TY - JOUR
T1 - Chromatin phosphoproteomics unravels a function for AT-hook motif nuclear localized protein AHL13 in PAMP-triggered immunity
AU - Rayapuram, Naganand
AU - Jarad, Mai
AU - Alhoraibi, Hanna
AU - Bigeard, Jean
AU - Abulfaraj, Aala A.
AU - Volz, Ronny
AU - Mariappan, Kiruthiga
AU - Almeida-Trapp, Marilia
AU - Schlöffel, Maria
AU - Lastrucci, Emmanuelle
AU - Bonhomme, Ludovic
AU - Gust, Andrea A.
AU - Mithöfer, Axel
AU - Arold, Stefan T.
AU - Pflieger, Delphine
AU - Hirt, Heribert
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-01-12
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): BAS/1/1062-01-01
Acknowledgements: We thank Véronique Legros, Huma Khurram, and Huoming Zhang for technical assistance in mass spectometry; Stéphanie Pateyron and Alexandra Avon for technical support in molecular biology; and Jean Colcombet for kindly providing the constitutively active MAPK
vectors. This work was supported by Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-2010-JCJC-1608 and ANR-14-CE19-0014 (to D.P.); Investissement d’Avenir Infrastructures Nationales en Biologie et Santé program (ProFI project, ANR10-INBS-08); and by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology BAS/1/1062-01-01 (to H.H.). The Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay benefits from the support of the LabEx Saclay Plant Sciences (ANR-10-LABX-0040-SPS). M.A.-T. was supported by a Humboldt-Capes fellowship.
PY - 2021/1/8
Y1 - 2021/1/8
N2 - In many eukaryotic systems during immune responses, mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) link cytoplasmic signaling to chromatin events by targeting transcription factors, chromatin remodeling complexes, and the RNA polymerase machinery. So far, knowledge on these events is scarce in plants and no attempts have been made to focus on phosphorylation events of chromatin-associated proteins. Here we carried out chromatin phosphoproteomics upon elicitor-induced activation of Arabidopsis. The events in WT were compared with those in mpk3, mpk4, and mpk6 mutant plants to decipher specific MAPK targets. Our study highlights distinct signaling networks involving MPK3, MPK4, and MPK6 in chromatin organization and modification, as well as in RNA transcription and processing. Among the chromatin targets, we characterized the AT-hook motif containing nuclear localized (AHL) DNA-binding protein AHL13 as a substrate of immune MAPKs. AHL13 knockout mutant plants are compromised in pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-induced reactive oxygen species production, expression of defense genes, and PAMP-triggered immunity. Transcriptome analysis revealed that AHL13 regulates key factors of jasmonic acid biosynthesis and signaling and affects immunity toward Pseudomonas syringae and Botrytis cinerea pathogens. Mutational analysis of the phosphorylation sites of AHL13 demonstrated that phosphorylation regulates AHL13 protein stability and thereby its immune functions.
AB - In many eukaryotic systems during immune responses, mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) link cytoplasmic signaling to chromatin events by targeting transcription factors, chromatin remodeling complexes, and the RNA polymerase machinery. So far, knowledge on these events is scarce in plants and no attempts have been made to focus on phosphorylation events of chromatin-associated proteins. Here we carried out chromatin phosphoproteomics upon elicitor-induced activation of Arabidopsis. The events in WT were compared with those in mpk3, mpk4, and mpk6 mutant plants to decipher specific MAPK targets. Our study highlights distinct signaling networks involving MPK3, MPK4, and MPK6 in chromatin organization and modification, as well as in RNA transcription and processing. Among the chromatin targets, we characterized the AT-hook motif containing nuclear localized (AHL) DNA-binding protein AHL13 as a substrate of immune MAPKs. AHL13 knockout mutant plants are compromised in pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-induced reactive oxygen species production, expression of defense genes, and PAMP-triggered immunity. Transcriptome analysis revealed that AHL13 regulates key factors of jasmonic acid biosynthesis and signaling and affects immunity toward Pseudomonas syringae and Botrytis cinerea pathogens. Mutational analysis of the phosphorylation sites of AHL13 demonstrated that phosphorylation regulates AHL13 protein stability and thereby its immune functions.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/666869
UR - http://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.2004670118
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.2004670118
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2004670118
M3 - Article
C2 - 33419940
VL - 118
SP - e2004670118
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
SN - 0027-8424
IS - 3
ER -