Reciprocal regulation between the negative regulator PP2CG1 phosphatase and the positive regulator OST1 kinase confers cold response in Arabidopsis

• 作者: Jian Lv Jingyan Liu Yuhang Ming Yiting Shi Chunpeng Song Zhizhong Gong Shuhua Yang Yanglin Ding
• 来源期刊: 植物学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（8）
• 所属期刊栏目: Plant-abiotic Interactions
• 页码范围: 1568-1587
• 页数: 20页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation have been reported to play important roles in plant cold responses. In addition, phospho-regulatory feedback is a conserved mechanism for biological processes and stress responses in animals and plants. However, it is less well known that a reg-ulatory feedback loop is formed by the protein kinase and the protein phosphatase in plant re-sponses to cold stress. Here, we report that OPEN STOMATA 1 (OST1) and PROTEIN PHOSPHA-TASE 2C G GROUP 1 (PP2CG1) reciprocally reg-ulate the activity during the cold stress response. The interaction of PP2CG1 and OST1 is inhibited by cold stress, which results in the release of OST1 at the cytoplasm and nucleus from sup-pression by PP2CG1. Interestingly, cold-activated OST1 phosphorylates PP2CG1 to suppress its phosphatase activity, thereby amplifying cold signaling in plants. Mutations of PP2CG1 and its homolog PP2CG2 enhance freezing tolerance, whereas overexpression of PP2CG1 decreases freezing tolerance. Moreover, PP2CG1 negatively regulates protein levels of C-REPEAT BINDING FACTORs (CBFs) under cold stress. Our results uncover a phosphor/dephosphor-regulatory feed-back loop mediated by PP2CG1 phosphatase and OST1 protein kinase in plant cold responses.