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First published online February 3, 2006; 10.1104/pp.105.074146 Plant Physiology 140:922-932 (2006) © 2006 American Society of Plant Biologists AtATM3 Is Involved in Heavy Metal Resistance in Arabidopsis1National Research Laboratory of Phytoremediation, Division of Molecular Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790–784, Korea (D.-Y.K., E.M., Y.L.); Institute of Plant Sciences, Plant Nutrition, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland (L.B.); Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, B–9000 Gent, Belgium (S.K.); Korea Forest Research Institute, Suwon 441–350, Korea (E.W.N., Y.L.); and Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Universität Zürich, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland (E.M.)
AtATM3, an ATP-binding cassette transporter of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), is a mitochondrial protein involved in the biogenesis of iron-sulfur clusters and iron homeostasis in plants. Our gene expression analysis showed that AtATM3 is up-regulated in roots of plants treated with cadmium [Cd(II)] or lead (II); hence, we investigated whether this gene is involved in heavy metal tolerance. We found that AtATM3-overexpressing plants were enhanced in resistance to Cd, whereas atatm3 mutant plants were more sensitive to Cd than their wild-type controls. Moreover, atatm3 mutant plants expressing 35S promoter-driven AtATM3 were more resistant to Cd than wild-type plants. Since previous reports often showed that the cytosolic glutathione level is positively correlated with heavy metal resistance, we measured nonprotein thiols (NPSH) in these mutant plants. Surprisingly, we found that atatm3 contained more NPSH than the wild type under normal conditions. AtATM3-overexpressing plants did not differ under normal conditions, but contained less NPSH than wild-type plants when exposed to Cd(II). These results suggest a role for AtATM3 in regulating cellular NPSH level, a hypothesis that was further supported by our gene expression study. Genetic or pharmacological inhibition of glutathione biosynthesis led to the elevated expression of AtATM3, whereas expression of the glutathione synthase gene GSH1 was increased under Cd(II) stress and in the atatm3 mutant. Because the closest homolog of AtATM3 in fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), HMT1, is a vacuolar membrane-localized phytochelatin-Cd transporter, it is tempting to speculate that glutathione-Cd(II) complexes formed in the mitochondria are exported by AtATM3. In conclusion, our data show that AtATM3 contributes to Cd resistance and suggest that it may mediate transport of glutamine synthetase-conjugated Cd(II) across the mitochondrial membrane.
The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) family is one of the largest protein families in living organisms and occurs in species ranging from bacteria to humans (Higgins, 1992  ). These transporter proteins have various substrates, including ions, carbohydrates, lipids, xenobiotics, antibiotics, drugs, and heavy metals (Linton and Higgins, 1998; Theodoulou, 2000; Rogers et al., 2001; Martinoia et al., 2002). Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) contains approximately 130 ABC proteins, but the precise functions and substrate specificities of most of these transporters still remain obscure (Sanchez-Fernandez et al., 2001; Jasinski et al., 2003). Recently, some Arabidopsis ABC transporters were found to participate in detoxification processes as well as in plant growth and development (Noh et al., 2001; Campbell et al., 2003; Geisler et al., 2005). Their expression is differentially regulated by hormonal, environmental, and chemical factors (Martinoia et al., 2002; van den Brule and Smart, 2002).
The ABC transporter of the mitochondria (ATM) subfamily of Arabidopsis ABC proteins belongs to a group termed half-transporters, which comprise one transmembrane and one ATP-binding domain. There are three known ATM family members in Arabidopsis: two are located immediately adjacent to each other on chromosome IV (AtATM1 and AtATM2) and one on chromosome V (AtATM3). All three encode proteins possessing putative N-terminal mitochondrial targeting sequences and, therefore, are most likely to be mitochondrial proteins. The closest known homolog of AtATM3 is a yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) ABC transporter, Atm1p, which has been shown to localize to the mitochondrial inner membrane with its ABC domain facing the mitochondrial matrix (Leighton and Schatz, 1995
Glutathione is the major constituent of nonprotein thiols (NPSH) in most plant cells. It is generally present at concentrations of 2 to 3 mM in various plant tissues, primarily in its reduced form (GSH; Noctor et al., 2002 Here we demonstrate that expression of the Arabidopsis ATM3 is increased by Cd(II) and lead [Pb(II)] exposure. Moreover, AtATM3-overexpressing plants show enhanced Cd(II) and Pb(II) resistance compared to wild-type controls, whereas AtATM3 knockout plants (atatm3) show Cd(II)-sensitive phenotypes. Finally, the Cd(II) sensitivity of atatm3 plants was rescued when the wild-type ATM3 was expressed in the mutant. These results imply that AtATM3 plays a role in heavy metal resistance mechanisms in Arabidopsis. We also present evidence that AtATM3 is involved in the regulation of cellular glutathione levels.
