中国农业科学 ›› 2023, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (24): 4801-4813.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2023.24.001

• 作物遗传育种・种质资源・分子遗传学 • 上一篇    下一篇

PPR蛋白响应植物非生物胁迫的研究进展

李程(), 路凯, 王才林, 张亚东()   

  1. 江苏省农业科学院粮食作物研究所/国家耐盐碱水稻技术创新中心华东中心/江苏省优质水稻工程技术研究中心/国家水稻改良中心南京分中心/江苏省农业生物学重点实验室,南京 210014
  • 收稿日期:2023-05-25 接受日期:2023-07-24 出版日期:2023-12-16 发布日期:2023-12-21
  • 通信作者:
    张亚东,E-mail:
  • 联系方式: 李程,E-mail:cli1024shine@163.com。
  • 基金资助:
    江苏省种业振兴揭榜挂帅项目(JBGS[2021]001)

Research Progress of PPR Protein in Plant Abiotic Stress Response

LI Cheng(), LU Kai, WANG CaiLin, ZHANG YaDong()   

  1. Institute of Food Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/East China Branch of National Center of Technology Innovation for Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice/Jiangsu High Quality Rice R&D Center/Nanjing Branch of China National Center for Rice Improvement/Key laboratory of Jiangsu Province for Agrobiology, Nanjing 210014
  • Received:2023-05-25 Accepted:2023-07-24 Published:2023-12-16 Online:2023-12-21

摘要:

非生物胁迫是造成全球粮食减产的主要因素之一。研究植物逆境相关蛋白的功能及应答机制,对于提高作物抗逆性具有重要意义。三角状五肽重复(PPR)蛋白属于高等植物中最大的核编码蛋白家族,因其包含高度特异性的PPR基序而得名。依据基序类型及其排列,PPR蛋白可分为P和PLS两类,PLS类蛋白又可以根据其羧基末端的结构域进一步分为PLS、E、E+、DYW等亚类。PPR蛋白广泛分布于陆生植物中,主要定位于叶绿体和线粒体,亦有少数定位于细胞核中。作为序列特异性RNA结合蛋白,PPR蛋白参与植物RNA加工的多个方面,包括RNA编辑、RNA剪接、RNA稳定和RNA翻译。PPR蛋白在植物的整个生命进程中发挥多种重要作用,但对其在植物抗逆性中的作用机制还不清楚。本文在总结已有报道的非生物胁迫相关PPR蛋白定位和功能的基础上,重点综述了PPR蛋白参与调控植物非生物胁迫的作用机制(包括转录后调控和逆行信号),并对其进行讨论。转录后调控与PPR蛋白参与RNA转录后的修饰作用有关,其一般被认为通过结合RNA并调节细胞器RNA代谢来调控逆境相关基因的表达,从而影响植物抗逆性。逆行信号方面,PPR蛋白的损伤导致线粒体或叶绿体功能受损,然后产生各类逆行信号(如ROS),进而调控相关基因表达,抵御逆境。然而,由于质体中的逆行信号会受到许多环境因素的影响,这些因素部分还未明确,导致PPR蛋白在逆行信号中的作用机制仍有很多问题有待阐明。此外,PPR蛋白存在一因多效性,部分蛋白在作用于抗逆性的同时,还会对植物的生长和生殖产生重要影响。最后,本文阐述了利用PPR蛋白作为RNA编辑工具的研究现状,探讨了目前PPR蛋白响应植物非生物胁迫方面尚待解决的问题及研究前景,提出了未来研究仍需关注的重点和难点,为深入研究PPR蛋白的功能和作物非生物胁迫抗性育种提供参考。

关键词: PPR蛋白, 植物, 非生物胁迫

Abstract:

Abiotic stress is one of the main factors causing global grain yield reduction. It is of great significance to study the function and response mechanisms of plant stress-related proteins to improve crop stress resistance. Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins, belong to the largest family of nuclear coding proteins in higher plants and are named because they contain highly specific PPR motifs. Depending on motif type and arrangement, PPR proteins can be classified as P and PLS, and PLS proteins can be further classified as PLS, E, E+, DYW, and other subclasses based on their carboxyl-terminal domains. PPR proteins are widely distributed in terrestrial plants, mainly in chloroplasts and mitochondria, and a few in the nucleus. As sequence-specific RNA binding proteins, PPR proteins are involved in multiple aspects of plant RNA processing, including RNA editing, splicing, stabilization, and translation. PPR protein plays a variety of important roles in the whole life process of plants, but the mechanism of its action in plant stress resistance is not well understood. Based on the localization and function of PPR proteins related to abiotic stress reported, the mechanism of PPR proteins involved in regulation of abiotic stress, including post-transcriptional regulation and retrograde signaling, was reviewed and discussed in this paper. Post-transcriptional regulation is related to the role of PPR proteins in the modification of RNA after transcription. It is generally believed that PPR affects stress resistance in plants by regulating the expression of stress-related genes via binding RNA and by regulating the metabolism of organelle RNA. In terms of retrograde signaling, damage to PPR proteins can lead to impaired mitochondrial or chloroplast function, and then produce various retrograde signals (such as ROS), thereby regulating the expression of related genes and resisting adversity. However, since plastid signaling is affected by many environmental factors, some of which are still unclear, the mechanism of the PPR protein in retrograde signaling remains to be clarified. In addition, PPR proteins are pleiotropic and some have important effects on plant growth and reproduction while acting on stress resistance. Finally, this paper further analyzed the current research status of PPR protein as an RNA editing tool, discussed the remaining problems and research prospects of PPR protein in the direction of abiotic stress, and pointed out the key points and difficulties that need to be paid attention to in future research, to provide references for further research on PPR protein and crop abiotic stress resistance breeding.

Key words: PPR protein, plant, abiotic stress