PMID- 28765275 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180226 LR - 20231112 IS - 1532-2548 (Electronic) IS - 0032-0889 (Print) IS - 0032-0889 (Linking) VI - 175 IP - 1 DP - 2017 Sep TI - Proline Accumulation Is Regulated by Transcription Factors Associated with Phosphate Starvation. PG - 555-567 LID - 10.1104/pp.17.00791 [doi] AB - Pro accumulation in plants is a well-documented physiological response to osmotic stress caused by drought or salinity. In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), the stress and ABA-induced Delta1-PYRROLINE-5-CARBOXYLATE SYNTHETASE1 (P5CS1) gene was previously shown to control Pro biosynthesis in such adverse conditions. To identify regulatory factors that control the transcription of P5CS1, Y1H screens were performed with a genomic fragment of P5CS1, containing 1.2-kB promoter and 0.8-kb transcribed regions. The myeloblastosis (MYB)-type transcription factors PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE1 (PHR1) and PHR1-LIKE1 (PHL1) were identified to bind to P5CS1 regulatory sequences in the first intron, which carries a conserved PHR1-binding site (P1BS) motif. Binding of PHR1 and PHL1 factors to P1BS was confirmed by Y1H, electrophoretic mobility assay and chromatin immunoprecipitation. Phosphate starvation led to gradual increase in Pro content in wild-type Arabidopsis plants as well as transcriptional activation of P5CS1 and PRO DEHYDROGENASE2 genes. Induction of P5CS1 transcription and Pro accumulation during phosphate deficiency was considerably reduced by phr1 and phl1 mutations and was impaired in the ABA-deficient aba2-3 and ABA-insensitive abi4-1 mutants. Growth and viability of phr1phl1 double mutant was significantly reduced in phosphate-depleted medium, while growth was only marginally affected in the aba2-3 mutants, suggesting that ABA is implicated in growth retardation in such nutritional stress. Our results reveal a previously unknown link between Pro metabolism and phosphate nutrition and show that Pro biosynthesis is target of cross talk between ABA signaling and regulation of phosphate homeostasis through PHR1- and PHL1-mediated transcriptional activation of the P5CS1 gene. CI - (c) 2017 American Society of Plant Biologists. All Rights Reserved. FAU - Aleksza, David AU - Aleksza D AD - Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, 6726-Szeged, Hungary. FAU - Horvath, Gabor V AU - Horvath GV AD - Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, 6726-Szeged, Hungary. FAU - Sandor, Gyorgyi AU - Sandor G AD - Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, 6726-Szeged, Hungary. FAU - Szabados, Laszlo AU - Szabados L AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9163-9875 AD - Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, 6726-Szeged, Hungary szabados.laszlo@brc.mta.hu. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170801 PL - United States TA - Plant Physiol JT - Plant physiology JID - 0401224 RN - 0 (Arabidopsis Proteins) RN - 0 (Multienzyme Complexes) RN - 0 (PHL1 protein, Arabidopsis) RN - 0 (PHR1 protein, Arabidopsis) RN - 0 (Phosphates) RN - 0 (Plant Growth Regulators) RN - 0 (Pyrroles) RN - 0 (Transcription Factors) RN - 0 (delta(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase, Arabidopsis) RN - 2906-39-0 (delta-1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate) RN - 72S9A8J5GW (Abscisic Acid) RN - 9DLQ4CIU6V (Proline) RN - EC 1.2.1.41 (Glutamate-5-Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase) RN - EC 2.7.1.- (Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)) SB - IM MH - Abscisic Acid/metabolism MH - Arabidopsis/*genetics/metabolism MH - Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Binding Sites MH - Glutamate-5-Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase/genetics/*metabolism MH - Multienzyme Complexes/genetics/*metabolism MH - Mutation MH - Phosphates/deficiency MH - Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)/genetics/*metabolism MH - Plant Growth Regulators/metabolism MH - Proline/*metabolism MH - Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics MH - Pyrroles/metabolism MH - *Signal Transduction MH - Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism MH - Transcriptional Activation PMC - PMC5580772 EDAT- 2017/08/03 06:00 MHDA- 2018/02/27 06:00 PMCR- 2017/08/01 CRDT- 2017/08/03 06:00 PHST- 2017/06/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/07/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/08/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/02/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/08/03 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/08/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - pp.17.00791 [pii] AID - PP2017RA00791DR1 [pii] AID - 10.1104/pp.17.00791 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Plant Physiol. 2017 Sep;175(1):555-567. doi: 10.1104/pp.17.00791. Epub 2017 Aug 1.