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Nitric oxide is involved in the oxytetracycline-induced suppression of root growth through inhibiting hydrogen peroxide accumulation in the root meristem.

ABSTRACT: Use of antibiotic-contaminated manure in crop production poses a severe threat to soil and plant health. However, few studies have studied the mechanism by which plant development is affected by antibiotics. Here, we used microscopy, flow cytometry, gene expression analysis and fluorescent dyes to study the effects of oxytetracycline (OTC), a widely used antibiotic in agriculture, on root meristem activity and the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) and nitric oxide (NO) in the root tips of tomato seedlings. We found that OTC caused cell cycle arrest, decreased the size of root meristem and inhibited root growth. Interestingly, the inhibition of root growth by OTC was associated with a decline in H₂O₂ levels but an increase in NO levels in the root tips. Diphenyliodonium (DPI), an inhibitor of H₂O₂ production, showed similar effects on root growth as those of OTC. However, exogenous H₂O₂ partially reversed the effects on the cell cycle, meristem size and root growth. Importantly, cPTIO (the NO scavenger) and tungstate (an inhibitor of nitrate reductase) significantly increased H₂O₂ levels in the root tips and reversed the inhibition of root growth by OTC. Out results suggest that OTC-induced NO production inhibits H₂O₂ accumulation in the root tips, thus leading to cell cycle arrest and suppression of root growth.

SUBMITTER: Yu QX

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5318916 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Project description:Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and nitric oxide (NO·) are toxic metabolites that immune cells use to attack pathogens. These antimicrobials can be present at the same time in phagosomes, and it remains unclear how bacteria deal with these insults when simultaneously present. Here, using Escherichia coli, we observed that simultaneous exposure to H2O2 and NO· leads to prioritized detoxification, where enzymatic removal of NO· is impeded until H2O2 has been eliminated. This phenomenon is reminiscent of carbon catabolite repression (CCR), where preferred carbon sources are catabolized prior to less desirable substrates; however, H2O2 and NO· are toxic, growth-inhibitory compounds rather than growth-promoting nutrients. To understand how NO· detoxification is delayed by H2O2 whereas H2O2 detoxification proceeds unimpeded, we confirmed that the effect depended on Hmp, which is the main NO· detoxification enzyme, and used an approach that integrated computational modeling and experimentation to delineate and test potential mechanisms. Plausible interactions included H2O2-dependent inhibition of hmp transcription and translation, direct inhibition of Hmp catalysis, and competition for reducing equivalents between Hmp and H2O2-degrading enzymes. Experiments illustrated that Hmp catalysis and NAD(P)H supply were not impaired by H2O2, whereas hmp transcription and translation were diminished. A dependence of this phenomenon on transcriptional regulation parallels CCR, and we found it to involve the transcriptional repressor NsrR. Collectively, these data suggest that bacterial regulation of growth inhibitor detoxification has similarities to the regulation of growth substrate consumption, which could have ramifications for infectious disease, bioremediation, and biocatalysis from inhibitor-containing feedstocks.IMPORTANCE Bacteria can be exposed to H2O2 and NO· concurrently within phagosomes. In such multistress situations, bacteria could have evolved to simultaneously degrade both toxic metabolites or preferentially detoxify one over the other. Here, we found that simultaneous exposure to H2O2 and NO· leads to prioritized detoxification, where detoxification of NO· is hampered until H2O2 has been eliminated. This phenomenon resembles CCR, where bacteria consume one substrate over others in carbon source mixtures. Further experimentation revealed a central role for transcriptional regulation in the prioritization of H2O2 over NO·, which is also important to CCR. This study suggests that regulatory scenarios observed in bacterial consumption of growth-promoting compound mixtures can be conserved in bacterial detoxification of toxic metabolite mixtures.

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Nitric oxide is involved in the oxytetracycline-induced suppression of root growth through inhibiting hydrogen peroxide accumulation in the root meristem.

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