Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2018, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (14): 2689-2699.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2018.14.006

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Targeted Mutagenesis of NbbZIP28 and Its Stress Response to Virus Infection in Nicotiana benthamiana

HE QingYun, LIU XiaoWei, JIAO YuBing, YU FangFei, SHEN LiLi, YANG JinGuang, WANG FengLong   

  1. Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, Shandong
  • Received:2018-01-23 Online:2018-07-16 Published:2018-07-16

Abstract: 【Objective】 bZIP transcriptional factors are involved in plant developing, hormonal signal, disease resistance, and abiotic stress responsiveness. Previous study showed that Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) or Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) infection up-regulated the endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERs) gene NbbZIP28, and knock-down of NbbZIP28 increased more susceptibility to virus than wide type (wt). The mechanism of its stress response to virus infection still needs to be verified. 【Method】NbbZIP28 mutant plants were obtained by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technique and tobacco genetic transfection. The susceptibility of mutations to virus infection and the ER stress related UPR genes expression in mutations were compared to that in wide type by qRT-PCR. Then the fusion protein of NbbZIP28-GFP was expressed transiently in leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana in advance of inoculation with TMV 24 h or CMV 48 h, and its hydrolyzation induced by viral infection was checked by Western blot. The Cis-acting elements involved in defense and stress response in promoter region of NbbZIP28 were analyzed by PlantCARE. 【Result】The DNA deletion of 10 bp had been found in the target sites of NbbZIP28, leading to translation error and protein function changed. Under normal conditions, mutant plants showed no different phenotype from wt. Upon inoculation TMV-GFP, mutant plants showed more virus infected spots and faster expansion than WT. Upon inoculation CMV, the UPR related genes (BiP, PDI, CAM and NF-YC2) showed lower expression in mutants than that in wt plants at 12-48 hours post inoculation. in addition, mutant plants showed more virus accumulation than wt at 5-7 days, the symptoms of mosaic and shrinkage were more significant. protein sequence alignment analysis showed that NbbZIP28 had the same hydrolytic site of S1P and S2P as AbZIP28. Western blot detection found that TMV or CMV infection significantly promoted the full length of NbbZIP28-GFP to be cleaved at sites of S1P and S2P than inoculation water. There are five cis-acting elements involved in heat stress responsiveness (HSE), three cis-acting elements involved in low-temperature responsiveness (LTR) and one cis-acting element involved in defense and stress responsiveness (TC-rich repeats).【Conclusion】 Virus infection activated NbbZIP28 and up-regulated its related UPR genes. NbbZIP28 knock-out increased the susceptibility to virus than wt, and virus induced UPR gene expression is suppressed in mutant plants. NbbZIP28 is the regulating factor of UPR under virus infection stress and plays a role in suppression viral infection at early stage through up-regulating UPR signal and increasing plants basic defense response.

Key words: endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERs), unfolded protein response (UPR), NbbZIP28, virus infection, Nicotiana benthamiana

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