AtATM3 Is Up-Regulated by Cd(II) or Pb(II)
We investigated gene expression patterns following Cd treatment using a cDNA microarray glass slide containing genes encoding putative ABC proteins as well as some housekeeping genes. This chip is described in detail in Bovet et al. (2003
Arabidopsis Plants Overexpressing AtATM3 Exhibit Enhanced Cd(II) and Pb(II) Resistance To test whether AtATM3 can improve heavy metal resistance in planta, we generated Arabidopsis plants carrying a transgene in which expression of AtATM3 was driven by the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. AtATM3 transcript levels determined by RT-PCR were higher in transgenic plants than in wild-type controls (Fig. 2A ). To test their Cd(II) resistance phenotype, seeds of three different T3 homozygous lines were germinated and grown on 0.5x Murashige and Skoog (MS) agar plates, with or without 40 µM CdCl2 or 0.5 mM Pb(NO3)2, for 2 to 3 weeks. In control 0.5x MS plates, the growth of wild-type and AtATM3 transgenic plants was similar (Fig. 2B, top). However, in 0.5x MS plates containing Cd(II) or Pb(II), transgenic plants grew better than wild-type plants (Fig. 2B, middle and bottom). Quantitative analyses confirmed that the fresh weights of AtATM3-overexpressing and wild-type plants were similar in the 0.5x MS medium but, in the Cd(II)- or Pb(II)-containing medium, fresh weights of all three lines of 35S::AtATM3 plants were 1.5- to 2-fold higher than those of wild-type plants (Fig. 2C). This indicates that AtATM3 overexpression enhances Cd(II) and Pb(II) resistance in Arabidopsis and suggests that this protein may be functionally implicated in heavy metal resistance in vivo. We tested the 35S::AtATM3 plant lines for resistance to hydrogen peroxide, but found no difference compared to the wild type (data not shown).
AtATM3-Overexpressing Transgenic Arabidopsis Plants Have Increased Cd(II) Content We measured Cd(II) content in both wild-type and 35S::AtATM3 plants grown for 10 d on 0.5x MS medium and then treated on the root with 100 µM CdCl2 for 24 h. In the shoot, AtATM3-overexpressing plants had consistently higher Cd content than wild-type plants (Fig. 3A ). Specifically, the average Cd(II) level in AtATM3 shoots was 53% higher than wild-type shoots (39.2 µg/g shoot fresh weight for ATM3 plants, 25.6 µg/g for wild type). When the 2-fold increase in fresh weight of AtATM3-overexpressing plants in Cd(II)-containing medium (Fig. 2, B and C is taken into account, it implies that total Cd content in AtATM3 transgenic shoots is more than 2-fold that of wild-type plants upon exposure to Cd(II). In roots, there was no significant difference in the level of Cd observed between wild-type and AtATM3 plants (Fig. 3A). These results suggest that AtATM3 plants transport more Cd(II) to the shoot than wild-type plants.
To test whether the mutant plants change their Cd(II) content when treated with a much lower concentration of Cd(II), we measured Cd(II) flux in the wild-type and AtATM3-overexpressing plants using 109CdCl2. The root parts of the 2-week-old intact Arabidopsis plants were soaked in 0.1 µM 109CdCl2 solution for 24 h and the radioactivity of the separated shoots and roots was measured by scintillation counting. The radioactive Cd content of the shoots and roots of AtATM3-overexpressing plants was 142% ± 13% and 107% ± 3% of those of the wild type, respectively (Fig. 3B). Because AtATM3 plants were resistant to both Cd(II) and Pb(II), we also measured Pb(II) content, but found no significant difference between wild-type and AtATM3 plants in either the shoot or the root (data not shown). However, again when the 2-fold increase in transgenic fresh weight in Pb(II)-containing medium (Fig. 2B) is factored in, total Pb content in AtATM3 transgenic shoots is more than 2-fold that of wild-type plants when they are grown in the presence of Pb(II).
