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Plant Physiol. 1997 Apr;113(4):1319-1327.
Identification of a Soluble, High-Affinity Salicylic Acid-Binding Protein in Tobacco.
Du H, Klessig DF.
Waksman Institute and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, P.O. Box 759, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-0759.
Salicylic acid (SA) is a key component in the signal transduction pathway(s), leading to the activation of certain defense responses in plants after pathogen attack. Previous studies have identified several proteins, including catalase and ascorbate peroxidase, through which the SA signal might act. Here we describe a new SA-binding protein. This soluble protein is present in low abundance in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) leaves and has an apparent molecular weight of approximately 25,000. It reversibly binds SA with an apparent dissociation constant of 90 nM, an affinity that is 150-fold higher than that between SA and catalase. The ability of most analogs of SA to compete with labeled SA for binding to this protein correlated with their ability to induce defense gene expression and enhanced resistance. Strikingly, benzothiadiazole, a recently described chemical activator that induces plant defenses and disease resistance at very low rates of application, was the strongest competitor, being much more effective than unlabeled SA. The possible role of this SA-binding protein in defense signal transduction is discussed.
online pharmacy ref. source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12223676&dopt=Abstract [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Plant Physiol. 1997 May;114(1):79-88.
Jasmonate-Inducible Genes Are Activated in Rice by Pathogen Attack without a Concomitant Increase in Endogenous Jasmonic Acid Levels.
Schweizer P, Buchala A, Silverman P, Seskar M, Raskin I, Metraux JP.
Institut de Biologie Vegetale, University of Fribourg, Rte Albert-Gockel 3, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland (P. Schweizer, A.B., J.-P.M.).
The possible role of the octadecanoid signaling pathway with jasmonic acid (JA) as the central component in defense-gene regulation of pathogen-attacked rice was studied. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings were treated with JA or inoculated with the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea (Hebert) Barr., and gene-expression patterns were compared between the two treatments. JA application induced the accumulation of a number of pathogenesis-related (PR) gene products at the mRNA and protein levels, but pathogen attack did not enhance the levels of (-)-JA during the time required for PR gene expression. Pathogen-induced accumulation of PR1-like proteins was reduced in plants treated with tetcyclacis, a novel inhibitor of jasmonate biosynthesis. There was an additive and negative interaction between JA and an elicitor from M. grisea with respect to induction of PR1-like proteins and of an abundant JA-and wound-induced protein of 26 kD, respectively. Finally, activation of the octadecanoid signaling pathway and induction of a number of PR genes by exogenous application of JA did not confer local acquired resistance to rice. The data suggest that accumulation of nonconjugated (-)-JA is not necessary for induction of PR genes and that JA does not orchestrate localized defense responses in pathogen-attacked rice. Instead, JA appears to be embedded in a signaling network with another pathogen-induced pathway(s) and may be required at a certain minimal level for induction of some PR genes.
online pharmacy ref. source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12223690&dopt=Abstract [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Plant Physiol. 1997 Jul;114(3):1113-1121.
Expression of Pokeweed Antiviral Protein in Transgenic Plants Induces Virus Resistance in Grafted Wild-Type Plants Independently of Salicylic Acid Accumulation and Pathogenesis-Related Protein Synthesis.
Smirnov S, Shulaev V, Tumer NE.
Center for Agricultural Molecular Biology and Department of Plant Pathology, Rutgers University, P.O. Box 231, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903-0231.
Pokeweed antiviral protein (PAP), a 29-kD protein isolated from Phytolacca americana, inhibits translation by catalytically removing a specific adenine residue from the large rRNA of the 60S subunit of eukaryotic ribosomes. Transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants expressing PAP or a variant (PAP-v) were shown to be resistant to a broad spectrum of plant viruses. Expression of PAP-v in transgenic plants induces synthesis of pathogenesis-related proteins and a very weak (<2-fold) increase in salicylic acid levels. Using reciprocal grafting experiments, we demonstrate here that transgenic tobacco rootstocks expressing PAP-v induce resistance to tobacco mosaic virus infection in both N. tabacum NN and nn scions. Increased resistance to potato virus X was also observed in N. tabacum nn scions grafted on transgenic rootstocks. PAP expression was not detected in the wild-type scions or rootstocks that showed virus resistance, nor was there any increase in salicylic acid levels or pathogenesis-related protein synthesis. Grafting experiments with transgenic plants expressing an inactive PAP mutant demonstrated that an intact active site of PAP is necessary for induction of virus resistance in wild-type scions. These results indicate that enzymatic activity of PAP is responsible for generating a signal that renders wild-type scions resistant to virus infection in the absence of increased salicylic acid levels and pathogenesis-related protein synthesis.
