PMID- 24295333 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20141114 LR - 20140207 IS - 1535-3907 (Electronic) IS - 1535-3893 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 2 DP - 2014 Feb 7 TI - Protein secretome of moss plants (Physcomitrella patens) with emphasis on changes induced by a fungal elicitor. PG - 447-59 LID - 10.1021/pr400827a [doi] AB - Studies on extracellular proteins (ECPs) contribute to understanding of the multifunctional nature of apoplast. Unlike vascular plants (tracheophytes), little information about ECPs is available from nonvascular plants, such as mosses (bryophytes). In this study, moss plants (Physcomitrella patens) were grown in liquid culture and treated with chitosan, a water-soluble form of chitin that occurs in cell walls of fungi and insects and elicits pathogen defense in plants. ECPs released to the culture medium were compared between chitosan-treated and nontreated control cultures using quantitative mass spectrometry (Orbitrap) and 2-DE-LC-MS/MS. Over 400 secreted proteins were detected, of which 70% were homologous to ECPs reported in tracheophyte secretomes. Bioinformatics analyses using SignalP and SecretomeP predicted classical signal peptides for secretion (37%) or leaderless secretion (27%) for most ECPs of P. patens, but secretion of the remaining proteins (36%) could not be predicted using bioinformatics. Cultures treated with chitosan contained 72 proteins not found in untreated controls, whereas 27 proteins found in controls were not detected in chitosan-treated cultures. Pathogen defense-related proteins dominated in the secretome of P. patens, as reported in tracheophytes. These results advance knowledge on protein secretomes of plants by providing a comprehensive account of ECPs of a bryophyte. FAU - Lehtonen, Mikko T AU - Lehtonen MT AD - Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki , PO Box 27, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland. FAU - Takikawa, Yoshihiro AU - Takikawa Y FAU - Ronnholm, Gunilla AU - Ronnholm G FAU - Akita, Motomu AU - Akita M FAU - Kalkkinen, Nisse AU - Kalkkinen N FAU - Ahola-Iivarinen, Elina AU - Ahola-Iivarinen E FAU - Somervuo, Panu AU - Somervuo P FAU - Varjosalo, Markku AU - Varjosalo M FAU - Valkonen, Jari P T AU - Valkonen JP LA - eng GR - R01 GM61992/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20131206 PL - United States TA - J Proteome Res JT - Journal of proteome research JID - 101128775 RN - 0 (Plant Proteins) RN - 0 (Proteome) SB - IM MH - Bryopsida/*metabolism/microbiology MH - Chromatography, Liquid MH - Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional MH - Fungi/*physiology MH - Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis MH - Plant Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - *Proteome MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry EDAT- 2013/12/04 06:00 MHDA- 2014/11/15 06:00 CRDT- 2013/12/04 06:00 PHST- 2013/12/04 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/12/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/11/15 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1021/pr400827a [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Proteome Res. 2014 Feb 7;13(2):447-59. doi: 10.1021/pr400827a. Epub 2013 Dec 6.