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Plant Physiol, March 2003, Vol. 131, pp. 976-984
Nod Factor Elicits Two Separable Calcium Responses in
Medicago truncatula Root Hair Cells1
Sidney L.
Shaw* and
Sharon R.
Long
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biological Sciences,
Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
Modulation of intracellular calcium levels plays a key role in the
transduction of many biological signals. Here, we characterize early
calcium responses of wild-type and mutant Medicago
truncatula plants to nodulation factors produced by the
bacterial symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti using a
dual-dye ratiometric imaging technique. When presented with 1 nM Nod factor, root hair cells exhibited only the
previously described calcium spiking response initiating 10 min after
application. Nod factor (10 nM) elicited an immediate increase in calcium levels that was temporally earlier and spatially distinct from calcium spikes occurring later in the same cell. Nod
factor analogs that were structurally related, applied at 10 nM, failed to initiate this calcium flux response. Cells
induced to spike with low Nod factor concentrations show a calcium flux response when Nod factor is raised from 1 to 10 nM. Plant
mutants previously shown to be deficient for the calcium spiking
response (dmi1 and dmi2) exhibited an
immediate, truncated calcium flux with 10 nM Nod factor,
demonstrating a competence to respond to Nod factor but an impaired
ability to generate a full biphasic response. These results demonstrate
that the legume root hair cell exhibits two independent calcium
responses to Nod factor triggered at different agonist concentrations
and suggests an early branch point in the Nod factor signal
transduction pathway.
1
This work was supported by the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute and by the Department of Energy Biosciences Division
(grant no. DE-FG03-90ER2001).
*
Corresponding author; e-mail Squid{at}cmgm.stanford.edu; fax
650-725-8309.
© 2003 American Society of Plant Biologists
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