MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF CDSP-34, A CHLOROPLASTIC PROTEIN-INDUCED BY WATER-DEFICIT IN SOLANUM-TUBEROSUM L. PLANTS, AND REGULATION OF CDSP-34 EXPRESSION BY ABA AND HIGH ILLUMINATION
B. Gillet et al., MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF CDSP-34, A CHLOROPLASTIC PROTEIN-INDUCED BY WATER-DEFICIT IN SOLANUM-TUBEROSUM L. PLANTS, AND REGULATION OF CDSP-34 EXPRESSION BY ABA AND HIGH ILLUMINATION, Plant journal, 16(2), 1998, pp. 257-262
We previously described the accumulation of a 34 kDa thylakoid protein
, named CDSP 34 for chloroplastic drought-induced stress protein, in S
olanum tuberosum plants subjected to water deficit. A full-length CDSP
34 cDNA has been isolated and we report here that mature CDSP 34 is h
ighly similar to two chromoplastic proteins, fibrillin from Capsicum a
nnuum and CHRC (for chromoplast protein C) from Cucumis sativus, compo
nents of carotenoid-accumulating structures. Northern and Western anal
yses showed that both CDSP 34 transcript and protein accumulated from
early stages of water deficit. In water-stressed tomato plants, simila
r increases in the CDSP art-related transcript amount were noticed in
wildtype and ABA-deficient flacca mutant, but protein accumulation was
observed only in wild-type, suggesting a posttranscriptional role of
ABA in CDSP 34 synthesis regulation. Substantial increases in CDSP 34
transcript and protein abundances were also observed in potato plants
subjected to high illumination. The CDSP 34 protein is proposed to pla
y a structural role in stabilizing stromal lamellae thylakoids upon os
motic or oxidative stress.