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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00144
Keywords
abscisic acid; transport; hormone; Km; pH
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (CJS PhD Fellowship) [BAP2013-33-NITSE]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-11-JSV6-002-01-NUTSE, ANR-14-CE34-0007-01-HONIT]
- Region Languedoc-Roussillon (Chercheur d'Avenir)
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Few proteins have been characterized as abscisic acid transporters. Several of them are NRT1/PRT Family (NPF) transporters which have been characterized in yeast using reporter systems. Because several members of the NPF4 subfamily members were identified in yeast as ABA transporters, here, we screened for ABA transport activity the seven members of the NPF4 subfamily in Xenopus oocytes using cRNA injection and H-3-ABA accumulation. The ABA transport capacities of NPF4.2, NPF4.5, NPF4.6, and NPF4.7 were confirmed. The transport properties of NPF4.5 and NPF4.6 were studied in more detail. Both ABA transporter activities are pH-dependent and slightly pH-dependent apparent Km around 500 mu M. There is no competitive inhibition of the ABA-analogs pyrabactin and quinabactin on ABA accumulation demonstrating a different selectivity compared to the ABA receptors. Functional expression of these ABA transporters in Xenopus oocyte is an opportunity to start structure-function studies and also to identify partner proteins of these hormone transporters.
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