Glutathione protects plant cells from oxidative stress (Alscher, 1989
To test whether the Cd(II)-resistance mechanism of AtATM3 is related to glutathione, we compared the growth of wild-type and AtATM3-overexpressing plants in medium containing L-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine (BSO), an inhibitor of
The atatm3 Mutant of Arabidopsis Is More Sensitive to Cd Than Wild-Type Plants
If AtATM3 is involved in heavy metal resistance in Arabidopsis, atatm3 mutants should be more sensitive to heavy metals than wild-type plants. To test this possibility, wild type (ecotype C24) and atatm3 mutants (sta1; Kushnir et al., 2001
The effect of Cd(II) was also investigated on seedlings grown horizontally under short-day conditions (8-h light/d). Under such photoperiodic conditions, wild-type and atatm3 mutant seedlings exhibited similar root and shoot growth during the first 14 d from the onset of germination (Fig. 5D). At the same developmental stage, however, mutant seedlings showed marked inhibition of shoot and root growth compared to wild-type controls when treated with 20 or 50 µM Cd(II) (Fig. 5D). It appears that, in Arabidopsis, loss of AtATM3 renders plants extremely sensitive to Cd(II). To test whether the atatm3 mutant is also sensitive to Pb(II), seeds of the wild type and the atatm3 mutant were germinated and grown on vertically positioned 0.5x MS agar plates, with or without 0.4 mM Pb(NO3)2, for 2 weeks. Surprisingly, the extent of growth inhibition by Pb(II) was nearly the same for the atatm3 mutant as for the wild type (Fig. 5E). Specifically, wild-type and mutant roots showed 35% ± 3% and 31% ± 5% growth reduction, respectively, after Pb(II) treatment (Fig. 5E). These results indicate that the atatm3 mutant is more sensitive to Cd(II), but not to Pb(II), than wild type.
To confirm the functional significance of AtATM3 in Cd(II) resistance, we used genetically complemented atatm3 mutant plants (cATM3 transgenic plants) that expressed the full-length AtATM3 under the control of the 35S promoter (Kushnir et al., 2001
To test whether AtATM2 and AtATM3 have overlapping functions in Cd(II) resistance, we further analyzed transgenic atatm3 plants that expressed AtATM2 under the control of the 35S promoter (cATM2; Kushnir et al., 2001 ). Although the 35S::AtATM2 plant (cATM2) partially reversed the stunted growth of the atatm3 mutant, it did not complement the Cd(II)-sensitive phenotype of the atatm3 mutant (Fig. 6), indicating that AtATM2 (alias STA2), which is the closest homolog of AtATM3 in Arabidopsis, has a very minor role, if any, in Cd(II) detoxification.
Increased sensitivity of the atatm3 mutant to Cd(II) may reflect a reduced glutathione level in cytosol because the mutant cells experience oxidative stress (Kushnir et al., 2001
AtATM3 Plays a Role in the Control of GSH Level
To determine whether AtATM3 plays a role in regulating intracellular GSH, we compared wild-type plants and the atatm3 mutant for their expression of an enzyme involved in GSH synthesis, GSH1 (
To test whether the converse is also true (i.e. absence of AtGSH1 expression or reduced level of GSH induces AtATM3 expression), we used two different approaches. First, we reduced the level of GSH in plants by adding a chemical compound (BSO) that is known to inhibit the activity of GSH1 (Griffith, 1982 ). Second, we analyzed GSH1 antisense plants that have a low GSH level due to reduced expression of the AtGSH1 gene (Xiang et al., 2001). Expression of AtATM3 was significantly higher in GSH1 antisense plants with reduced expression of GSH1 (–GSH) than in GSH1 sense plants with increased expression of GSH1 (+GSH; Fig. 8B). Treatment with Cd(II) further increased the expression of AtATM3, both in low GSH mutants and in wild-type plants exposed to BSO (Fig. 8, B and C). Because Cd(II) treatment provides a strong sink for free cellular GSH (Meyer and Fricker, 2002) by binding to GSH and phytochelatin in the cytoplasm, we conclude from Figure 8, B and C, that under conditions of decreased GSH, expression of AtATM3 increases. Together with the observation that AtGSH1 is induced in the atatm3 mutant, these data suggest that AtATM3 and AtGSH1 have a close functional link in controlling GSH levels.
AtATM3 is a mitochondrial transporter that is essential for Fe homeostasis in Arabidopsis (Kushnir et al., 2001 ). In this study, we provide several lines of evidence to implicate AtATM3 in heavy metal resistance in Arabidopsis. First, using cDNA microarray and RT-PCR technology, we show that AtATM3 is induced by Cd(II) or Pb(II) (Fig. 1). Second, we demonstrate that AtATM3-overexpressing plants grow better than wild-type controls on either Cd(II)- or Pb(II)-containing medium (Fig. 2). Third, we provide evidence that atatm3 plants are more sensitive to Cd(II) than wild-type plants (Fig. 5) and that expressing the AtATM3 gene under the 35S promoter complements the atatm3 phenotype and renders the mutant even more resistant to Cd(II) than the wild type (Fig. 6).
The atatm3 mutant plants are stunted in growth under normal conditions. Because it is deficient in the mechanism whereby the Fe-S cluster is transported from mitochondria to the cytosol (Kushnir et al., 2001 It is noteworthy that AtATM3-overexpressing plants were not different from wild-type plants with respect to their resistance to hydrogen peroxide (data not shown). Only AtATM3-overexpressing plants (Fig. 2) and not knockout plants (Fig. 5) showed a level of resistance to Pb(II) that was different from that of the wild-type plants. Neither could we detect any difference in growth of AtATM3-overexpressing plants from that of wild type in media containing two to three different concentrations of Cu(II), Fe(III), and Zn(II), which reduced the growth of the plants to less than 60% compared to normal 0.5x MS medium (data not shown). These results indicate that AtATM3 may be more specifically involved in Cd(II) resistance than in the Pb(II) or other heavy metal resistance or the general oxidative stress response, and that it may have higher affinity for Cd(II) or Cd(II)-conjugated compounds than for Pb(II) or Pb(II)-conjugated compounds.
AtATM3-overexpressing plants did not differ from wild-type controls in terms of growth or NPSH levels under normal conditions, but they did possess enhanced Cd(II) tolerance. Their NPSH level did not increase under Cd stress, resulting in a lower NPSH level under Cd(II) stress compared to wild-type plants (Fig. 7B). Normally, cellular reactive oxygen species levels increase under Cd(II) stress (Schutzendubel and Polle, 2002
A role for AtATM3 in transporting Fe-S clusters has previously been suggested in atatm3 mutants (Kushnir et al., 2001 Interestingly, AtATM1 and AtATM2 transcript levels also increased after Cd exposure, but to a lesser extent than AtATM3 (data not shown). In addition, the expression of AtATM1 and AtATM2 in the atatm3 mutant was not affected by the absence or presence of Cd(II) (data not shown). Finally, atatm3 mutant plants expressing AtATM2 did not recover the same level of Cd(II) resistance as wild-type plants. These results indicate that neither of these genes compensates for the lack of AtATM3 in the mutant. Increased Cd content in the shoot of the overexpressing plants (Fig. 3) has two plausible explanations. First, the level of Cd binding to glutathione or other thiol compounds may be increased in the cytoplasm of AtATM3-overexpressing cells simply because the cytosolic glutathione level is elevated due to increased mitochondrial transport of glutathionated Cd(II) and other glutathione complexes by AtATM3. Although the roots of AtATM3-overexpressing plants did not show altered Cd content following long-term (longer than 24 h) exposure to a high concentration (100 µM) of Cd(II) (Fig. 3A), they did show higher Cd content following short-term (5 h) incubation in medium containing the same concentration of Cd(II) (data not shown) or after 24-h incubation in medium containing a very low concentration (0.1 µM) Cd(II) (Fig. 3B). Second, long-distance transport of Cd from the root to the shoot increased. Although we are not certain about the mechanism of increased translocation in the AtATM3-overexpressing plants, higher cytosolic concentrations of thiolated Cd(II) would result in increased Cd release to the apoplast, thereby enhancing translocation from the root to the shoot. This increased translocation of Cd(II) to the shoot is a favorable characteristic for plants used in phytoremediation because it is normal practice to harvest shoots, and not roots, for this purpose. The AtATM3 gene confers another useful characteristic for phytoremediation to overexpressing plants: an increase in total Cd and Pb content. The increase reflects both the higher fresh weights of the plants (Cd and Pb) and an increased concentration of Cd. In summary, our results show that AtATM3 is important for Cd(II) and Pb(II) resistance in Arabidopsis, possibly by functioning as a transporter of GS-conjugated Cd(II) and/or Fe-S clusters across the mitochondrial membrane. Moreover, we show that overexpression of this gene is likely to be useful for phytoremediation because it increases shoot Cd content and enhances Cd and Pb tolerance of the whole plant.
