The Arabidopsis Wall Associated Kinase-like 10 Gene Encodes a Functional Guanylyl Cyclase and is Co-expressed with Pathogen Defense Related Genes

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2010 Feb 4

PMID 20126659

Citations 64

Authors

Stuart Meier

Oziniel Ruzvidzo

Monique Morse

Lara Donaldson

Lusisizwe Kwezi

Chris Gehring

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Abstract

Background: Second messengers have a key role in linking environmental stimuli to physiological responses. One such messenger, guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP), has long been known to be an essential signaling molecule in many different physiological processes in higher plants, including biotic stress responses. To date, however, the guanylyl cyclase (GC) enzymes that catalyze the formation of cGMP from GTP have largely remained elusive in higher plants.

Principal Findings: We have identified an Arabidopsis receptor type wall associated kinase-like molecule (AtWAKL10) as a candidate GC and provide experimental evidence to show that the intracellular domain of AtWAKL10(431-700) can generate cGMP in vitro. Further, we also demonstrate that the molecule has kinase activity indicating that AtWAKL10 is a twin-domain catalytic protein. A co-expression and stimulus-specific expression analysis revealed that AtWAKL10 is consistently co-expressed with well characterized pathogen defense related genes and along with these genes is induced early and sharply in response to a range of pathogens and their elicitors.

Conclusions: We demonstrate that AtWAKL10 is a twin-domain, kinase-GC signaling molecule that may function in biotic stress responses that are critically dependent on the second messenger cGMP.

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