Wei-Hong Wang, Barbara Köhler, Feng-Qiu Cao, Guo-Wei Liu, Yuan-Yong Gong, Song Sheng, Qi-Chao Song, Xiao-Yuan Cheng, Trevor Garnett, Mamoru Okamoto, Rui Qin, Bernd Müller-Röber, Mark Tester, Lai-Hua Liu
- Despite the great agricultural and ecological importance of efficient use of urea-containing nitrogen fertilizers by crops, molecular and physiological identities of urea transport in higher plants have been investigated only in Arabidopsis. We performed short-time urea-influx assays which have identified a low-affinity and high-affinity (Km of 7.55 mu M) transport system for urea-uptake by rice roots (Oryza sativa). A high-affinity urea transporter OsDUR3 from rice was functionally characterized here for the first time among crops. OsDUR3 encodes an integral membrane-protein with 721 amino acid residues and 15 predicted transmembrane domains. Heterologous expression demonstrated that OsDUR3 restored yeast dur3-mutant growth on urea and facilitated urea import with a Km of c. 10 mu M in Xenopus oocytes. Quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) analysis revealed upregulation of OsDUR3 in rice roots under nitrogen-deficiency and urea-resupply after nitrogen-starvation. Importantly, overexpression of OsDUR3Despite the great agricultural and ecological importance of efficient use of urea-containing nitrogen fertilizers by crops, molecular and physiological identities of urea transport in higher plants have been investigated only in Arabidopsis. We performed short-time urea-influx assays which have identified a low-affinity and high-affinity (Km of 7.55 mu M) transport system for urea-uptake by rice roots (Oryza sativa). A high-affinity urea transporter OsDUR3 from rice was functionally characterized here for the first time among crops. OsDUR3 encodes an integral membrane-protein with 721 amino acid residues and 15 predicted transmembrane domains. Heterologous expression demonstrated that OsDUR3 restored yeast dur3-mutant growth on urea and facilitated urea import with a Km of c. 10 mu M in Xenopus oocytes. Quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) analysis revealed upregulation of OsDUR3 in rice roots under nitrogen-deficiency and urea-resupply after nitrogen-starvation. Importantly, overexpression of OsDUR3 complemented the Arabidopsis atdur3-1 mutant, improving growth on low urea and increasing root urea-uptake markedly. Together with its plasma membrane localization detected by green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagging and with findings that disruption of OsDUR3 by T-DNA reduces rice growth on urea and urea uptake, we suggest that OsDUR3 is an active urea transporter that plays a significant role in effective urea acquisition and utilisation in rice.…
MetadatenVerfasserangaben: | Wei-Hong Wang, Barbara Köhler, Feng-Qiu Cao, Guo-Wei Liu, Yuan-Yong Gong, Song Sheng, Qi-Chao Song, Xiao-Yuan Cheng, Trevor Garnett, Mamoru Okamoto, Rui Qin, Bernd Müller-RöberORCiDGND, Mark Tester, Lai-Hua Liu |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03929.x |
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ISSN: | 0028-646X |
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Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | New phytologist : international journal of plant science |
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Verlag: | Wiley-Blackwell |
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Verlagsort: | Malden |
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Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2012 |
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2012 |
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Datum der Freischaltung: | 26.03.2017 |
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Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | OsDUR3; high-affinity transporter; leaf senescence; nitrogen remobilization; overexpression; rice plant; urea transport and utilization |
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Band: | 193 |
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Ausgabe: | 2 |
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Seitenanzahl: | 13 |
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Erste Seite: | 432 |
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Letzte Seite: | 444 |
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Fördernde Institution: | NHTRD, China [2006AA10Z166]; NSF of China (NSFC) [30771288, 31070223];
NSFC [30821003] |
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Organisationseinheiten: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
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Peer Review: | Referiert |
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