scholarly journals Arabidopsis sfd Mutants Affect Plastidic Lipid Composition and Suppress Dwarfing, Cell Death, and the Enhanced Disease Resistance Phenotypes Resulting from the Deficiency of a Fatty Acid Desaturase

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2383-2398 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nandi
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Lipid Composition ◽  
Fatty Acid Desaturase

scholarly journals Suppression of the Rice Fatty-Acid Desaturase Gene OsSSI2 Enhances Resistance to Blast and Leaf Blight Diseases in Rice

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 820-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang-Jie Jiang ◽  
Masaki Shimono ◽  
Satoru Maeda ◽  
Haruhiko Inoue ◽  
Masaki Mori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Magnaporthe Grisea ◽  
Acyl Carrier Protein ◽  
Fatty Acid Desaturase ◽  
Defense Responses ◽  
Leaf Blight ◽  
Insertion Mutation ◽  
Rice Plants ◽  
Transposon Insertion

Fatty acids and their derivatives play important signaling roles in plant defense responses. It has been shown that suppressing a gene for stearoyl acyl carrier protein fatty-acid desaturase (SACPD) enhances the resistance of Arabidopsis (SSI2) and soybean to multiple pathogens. In this study, we present functional analyses of a rice homolog of SSI2 (OsSSI2) in disease resistance of rice plants. A transposon insertion mutation (Osssi2-Tos17) and RNAi-mediated knockdown of OsSSI2 (OsSSI2-kd) reduced the oleic acid (18:1) level and increased that of stearic acid (18:0), indicating that OsSSI2 is responsible for fatty-acid desaturase activity. These plants displayed spontaneous lesion formation in leaf blades, retarded growth, slight increase in endogenous free salicylic acid (SA) levels, and SA/benzothiadiazole (BTH)-specific inducible genes, including WRKY45, a key regulator of SA/BTH-induced resistance, in rice. Moreover, the OsSSI2-kd plants showed markedly enhanced resistance to the blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea and leaf-blight bacteria Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. These results suggest that OsSSI2 is involved in the negative regulation of defense responses in rice, as are its Arabidopsis and soybean counterparts. Microarray analyses identified 406 genes that were differentially expressed (≥2-fold) in OsSSI2-kd rice plants compared with wild-type rice and, of these, approximately 39% were BTH responsive. Taken together, our results suggest that induction of SA-responsive genes, including WRKY45, is likely responsible for enhanced disease resistance in OsSSI2-kd rice plants.

scholarly journals C. elegans Mediator 15 permits low temperature-induced longevity via regulation of lipid and protein homeostasis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongyeop Lee ◽  
Seon Woo A. An ◽  
Yoonji Jung ◽  
Yasuyo Yamaoka ◽  
Youngjae Ryu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Lipid Composition ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Saturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Desaturase ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Protein Homeostasis ◽  
C Elegans ◽  
Acid Ratio

AbstractLow temperatures slow aging and extend lifespan in many organisms, including Caenorhabditis elegans. However, the metabolic and homeostatic aspects of low temperature-induced longevity remain poorly understood. Here, we show that changes in lipid composition regulated by MDT-15/Mediator 15, transcriptional co-regulator, is essential for low temperature-induced longevity and proteostasis in C. elegans. We find that inhibition of mdt-15 prevents animals from living long at low temperatures. We show that MDT-15 up-regulates fat-7, a fatty acid desaturase, at low temperatures, which increases the ratio of unsaturated to saturated fatty acids. We further demonstrate that maintaining this increased fatty acid ratio is essential for protein homeostasis and longevity at low temperatures. Thus, the homeostasis of lipid composition by MDT-15 appears to be a limiting factor for C. elegans proteostasis and longevity at low temperatures. Our findings highlight the crucial roles of fat regulation in maintaining normal organismal physiology under different environmental conditions.

scholarly journals TILLING-by-Sequencing+ Reveals the Role of Novel Fatty Acid Desaturases (GmFAD2-2s) in Increasing Soybean Seed Oleic Acid Content

Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1245
Author(s):  
Naoufal Lakhssassi ◽  
Valéria Stefania Lopes-Caitar ◽  
Dounya Knizia ◽  
Mallory A. Cullen ◽  
Oussama Badad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oleic Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Acid Content ◽  
Edible Oils ◽  
Fatty Acid Desaturase ◽  
Soybean Seed ◽  
Oleic Acid Content ◽  
Fatty Acid Production ◽  
Tilling By Sequencing

