Suppression of tobacco basic chitinase gene expression in response to colonization by the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices

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Suppression of tobacco basic chitinase gene expression in response to colonization by the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices

Year: 

1998

Source of publication :

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Authors :

גינזברג, עידית

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גפני, ידידיה

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דוד-שוורץ, רקפת

;

קפולניק, יורם

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Co-Authors: 

David, R., Institute of Field and Garden Crops, ARO, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
Itzhaki, H., Department of Plant Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel, Institute for Applied Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Ginzberg, I., Institute of Field and Garden Crops, ARO, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
Gafni, Y., Institute of Field and Garden Crops, ARO, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
Galili, G., Department of Plant Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Kapulnik, Y., Institute of Field and Garden Crops, ARO, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel

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489

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497

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Total pages: 

9

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Suppression of tobacco basic chitinase gene expression in response to colonization by the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices

Abstract: 

A differentially displayed cDNA clone (MD17) was isolated from tobacco roots (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi-nc) infected with the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus Glomus intraradices. The isolated DNA fragment exhibited a reduced level of expression in response to AM establishment and 90% identity with the 3' noncoding sequence of two basic chitinases (EC 3.2.1.14) from N. tabacum. Northern (RNA) blots and Western blots (immunoblots), probed with tobacco basic chitinase gene-specific probe and polyclonal antibodies raised against the chitinase enzyme, yielded hybridization patterns similar to those of MD17. Moreover, the up-regulation of the 32-kDa basic chitinase gene expression in tobacco roots by (1,2,3)-thiadiazole-7-carbothioic acid S-methyl ester (BTH) was less effective in mycorrhizal roots than in nonmycorrhizal controls. Suppression of endogenous basic chitinase (32-kDa) expression was also observed in transgenic mycorrhizal plants that constitutively express the 34-kDa basic chitinase A isoform. When plants were grown with an increased phosphate supply, no suppression of the 32-kDa basic chitinase was obtained. These findings indicate that during the colonization and establishment of G. intraradices in tobacco roots, expression of the basic chitinase gene is down-regulated at the mRNA level.