Vacuolar cation/H⁺ exchange, ion homeostasis, and leaf development are altered in a T‐DNA insertional mutant of <i>AtNHX1</i>, the <i>Arabidopsis</i> vacuolar Na⁺/H⁺ antiporter

• Maris P. Apse

• Jordan B. Sottosanto

• Eduardo Blumwald

抄録

The function of vacuolar Na + /H + antiporter(s) in plants has been studied primarily in the context of salinity tolerance. By facilitating the accumulation of Na + away from the cytosol, plant cells can avert ion toxicity and also utilize vacuolar Na + as osmoticum to maintain turgor. As many genes encoding these antiporters have been cloned from salt‐sensitive plants, it is likely that they function in some capacity other than salinity tolerance. The wide expression pattern of Arabidopsis thaliana sodium proton exchanger 1 ( AtNHX1 ) in this study supports this hypothesis. Here, we report the isolation of a T‐DNA insertional mutant of AtNHX1 , a vacuolar Na + /H + antiporter in Arabidopsis . Vacuoles isolated from leaves of the nhx1 plants had a much lower Na + /H + and K + /H + exchange activity. nhx1 plants also showed an altered leaf development, with reduction in the frequency of large epidermal cells and a reduction in overall leaf area compared to wild‐type plants. The overexpression of AtNHX1 in the nhx1 background complemented these phenotypes. In the presence of NaCl, nhx1 seedling establishment was impaired. These results place AtNHX1 as the dominant K + and Na + /H + antiporter in leaf vacuoles in Arabidopsis and also suggest that its contribution to ion homeostasis is important for not only salinity tolerance but development as well.

収録刊行物

• The Plant Journal

  The Plant Journal 36 (2), 229-239, 2003-09-15

  Wiley

キーワード

• Cell Biology
• Plant Science
• Genetics

詳細情報

• CRID: 1363388844299870848
• NII論文ID: 30014609354
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2003.01871.x
• ISSN: 1365313X
• ISSN: 09607412
• Web Site: https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-313X.2003.01871.x
• Web Site: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01871.x
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