Plant Material and Heavy Metal Resistance Test
Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) seeds (ecotypes Columbia [Col-0] and C24) were surface sterilized, placed in the dark at 4°C for 2 d, and then sown on Murashige and Skoog (1962)
DNA fragments of the AtATM3 (At5g58270), Act2 (At5g09810), and Ubq (At2g17200) genes, obtained from PCR amplification with AV549794, 202F3T7, and 113G15T7 expressed sequence tag templates, respectively, were spotted onto chips among other coding sequences. The low-density cDNA microarray glass slides, mRNA isolation, and hybridization procedures used in this experiment are detailed in Bovet et al. (2003
To analyze the expression of AtATM3, total RNA was extracted using TRIzol reagent and cDNA was synthesized using an RT-PCR kit (Invitrogen) employing the SuperScript first-strand synthesis system (Invitrogen). To amplify AtATM3 cDNA, PCR was performed using the following specific primers: ATM3-2 (5'-GCTGGCTTGGCGTGCTGCAATTCATG-3') and ATM3-3 (5'-GGTTCACTATTCCAATTTGATAGC-3'). For semiquantitative RT-PCR (two-step), the housekeeping gene, Act2, and S16 were amplified using the following primers: actin2-S (5'-TGGAATCCACGAGACAACCTA-3') and actin2-AS (5'-TTCTGTGAACGATTCCTGGAC-3') and S16-S (5'-GGCGACTCAACCAGCTACTGA-3') and S16-AS (5'-GTCCATAGCTGCGCATATCTC-3'). The primers for AtATM3 and GSH1 were ATM3-S (5'-TGCTCGGACATTTTTGAAATC-3') and ATM3-AS (5'-GTCCATAGCTGCGCATATCTC-3'), GSH1-S (5'-ATCTACGCTTTGTCCCCATTC-3') and GSH1-AS (5'-ATATTCCCAGAGGTTCGGTG-3'), respectively. cDNAs were prepared using Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase (Promega), as indicated by the manufacturer, and then diluted 10 times for the PCR reaction.
AtATM3 full-length cDNA was amplified by PCR using primers ATM3F (5'-ATGTCGAGAGGATCTCGATTCGTTAGG-3') and ATM3R (5'-CTATTCCAATTTGATAGCTGCATCAAG-3'). PCR products were ligated into the pGEM-T easy vector (Promega) using T4 DNA ligase and the fidelity of the AtATM3 sequence was confirmed by automated DNA sequencing (ABI 3100; Perkin-Elmer). AtATM3-T constructs were digested with SpeI and PmlI restriction enzymes and then inserted into the pCambia1302 plant binary vector, which contains the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. The constructs were introduced into the Agrobacterium GV3101 strain, which was then used to transform Arabidopsis (Col-0) using the floral-dip method (Clough and Bent., 1998
To measure heavy metal content in plants, wild-type and transgenic plants were grown on 0.5x MS agar medium supplemented with 1.5% Suc for 10 d and then the roots of wild-type and AtATM3 transgenic plants were soaked in 100 µM CdCl2 or 1 mM Pb(NO3)2 solutions for 24 h. Shoots and roots were harvested separately, washed three times with ice-cold water, and then digested with 11 N HNO3 at 200°C overnight. Digested samples were diluted with 0.1 N HNO3 and metal content was analyzed using an atomic absorption spectrometer (SpectrAA-800; Varian). To measure 109Cd content, wild-type and AtATM3-overexpressing plants were grown vertically on 0.5x MS agar plates for 2 weeks and then each plant was transferred into a microplate well containing 0.1 µM 109CdCl2 and 3H2O and then incubated for a further 24 h. Shoots and roots were harvested separately, washed three times with ice-cold water, and then soaked in scintillation cocktail solution for 24 h. 109Cd content was measured using a liquid scintillation counter (Tri-CARB2100TR; Packard Bioscience) and normalized by 3H2O.
