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Modulation of plant DNA damage response gene expression during Agrobacterium infection.

ABSTRACT: Agrobacterium T-DNA (transfer DNA) integration into the plant genome relies mostly on host proteins involved in the DNA damage repair pathways. However, conflicting results have been obtained using plants with mutated or down-regulated genes involved in these pathways. Here, we chose a different approach by following the expression of a series of genes, encoding proteins involved in the DNA damage response, during early stages of Agrobacterium infection in tobacco. First, we identified tobacco homologs of Arabidopsis genes induced upon DNA damage and demonstrated that their expression was activated by bleomycin, a DNA-break causing agent. Then, we showed that Agrobacterium infection induces the expression of several of these genes markers of the host DNA damage response, with different patterns of transcriptional response. This induction largely depends on Agrobacterium virulence factors, but not on the T-DNA, suggesting that the DNA damage response activation may rely on Agrobacterium-encoded virulence proteins. Our results suggest that Agrobacterium modulates the plant DNA damage response machinery, which might facilitate the integration of the bacterial T-DNA into the DNA breaks in the host genome.

SUBMITTER: Hu Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8086903 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Modulation of plant DNA damage response gene expression during Agrobacterium infection.

Hu Yufei Y Lacroix Benoît B Citovsky Vitaly V

Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20210325

Agrobacterium T-DNA (transfer DNA) integration into the plant genome relies mostly on host proteins involved in the DNA damage repair pathways. However, conflicting results have been obtained using plants with mutated or down-regulated genes involved in these pathways. Here, we chose a different approach by following the expression of a series of genes, encoding proteins involved in the DNA damage response, during early stages of Agrobacterium infection in tobacco. First, we identified tobacco h ...[more]

PMID: 33774281

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Modulation of plant DNA damage response gene expression during Agrobacterium infection.

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Modulation of plant DNA damage response gene expression during Agrobacterium infection.

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