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Understanding of Drought Stress Signaling Network in Plants

식물의 물부족 스트레스 신호 전달 네트워크에 대한 이해

  • Lee, Jae-Hoon (Department of Biology Education, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2018.01.29
  • Accepted : 2018.03.27
  • Published : 2018.03.30
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Abstract

Among a variety of environmental stresses heat, cold, chilling, high salt, drought, and so on exposed to plants, drought stress has been reported as a crucial factor to adversely affect the growth and productivity of plants. Therefore, to understand the mechanism for the drought stress signal transduction pathway in plants is more helpful to develop useful crops that display the enhanced tolerance against drought stress, and to expand crop growing areas. The signal transduction pathway for the drought stress in plants is largely categorized into two types; ABA-dependent pathway and ABA-independent pathway. It has been reported that two transcription factors, AREB/ABF and DREB2, play predominant roles in ABA-dependent and ABA-independent pathways, respectively. In addition to transcriptional regulation mediated by AREB/ABF and DREB2 transcription factors, post-translational modification (such as phosphorylation and ubiquitination) and epigenetic control are importantly involved in the signal transduction for drought stress. In this paper, we review current understanding of signal transduction pathway on drought stress in plants, especially focusing on the biological roles of a variety of signaling components related to drought stress response. Further understanding the mechanism of drought resistance in plants through this review will be useful to establish theoretical basis for developing drought tolerant crops in the future.

식물이 접하는 다양한 환경 스트레스(고온, 저온, 냉해, 고염, 가뭄 등) 중에서 물부족(가뭄) 스트레스는 식물의 생장 및 생산성을 저해하는 가장 주요한 요인으로 보고되어 왔다. 그러므로, 물부족 스트레스에 대한 식물의 반응 기작을 명확히 이해하는 것은 물부족 스트레스 저항성이 증가된 유용 작물 개발에 적용될 수 있을 것으로 기대되며, 그 결과 작물 재배 가능 지역의 확대에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다. 식물의 물부족 스트레스 신호 과정은 크게 식물 호르몬인 앱시스산 의존적인 과정과 비의존적인 과정으로 분류되며, 각각 AREB/ABF, DREB2 전사 조절 인자가 주요한 전사 조절 인자로 참여하여 하위 단계 반응 유전자의 발현 조절에 참여한다. 이러한 AREB/ABF, DREB2 의존적인 regulon에 대한 연구를 통해 물부족 스트레스 신호 과정 중 전사 수준의 조절에 대한 규명이 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 해당 신호 과정에는 전사 수준의 조절뿐만 아니라 인산화, 유비퀴틴화와 같은 번역 후 변형 과정 및 염색질 변형에 의해 매개되는 후성유전학적 조절도 연관되어 있다. 본 총설에서는 현재까지 보고된 물부족 스트레스 신호 전달 과정을, 이와 관련되어 보고된 다양한 신호 전달 단백질들의 기능과 연계시켜 알아보고자 한다. 이러한 물부족 스트레스 신호 전달 과정에 대한 명확한 이해는 향후 유용 내건성 작물 개발을 위한 이론적 기반 구축에 도움이 될 수 있을 것이라 생각된다.

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