online pharmacy ref. source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12223762&dopt=Abstract [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Plant Physiol. 1997 Sep;115(1):61-70.
Gene-Expression Patterns and Levels of Jasmonic Acid in Rice Treated with the Resistance Inducer 2,6-Dichloroisonicotinic Acid.
Schweizer P, Buchala A, Metraux JP.
Institut de Biologie Vegetale, Universite de Fribourg, Route Albert-Gockel 3, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
Acquired disease resistance can be induced in rice (Oryza sativa) by a number of synthetic or natural compounds, but the molecular mechanisms behind the phenomenon are poorly understood. One of the synthetic inducers of resistance, 2,6-dichloroisonicotinic acid (INA), efficiently protected rice leaves from infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea (Hebert) Barr. A comparison of gene-expression patterns in plants treated with INA versus plants inoculated with the compatible pathogen M. grisea or the incompatible pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv syringae revealed only a marginal overlap: 6 gene products, including pathogenesis-related proteins (PR1-PR9), accumulated in both INA-treated and pathogen-attacked leaves, whereas 26 other gene products accumulated only in INA-treated or only in pathogen-attacked leaves. Lipoxygenase enzyme activity and levels of nonconjugated jasmonic acid (JA) were enhanced in leaves of plants treated with a high dose of INA (100 ppm). Exogenously applied JA enhanced the gene induction and plant protection caused by lower doses of INA (0.1 to 10 ppm) that by themselves did not give rise to enhanced levels of endogenous (-)-JA. These data suggest that INA, aside from activating a pathogen-induced signaling pathway, also induces events that are not related to pathogenesis. JA acts as an enhancer of both types of INA-induced reactions in rice.
online pharmacy ref. source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12223792&dopt=Abstract [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Ann Fr Anesth Reanim. 2002 Oct;21(8):643-7.
[Is length of stay in the recovery room a risk factor for cross infections?]
[Article in French]
Rogues AM, Forestier JF, Valentin ML, Vothi T, Marie S, Texier-Maugein J, Boulestreau H, Gachie JP, Janvier G.
Service d'hygiene hospitaliere, Groupe Pellegrin, place Amelie-Raba-Leon, 33076 Bordeaux, France. anne-marie.roguehu-bordeaux.fr
OBJECTIVE: To assess cross contamination for patients at the time of their stay in the recovery room (RR). STUDY DESIGN: Prospective study. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A prospective survey over 3 weeks with 75 adult patients admitted to RR after thoracic or neck surgery. Samples for bacterial analysis were systematically taken from all patients before they left the operating theatre and just before discharge of RR (nose-throat and skin adjacent to the surgical wound). During this period, hand's health care workers (HCW) and environmental surfaces were sampled. RESULTS: There were 3 groups of patients: endoscopy (41%), thoracic surgery (39%). And thyroidectomy (20%), 392 samples were analysed. Potentially pathogenic floras were found on the admission for 25 patients and at discharge for 31 patients. A pathogenic flora was detected at discharge in 13 patients, whereas none was found at admission in RR. These patients were principally in the thyroidectomy group and their stay in RR was longer than 20 minutes. There is no significant difference concerning the nosocomial risk between 3 groups. Pathogenic flora was found in 19% of HCW (8 of 42). CONCLUSION: Cross contamination can exist in recovery room and educative measures are to be taken regarding handwhashing, isolation precautions and environmental cleaning.
online pharmacy ref. source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12471785&dopt=Abstract
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