After sterilization, seeds (approximately 20) were placed on 0.8% agar plates containing as nutrient mixture either 0.5x MS or KH2PO4 (200 mg/L), MgSO4·7H2O (187.5 mg/L), Ca(NO3)·4H2O (79.25 mg/L), KNO3 (22 mg/L), Fe-EDTA (17.5 mg/L), MnCl2·4H2O (48.75 µg/L), H3BO3 (76.25 µg/L), ZnSO4·7H2O (12.25 µg/L), CuSO4·5H2O (6.875 µg/L), NaNoO4·2H2O (12.5 µg/L), Ni(NO3)2·6H2O (3.75 µg/L), and 1% (w/v) Suc. The plates were stored at 4°C for 16 h for synchronization of seed germination and then placed vertically in the phytotron (25°C, 16-h light, and 70% humidity). After 4 d, each root apex was pointed with a marker at the back of the plates. Finally, the lengths of the roots were measured after 24 h under the same growth conditions. For shoot growth observation, sterilized seeds were deposited on similar agar plates (see above) and kept horizontally for 13 d (22°C, 8-h light, and 70% humidity).
To determine the NPSH level, wild-type and atatm3 mutant seedlings were grown for 1 week on 0.5x MS agar plates and whole seedlings were harvested. GSH (for the standard curve) or soluble protein extracts obtained after grinding seedlings at 4°C and two successive centrifugation steps at 14,000g for 15 min were diluted in 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) supplemented with 10% sulfosalicylic acid. After 30-min incubation at 4°C, soluble proteins (2.48 mL) were centrifuged and mixed with 20 µL of 10 mM 5',5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid). After 5 min, absorbance was measured at 412 nm and NPSH content extrapolated from the GSH standard curve. To determine total sulfhydryls and NPSH in the wild-type and AtATM3-overexpressing plants, plants were grown on 0.5x MS agar plates for 2 weeks and their roots were submerged in water or 100 µM CdCl2 solution for 16 h. Whole plants were harvested, ground with a mortar and pestle, and suspended in 20 mM HEPES buffer (pH 7.5) containing 0.2 M sorbitol and 5 mM EDTA. Total sulfhydryls and NPSH were measured by Ellman assay (Sedlak and Lindsay, 1968
We thank Dr. D.J. Oliver for gsh1 mutant plants, Prof. M. Van Montagu for useful discussion and continuous support, and DongHwan Shim for excellent technical assistance. Received November 17, 2005; returned for revision January 4, 2006; accepted January 5, 2006.
1 This work was supported by grants from the National Research Laboratory program (awarded to Y.L.) and from the Bundesamt fuer Bildung und Wissenschaft (Switzerland) under European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research Action E28 (Genosilva: European Forest Genomic Network, to L.B.). 
2 These authors contributed equally to the paper. The author responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantphysiol.org) is: Youngsook Lee (ylee{at}postech.ac.kr). Article, publication date, and citation information can be found at www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.105.074146. * Corresponding author; e-mail ylee{at}postech.ac.kr; fax 82–54–279–2199.
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-glutamyl-cysteine synthetase. In 0.5x MS medium, 200 µM BSO alone did not inhibit the growth of either wild-type or AtATM3-overexpressing (ATM3-1) plants (
-Tubulin (At5g23860) was amplified using primers Tub-F (5'-GCTGACGTTTTCTGTATTCC-3') and Tub-R (5'-AGGCTCTGTATTGCTGTGAT-3') and used as expressional control. 
