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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Diversity in expression patterns and functional properties in the Rice HKT transporter family
Plant Physiology, Volume 150, No. 4, Year 2009
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Plant growth under low K+availability or salt stress requires tight control of K+and Na+uptake, long-distance transport, and accumulation. The family of membrane transporters named HKT (for High-Affinity K+Transporters), permeable either to K+and Na+or to Na+only, is thought to play major roles in these functions. Whereas Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) possesses a single HKT transporter, involved in Na+transport in vascular tissues, a larger number of HKT transporters are present in rice (Oryza sativa) as well as in other monocots. Here, we report on the expression patterns and functional properties of three rice HKT transporters, OsHKT1;1, OsHKT1;3, and OsHKT2;1. In situ hybridization experiments revealed overlapping but distinctive and complex expression patterns, wider than expected for such a transporter type, including vascular tissues and root periphery but also new locations, such as osmocontractile leaf bulliform cells (involved in leaf folding). Functional analyses in Xenopus laevis oocytes revealed striking diversity. OsHKT1;1 and OsHKT1;3, shown to be permeable to Na+only, are strongly different in terms of affinity for this cation and direction of transport (inward only or reversible). OsHKT2;1 displays diverse permeation modes, Na+-K+symport, Na+uniport, or inhibited states, depending on external Na+and K+concentrations within the physiological concentration range. The whole set of data indicates that HKT transporters fulfill distinctive roles at the whole plant level in rice, each system playing diverse roles in different cell types. Such a large diversity within the HKT transporter family might be central to the regulation of K+ and Na+accumulation in monocots. © 2009 American Society of Plant Biologists.
Authors & Co-Authors
Jabnoune, Mehdi
France, Montpellier
Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire Des Plantes
Tunisia, Hamam Lif
Centre de Biotechnologie de Borj Cédria
Espeout, Sandra
France, Montpellier
Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire Des Plantes
France, Montpellier
Inrae's Occitanie-montpellier Centre
Mieulet, Delphine
France, Montpellier
Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire Des Plantes
France, Montpellier
Inrae's Occitanie-montpellier Centre
Fizames, Cécile
France, Montpellier
Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire Des Plantes
Verdeil, Jean Luc
France, Montpellier
Inrae's Occitanie-montpellier Centre
Conéjéro, Geneviev̀e
France, Montpellier
Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire Des Plantes
Rodríguez-Navarro, Alonso
Spain, Madrid
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Sentenac, Hervé
France, Montpellier
Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire Des Plantes
Guiderdoni, Emmanuel
France, Montpellier
Inrae's Occitanie-montpellier Centre
Abdelly, Chédly
Tunisia, Hamam Lif
Centre de Biotechnologie de Borj Cédria
Véry, Anne Aliénor
France, Montpellier
Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire Des Plantes
Statistics
Citations: 179
Authors: 11
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1104/pp.109.138008
ISSN:
00320889
e-ISSN:
15322548
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics