋白的丰度变化促进细胞内外的信号传递、物质交换与运输; 同时利用膜相关的G蛋白、Ca²⁺信号、磷酸肌醇信号途径及BR信号途径等多种信号通路, 通过蛋白质可逆磷酸化作用感知和传递胁迫信号, 调节植物抵御胁迫。研究结果为从蛋白质水平认识质膜逆境应答分子调控机制提供了新线索。     

蛋白质组学在植物逆境胁迫研究中的进展

蛋白质组学是后基因组时代研究的热点领域之一,自从蛋白质组这个概念被提出以来,其研究一直受到广泛关注,其研究技术也有了极大地进步。植物时刻都面临各种非生物胁迫,包括干旱、冷、盐、金属等,在长期进化过程中,植物形成独特的机制来响应逆境,然而目前对于植物如何适应逆境的分子机制尚未完全阐明。因此蛋白质组学作为一种强有力的研究技术手段,将为研究植物响应胁迫的分子机制提供理论支撑。介绍了蛋白质组学的产生背景、研究技术手段及植物在各种胁迫条件下的蛋白质组学研究、植物亚细胞器的蛋白质组学研究状况,同时对植物蛋白质组学的发展前景进行了展望。     

非模式植物蛋白质组学研究进展

蛋白质组学研究是对基因组学研究的重要补充,它是在蛋白质水平定量、动态、整体性研究生物体。该文简要介绍了蛋白质组学的含义,蛋白质组学及植物蛋白质组学产生的科学背景,蛋白质组学的研究内容。概述了非模式植物蛋白质组学的研究进展,主要包括非模式植物个体及群体蛋白质组学,组织和器官蛋白质组学,亚细胞蛋白质组学,响应环境变化的蛋白质组学以及非模式植物生物环境因子的蛋白质组学的研究情况,同时对植物蛋白质组学的发展前景进行了展望。     

Linking soil biodiversity and vegetation: implications for a changing planet

Soil biota are intimately tied to plant communities through herbivory and symbiosis and indirectly by the decomposition of dead organic plant material. Through both roots and aboveground organic material (e.g., leaves and wood), plants provide substantial inputs of organic matter to soil systems. Plants are the basis for most biotic soil food webs that comprise an enormous diversity of species whose multiple interactions function to help regulate nutrient cycling, which in turn influences plant growth. Many factors govern the biogeography of soil biota, including the physical and chemical properties of soil, climate, the composition and type of vegetation, and interactions with other soil biota. Despite awareness of factors influencing soil communities, no single factor allows predictions of soil animal diversity or distribution. However, research is showing that plants can have unique soil biotic communities. Degradation of soil, which removes predators and biotic regulation that occurs in less managed ecosystems, can result in increased pathogens and pests that affect humans, other animals and plants. Global changes such as land use, desertification, and soil pollution all have been shown to alter soil animal diversity and abundance. Because of our dependence on soils and plant production, studies linking soil biotic communities to primary productivity are needed to assure long-term soil sustainability.     

How plants cope with biotic interactions

In their natural environment, plants interact with many different organisms. The nature of these interactions may range from positive, for example interactions with pollinators, to negative, such as interactions with pathogens and herbivores. In this special issue, the contributors provide several examples of how plants manage both positive and negative biotic interactions. This review aims to relate their findings to what we know about the complex natural environments in which plants have evolved. Molecular analyses of plant genomes and expression profiles have shown how intricately plants may regulate responses to single or multiple biotic interactions. Plant responses are fine-tuned by signalling hormone interactions. When multiple organisms interact with a single plant this may result in antagonistic or synergistic effects. The emerging fields of ecogenomics and metabolomics undoubtedly will refine our understanding of the multilayered regulation that plants use to manage relationships with their biotic environment. However, we can only understand why plants have such an intricate regulatory apparatus if we consider the ecological context of plant biotic interactions.     

Plant extracellular ATP signalling: new insight from proteomics

Complex signalling systems have evolved in multicellular organisms to enable cell-to-cell communication during growth and development. In plants, cell communication via the extracellular matrix (apoplast) controls many processes vital for plant survival. Secretion of ATP into the extracellular matrix is now recognised as a previously unknown stimulus for cell signalling with a role in many aspects of plant physiology. In the last decade, the secondary messenger molecules in extracellular ATP signalling were identified, but the downstream gene and protein networks that underpin plant responses to extracellular ATP are only beginning to be characterised. Here we review the current status of our knowledge of plant extracellular signalling and demonstrate how applying state-of-the art proteomic technologies is rapidly bringing new discoveries in extracellular ATP research. We discuss how monitoring of the global proteomic profile during responses to modulation of extracellular ATP signalling has led to novel insight into pathogen defence systems and plant programmed cell death regulation. On the basis of extensive proteomic, pharmacological, and reverse genetics data, extracellular ATP has been confirmed to constitute an important molecular switch that tightly controls organellar energy metabolism, reprogramming of primary metabolic pathways, and redirection of resources to protein networks that support adaptation of plants to stress.     

