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Published on November 3, 2006; 10.1104/pp.106.091322
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Received October 13, 2006
Accepted October 28, 2006
A Heat-Inducible Transcription Factor, HsfA2, Is Required for Extension of Acquired Thermotolerance in Arabidopsis
Yee-yung Charng *, Hsiang-chin Liu , Nai-yu Liu , Wen-tzu Chi , Chun-neng Wang , Shih-hsun Chang , and Tsu-tsuen Wang
Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, ROC
Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Horticulture, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, ROC
Department of Horticulture, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, ROC
* Corresponding author; email: yycharng{at}gate.sinica.edu.tw.
The expression of heat-shock proteins (Hsps) induced by nonlethal heat treatment confers acquired thermotolerance (AT) to organisms against subsequent challenges of otherwise lethal temperature. After the stress signal is removed, AT gradually decays, with decreased Hsps during recovery. AT of sufficient duration is critical for sessile organisms such as plants to survive repeated heat stress in their environment, but little is known regarding its regulation. To identify potential regulatory components, we took a reverse-genetics approach by screening for Arabidopsis T-DNA insertion mutants that show decreased thermotolerance after a long recovery (2 d) under non-stress conditions following an acclimation heat treatment. Among the tested mutants corresponding to 48 heat-induced genes, only the HsfA2 knockout mutant showed an obvious phenotype. Following pretreatment at 37oC, the mutant line was more sensitive to severe heat stress than the wild type after long but not short recovery periods, and this could be complemented by the introduction of a wild-type copy of the HsfA2 gene. Quantitative hypocotyl elongation assay also revealed that AT decayed faster in the absence of HsfA2. Significant reduction in the transcript levels of several highly heat-inducible genes was observed in HsfA2 knockout plants after 4 h recovery or 2 h prolonged heat stress. Immunoblot analysis showed that Hsa32 and class I small Hsp were less abundant in the mutant than in the wild type after long recovery. Our results suggest that HsfA2 as a heat-inducible transactivator sustains the expression of Hsp genes and extends the duration of AT in Arabidopsis.
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