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PLANT CELL 12 (9): 1667-1678

Copyright © 2000 by the American Society of Plant Physiologists.

Plant Cell, Vol. 12, 1667-1678, September 2000, Copyright © 2000, American Society of Plant Physiologists SOS3 Function in Plant Salt Tolerance Requires N-Myristoylation and Calcium Binding Manabu Ishitania, Jiping Liua, Ursula Halftera, Cheol-Soo Kima, Weiming Shia, and Jian-Kang Zhua a Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Jian-Kang Zhu, jkzhu{at}ag.arizona.edu (E-mail), 520-621-7186 (fax)

The salt tolerance gene SOS3 (for salt overly sensitive3) of Arabidopsis is predicted to encode a calcium binding protein with an N-myristoylation signature sequence. Here, we examine the myristoylation and calcium binding properties of SOS3 and their functional significance in plant tolerance to salt. Treatment of young Arabidopsis seedlings with the myristoylation inhibitor 2-hydroxymyristic acid caused the swelling of root tips, mimicking the phenotype of the salt-hypersensitive mutant sos3-1. In vitro translation assays with reticulocyte showed that the SOS3 protein was myristoylated. Targeted mutagenesis of the N-terminal glycine-2 to alanine prevented the myristoylation of SOS3. The functional significance of SOS3 myristoylation was examined by expressing the wild-type myristoylated SOS3 and the mutated nonmyristoylated SOS3 in the sos3-1 mutant. Expression of the myristoylated but not the nonmyristoylated SOS3 complemented the salt-hypersensitive phenotype of sos3-1 plants. No significant difference in membrane association was observed between the myristoylated and nonmyristoylated SOS3. Gel mobility shift and 45Ca2+ overlay assays demonstrated that SOS3 is a unique calcium binding protein and that the sos3-1 mutation substantially reduced the capacity of SOS3 to bind calcium. The resulting mutant SOS3 protein was not able to interact with the SOS2 protein kinase and was less capable of activating it. Together, these results strongly suggest that both N-myristoylation and calcium binding are required for SOS3 function in plant salt tolerance.

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