植物表皮毛研究进展

表皮毛是大多数植物地上部分表皮组织所延伸出来的一种特化的毛状结构附属物。表皮毛在植物表皮层和环境间构筑了一道天然的物理屏障, 不但对植物的生长发育具有重要意义, 而且还具有非常高的应用价值和经济价值。近几年, 研究者从不同植物中不断克隆出新的表皮毛发育相关基因, 在揭示植物调控表皮毛生长发育的分子机制方面取得很大进展。该文综述了植物表皮毛的最新研究进展, 并展望了植物表皮毛的研究方向及应用开发价值。     

褪黑素参与植物抗逆功能研究进展

褪黑素(N-乙酰基-5-甲氧基色胺)是一种生命必需的小分子吲哚胺类物质, 广泛存在于动植物体内, 对动植物的生长发育起至关重要的作用。随着植物褪黑素研究的逐渐深入, 褪黑素在植物体内的合成途径及作用也更加明确。研究表明, 褪黑素在提高植物抵抗非生物和生物胁迫能力等方面具有调控作用。该文对近年来有关植物褪黑素参与非生物和生物胁迫的研究进展进行总结, 旨在为阐明褪黑素影响植物抵御逆境胁迫的调控机理提供参考。     

The expression,function and regulation of mitochondrial alternative oxidase under biotic stresses

To survive, plants possess elaborate defence mechanisms to protect themselves against virus or pathogen invasion. Recent studies have suggested that plant mitochondria may play an important role in host defence responses to biotic stresses. In contrast with animal mitochondria, plant mitochondria possess a unique respiratory pathway, the cyanide‐insensitive alternative pathway, which is catalysed by the alternative oxidase (AOX). Much work has revealed that the genes encoding AOX, AOX protein and the alternative respiratory pathway are frequently induced during plant–pathogen (or virus) interaction. This raises the possibility that AOX is involved in host defence responses to biotic stresses. Thus, a key to the understanding of the role of mitochondrial respiration under biotic stresses is to learn the function and regulation of AOX. In this article, we focus on the theoretical and experimental progress made in the current understanding of the function and regulation of AOX under biotic stresses. We also address some speculative aspects to aid further research in this area.     

Comparative proteomic analysis of the Arabidopsis cbl1 mutant in response to salt stress

Many environmental stimuli, including light, biotic and abiotic stress factors, induce changes in cellular Ca(2+) concentrations in plants. Such Ca(2+) signatures are perceived by sensor molecules such as calcineurin B-like (CBL) proteins. AtCBL1, a member of the CBL family which is highly inducible by multiple stress signals, is known to function in the salt stress signal transduction pathway and to positively regulate the plant tolerance to salt. To shed light into the molecular mechanisms of the salt stress response mediated by AtCBL1, a two-dimensional DIGE proteomic approach was applied to identify the differentially expressed proteins in Arabidopsis wild-type and cbl1 null mutant plants in response to salt stress. Seventy-three spots were found altered in expression by least 1.2-fold and 50 proteins were identified by MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS, including some well-known and novel salt-responsive proteins. These proteins function in various processes, such as signal transduction, ROS scavenging, energy production, carbon fixation, metabolism, mRNA processing, protein processing and structural stability. Receptor for activated C kinase 1C (RACK1C, spot 715), a WD40 repeat protein, was up-regulated in the cbl1 null mutant, and two rack1c mutant lines showed decreased tolerance to salt stress, suggesting that RACK1C plays a role in salt stress resistance. In conclusion, our work demonstrated the advantages of the proteomic approach in studies of plant biology and identified candidate proteins in CBL1-mediated salt stress signaling network.     

反式-2-己烯醛在植物防御反应中的作用

反式-2-己烯醛是绿色植物释放的一种小分子挥发性物质,在调节植物生长发育和抵抗各种环境胁迫中发挥重要作用。已有研究表明,反式-2-己烯醛可抑制植物根系生长,具有较高的抑菌和抗虫活性,也可以作为植物间的“信使”来传递防御信号。该文系统综述了反式-2-己烯醛的生物合成、代谢途径及其在生物胁迫防御反应中的重要作用,提出了研究...