INGEBI   02650
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERIA GENETICA Y BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR "DR. HECTOR N TORRES"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
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Título:
PLANT AQUAPORIN CO-EXPRESSION SENSES DIFFERENTIALLY THE INTRACELLUAR pH
Autor/es:
KARINA ALLEVA, JORGE BELLATI, MERCEDES MARQUEZ, VICTORIA VITALI, CINTIA JOZEFKOWICZ, GABRIELA SOTO, GABRIELA AMODEO
Lugar:
Boston, Estados Unidos
Reunión:
Congreso; Congreso Internacional ASPB; 2010
Institución organizadora:
American Society of plant Biologist
Resumen:
The plant plasma membrane (PM) expresses two types of aquaporins: PIP1 and
PIP2. These PIP are characterized by: i- the faculty to reduce water permeation
through the pore after cytosolic acidification as a consequence of gating process,
ii- the ability to modulate membrane water permeability by co-expression
of both types.
We investigated if these functional characteristics of PIP can act together to
give a new and relevant modulation response to acidification. To test our hypothesis
we used PIP1 and PIP2 from different plant sources (Beta vulgaris
roots and Fragaria x ananassa fruits). The experimental approach used was to
perform a functional study of PIP by means of the heterologous expression system
Xenopus oocytes and analyzed the oocyte PM water permeability coefficient
(Pf) when PIP are injected.
Briefly, the Pf was increased ten-fold by PIP2, but it remained low for both control
oocytes and PIP1 injected ones. Moreover, when oocytes expressed PIP2,
a partial (70%) pH inhibitory response under cytosolic acidification (pH 6) was
detected.
When PIP1-PIP2 co-expression was assayed, Pf was enhanced seven-fold in
comparison with Pf obtained by PIP2 expression alone. Furthermore, the pH
dependent behavior showed that PIP1-PIP2 co-expression accounts for different
pH sensitivity by shifting the EC50 of the inhibitory response from pH 6.1
to pH 6.9, compared to PIP2.
Our results show that: i- PIP co-expression impacts on the membrane water permeability
not only by modulating the water transport capacity but also the pH
regulatory response, improving in this way membrane plasticity, ii- this PIP behavior
is not a tissue specific and/or species-dependent response but a more
general one.