Soybean C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Protein GmZFP3 with Conserved QALGGH Motif Negatively Regulates Drought Responses in Transgenic Arabidopsis

Plant response to environmental stresses is regulated by a complicated network of regulatory and functional genes. In this study, we isolated the putative stress-associated gene GmZFP3 (a C2H2-type Zinc finger protein gene) based on the previous finding that it was one of two genes located in the QT...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Dayong, Tong, Jinfeng, Xu, Zhaolong, Wei, Peipei, Xu, Ling, Wan, Qun, Huang, Yihong, He, Xiaolan, Yang, Jiayin, Shao, Hongbo, Ma, Hongxiang
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Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
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spelling pubmed-47960062016-04-04 Soybean C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Protein GmZFP3 with Conserved QALGGH Motif Negatively Regulates Drought Responses in Transgenic Arabidopsis Zhang, Dayong Tong, Jinfeng Xu, Zhaolong Wei, Peipei Xu, Ling Wan, Qun Huang, Yihong He, Xiaolan Yang, Jiayin Shao, Hongbo Ma, Hongxiang Plant Science Plant response to environmental stresses is regulated by a complicated network of regulatory and functional genes. In this study, we isolated the putative stress-associated gene GmZFP3 (a C2H2-type Zinc finger protein gene) based on the previous finding that it was one of two genes located in the QTL region between the Satt590 and Satt567 markers related to soybean tolerance to drought. Temporal and spatial expression analysis using quantitative real-time PCR indicated that GmZFP3 was primarily expressed in roots, stems and leaf organs and was expressed at low levels in flowers and soybean pods. Moreover, GmZFP3 expression increased in response to polyethylene glycol (PEG) and Abscisic acid (ABA) treatments. In addition, subcellular localization analysis indicated that GmZFP3 was ubiquitously distributed in plant cells. Transgenic experiments indicated that GmZFP3 played a negative role in plant tolerance to drought. Analysis of ABA-related marker gene expression in Arabidopsis suggested that GmZFP3 might be involved in the ABA-dependent pathway during the drought stress response. Taken together, these results suggest that soybean GmZFP3 negatively regulates the drought response. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4796006/ /pubmed/27047508 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.00325 Text en Copyright © 2016 Zhang, Tong, Xu, Wei, Xu, Wan, Huang, He, Yang, Shao and Ma. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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author Zhang, Dayong
Tong, Jinfeng
Xu, Zhaolong
Wei, Peipei
Xu, Ling
Wan, Qun
Huang, Yihong
He, Xiaolan
Yang, Jiayin
Shao, Hongbo
Ma, Hongxiang
spellingShingle Zhang, Dayong
Tong, Jinfeng
Xu, Zhaolong
Wei, Peipei
Xu, Ling
Wan, Qun
Huang, Yihong
He, Xiaolan
Yang, Jiayin
Shao, Hongbo
Ma, Hongxiang
Soybean C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Protein GmZFP3 with Conserved QALGGH Motif Negatively Regulates Drought Responses in Transgenic Arabidopsis
author_facet Zhang, Dayong
Tong, Jinfeng
Xu, Zhaolong
Wei, Peipei
Xu, Ling
Wan, Qun
Huang, Yihong
He, Xiaolan
Yang, Jiayin
Shao, Hongbo
Ma, Hongxiang
author_sort Zhang, Dayong
title Soybean C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Protein GmZFP3 with Conserved QALGGH Motif Negatively Regulates Drought Responses in Transgenic Arabidopsis
title_short Soybean C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Protein GmZFP3 with Conserved QALGGH Motif Negatively Regulates Drought Responses in Transgenic Arabidopsis
title_full Soybean C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Protein GmZFP3 with Conserved QALGGH Motif Negatively Regulates Drought Responses in Transgenic Arabidopsis
title_fullStr Soybean C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Protein GmZFP3 with Conserved QALGGH Motif Negatively Regulates Drought Responses in Transgenic Arabidopsis
title_full_unstemmed Soybean C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Protein GmZFP3 with Conserved QALGGH Motif Negatively Regulates Drought Responses in Transgenic Arabidopsis
title_sort soybean c2h2-type zinc finger protein gmzfp3 with conserved qalggh motif negatively regulates drought responses in transgenic arabidopsis
description Plant response to environmental stresses is regulated by a complicated network of regulatory and functional genes. In this study, we isolated the putative stress-associated gene GmZFP3 (a C2H2-type Zinc finger protein gene) based on the previous finding that it was one of two genes located in the QTL region between the Satt590 and Satt567 markers related to soybean tolerance to drought. Temporal and spatial expression analysis using quantitative real-time PCR indicated that GmZFP3 was primarily expressed in roots, stems and leaf organs and was expressed at low levels in flowers and soybean pods. Moreover, GmZFP3 expression increased in response to polyethylene glycol (PEG) and Abscisic acid (ABA) treatments. In addition, subcellular localization analysis indicated that GmZFP3 was ubiquitously distributed in plant cells. Transgenic experiments indicated that GmZFP3 played a negative role in plant tolerance to drought. Analysis of ABA-related marker gene expression in Arabidopsis suggested that GmZFP3 might be involved in the ABA-dependent pathway during the drought stress response. Taken together, these results suggest that soybean GmZFP3 negatively regulates the drought response.
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate 2016
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4796006/
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