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ABSTRACT: Rapid metabolic responses to pathogens are essential for plant survival and depend on numerous transcription factors. Mediator is the major transcriptional co-regulator for integration and transmission of signals from transcriptional regulators to RNA polymerase II. Using four Arabidopsis Mediator mutants, med16, med18, med25 and cdk8, we studied how differences in regulation of their transcript and metabolite levels correlate to their responses to Pseudomonas syringae infection. We found that med16 and cdk8 were susceptible, while med25 showed increased resistance. Glucosinolates, phytoalexins and carbohydrates were reduced already before infection in med16 and cdk8, but increased in med25, which also display increased benzenoids levels. Early after infection, wild type plants showed reduced glucosinolate and nucleoside levels, but increases in amino acids, benzeniods, oxylipins and the phytoalexin Camalexin. The Mediator mutants showed altered levels of these metabolites and in regulation of genes encoding key enzymes for their metabolism. At later stage, mutants displayed defective levels of specific amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids and jasmonates which correlates to their infection response phenotypes. Our results reveal that MED16, MED25 and CDK8 are required for a proper, coordinated transcriptional response of genes which encode enzymes involved in important metabolic pathways for Arabidopsis responses to Pseudomonas syringae infection.
INSTRUMENT(S): Liquid Chromatography MS - negative - reverse phase, Gas Chromatography MS - positive, Liquid Chromatography MS - positive - reverse phase
SUBMITTER: Stefan Björklund
PROVIDER: MTBLS8105 | MetaboLights | 1970-01-01
REPOSITORIES: MetaboLights
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