Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2018456 Plant Science 2006 11 Pages PDF
Abstract

The Arabidopsis mitogen-activated kinase MPK6 transmits a diversity of stress signals. However, much less is known about resetting mechanisms subsequent to the stress response. We show that MPK6 is a potential target of abscisic acid-insensitive 1 (ABI1), a protein phosphatase 2C that acts as a key element in attenuating abscisic acid (ABA)-dependent stress signaling. MPK6 can bind to ABI1 in vitro and in yeast, and that a complex containing these two proteins can be co-precipitated from transfected Arabidopsis cells. In whole plants, MPK6 is hyper-reactive to osmotic stress in mutants compromised in ABI1 activity, but not in its closest functional homolog ABI2. Moreover, conditional expression of a dominant-negative form of mpk6 renders plants hypersensitive to ABA. MPK6 enhances the synthesis of ethylene [1]. ABI1 may therefore down modulate ethylene as part of the resetting mechanism after stress.

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