Over-expression of a small heat shock protein,sHSP17.7, confers both heat tolerance and UV-B resistance to rice plants |
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Authors: | Murakami Toyotaka Matsuba Shuichi Funatsuki Hideyuki Kawaguchi Kentaro Saruyama Haruo Tanida Masatoshi Sato Yutaka |
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Institution: | (1) National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region, Hitsujigaoka 1, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, 062-8555, Japan;(2) Hokkaido Green-Bio Institute, Naganuma, Hokkaido, 069-1301, Japan |
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Abstract: | Exposure of rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings to a high temperature (42 °C) for 24 h resulted in a significant increase in resistance to UV-B damage. UV-B resistance was enhanced in parallel with the period of heat treatment. sHSP17.7 was isolated from heated rice seedlings, and the influence of rice sHSP17.7 expression on the viability of E. coli under heat-shock conditions was assessed. After heating, the survival rate of sHSP17.7 cells was 2-fold higher than that of the control cells. The molecular chaperone activity of sHSP17.7 was investigated using catalase as a substrate. Recombinant sHSP17.7 had heat-stable chaperone properties that were capable of protecting stressed catalase from precipitation. sHSP17.7 was overexpressed in the rice cultivar Hoshinoyume , by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, under the control of a CaMV 35S promoter. Transgenic rice plants with increased levels of sHSP17.7 protein exhibited significantly increased thermotolerance compared to untransformed control plants. The level of increased thermotolerance was correlated with the level of increased sHSP17.7 protein in the transgenic plants. The transgenic rice plant with the highest constitutive expression of sHSP17.7 had significantly greater resistance to UV-B stress than untransformed control plants. Increase in the degree of resistance of transgenic plants to UV-B was accompanied by an increase in production of sHSP17.7 protein. |
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Keywords: | Heat tolerance Small heat shock protein Transgenic rice UV-B resistance |
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