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Stress proteins on the yeast cell surface determine resistance to osmotin, a plant antifungal protein

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dc.contributor Department of Agriculture (US)
dc.contributor Pioneer Hi-Bred
dc.contributor The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research
dc.creator Yun, Dae-Jin
dc.creator Bressan, Ray A.
dc.creator Pardo, José M.
dc.date 2008-04-14T11:29:00Z
dc.date 2008-04-14T11:29:00Z
dc.date 1997-06
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:02:17Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:02:17Z
dc.identifier Proceeddings of the National Academy of Sciences 94(13): 7082–7087 (1997)
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3567
dc.identifier 1091-6490
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3567
dc.description 6 pages, 7 figures, 24 references. Yun, Dae-Jin et al.--
dc.description Strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae differ in their sensitivities to tobacco osmotin, an antifungal protein of the PR-5 family. However, cells sensitive to tobacco osmotin showed resistance to osmotin-like proteins purified from the plant Atriplex nummularia, indicating a strict specificity between the antifungal protein and its target cell. A member of a gene family encoding stress proteins induced by heat and nitrogen limitation, collectively called Pir proteins, was isolated among the genes that conveyed resistance to tobacco osmotin to a susceptible strain. We show that overexpression of Pir proteins increased resistance to osmotin, whereas simultaneous deletion of all PIR genes in a tolerant strain resulted in sensitivity. Pir proteins have been immunolocalized to the cell wall. The enzymatic digestion of the cell wall of sensitive and resistant cells rendered spheroplasts equally susceptible to the cytotoxic action of tobacco osmotin but not to other osmotin-like proteins, indicating that the cell membrane interacts specifically with osmotin and facilitates its action. Our results demonstrate that fungal cell wall proteins are determinants of resistance to antifungal PR-5 proteins.
dc.description This work was supported by grants from Pioneer Hi-Bred International, The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Inc., and U.S. Department of Agriculture Grant 94-37100-0754.
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
dc.rights closedAccess
dc.title Stress proteins on the yeast cell surface determine resistance to osmotin, a plant antifungal protein
dc.type Artículo


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