Soybean is the second largest source of oil worldwide. Developing soybean varieties with high levels of oleic acid is a primary goal of the soybean breeders and industry. Edible oils containing high level of oleic acid and low level of linoleic acid are considered with higher oxidative stability and can be used as a natural antioxidant in food stability. All developed high oleic acid soybeans carry two alleles; GmFAD2-1A and GmFAD2-1B. However, when planted in cold soil, a possible reduction in seed germination was reported when high seed oleic acid derived from GmFAD2-1 alleles were used. Besides the soybean fatty acid desaturase (GmFAD2-1) subfamily, the GmFAD2-2 subfamily is composed of five members, including GmFAD2-2A, GmFAD2-2B, GmFAD2-2C, GmFAD2-2D, and GmFAD2-2E. Segmental duplication of GmFAD2-1A/GmFAD2-1B, GmFAD2-2A/GmFAD2-2C, GmFAD2-2A/GmFAD2-2D, and GmFAD2-2D/GmFAD2-2C have occurred about 10.65, 27.04, 100.81, and 106.55 Mya, respectively. Using TILLING-by-Sequencing+ technology, we successfully identified 12, 8, 10, 9, and 19 EMS mutants at the GmFAD2-2A, GmFAD2-2B, GmFAD2-2C, GmFAD2-2D, and GmFAD2-2E genes, respectively. Functional analyses of newly identified mutants revealed unprecedented role of the five GmFAD2-2A, GmFAD2-2B, GmFAD2-2C, GmFAD2-2D, and GmFAD2-2E members in controlling the seed oleic acid content. Most importantly, unlike GmFAD2-1 members, subcellular localization revealed that members of the GmFAD2-2 subfamily showed a cytoplasmic localization, which may suggest the presence of an alternative fatty acid desaturase pathway in soybean for converting oleic acid content without substantially altering the traditional plastidial/ER fatty acid production.

scholarly journals Uncoupling Salicylic Acid-Dependent Cell Death and Defense-Related Responses From Disease Resistance in the Arabidopsis Mutant acd5

Genetics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 341-350
Author(s):  
Jean T Greenberg ◽  
F Paul Silverman ◽  
Hua Liang
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Salicylic Acid ◽  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Pseudomonas Syringae ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Ethylene Signaling ◽  
Symptom Development ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Dependent Cell ◽  
Arabidopsis Mutant

Abstract Salicylic acid (SA) is required for resistance to many diseases in higher plants. SA-dependent cell death and defense-related responses have been correlated with disease resistance. The accelerated cell death 5 mutant of Arabidopsis provides additional genetic evidence that SA regulates cell death and defense-related responses. However, in acd5, these events are uncoupled from disease resistance. acd5 plants are more susceptible to Pseudomonas syringae early in development and show spontaneous SA accumulation, cell death, and defense-related markers later in development. In acd5 plants, cell death and defense-related responses are SA dependent but they do not confer disease resistance. Double mutants with acd5 and nonexpressor of PR1, in which SA signaling is partially blocked, show greatly attenuated cell death, indicating a role for NPR1 in controlling cell death. The hormone ethylene potentiates the effects of SA and is important for disease symptom development in Arabidopsis. Double mutants of acd5 and ethylene insensitive 2, in which ethylene signaling is blocked, show decreased cell death, supporting a role for ethylene in cell death control. We propose that acd5 plants mimic P. syringae-infected wild-type plants and that both SA and ethylene are normally involved in regulating cell death during some susceptible pathogen infections.

Novel polymorphisms in Stearoyl‐CoA Desaturase (SCD) and Fatty Acid Desaturase 2 (FADS2) in channel catfish ( Ictalurus punctatus, Rafinesque, 1818 )

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliva Mendoza‐Pacheco ◽  
Gaspar Manuel Parra‐Bracamonte ◽  
Xochitl Fabiola De la Rosa‐Reyna ◽  
Ana María Sifuentes‐Rincón ◽  
Isidro Otoniel Montelongo‐Alfaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Ictalurus Punctatus ◽  
Channel Catfish ◽  
Fatty Acid Desaturase ◽  
Stearoyl Coa Desaturase ◽  
Fatty Acid Desaturase 2
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